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Cameron energy speech - Greenpeace reaction

Last edited 6 July 2006 at 8:00am
6 July, 2006

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:

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UK nuclear reactors are defective, say government inspectors

Posted by bex — 5 July 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

A huge KAPOW projected onto Torness power station

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.

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Energy Review update 7

Last edited 30 June 2006 at 12:00am
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30 June, 2006

1. Britain’s new nuclear age?
2. Lib Dems say nuclear is too expensive
3. Environment Agency attacks Blair
4. Sustainable Energy: Tories to outflank Blair?
5. When does a carbon price become a hidden subsidy
6. EDM 2412: nuclear waste trains
7. Scotland leads dash for renewables
8. Terrorism fears over new reactors
9. Radioactive waste report not a ‘green light’
10. Electricity is not the same as energy.
11. Nuclear decommissioning – Caithness-style
12. Uranium – is there enough?
13. Micropower and the law

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Alternative to government Energy Review announced

Last edited 20 June 2006 at 8:00am
20 June, 2006

Greenpeace launches public campaign on real solution to climate change

Tuesday 20th June 2006: Today Greenpeace launches a public information campaign to promote a new approach to tackling climate change and energy security that would dramatically cut energy waste in power stations, slash CO2 emissions and close the looming 'energy gap'.

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Energy Review update 6

Last edited 16 June 2006 at 12:00am
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16 June, 2006

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Energy Review update 5

Last edited 22 May 2006 at 12:00am
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22 May, 2006

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Blair backs a nuclear (and more dangerous) future

Posted by bex — 17 May 2006 at 8:00am - Comments
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant at sunrise, USA

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.

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Energy Review update 4

Last edited 8 May 2006 at 12:00am
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8 May, 2006

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Greenpeace's recommendations to the 2006 Energy Review

Posted by bex — 28 April 2006 at 8:00am - Comments

Drax power station

Greenpeace has called on the UK government to recognise that our existing energy system is outdated, fragmented and inherently wasteful - and to start a wholesale regulatory and market reform to make decentralised energy the mainstay of the UK's energy system.

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Greenpeace's submission to the 2006 Energy Review

Last edited 26 April 2006 at 8:00am
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26 March, 2007

The Greenpeace response to the Department of Trade and Industry's Energy Review consultation document 'Our Energy Challenge' (January 2006)

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