nuclear power
Posted by jossc — 31 March 2008 at 3:55pm
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Business secretary John Hutton's plans to see a new coal-fired power station under construction this summer suffered a significant setback after E.ON, the company behind the proposed plant at Kingsnorth in Kent, asked him to delay
the decision on whether the plant should be built.
Until now Hutton's Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Dberr) and E.ON had both been pushing for a decision to be made by 'end May 2008 at latest'. According to documents obtained by Greenpeace under the FoI Act, E.ON's plans were so advanced that contractors had already been secured to commence building work 'from summer 2008 on current tenders'.
Posted by jossc — 31 March 2008 at 2:55pm
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Energy minister John Hutton has been caught trying to sabotage the EU renewable energy targets again. A minister from Hutton's department has been working in Brussels to try and redefine what constitutes 'renewable energy.' After last year's fiasco when Hutton’s department were seen trying to wreck EU renewable targets altogether, now the business minister Lady Vadera has been filmed trying to water them down at an EU energy council meeting.
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Posted by jamie — 13 March 2008 at 6:13pm
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News from the Sunshine State
reminds us that nuclear power is only an option for companies with very deep
pockets. Or a hand in their customers' pockets, to be precise.
Progress (ha!) Energy have tripled the
estimate for the new plant it's planning to build in Florida, saying that the
new price tag will be an eye-watering $17 billion, and they haven't even got
permission to start building yet. How are they going to pay for this? Why, by
bumping up bills for its existing customers of course. "You can't avoid the notion that nuclear has
an upfront cost for the customer," said Jeff Lyash, president and chief
executive of Progress (double ha!) Energy Florida. "It does."
And that's just the beginning. We all know
that, once the diggers move in, the costs for a nuclear power station take on a
mysterious life of their own, spiralling ever upward. Just look at the
delay-ridden, cash-sucking plant currently being built in Finland. It's
the same in this country as well, with costs for dealing with existing waste
(never mind the waste generated by a hypothetical fleet of new nuclear power
stations) going repeatedly skywards.
So if the day comes when another load of
nuclear power stations are being built here, remember it won't be private
companies picking up the elephantine costs: one way or another, it'll be us.
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