The blockade, which lasted eight hours, coincided with the end of the former government's consultation on National Policy Statements on Energy (including nuclear power), which the protestors said "were flawed".


Andreas Speck, a member of Kick Nuclear, the London group of the Stop Nuclear Power Network [2], says: "The present government is presently having to re-consult on the National Policy Statements, which shows that one of our criticism from February was true - the consultations were flawed. However, far from really consulting about our future energy system, the present consultation, which ends on 26 January 2011, is equally flawed, and designed to push through new nuclear. This shows that nonviolent direct action of the kind we did on 22 February 2010 at Sizewell is still necessary."

The trial is listed for 4, 5, 10, and 11 January 2011.


Information:
- Andreas Speck, 07580-320627


Notes:

[1] For information on the action itself, see  http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2010/02/local-democracy-dumped-sizewell-nuclear.html

[2] The Stop Nuclear Power Network is a UK-based non-hierarchical grassroots network of groups and individuals campaigning and taking nonviolent action against nuclear power and its expansion and supporting sustainable alternatives. See  http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net