Pedal Power at Hinkley

9 July 2011

About 30 cyclists from the Bicycology group visited Hinkley Point on 3 July to hear about the Stop Hinkley campaign. They were given a guided tour of the site by Crispin Aubrey, who pointed out the area of countryside that would be destroyed by EdF's “preliminary works”.

The night before they met Crispin and Sue Aubrey and Trevor Houghton, another campaigner who was involved in the original late 1980s battle against nuclear power. This culminated in the successful scrapping of plans for a Hinkley “C” power station.

The Hinkley stop-over was part of a ten day “Silent Victories” tour which took the cyclists round a series of West Country locations where environmental campaigns are being pursued, and in some cases won.