November 3, 2015
#KeepItClean !
Check out the new #KeepItClean campaign from Salt Magazine: http://www.wearesalt.org/vivienne-westwood-and-salt-launch-keepitclean-campaign-2/ - a series of open letters and…
October 19, 2015
Meltdown for Pro-Nuclear Environmentalists
I wonder what our pro-nuclear greenies will be thinking this week as they listen to President Xi Jinping and George Osborne bombastically declaring ‘a new nuclear dawn for the…
October 15, 2015
Hinkley C: ‘The Most Expensive White Elephant in British History’
The latest instalment in George Osborne’s personally-authored potboiler, the Hinkley Point F***** (think ‘Fiasco’!) will be published sometime around October 20th to mark the…
July 15, 2015
Is the Nuclear Industry the Least Innovative Industry in the World?
Today sees the publication of the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. As a long-term and very engaged participant in the nuclear debate, I’ve absorbed each WNISR with…
July 13, 2015
The Slow but Assured Death of UK Renewables
Things go from bad to worse on the renewable energy front. 1. Even those who are accustomed to George Osborne’s hostility to the renewables industry were astonished by his…
June 18, 2015
The Power of Sustainable Energy For All
Kandeh Yumkella is the inspirational leader of the UN’s Sustainable Energy 4 All campaign. On Thursday last week, he gave the keynote speech to the 2015 Ashden Awards.…
June 9, 2015
Friends Of The Earth: Still Critical to Anti-Nuclear Movement
It’s never a good thing to fall out with an organisation that one loves. But, at the moment, that’s how it is for me with Friends of the Earth. And it’s all about nuclear. The…
April 14, 2015
Getting to Grips with Ben van Beurden
Sorry if it’s beginning to look as if I’m engaged in something of a vendetta against Mr Ben van Beurden, the Chief Executive of Shell. But for all sorts of reasons he seems to…
March 10, 2015
What’s More, Nuclear Power is NOT a Source of Low-Carbon Electricity
For those who dutifully followed the trail of my anti-nuclear invective yesterday, you may perhaps, even now, despite the weight and depth of the arguments against nuclear power,…
March 9, 2015
Hinkley Point: the Beginning of the End
I’ve always said that the two proposed new reactors at Hinkley Point would never get built. Now I’m not just saying it: I’m absolutely convinced that they’ll never get built. A…