Caroline Lucas, the Green Party's co-leader, has responded to Government ministers from the UK, France and China giving the final go-ahead for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built.
Caroline Lucas MP said:
“The Government has just signed a deal for the most outrageously overpriced white elephant project imaginable. Not only are bill payers going to be ripped off but this absurd project will also divert resources away from building the energy infrastructure we need, and threaten our climate change targets because of the snail’s pace at which it will be built.
“This is not the end of the fight against Hinkley – and we will be joining campaigners in continuing to highlight the major shortcomings of this project. This is a crossroads for Britain – and the signing of this deal has seen us swerve down the wrong path. By reversing this decision we can put the resources needed into building an energy system where power is in the hands of the many, not the few – and where Britain puts to use its most abundant resources: the sun, sea and wind.”