Early start today.
Just down by the Bay to get the boat over to Hinkley Point
and raise awareness of the proposed dumping
and encourage people to sign the petition.
We’re in the Barrage now. Masks on, even
though we’re outside because those are the rules.
So just waiting for the gate to open
and we’ll be onto the sea and heading over towards Hinkley Point.
We’re right smack in the middle of the dumping ground.
You can see Cardiff just a stone’s
throw away really.
One thing we need to take into account as well
is where we are now, on a spring tide,
the depth is just 1.2 metres.
So if they’re going to dump 780,000 tonnes here
there’s going to be a mound… a mound of mud.
We’ve got to stop it. It cannot go ahead.
Got the old sea logs on!
We’re so used to getting dumped on in Wales. But this time we’re saying ‘no!’
We’re not your dumping ground and we will stand up for ourselves.
We’re just approaching Hinkley Point now.
It’s just over there in the distance.
I’m shocked at how lax the security is.
We’re just approaching the former nuclear
power station and no security whatsoever.
We’ve come over to Hinkley Point this morning
to highlight the fact that the Welsh Government
is going to allow, it seems, 780,000 tonnes
of mud dug up from the sea just here,
just outside the nuclear power station,
and they’re going to allow it to be dumped on us in Wales.
Scientists say they are convinced the material
contains plutonium because of the accidents and the leaks
in the 1960s… the 1950s, ‘60s and early ‘70s.
And it just should not be happening.
So this is an awareness raising exercise.
We’re trying to create our own media because
the Welsh media just doesn’t seem interested.
And we have to say ‘no!’
We have to hold these Labour politicians to account.
We have to hold this awful Welsh Government to account.
And we simply do not want this
dumped on us in Wales.
