This article first appeared in Business Green October 2013 There is only one decision that really matters about future nuclear reactor building in Britain and that has not yet been taken. From the amount of media hoopla surrounding the announcement on Hinkley C you could be forgiven […]
BEHIND THE NUCLEAR SMOKE AND MIRRORS
FUTURE IMPERFECT: THE COLLISION OF CLIMATE AND CARBON
BY TOM BURKE This article first appeared in the Montrose Journal September 2013 Two epochal forces are shaping this century. One is economic, the $6 trillion dollar investment that will be made in developing fossil fuel assets over the next decade. The other is physical, the immutable behaviour of carbon […]
The Independent View: No real choice on nuclear
NUCLEAR NONSENSE 3
Citigroup are not often listed in the pantheon of environmental campaigning organisations. Even among bankers they have a reputation for being hardnosed. So it was with some interest that I recently came across a report on the solar industry they published earlier this year. It should have received […]
House of Commons Energy Bill debate – Monday 3rd June 2013
Hinkley and Sizewell will cost us £155 billion over 30 years under the CfD
Nuclear power would appear to have acquired the power to destroy logic
Some 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 again are concerned about the risks of proliferating nuclear weapons […]
The first of my video blogs: why the UK should not pursue nuclear
UK Energy Policy Will Fail If Government Persists With Nuclear Fantasies
Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett and I wrote a letter to the Prime Minister on 12th March warning him that his plans for another generation of nuclear reactors are ill-conceived and doomed to failure. To substantiate the broad arguments advanced in letter and accompanying note to the Prime […]