SIR — Mrs Bainbridge (Your Letters, November 19), is absolutely correct in all her observations regarding the catastrophic impact the Hinkley C development will have on the environment.
The massive migration of workers needed to construct this plant is, in itself, an unsustainable drain on our already overstretched services, while the mind boggles when one envisages the inevitable congestion on our overcrowded roads.
A solution has yet to be found for the disposal of toxic waste from nuclear power stations.
It is our democratic right that our views and observations are seriously considered and not afforded the usual lip service by those to whom monetary gain is god.
It is true that the few always take precedence over the silent majority. It is time, therefore, that passivity and mute acceptance were supplanted by vociferous and sustained objections to the desecration of our area.
So many times in the past have the public been offered consultations, meetings, presentations, etc etc, illustrating proposed developments affecting the lives of many people, all of which have predictably proved to be mere window-dressing as we discovered later, when it became patently obvious that these proposals had already been agreed, signed and sealed, behind closed doors.
Hinkley C presents a massive challenge to our way of life and one that, once implimented, will destroy forever all that we know and love about West Somerset.
Thelma Frost,
West Somerset Watchdogs.