The Way Forward : Renewable Energy
Solar Power Tax Hike
Information from Greenpeace reveals that the government is about to attack solar power by hitting schools and businesses that invest in solar power with a huge tax hike. This comes one year after the Paris climate deal was agreed by world leaders and Greenpeace have launched a petition urging ministers to rethink government plans for…
Belgium — Legal Action To Close Tihange 2 Reactor
Some 90 municipalities from border regions in Germany, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are taking legal action to have the Belgian nuclear plant Tihange 2 closed. This plant made the headlines as the reactor vessel contains many small cracks and was offline for months to allow research into the problem, but was deemed safe enough to…
Nuclear Energy Outdated And Unnecessary In Modern World
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…
Hinkley C: An even worse bargain than we thought
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 –…
The Way Forward – Offshore Wind
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…
Sizewell B second Periodic Safety Review (PSR) after 20 year operation
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…
Fukushima – The truth will out – yet again
‘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…
Let’s Use New, Safer Energy
Letter published in the ”East Anglian Daily Times” 1ST August 2016 “Sir, The decision made by EDF to proceed with the building of Hinkley C is a manifest disaster at a number of different levels. Firstly, the costs are totally unrealistic, estimated to be £18bn which is double the original budget and at a unit…