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Is nuclear power a ticking time bomb? – France24 Debate – 8 Mar 16
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Changing the Politics, Corporate Governance, Domestic, Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, European, Finance, In the media, International, Nuclear, renewables, The Human Cost
Tagged accident, Arriva, bills, Britain, Chinese, consumers, cost, delays, economy, EDF, efficiency, electricity, energy, energy bills, EPR, finance, France, Fukushima, Hinkley, investment, Japan, nuclear, nuclear energy, nuclear industry, radiation, reactor, regulation, Renewables, safety
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Tom Burke talks to LBC about nuclear power, Hinkley Point and EDF – 07 Mar 16
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Campaigning, Changing the Politics, Climate Change, Domestic, Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, European, Finance, In the media, International, Interviews, LBC, Nuclear, Radio, renewables
Tagged bills, Britain, Chancellor, China, climate change, consumers, cost, economy, EDF, electricity, energy, energy efficiency, energy policy, energy security, environment, finance, fossil fuel, France, Fukushima, Germany, government, Hinkley, Hinkley C, Hinkley Point, investment, Japan, nuclear, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons, power, renewable energy, Renewables, safety, solar, wind
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Even if the global warming scare were a hoax, we would still need it – The Telegraph
This article was first published in The Telegraph China is the low-carbon superpower and will be the ultimate enforcer of the COP21 climate deal in Paris By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Chinese scientists have published two alarming … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Campaigning, Changing the Politics, Climate Change, Economics, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, European, Finance, International, Nuclear, Oil and Gas, renewables, Security, The Telegraph
Tagged Antarctic, Arctic, Beijing, carbon, carbon budget, carbon emissions, China, Chinese, climate, climate deal, climate sceptics, CO2, coal, coastal, Communist Party, COP21, decarbonisation, economics, economy, electricity, emissions, emissions trading, energy, Europe, finance, fossil Industry, funds, gas, glaciers, global warming, Goldman Sachs, GoldWind, growth, Hinkley, Hinkley Point, infrastructure, investment, Japan, LED, low-carbon, Mekong, melt, natural gas, nuclear, oil, onshore wind, Paris, permafrost, President Xi, recession, renewable energy, Renewables, Russian gas, security, Shanghai, solar, technology, The Telegraph, Tibetan, US, vehicles, warming, water, wind, Yangtze, Yellow River
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G7 fossil fuel pledge is a diplomatic coup for Germany’s ‘climate chancellor’ – The Guardian
I was quoted extensively in an article in The Guardian by Karl Mathiesen on why the plan outlined by the G7 on Monday to phase out fossil fuels by the end of the century is, for some member countries, not … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Campaigning, Changing the Politics, Climate Change, Domestic, Economics, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, European, In the media, Oil and Gas, People, Politics, renewables, Sustainability, The Guardian
Tagged ambition, Angela Merkel, carbon, carbon neutral, China, climate, community, decarbonisation, economy, efficiency, emissions, energy, energy efficiency, environment, fossil fuel, fossil fuels, G7, gas, global, Grantham Institute, Greenhouse, heat, infrastructure, investing, investment, Japan, Kyoto Protocol, low-carbon, Merkel, oil, planes, Renewables, Rio Tinto, Shell, The Guardian, transition, treaty, Unilever, US
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Energy, Energy Security, Nuclear
Tagged accident, body count, China, climate goals, compensation, consequences, costs, death, emissions, emissions targets, energy policy, environmentalists, Fukushima, Japan, meltdown, nuclear, nuclear energy, nuclear power, opposition, public confidence, reactor, safety, Tepco
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