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Sedgemoor District Council has said it will not set its annual council tax without an agreement from EDF Energy that it will fund the next stage of the council's scrutiny of the firm's application for a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point.
The council wants £2 million to fund the work, which is a legal requirement under the formal consent procdure set out by the Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC). It does not want taxpayers to fund the work and has delayed a meeting to set the annual council tax rate until 24 February in the hope of reaching an agreement with EDF Energy.
“It is entirely improper that we use extremely scarce public money to fund the development process relating to a privately owned commercial asset of a company which is expected to reveal profits of £3.8bn later this week” said leader of council Duncan McGinty.
” This is a core business for EDF, who will be spending many millions on their application and on as much of the best legal and technical advice as they need. We need to be able to properly challenge their claims and this does not come cheap given the resources they have put behind their own professional team.”
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