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Reacting to Gordon Brown's
speech today launching the government's new national security strategy,
Greenpeace campaigner Louise Edge
said:
"It's obviously good news that Brown seems
to be adopting a joined up approach to the real security issues facing the
UK
public.
"But he simply can't square his commitment
to freeing the world from nuclear weapons with last year's decision to renew
Trident.
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Reacting to the announcement this morning by John Hutton that the government intends to encourage the construction of new nuclear power stations, Greenpeace executive director John Sauven said:
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Posted by bex — 8 January 2008 at 6:21pm
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Breaking news: Ministers have unanimously backed the principle of Brown's plans for new nuclear power without a vote at today's cabinet meeting.
According to the BBC, Brown's cabinet has "agreed in principle to approve a new generation of nuclear power stations". Reuters meanwhile quotes Brown's spokeswoman as saying there was a "very
good discussion with many interventions from members of the
cabinet".
Nice for some.
We're expecting the formal announcement to be made on Thursday.
Posted by bex — 7 January 2008 at 6:15pm
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Now here's a surprise: the government was being 'economic' with the truth when it promised that we, the taxpayers, wouldn't have to foot the extortionate bill for new nuclear power.
It turns out that we, the consumers, will be picking up our fair share.
Yep, the day after the papers reported a 15 per cent energy price hike, we're being told to brace ourselves for more hikes if the government succeeds in dragging us down the nuclear road.
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Leading experts side with Greenpeace; process now "vulnerable to legal challenge"
A new report from a coalition of top nuclear industry experts has accused the UK Government of failing the British public by conducting a second flawed consultation into the future of nuclear power in this country.
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Gordon Brown today faces his biggest test since pledging to put Britain at the forefront of efforts to combat climate change, after a proposal to build the UK's first coal fired power station in over thirty years landed on his desk.
E.ON's application to build the station at Kingsnorth was given the go-ahead by Medway council last night. The Tory controlled authority has raised no objection to a plant that would emit over eight million tonnes of carbon dioxide every year. Now the final decision on a UK coal resurgence will be made by Brown.
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A couple of days ago, I wrote that leading climate scientist and director of Nasa's Goddard Institute James Hansen was planning to write to Gordon Brown, urging him to stop the new coal rush in the UK.
Here's the full text of that letter. It's powerful stuff, and piles the pressure onto Gordon Brown ahead of next month's decision by Medway Council, on whether to allow the first new coal plant in 30 years to be built at Kingsnorth.
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It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realise that building a load of new coal power plants probably isn't the brightest idea for the future of our planet, but it's nice when a rocket scientist comes out and says it.
The director of Nasa's Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, Dr. James Hansen, has joined the debate on the UK's the new coal rush, and is writing to Gordon Brown to urge him to block plans to
build up to eight new coal-fired power stations.
