Summary
Renewable energy such as wind and solar produces electricity without emitting climate-changing gases, and by using decentralised energy systems which generate heat and power close to our businesses and homes, we can save huge amounts of energy normally wasted by centralised power stations.
But the government's 2006 review into the future of the UK's energy policy was used by Blair to give the go-ahead for a whole new generation of nuclear power stations. Existing British nuclear power stations will leave us a legacy of half a million tonnes of nuclear waste that the government has no idea how to dispose of safely. This waste will remain a threat to our health and the environment for hundreds of thousands of years. Almost half of the sites previously short-listed to be waste dumps in the UK are in Scotland.
This report explains what's wrong with nuclear power and what's right with decentralised energy for Scotland.
