Cameron has often said Britain is open for business. What it seems he meant was Britain is open for sale. There is no other country in the world which would throw open its strategic industrial sectors to a foreign power. That is exactly what the Tories are now proposing to do with handing over the building and […]
Posts Tagged ‘Nuclear power’
Energy supply is national security issue, not for flogging off to China
Jul 23rd, 2012 by Michael Meacher.
The nuclear wheeze goes critical
May 1st, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Without a word being said, British householders and businesses are about to be forced to pay for a French nuclear loser. The two German energy companies, RWE and E.ON, announced a month ago that they were withdrawing from building new nuclear power stations at Wylfa in Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire after the German government […]
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Nuclear gravy train starts to roll
Jun 7th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Tomorrow the Government will authorise the first of a series of subsidies to the nuclear industry which will bankroll its future to the tune of more than £1.3bn by 2020, in direct contradiction to pledges repeatedly given by Ministers that any new nuclear build would receive no public subsidy at all. Yet clause 77 of […]
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How is this nuclear obsession explained?
Apr 18th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The case against nuclear is overwhelming, yet it is a fair bet that after Fukushima and after carrying out all due ‘reviews and consultations’, the Government will still go ahead with a major new nuclear build programme. Why? It says a lot more about the political networking of the nuclear industry than it does about […]
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Fukushima should end any nuclear revival in Britain
Mar 21st, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Angela Merkel rightly called Fukushima “a turning point for the world”. It is. This was no glitch in an unsophisticated backwater of a State that could be explained away by poor design or low operating standards; this happened in one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world with an unsurpassed reputation for detail and […]
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Caveat nuclear
Mar 16th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The government’s pro-nuclear chief scientist, John Beddington, immediately leapt in with assurances that Fukushima is very different from Chernobyl (which it is, but that’s not the point: Fukushima is highly dangerous in its own right) and not spewing out radioactivity because the Japanese had taken the right precautionary measures (so why did 180,000 people have to be evacuated?).
