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Daily News Roundup
2 February 2016
Hinkley
The Treasury has, in effect, ridiculed any notion that EDF could take a final investment decision on Hinkley C within the next three years – if ever. The announcement by the Treasury that their offer of loan guarantees for the EPR at Hinkley C is linked to successful functioning of the Flamanville EPR means that short of absolute lunacy reigning at EDF HQ the power plant could not possibly be given a final go-ahead until 2018 at the earliest, and most probably never. The date of earliest completion of the Flamanville reactor is 2018, and even that assumes that things go a lot better than they have so far. To cap this, the Treasury have said that if the reactor hasn’t demonstrated it is working properly by 2020 then there will be no loan guarantee for Hinkley C. (see Sunday Times piece, link below). There is no chance of Hinkley C being funded without this – EDF haven’t got anywhere near the money needed and it would be financially crazy to pay for it without the guarantees – so EDF cannot take the chance of going ahead without a firm loan guarantee. This leaves people wondering about the motives of EDF in announcing that they are ‘restarting’ work on Hinkley C. They can’t do this, or at least carry on with this indefinitely. EDF is in difficult financial straits as it is without this sort of action. It is no surprise that employees and shareholders of EDF are up in arms about the prospect of a ‘final investment decision’ being taken by the EDF Board. They are nowhere near being able to do this – as you can see from the European Commission documents, before such a decision can be taken they have to have a signed contract with the UK Government and the agreed funding in place for the company that develops the project. None of this has happened or seems likely to happen.
 
The whole thing is just a fcuk up,The government have no real money to invest , EDF seem to be going round in circles with finances and this added to all the s""t going on with the Chinese economy going tits up they could pull out at any time I cant see hinckly point c ever kicking off, or if it does the project being mothballed after a year or so with 1000's of lads getting laid off.There was due to be a lot of other work relating to the whole infrastructure of the HPC site aswell like the new jetty being built , the ring road/ bypass around bridgewater, the 3 park and ride sites and the 3 sites for the accommodation blocks. loads of people and businesses were depending on this project to kick off down our way , but as usual with most things in this country it will dead in the water for many years to come

the only people that will be happy will be the tree hugging left wing immigrant loving tw*ts
 
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