Here at Hinkley Point alongside existing reactors is where George Osborne wants to build a new nuclear power station in Britain. It will be built by EDF, a French state owned electricity company, and will cost 24 and a half billion pounds, that’s more than Crossrail and the […]
Nuclear Cost – Letter to The Times, October 19 2015
G7 fossil fuel pledge is a diplomatic coup for Germany’s ‘climate chancellor’ – The Guardian
WHOM THE GODS DESTROY
Despite frequent headlines suggesting otherwise, EDF has not yet agreed to buy two nuclear reactors from its sister French state-owned company Areva. The British Government has yet to sign a contract to purchase the electricity the reactors will produce. Without that contract EDF will not make the […]
US and China emissions agreement – BBC World Service – 12 November 2014
CHINA NIGHTMARE
SPEAKING WITH A FORKED TONGUE
This article first appeared in Business Green . Last month, under pressure from activist investors, Exxon issued a report to their shareholders on climate change. To no-one’s surprise they found that “none of our hydrocarbon assets are now or will become ‘stranded’”. Some saw this as an important […]
After you Claude
‘Events, dear boy, events’ have put climate change back on the agenda
Viewpoint: Can we risk another Fukushima?
This article first appeared as a guest post for Greenpeace Energydesk By Tom Burke, Founding director of E3G 21ST NOV 2013 This article also appeared in The Ecologist One of the more opportunistic responses to the meltdown at Fukushima was that of nuclear advocates claiming that since there were […]