RALLY ROUND THE CRY: “CORRUPTION!”

UPDATE: Progress is being made but this issue still needs your continued support – keep pressing until we get justice! See ‘Action' section for background.

If you have written to your MP already: to see if you have received an unsatisfactory ‘stock' reply and what to do next, click here

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ACTION: We need your help to publicise and act upon the report ‘A Corruption of Governance?'. It's a riveting and shocking read - the Executive Summary and pages 25 and 26 alone will make your hair stand on end! click here for report

This scrupulously researched report shows that two of the National Policy Statements: EN-1 (Overarching National Policy Statement for Energy) and EN-6 (National Policy Statement for Nuclear Power Generation), approved by Parliament and against which planning decisions are made, are based on false information.

The public has no alternative but to deem them invalid.

The push for nuclear, through this corruption of governance, is forcing a gross injustice upon the people of Britain and we must protest.

All work on planning applications by EdF and on other proposed new nuclear build schemes elsewhere in the country must be halted and, where applicable, permissions withdrawn pending the production of revised and fully validated National Policy Statements and Guidance, based on re-consultation. To continue under these circumstances would be evidence that the corruption is spreading and would be wholly unacceptable: a further mockery would be made of democracy.

As a matter of urgency, PLEASE write to:

• your MP saying he/she has no alternative but to consider the NPSs fraudulent, re-open the debate and bring those responsible for this corruption of process to account. Find your MP's address click here

• Ms Joan Walley MP, Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, and Mr Bernard Jenkin MP, the Chair of the Public Administration Select Committee, to ask that their Committees investigate the Corruption of Governance. [Address: House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA or email walleyj@parliament.uk and bernard.jenkin.mp@parliament.uk]

And also contact:

• West Somerset Council - who granted permission for EdF's site preparation works (and/or your local planning authority if new build is proposed in YOUR area)

• The Planning Inspectorate (formerly The Infrastructure Planning Commission) handling EdF's application for a Development Consent Order to build 2 EPRs.

Thank you. Don't let the corruption continue or spread.