Creating a salt marsh at Arlingham will not enable HP3 to operate! EDF have negotiated with the EA to create 800 acres of salt marsh to act as a fish breeding ground to compensate for the predicted 182 million fish that will be killed in the cooling tunnels of HP3, every year. A critical part of their planning permission was for EDF to install an acoustic fish deterrent, to deter the fish from entering the tunnels. The technology is there and proven to work in power stations all over the world but ESF (heavily overspent!) have offered, instead, to create a salt marsh, they say, as a fish breeding ground to “compensate” for the loss of these fish! EDF do not have 800 acres, so they have compulsory purchase powers to “take” a suitable 800 acres! Arlingham is one of the four sites they are looking at. Another is Rodley, our neighbours across the Estuary! Apart from the fact that it would break our hearts to see the destruction of our beautiful, species rich, productive farmland, much of which has been in families for generations - they have not done their basic homework! For 11 hours every day only freshwater is flowing out to sea and for one hour it is pushing back the saltwater so there is not enough salt to enable the salt water fish, this is supposedly compensating for, to survive and breed this far up the estuary! In addition, the fish the Government say they are concerned about, Atlantic Cod, Sea Bass, Herring and Whiting, spawn in deep water, not in shallow saltwater ditches! In addition the tides, including the famous Severn Bore are ferocious and would wash away any fish that did attempt to breed, along with any salt marsh they tried to create! EDF say it will take 4 years to create and 5 - 15 years to establish as a functioning salt marsh, but local knowledge says it will remain a mud flat for a generation! Unfortunately, although this may sound like a dystopian comedy, land owners have been issued with 172 and 174 Compulsory Access orders, and packs asking for personal details, mortgages, etc! Their surveyors are in our fields! Please write to your MP, to EDF or anyone you think may have influence, to ask them to stop using us as a pawn in their game - because destroying our much loved landscape will not save the life of one single fish nor enable one new fish to be born in replacement - it will simply help to protect the profit’s of a French Energy Giant! Thank you Lee for spreading the word so beautifully! All the area in the video, with the exception of the houses and the pub (though it backs right back to their gardens) would be dug up and flooded!
Hello, Lee, my dear friend. Oh...hope that this area will live forever!! It would be such a shame.... Amazing viewsfrom above, my friend. A huge like and embrace. Have a great week. Renata
@@renatalimarzi thank you Renata. Me too, it’s a beautiful area very close to where I live so it would be such a shame to see it ruined… I really hope this plan gets thrown out asap
They will be forever. We have to make sure of it. I've emailed William Gilbert of EDF and told him NO. This French owned company need to wave a white flag now and bugger off. They're not getting their mits on Arlingham or it's rich wildlife. Wonderful video, keep up the great work!
It’s under threat unfortunately, a crazy idea to flood these fields will be an environmental disaster tbh, I hope that opposition will force them to reconsider
This won’t be a “compensatory habitat” in any way whatsoever. The species of fish that are particularly at threat from Hinkley Cs cooling water inlets do not spawn in the area they have chosen to survey here. What they will do though is remove a huge area of productive farmland from food production forever.
EDF should be ashamed. Their ONLY concern is profit. They have a corporate responsibility to ensure no damage occurs to the land they border or occupy. They do NOT and should NOT, have the right to destroy other people's lands, homes and businesses for ANY reason whatsoever. They have the answer that protects those lands and should follow that. What a despicable company for even considering this measure. it seems that the UK government is also complicit in this, SHAME on them!"
That's a tough one. Especially since I hear Europe is limiting the use of fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gases in an effort to become more sustainable. Nice flight!
Unbelievable they can just muscle in and compulsory purchase good farm land (probably at way less than it's worth) , that's evil. Land that's been in the family for generations isn't just land, it's part of the family, it's in their blood.
It is evil isn’t it, it’s quite shocking and shameful it’s even being considered, I hope that with enough opposition that this crazy idea will be consigned to the bin..
Creating a salt marsh at Arlingham will not enable HP3 to operate! EDF have negotiated with the EA to create 800 acres of salt marsh to act as a fish breeding ground to compensate for the predicted 182 million fish that will be killed in the cooling tunnels of HP3, every year. A critical part of their planning permission was for EDF to install an acoustic fish deterrent, to deter the fish from entering the tunnels. The technology is there and proven to work in power stations all over the world but ESF (heavily overspent!) have offered, instead, to create a salt marsh, they say, as a fish breeding ground to “compensate” for the loss of these fish! EDF do not have 800 acres, so they have compulsory purchase powers to “take” a suitable 800 acres! Arlingham is one of the four sites they are looking at. Another is Rodley, our neighbours across the Estuary! Apart from the fact that it would break our hearts to see the destruction of our beautiful, species rich, productive farmland, much of which has been in families for generations - they have not done their basic homework! For 11 hours every day only freshwater is flowing out to sea and for one hour it is pushing back the saltwater so there is not enough salt to enable the salt water fish, this is supposedly compensating for, to survive and breed this far up the estuary! In addition, the fish the Government say they are concerned about, Atlantic Cod, Sea Bass, Herring and Whiting, spawn in deep water, not in shallow saltwater ditches! In addition the tides, including the famous Severn Bore are ferocious and would wash away any fish that did attempt to breed, along with any salt marsh they tried to create! EDF say it will take 4 years to create and 5 - 15 years to establish as a functioning salt marsh, but local knowledge says it will remain a mud flat for a generation! Unfortunately, although this may sound like a dystopian comedy, land owners have been issued with 172 and 174 Compulsory Access orders, and packs asking for personal details, mortgages, etc! Their surveyors are in our fields! Please write to your MP, to EDF or anyone you think may have influence, to ask them to stop using us as a pawn in their game - because destroying our much loved landscape will not save the life of one single fish nor enable one new fish to be born in replacement - it will simply help to protect the profit’s of a French Energy Giant! Thank you Lee for spreading the word so beautifully! All the area in the video, with the exception of the houses and the pub (though it backs right back to their gardens) would be dug up and flooded!
Hello, Lee, my dear friend. Oh...hope that this area will live forever!! It would be such a shame....
Amazing viewsfrom above, my friend. A huge like and embrace. Have a great week. Renata
@@renatalimarzi thank you Renata. Me too, it’s a beautiful area very close to where I live so it would be such a shame to see it ruined… I really hope this plan gets thrown out asap
@@hvee4 Hope not, Lee!😉Big hug, my friend
They will be forever. We have to make sure of it. I've emailed William Gilbert of EDF and told him NO. This French owned company need to wave a white flag now and bugger off. They're not getting their mits on Arlingham or it's rich wildlife. Wonderful video, keep up the great work!
Very cinematic views mate.
It’s under threat unfortunately, a crazy idea to flood these fields will be an environmental disaster tbh, I hope that opposition will force them to reconsider
@@hvee4 let’s hope that opposition prevails mate.
This won’t be a “compensatory habitat” in any way whatsoever. The species of fish that are particularly at threat from Hinkley Cs cooling water inlets do not spawn in the area they have chosen to survey here. What they will do though is remove a huge area of productive farmland from food production forever.
You may of seen me about . …please let them leave it alone.
Nature is so perfect.
✌️ & 🧡
EDF should be ashamed. Their ONLY concern is profit. They have a corporate responsibility to ensure no damage occurs to the land they border or occupy. They do NOT and should NOT, have the right to destroy other people's lands, homes and businesses for ANY reason whatsoever. They have the answer that protects those lands and should follow that. What a despicable company for even considering this measure. it seems that the UK government is also complicit in this, SHAME on them!"
Wonderful hvee4
That's a tough one. Especially since I hear Europe is limiting the use of fossil fuels to reduce greenhouse gases in an effort to become more sustainable. Nice flight!
I hope it works out and they get left but I’ll be surprised 🤦🏻
Looks shocking that second photo
@@DataWatch.it would be an environmental disaster tbh, I am surprised it’s even being considered
@@hvee4 🤦🏻🤦🏻🤬
Unbelievable they can just muscle in and compulsory purchase good farm land (probably at way less than it's worth) , that's evil. Land that's been in the family for generations isn't just land, it's part of the family, it's in their blood.
It is evil isn’t it, it’s quite shocking and shameful it’s even being considered, I hope that with enough opposition that this crazy idea will be consigned to the bin..
be a shame if they spoil all that lovely countryside
NO NO, NO NO NO NO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hope not..