Good sense to rethink deal

From: Karl Sheridan, Selby Road, Holme on Spalding Moor.

THANKFULLY this new Government has got the common sense, and bottle, to halt and re-think this contract with EDF for the nuclear power plant at Hinckley Point.

Frankly, to have gone ahead would have been in the long term a total financial disaster for our country, especially with the ludicrous purchasing payment for energy produced that had been agreed by Ed Davey, the Lib Dem Energy Secretary, who failed dismally to understand the true ramifications of such a poor deal.

Would anyone with a modicum of common sense enter any deal with a company that was struggling financially? Would anyone who had the best interests of the consumer tie us into a deal that would cost the consumer far more in the long term? And, furthermore, would anyone in their right mind endorse a design that has already hit problems? I don’t think so!

If the Government acts sensibly, it will abandon the EDF/ Chinese deal and go for other smaller nuclear projects that have been suggested and that are readily available – these designs are already proven and can be built far more quickly and far more cheaply.

From: Brian Ormondroyd, Ilkley.

RE Hinkley Point nuclear power station (The Yorkshire Post, July 30).

French company EDF. Decision made in Paris. Chinese cash. Dodgy outdated technology. Every rising building costs. Failure in constructions in other countries.

Double the cost of energy, electricity for GB consumers for 30 or more years. Safety fears on all counts.

Disposal of waste material? Surely l have missed something? We must not, cannot go down the nuclear road. Again one could go on. The alternative energy sources...

From: John Fisher, Menwith Hill, Harrogate.

WITH the high cost of the electricity produced by the reactor, this is yet another waste of taxpayers’ money.