Responding to the Queen's Speech today, John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace, said:
"This is the latest chapter in the government's shameful attempts to blight the UK with more nuclear power stations. They fully intend to use the Energy Bill to implement this farce without looking at cleaner alternatives, or dealing with any of the problems of waste and economics.
"Today we’ve seen Brown’s vision for the country, and it looks like a dark, dystopian disaster. These woeful plans mark him as a sorry shambles when it comes to dealing with energy and climate change."
Greenpeace won a High Court ruling in February which overturned an earlier consultation on nuclear power. Mr Justice Sullivan called that consultation "unfair" and "unlawful", adding that it was "seriously flawed" and "manifestly inadequate" because insufficient information had been made available by the government for participants to make an "intelligent response".
Greenpeace lawyers are currently examining the possibility of going back to court to challenge the second consultation.
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