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Greenpeace: “financial, legal and technical obstacles remain that can’t be brushed under the carpet"
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In advance of the Hinkley decisionto be made later this month, Greenpeace have released a new poll showing public support for Hinkley nuclear power station is at an all time low.
Just a quarter (25%) of the 2000 people surveyed by Populus say they support Hinkley, whilst nearly half (44%) oppose it.
Posted by efreeman — 31 August 2016 at 4:37pm
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Great news. Thanks to donations from more than 4,000 people, today we’ve run an ad in The Times to expose just how unpopular Hinkley nuclear plant is.
Posted by Richard Casson — 30 August 2016 at 5:49pm
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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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During the General Assembly of EDF today, the shareholders approved a capital increase of 4 billion euros. The state committed to contribute 3 billion, with the rest funded by private investors.
Greenpeace sought a legal opinion in April which warned that the French government recapitalisation could fall foul of European competition law.
John Sauven, Greenpeace Executive Director said,"The French state is throwing good money after bad. But throwing wads of cash at the massive problems EDF faces over Hinkley will not make them disappear. EDF has lost 33 billion Euros in the last decade. It is a telling sign that even EDF’s own employees don’t think Hinkley can be built and people in the UK don’t want or need it to meet our energy needs.
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Greenpeace and Ecotricity have today released a legal opinion on the French government’s proposed package of financial support for EDF. It is likely to have major implications for the plan to build a new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point.
The opinion will cause further disquiet amongst EDF board members at the financially troubled company on the day that the French government’s proposal will be presented to the company.
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Posted by Graham Thompson — 31 March 2016 at 7:00pm
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For a long time, many environmentalists were concerned that government efforts to clean up the world’s energy supply were a bit one-sided, in that we were getting on quite well with half the problem – generating clean energy. Meanwhile the other more important half – not generating dirty energy – was being largely ignored.
But here in the UK things have suddenly inverted in a dramatic fashion. Because by the end of this year, we will have 10 fewer gigawatts of coal power than we had at the start of 2015.
