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United States: The farce of the Hinkley C nuclear reactor will haunt Britain for decades
2013-10-21 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Seven years ago, I collected all the available cost estimates for nuclear power. The US Nuclear Energy Institute suggested a penny a kilowatt hour. The Royal Academy of Engineering confidently predicted 2.3p. The British government announced that in 2020 the price would be between 3 and 4p. The New Economics Foundation guessed that it could be anywhere between 3.4 and 8.3p; 8.3 pence was so far beyond what anyone else forecast that I treated it as scarcely credible. It falls a penny short of the...
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United Airlines frustration persists in Durango
2013-10-21 21:29:32| Airlines - Topix.net
Officials at Durango-La Plata County Airport say they remain frustrated with United Airlines over unreliable service, even after senior airline manager Alicia Gabriel promised to improve the airline's on-time departures and arrivals.
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United Kingdom: We need new nuclear power to keep the lights on, says Ed Davey
2013-10-21 19:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The Energy Secretary Ed Davey insisted that new nuclear power is essential to keep Britain's lights on as he unveiled a long-awaited agreement to build two more reactors at Hinkley Point - at a cost of 2bn more than previously announced. After months of wrangling, the government has agreed to guarantee the French utility EDF about twice the current market rate for the electricity produced at Hinkley Point C in Somerset. Known as the "strike price", Edf and its Chinese partners will receive...
United Kingdom: With nuclear power: truth is the first casualty
2013-10-21 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Ecologist: The Hinckley deal is a disastrous one for the UK, its taxpayers and energy users. We will be locked into a punitively high electricity price, index-linked, from 2025 until 2060, and the cumulative cost of this one nuclear power station will be well in excess of 100 billion, or around 1 billion per year in today's money. Nuclear power brings many casualties. The first of these is the truth. According to the Government, the "deal" announced with EDF and Chinese nuclear companies to build a pair...
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United Kingdom: How the ground shifted for nuclear power
2013-10-21 17:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Political parties The origins of today's decision date back to May 2006 when the then prime minister, Tony Blair heavily influenced by chief scientist Sir David King said that Britain should rethink its energy policy to include nuclear. Until then it had been considered unnecessary and too expensive by Labour. Claiming wind and solar power had "technical" problems, Blair argued that climate change and energy security demanded nuclear. Research by Mori and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change...
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