She says no!

The Public Inquiry into the Central Electricity Generating Board's proposal to build a pressurized water nuclear power plant at Hinkley in Somerset started in October 1988. The opposition to the proposals comes from two main organisations COLA and SHE. COLA (The Consortium of Opposing Local Authorities) has a Pound 1 million budget and is opposed to a PWR in Somerset. SHE (the Stop Hinkley Expansion Campaign) objects not only to the PWR proposal but to the whole idea of nuclear power. The Town and Country Planning Association also opposes Hinkley Point C, especially with plans to privatise the electricity supply industry now under discussion. COLA has 30 fundamental objections to Hinkley Point C - economic, social, environmental and aesthetic. But both COLA and SHE have an extra argument not used at the Sizewell-B Inquiry. This is the ''Chernobyl Factor''. All the opposition groupings claim that public opinion is also against the proposal. In spite of the opposition, the decision about whether or not to go ahead with Hinkley Point C may well be made by the Minister involved, so that it would be a political decision. (U.K.)