Julia Pyke

Nuclear and nature collide as Julia Pyke of Sizewell C makes the provocative case to Hugh Somerleyton that big energy can mean big nature, and that Britain’s most controversial power project could power 7% of the UK, while restoring more land than it takes.

As the founding Joint Managing Director of Sizewell C, Julia Pyke spent nearly a decade making the case that major infrastructure and genuine environmental enhancement can and must go hand in hand. The biodiversity and landscape plan developed under her leadership at the Suffolk nuclear project has been cited by Tony Juniper himself as a model for what ambitions infrastructure can achieve for nature. A fellow of the Energy Institute, Julia brings a fascinating and provocative perspective to the question of how big industry can be a force for ecological good, particularly pertinent for WildEast's own work in East Suffolk.