Energy – Page 25 – Tom Burke

BBC News – Hinkley and EDF – 12 March 16

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If we go on beyond the point where EDF have made their final investment decision, then we will have to compensate them, not only for what they have already spent, but also for what they would have gained if the contract had gone ahead, and that will be […]

Is nuclear power a ticking time bomb? – France24 Debate – 8 Mar 16

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I think that you really want to consider much more than just the body count of deaths when you look to evaluate a complicated problem like this. This has been a social catastrophe, the people who used to live near Fukushima […]

Tom Burke talks to LBC about nuclear power, Hinkley Point and EDF – 07 Mar 16

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Clive Bull: A top EDF boss has resigned over the company’s plans to build Britain’s first new nuclear power plant for decades. There is an ongoing row over the 18 billion pound cost, part of which China is paying for. The government wants to […]

Letters to PM warned of the risks of going ahead with Hinkley Point

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In March 2012, on the anniversary of Fukushima, I drafted a letter to the Prime Minister that was signed by myself and three other former Directors of Friends of the Earth. One year later we wrote a second letter […]

The future of Hinkley Point – BBC News

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Delays, rising costs and now a rift at the top of EDF, the giant French company we are relying on to build a new Nuclear power station to replace this one at Hinkey Point. The chief financial officer Thomas Piquemal, is reported to have warned that EDF’S […]

Is there really a need for Hinkley Point to be built? – World at One – Radio 4 – 16 Feb 16

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BBC: So Is there a really need for Hinkley Point to be built? Tom Burke: There isn’t actually, there’s lots and lots more things that we can do. There is no need to replace nuclear with nuclear, or indeed with gas. We’ve got so many more options, that […]

OF OIL AND STONES

On February 5, 2016February 5, 2016 By admin

This blog first appeared in Business Green Sheikh Yamani, a former Saudi oil minister, is famous for having pointed out that the stone age did not end because we ran out of stones. […]

The End of Oil? – BBC World Service – Newshour Extra – 8 Jan16

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The drop in oil price is not doing something that a lot of people thought that it would do, when it fell that low, which is to create a big stimulus to economic growth. So it’s not succeeded in doing that, and […]

The extraordinary weather that the country is experiencing – Sky News – 19 December 15

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Sky News: Well let’s stay with that story about this extraordinary weather that the country is experiencing. We are joined now by Tom Burke, the chairman and founding director of the environmental think tank E3G. Tom thanks very much indeed for joining us. There’s this thing that we are having to […]

Why are we so bad at responding to floods? – Tom Burke – LBC – 28 Dec 15

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LBC: Lets speak to Tom Burke, he’s an environmentalist, and a former government adviser on the environment. Good morning Tom. Do you think that the government was warned about this or not? Tom Burke: Well I think that its very interesting that the Prime […]