January 25, 2024
EDF: A Total Basket Case, Weighed Down By Its £50 Billion Nuclear Turkey At Hinkley Point.
EdF’s bosses must be thanking their lucky stars that President Macron decided to take complete control of EdF back in 2022. Otherwise, its latest announcements about further…
January 18, 2024
UK’S NUCLEAR OBSESSIONS KILL OFF ITS NET ZERO STRATEGY
After 14 years of Tory mismanagement, the UK finds itself bereft of an energy strategy. This was finally confirmed in the release last week of the Government’s new Nuclear…
April 16, 2023
Germany’s Nuclear Nous versus the UK’s Nuclear Nutters
I’m celebrating today – for the simple reason that Germany closed down its three remaining nuclear reactors on Saturday 15th April. I’ve followed the nuclear debate in Germany…
July 7, 2022
Sizewell C: Just the Latest Nuclear Scam
Whatever chaos unfolds between today (Thursday) and tomorrow, Boris Johnson is apparently still planning to confirm his Government’s commitment to a new nuclear power station at…
April 5, 2022
Prospects for Energy Security Marred by Nuclear Fantasies
This is absolutely the right time for a new Energy Strategy. Unfortunately, we’ve got absolutely the wrong politicians in charge of it. The combination of Boris Johnson and Rishi…
November 16, 2021
COP26’s Nuclear Sidebar
The fact that COP26 was crawling with huge numbers of delegates from Big Oil and Gas got a lot of attention from the media. Less attention was paid to the large number of…
October 26, 2021
Truth and Fantasy in Our Net Zero World
In this short-lived breathing space between last week's Net Zero barrage and next week's CoP26 frenzy, it seems timely to reflect on how it all stacks up so far. After months of…
June 4, 2021
Nuclear Energy:Nuclear Weapons – the Inseparable Link
I first took an interest in Greenpeace back in 1973, before I joined Friends of the Earth, CND and the Green Party (then the Ecology Party) a year later. I’d followed the…
May 28, 2021
Getting Real About Net Zero
When it comes to understanding the true nature of Net Zero by 2050, I have one huge request: could everybody please stop flourishing their particular ‘get out of jail free’ cards…
May 7, 2021
Energy Policymaking in the UK: Ill-Informed and Incoherent
In March 2012, four former Directors of Friends of the Earth (myself, Tom Burke, Charles Secrett and Tony Juniper) wrote to Prime Minister David Cameron to warn him that the…