11 March 2016 • 11:25pm
EDF could scrap its plan to build the 18bn Hinkley Point nuclear plant in the UK if the company fails to receive further funding from the French government, its chief executive has revealed.
Jean-Bernard L vy wrote to staff explaining that he was in talks to “obtain commitments from the state to help secure our financial position” as “the financial situation is tense”. He added that he would “not engage in the [Hinkley Point] project before these (...)