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Energy: Draft National Policy Statement for Nuclear Power Generation (EN-6)

I thank the noble Lord for his contribution. I am sure that he is absolutely right but the joy of this policy statement is that it takes a very balanced approach. It says that we should be clear that we need to develop nuclear power and that there will be some areas where compensation is required but some places where development should not happen. Although I would love to take the stance that the environment must be pre-eminent, I think that in reality there will be some give-and-take on some of the sites where it is possible to get adequate mitigation and compensation but that that will not be possible on other sites. That is why a site-level environmental impact assessment and habitat regulations assessment are important.