Approving another nuclear power station when we should be doing everything to reduce energy prices is surely a joke. Reports at the weekend said that Boris Johnson had approved government funding of £6bn towards the £20-30bn estimated cost for the …
Pointless nuclear propaganda war
At the weekend a newspaper story revealed the scale of nuclear industry lobbying of MSPs and Ministers. Sadly for them nuclear reactors across Europe are increasingly showing the folly of relying on complex, always late and eye-wateringly expensive technologies for power. …
The Ferret – Industry lobbies MSPs to back nuclear power
A story in the Ferret and Sunday National covers the nuclear industry’s propaganda offensive to get nuclear power back on the agenda in Scotland. These are the full quotes I gave to the Ferret: “Investing in renewables and energy efficiency …
UK and Scottish energy strategies on collision course
The UK Government’s new energy strategy makes no sense at all and puts Westminster on collision course with Holyrood. In early March Boris Johnson said he would produce, as a matter of urgency, a plan to respond to the twin …
30 years of progress, but still not enough
Today is my last day at Friends of the Earth Scotland, after 30 years in the Scottish environment movement. There has been good progress in those three decades and the environment and climate change have moved from fringe concerns to mainstream …
What war in Ukraine means for energy
The terrible war in Ukraine is being used by opponents of green energy to promote more oil and gas, new nuclear and even fracking. None of which makes the slightest sense.
The latest nuclear con
Small Modular Reactors won’t be cheap and they will be so unpopular it is unlikely any of them will actually get built.
Scottish Labour’s drift towards nuclear power
Calls for new nuclear power are rearing their ugly head again including from Scottish Labour, who blocked nuclear in Scotland 16 years ago.
Nuclear power – 35 years on from Chernobyl
Since Chernobyl only three reactor projects have begun in Europe, all being built by the French state-owned company EDF.
Japan’s outrageous radioactive waste plan
A decision to dump Fukushima’s radioactive waste water in the Pacific is causing outrage in Japan and beyond.
Ten years since Fukushima nuclear disaster
New nuclear power is never worth the risk.
Hunterston nuclear reactor restart isn’t worth it
End is in sight for nuclear power station but the owners EDF will cash in by running their risky reactors for another 6 months.