Letter from Charles Barnett published in the East Anglian Daily Times, September 2016 , The Government’s decision to proceed with the Hinkley Point C Plant cannot be anything but a catastrophe for the UK! Despite a six-week review period to consider China’s involvement, the project has been commissioned with no significant changes resulting in a…

Britain would have saved £1 billion a year by ditching Hinkley C in favour of less risky schemes. ‘The new analysis by the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit finds that a mix of policies and technologies that are already in use could add the 3.2 gigawatts of capacity – about 7% of Britain’s needs –…

A huge offshore wind farm with 300 turbines, each taller than the Gherkin skyscraper in London, has been given the goahead. Greg Clerk, the business secretary, gave planning permission to the Homsea wind project, which will sit 55 miles off the Yorkshire coast and become the world’s biggest marinetbased wind farm. When completed, the Hornsea…

In response to our request we have received from the Sizewell B Station Director a copy of the Office for Nuclear Regulation’ 5 Project Assessment Report Licence to operate Sizewell B for a further ten years together with accompanying technical reports in support of that decision. All the way through the reports is the qualifying…

‘Radioactive contamination in the seabed off the Fukushima coast is hundreds of times above pre.2011 levels, while contamination in local rivers is up to 200 times higher than ocean sediment, according to results from Greenpeace japan survey work released on july 21. Ai Kashiwagi, Energy Campaigner at Greenpeace japan, said: “These river samples were taken…