energy review

Sea Wind East

Last edited 10 July 2002 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
11 August, 2009

How offshore wind in East Anglia could supply a quarter of UK electricity needs

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Government creative accountacy to subsidise radioactive waste industry?

Posted by bex — 4 July 2002 at 8:00am - Comments
On 4th July 2002 the Government published its White Paper Managing the Nuclear Legacy which contained plans for dealing with our worsening radioactive waste crisis that has accumulated over 50 years.

Chief scientist 'playing politics' say Greenpeace

Last edited 7 March 2002 at 9:00am
7 March, 2002

Solution: wind turbines at work

Greenpeace response to Chief Scientist claim today that new nuclear power stations are needed to protect the environment

Number 10's energy report is compromised by government infatuation with nuclear power

Last edited 14 February 2002 at 9:00am
14 February, 2002

Greenpeace response to Downing Street Energy Review

Greenpeace energy campaigner Matthew Spencer said,
"Labour looks ready to rekindle is its love affair with nuclear power. This report has the fingerprints of the pro-nuclear energy minister Brian Wilson all over it. The nuclear industry would close down in the UK without new support from the Government - this report leaves the door open for new tax-breaks and rubber-stamping of planning applications for new power stations."

Greenpeace publishes leak of Blair's buried energy report

Last edited 31 January 2002 at 9:00am
31 January, 2002

Cabinet office review throws lifeline to nuclear industry

Greenpeace today publishes a leaked summary of Tony Blair's Energy Review, revealing how a Downing Street think tank is leaving the door open for a wave of dangerous new nuclear power stations across Britain. The Prime Minister was due to release the report by today at the latest, but publication has been delayed.

Draft copy of the PIU report: Energy review

Last edited 30 January 2002 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
10 December, 2001

"This Review had three tasks: to consider the implications for energy policy of the RCEP's view that the UK would have to make a substantial cuts in CO2 emissions by the middle of the century if it were to join a world-wide coalition to stabilise CO2 concentration in the atmosphere; to review energy security; and to consider whether the different objectives which energy systems meet can be better integrated, given that the recent past has seen some conflicts, for instance between environmental and social objectives."

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Britain at the energy cross-roads

Last edited 9 November 2001 at 9:00am
Publication date: 
21 March, 2007

Publication date: November 2001

Summary

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New nuclear power stations on Government agenda?

Posted by bex — 17 September 2001 at 8:00am - Comments
The UK press has been full of speculation for over a year that the Government is ready to launch a new nuclear power programme. Over the first few months of 2005 many articles speculated that as soon as the General Election was out of the way in May, the Government would support the construction of new nuclear power stations.

Greenpeace calls on Government to resist nuclear lobbying and back renewables

Last edited 11 September 2001 at 8:00am
11 September, 2001

Greenpeace today called for the Government to phase out nuclear power stations in the UK and massively increase its targets for renewable energy and energy efficiency. In a report to the Government's energy review, Greenpeace calls for:

  • A 50% reduction in final energy use within the next fifty years
  • A national aim to meet half of the UK's electricity needs from renewable energy within twenty years

Our energy future - renewables vs nukes?

Last edited 11 September 2001 at 8:00am
Publication date: 
1 October, 2001

Greenpeace welcomes the fact that the Government is reviewing energy policy. Current energy trends are unsustainable: greenhouse gas emissions and radioactive waste are leaving enormous burdens for future generations to deal with. The fifty year time-scale identified by the Government makes possible a visionary and bold approach which no previous energy review in the UK has achieved.

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