Tag Archives: nuclear
Committee slams Treasury meddling
Monday’s report on the Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft Energy Bill didn’t pull it’s punches. There have been hundreds of lines written about the report over the last 24 hours, but here are key points, reactions and other coverage…
Will Osborne destroy the UK’s energy policy in his quest for power?
Monday’s report by the Energy and Climate Change Committee was just about as damning as it could be. However, most fascinating is the picture it paints of the ongoing conflict between DECC and the Treasury. With a marvelous sense of … Continue reading
Nuking the power dream
First the good news: The UK has lots of shale gas, if we can get it out of the ground, and the Government favours gas powered energy generation. And, there are companies (almost) falling over themselves to exploit it. Now … Continue reading
Nuclear blackmail arguement also applies to wind
Who’d have thought that the biggest source of disagreement between environmentalists would be nuclear power? The issue came back into the spotlight last week when four environmental campaigners (Jonathan Porritt, Tom Burke, Charles Secrett and Tony Juniper ) wrote a … Continue reading
