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Greenpeace: “financial, legal and technical obstacles remain that can’t be brushed under the carpet"
Posted by Richard Casson — 30 August 2016 at 5:49pm
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by-nc. Credit: Flickr / Greenpeace UK
It's been a month since Theresa May announced a sudden pause on plans to build a new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset. And though opposition to the project seems to get stronger by the week, the final decision could still go either way.
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Commenting on
the agreement struck by French-owned EDF and China’s CGN today to build a fleet
of new nuclear reactors at Hinkley and other two locations in the UK, Greenpeace
UK chief scientist Dr Doug Parr said:
“With this deal
George Osborne is not so much backing the wrong horse as betting billions of
consumers’ money on a nag running backwards. There’s no end in sight for the
nuclear industry’s dependence on billion-pound handouts whilst the renewable
sector is on the verge of going subsidy free. Backing the former and punishing
the latter makes no economic sense whatsoever. Our
grandchildren will one day wonder why their bills are propping up a
foreign-owned, outdated, and costly nuclear industry instead of supporting
cutting-edge UK firms producing cheap clean energy.
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The
construction of a French nuclear reactor of the same type being planned at Hinkley
Point could be delayed by a further three years, the French press is reporting today.
Energy
giant EDF has formally asked the French government for permission to delay the
start of its EPR nuclear reactor in Flamanville until 2020. The French utility
had been set a 2017 deadline to get the reactor up and running.
The
news comes as an initial agreement to build a new £24.5bn reactor of the same
type at Hinkley is about to be unveiled by UK and Chinese authorities later
today.
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Brussels, 9 April 2014 – New rules on state aid adopted today by the European
Commission will make it harder for the UK and other governments to subsidise
nuclear energy projects like the new reactors at Hinkley Point, said
Greenpeace.
The UK government wants to grant
unprecedented levels of public subsidies and disproportionately favourable
conditions for the mainly state-owned French energy giant EDF to build two new
nuclear reactors at Hinkley, in the south-west of England. The Commission is
currently investigating the UK plan for a possible breach of EU competition
rules.
UK ministers unsuccessfully lobbied the EU
executive until the very last minute to make nuclear energy eligible for aid
under the new rules.
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In response to the announcement of the Hinkley deal, Greenpeace UK Executive Director John Sauven said:
“Hinkley C fails every test – economic,
consumer, and environmental. It will lock a generation of consumers into higher
energy bills, via a strike price that’s nearly double the current price of
electricity, and it will distort energy policy by displacing newer, cleaner,
technologies that are dropping dramatically in price.
Posted by Richardg — 23 November 2012 at 5:13pm
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Protestors block the road leading into Hinkley Point
This morning, as the Energy Bill was making headlines, ten people were setting up a non-violent blockade of Hinkley Point nuclear power station. It's a sure sign that building new reactors will be an uphill struggle.
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