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Climate campaigners shut down one of UK's biggest power stations
Greenpeace sets up 'climate camp' on top of 200 metre chimney
One of Britain's dirtiest power stations has been shut down by climate change campaigners.
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Reacting to news that Tony Blair has written to EU leaders warning that the world has ten to fifteen years to avert catastrophic climate change, John Sauven of Greenpeace said:
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Commenting on David Cameron's speech to the Local Government Association, in which he said "the future is decentralised energy" and that nuclear power is "a last resort", Greenpeace campaigner Charlie Kronick said:
Posted by bex — 5 July 2006 at 8:00am
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Radioactive champagne, near nuclear meltdowns, leaked terrorism documents and a nuclear waste train crash... In the same month that Tony Blair announced nuclear power was "back on the agenda with a vengeance", events in the real world put the lie to nuclear industry spin.
Posted by bex — 5 July 2006 at 8:00am
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A nuclear expert has called for nuclear reactors in the UK to be "immediately shut down" after secret documents written by government inspectors reveal they contain structural defects.
The documents - which were passed to Greenpeace days before Tony Blair is expected to give the go-ahead to a new generation of nuclear power stations - show that the government's Nuclear Safety Directorate (NSD) has identified cracks in the cores of up to 14 UK reactors, rendering them at increased risk of a radiological accident.
Last edited 4 July 2006 at 8:00am
Former New Labour advisor says Blair lied to Commons committee
Reacting to Tony Blair's comments this morning in support of new nuclear power stations, Greenpeace executive director Stephen Tindale said:
"Tony Blair wants his legacy to be new nuclear power stations, but his obsession threatens to scupper this country's renewable energy industry. He wants to tie the country into a centralised energy generation system that relies on huge, inefficient, polluting power stations instead of pushing money towards clean cutting edge technologies."
Posted by bex — 17 May 2006 at 8:00am
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Tony Blair has announced that nuclear power is now "back on the agenda with a vengeance".
Speaking at a CBI dinner last night, Blair made his strongest admission yet that the Energy Review is a smokescreen for a decision that has already been taken: to build a new generation of nuclear power stations.
Posted by jamie — 3 May 2006 at 8:00am
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It takes over a million years for nuclear waste to become safe, (a time span equivalent to the evolution of modern man). Yet one man is set to make a decision that will increase lethal waste levels threefold. Is this the sort of legacy Tony Blair wants to leave mankind? We think not.
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Responding to the Committee on Radioactive Waste's recommendations about UK nuclear waste disposal Greenpeace campaigner Jean McSorley said:
"CORWM is recommending we bury radioactive waste in a big hole in the ground somewhere in the UK. This is an environmental time bomb for future generations because the waste will inevitably degrade and leak. The least dangerous option would be to keep the waste on the reactor sites in accessible storage."
Posted by bex — 28 March 2006 at 9:00am
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A year late - the government announced the results of their review of climate change initiatives today and told us what we already knew. They are not going to meet their targets. But instead of taking this opportunity to put in place measures that would really make a difference to reduce climate damaging emissions, they've lowered their expectations.
