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Government nuclear consultation reaches submission deadline - Greenpeace responds

Last edited 9 October 2007 at 4:14pm
9 October, 2007

Environmental group says public "wilfully misled"; files official complaint over consultation process.

On the day before the Government's consultation on the future of nuclear power in the UK comes to an end, John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK said:

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Brown's pollsters exposed for fixing public nuclear consultation

Last edited 20 September 2007 at 11:20am
19 September, 2007

Gordon Brown's public consultation on nuclear power is being fixed by the market research company carrying out the polling.

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Brown lets the nuclear cat out of the bag

Posted by bex — 6 July 2007 at 4:06pm - Comments

Gordon Brown"We have made the decision to continue with nuclear power."

With those ten words, Gordon Brown managed to break the law, sabotage an ongoing public consultation and do a U-turn on his promise to listen to the people - all during his first Prime Minister's Question Time.

As head of government, Brown's meant to be abiding by a high court ruling that says the government can't legally make a decision on whether to build new nuclear power stations before a proper public consultation has been carried out.

The last consultation, said Justice Sullivan, was "seriously flawed"; the process was "manifestly inadequate and unfair" because insufficient information had been made available by the government for consultees to make an "intelligent response".

It now looks like this consultation is as much of a sham as the last one; the government seems to have already made up its mind on nukes, before the consultation's even really underway.

Here's a pdf of the letter our lawyers sent Brown this morning.

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PM sabotages public nuclear consultation in first week in power

Last edited 6 July 2007 at 11:34am
6 July, 2007

NEW PRIME MINISTER Gordon Brown acted unlawfully during his first appearance at the despatch box for Prime Minister's Questions, according to lawyers acting for Greenpeace.

Following a High Court decision earlier this year, no government decision to support new nuclear power stations can lawfully be made before a public consultation has been carried out. However, during PMQs on Wednesday, Gordon Brown ignored the Court's ruling and sabotaged the ongoing consultation by stating that: "We have made the decision to continue with nuclear power."

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