NRW refuses** to disclose the Licence
they hold for the Cardiff Grounds dump-site.
NRW are the WG’s
marine licensing authority, yet say FoE have to go to the Welsh Government for
the licence (dating from the 1980s).
FoE believes the licence applies for sediments from dredging ports and shipping
channels and does not permit dredgings from the capital works at Hinkley
Point. NRW refuse to disclose the
licence because it would show they ignored it for the previous dredging
campaign.
NRW fail to
require EDF to show why they seek to dump a further 600,000m3
(840,000 tonnes). This volume is more
than twice the original demand, on top of the original plan. There is no planning permission for this extended 'dredging'.
Nor do NRW
report on compliance with the dumping license issued to EDF. A
condition was placed on the previous dumping that material be spread
throughout the dump-site, to avoid mounding of the clays and
gravels. We think they failed to spread it evenly and
dumped material outside the limits of the dump-site.
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| MV Sloeber opening its bottom to dump Hinkley mud on 16 October 2018. It was caught with its bottom opened (sh***ing) outside the dump site. |
NRW told everyone that they met all the international licensing requirements
on sea-dumping last time. They did
not. They ignored the 2014 IMO
guidelines that require them to minimise sea dumping, and expect to do the same
again.
The 1972 London agreement stopped sea dumping, with some exceptions for
dredging operations. The Protocol added
in 2014 tightened the requirement to
reuse dredged material on land. NRW are
still in the dark ages, believing that sea dumping is the first choice.
## Hinkley Mud: NRW flouts licence rules gives FoE's detailed response to NRW's proposal ##
## Hinkley Mud: NRW flouts licence rules gives FoE's detailed response to NRW's proposal ##
On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 at 12:27,
Marine Licensing <marinelicensing@cyfoethnaturiolcymru.gov.uk> wrote to Friends of the Earth Barry&Vale
Thank you
for your email to Mr Evans. As part of a pre-application request the Marine
Licensing team has received the proposed sample plan from EDF for further
dredging at Hinkley Point C construction site. This will help us understand
whether the material can be deemed suitable for disposal at sea. We have not
received a marine licence application from EDF. The consultation we are running is to provide members of the
public with the opportunity to express their views on the suitability of the
submitted sample plan and this will inform our pre-application response.
As with
regards to your question of the operating licence for Cardiff Grounds; this
disposal site is ‘designated’ by Welsh Government and further information on
its designation should be requested from them. The area has been used since the
mid-1980s and each marine licence application for disposal at the site is
assessed on its own merits.
Regards, Maria
Trwyddedu Morol/ Marine Licensing
Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru / Natural Resources Wales
