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Feb 7 7 tweets 5 min read
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@savethesevern involves Wales’ #GeigerBay coalition and groups from south west England.

We’re trying to halt the dumping of sediment from the construction of the @hinkleypointc in the Marine Protected Area near Portishead, #Bristol

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We urge the Marine Management Organisation to revoke the license granted earlier this year to @edfenergy to dump the waste.

We believe it puts @The_MMO in breach of its international obligations to protect the Severn Estuary’s marine environment.

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We also demand that the UK’s Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, George Eustice, acknowledges the ban on dumping that causes harm in the Marine Protected Area, and instructs @the_MMO appropriately.

CC @DefraGovUK

save-the-severn.com/petition-text.…

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EDF is dredging hundreds of thousands of tonnes of sediment from the site of the decommissioned Hinkley A nuclear power station to build a controversial underwater cooling system for @hinkleypointc.

It will kill millions of #fish, and damage the ecology of the estuary.

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The disturbed sediment is contaminated with chemical and nuclear elements.

@The_MMO does not have the legal power to vary an existing licence to allow the dumping. It has failed to properly assess the impact on protected species and breached rules about water quality.

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Will you help us in our legal fight?

Will you donate whatever you can to Save the Severn Estuary?

We *have* to shut down this wanton, dangerous environmental vandalism.

We stopped EDF once, we can do it again.
crowdjustice.com/case/save-the-…
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Feb 6
For what you're about to read, I am truly sorry.

That we're even in this situation is utterly ludicrous.
But the ramifications of inaction are unimaginable.

We *need* your support.

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The Severn Estuary is a designated Marine Protected Area, as it is a highly valuable wildlife area, designated for birds and marine life, and important for fish-rearing.

Thousands of people live around the upper Estuary and use its shores and waters for recreation.

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Yet 100,000 tonnes of mud from near Hinkley nuclear plants was dumped in the Severn Estuary at Cardiff Grounds in 2018.

This happened despite a massive petition, hearings and a Senedd debate.

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