-
Like my page on Facebook
Subscribe to my Newsletter
External Links
-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Blog (12)
- Campaigning (10)
- Changing the Politics (13)
- Corporate Governance (8)
- Domestic (33)
- Economics (16)
- ENDS Report (40)
- Energy (5)
- Energy Security (10)
- European (4)
- In the media (14)
- International (21)
- Misc (7)
- New Statesman (9)
- Nuclear (38)
- Oil and Gas (4)
- openDemocracy (7)
- Other (38)
- Politics (2)
- Speeches (14)
- The Guardian (15)
- The Human Cost (8)
- The Independent (8)
- Video blog (2)
Twitter Feed @Tom_Burke_47
Archives
Author Archives: tomburke
The futility of trying to control climate change through a carbon price
TweetShare The shale gas story illustrates beautifully the futility of trying to control climate change through a carbon price. Put the price of carbon up with one hand with your climate policy and a whole bunch of very clever and … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Leave a comment
NUCLEAR NONSENSE 2
TweetShare Actually, this should properly be called more of the same nuclear nonsense. Writing in the Guardian Michael Hanlon on May 2nd describes in some detail the rate of closure of Britain’s existing nuclear power stations. This is a … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Leave a comment
NUCLEAR NONSENSE 1.
TweetShareThe British media has become so impoverished that it can no longer be relied on to do a decent job of challenging the nonsense purveyed by politicians, government officials, the nuclear industry and others about nuclear power. As an antidote … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Leave a comment
Letter to the Sunday Telegraph – MPs and academics call for National Audit Office to review nuclear negotiations
TweetShareIn an open letter to the Sunday Telegraph, MPs and academics call for the National Audit Office to review nuclear negotiations between the Government an EDF Energy over financial support for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant in Somerset. … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Leave a comment
ENDS REPORT – What is killing bees?
TweetShareThis column features in the recently published ENDS Report ‘Neonicitinoid’ is more than a difficult word to roll your tongue around. The neonicitinoids are a class of neuro-active insecticides that came into widespread use in the late nineties. They are … Continue reading
Posted in Other
Leave a comment
Prime Minister to make £50 billion bet
TweetSharePRESS RELEASE 13 March 2013 Prime Minister to make £50 billion bet Ed Davey will soon sign a long term investment contract to buy electricity for 30-40 years at twice today’s price from an EDF nuclear power station that will … Continue reading
Posted in Energy
Leave a comment
Who saved the whale?
TweetShareBelow is the letter that I wrote to The Independent, which was published online today. Michael McCarthy consistently writes with knowledge and passion on natural history. Would that his knowledge of history were as consistent. His account (13 June ) of … Continue reading
BBC Radio 4′s The World Tonight – Segment on Rio+20
TweetShareI was on BBC Radio 4′s The World Tonight last night, talking about Rio+20 with Bernice Lee of Chatham House and Andrew Hurrell of the University of Oxford. Click here to listen to the programme. The Rio+20 segment starts at … Continue reading
Hinkley and Sizewell will cost us £155 billion over 30 years under the CfD
TweetShareThe government is pressing ahead, in the face of growing difficulties, with its effort to build new nuclear power stations in Britain. So far, it has failed to come clean about what this will actually cost British businesses and householders. … Continue reading
Nuclear power would appear to have acquired the power to destroy logic
TweetShareSome people worry about nuclear power because they fear the risks to human health from radioactivity. Others are concerned about the morality of leaving a legacy of radioactive wastes that will be dangerous for hundreds of thousands of years. Others … Continue reading