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The biggest threat to biodiversity is climate change. Having a cleaner energy system made up of more nuclear power and renewables can reduce the UK’s carbon emissions and benefit the environment.
Watch this video to hear our environment lead and Development Consent Order Manager, Dr Steve Mannings, explain how even though Sizewell C is still being built, the project is already doing much to boost local biodiversity and improve the environment on and around our site.
For over a decade, we have been busy working with a team of ecologists to create wildlife habitats in and around Sizewell. This is to help us improve the biodiversity on our estate. It also mitigates the negative environmental impacts of construction on and around our site.
Our nature reserves are already greatly benefitting local wildlife by increasing the availability of prey species and providing breeding ground for many different creatures, including endangered species like marsh harriers.
Our team of specially-trained ecologists have carefully removed wildlife from the construction site, including water voles and reptiles, and taken them to new homes that we have made for them at Wild Aldhurst and elsewhere.
We have created far more habitat that is required to rehome the wildlife that is temporarily displaced and once Sizewell C is built, most of the construction site will be restored to nature.
Watch the following videos to learn more about the measures we take to look after the wildlife that have made our site their home.
Sizewell C will set up and provide £78m of funding for the East Suffolk Trust (EaST for short) with East Suffolk Council and Suffolk County Council.
EaST will support projects for the conservation, protection and improvement of the natural environment (including the coastal marine environment) in and around Suffolk.
Suffolk will benefit from a £12m fund to mitigate all remaining impacts of the project on landscape and visual amenity, especially in the Suffolk Coast and Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Heritage Coast. Qualifying landscape projects will be required to contribute to ‘living landscapes’ that will benefit Suffolk’s wildlife through initiatives like
Native hedge and tree planting
Enhancing management of existing hedgerows and woodland
Pond and wetland restoration
Creation of green corridors to enhance nature resilience in the region.
Sizewell C will power over 6 million homes on a site of only 33 hectares. You’d need more than 900 times that amount of land to generate the same amount of electricity from solar and more than 2,700 times that amount of land for equivalent electricity from wind. Watch our animation to learn more.
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Sizewell C will have no impact whatsoever on the supply of water to homes and businesses in East Suffolk.
Water needed for construction will come from a temporary desalination plant on the main development site.
