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Posted by Richard Casson — 16 February 2016 at 4:03pm
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by-nc. Credit: Samuel Keyte / Greenpeace
George Osborne wants to build a new nuclear plant in Somerset -- Hinkley Point C. If it goes ahead it’ll be the first nuclear power station to come online in the UK in 30 years.
Posted by Richard Casson — 21 September 2015 at 10:37am
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"Can the UK run on renewable energy, and how long will it take us to get there?"
Here at Greenpeace those are two questions we get asked a lot, so today we're pleased to say we took a big step toward answering them.
Posted by Graham Thompson — 22 July 2015 at 3:02pm
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You really do need to speak to your father-in-law, George.
Coal and nuclear are dying, and the future of energy lies
in solar. This isn’t a Guardian reader’s fantasy, this is the established trend
in energy markets. This isn’t a declaration of victory over carbon dioxide
either – the trend isn’t fast enough to stop catastrophic climate change, at
least not yet – but it’s useful information for policy makers. Unless you’re
George Osborne, in which case it’s time to plough the nation’s remaining
finances into life support for nuclear and coal whilst standing athwart history
yelling ‘STOP!’
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Greenpeace is an international organisation, working across the globe on several priority campaigns. As well as the campaigns we're currently focusing on in the UK - climate change, protecting forests, defending oceans, and working for peace - other Greenpeace offices continue to work on challenging nuclear power, promoting sustainable agriculture and eliminating toxic chemicals.
Challenging nuclear power
Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to fight - vigorously against nuclear power because it is an unacceptable risk to the environment and to humanity. The only solution is to halt the expansion of all nuclear power, and for the shutdown of existing plants.
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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.
Posted by Angela Glienicke — 21 February 2014 at 1:46pm
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Hiroshi Kanno, a vegetable farmer evacuated from Iitate village harvests carrots at his new farm
I can’t believe it’s already three years
since the Fukushima disaster struck. Thousands of people were forced to flee their homes and had to rebuild their lives
elsewhere, because of the high levels of radiaition. Japanese photographer Noriko Hayashi documents the struggle of some of the victims, who feel the government has abandoned them.
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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.
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In response to the announcement from Minister of State for Energy Michael
Fallon that the benefits for 'local communities hosting new nuclear power
stations' would be funded by DECC, Dr Doug Parr, Chief Scientist at
Greenpeace UK, said –
“Whilst wind farms and even shale gas developers have to pay community
benefits, only nuclear stations will get a fat taxpayer subsidy to fund them.
Our entire energy policy is now absurdly distorted by the desperation to prop
up EDF’s faltering Hinkley C project, with the government piling the costs onto
the taxpayer to avoid the embarrassment of admitting they backed the wrong
technology. We can’t go on like this.”
ENDS
