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United Kingdom: Ed Davey could do with power boost over Hinkley Point C
2013-10-21 22:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Ed Davey, the Lib Dem energy and climate change secretary, announced the contract for the new nuclear power station Hinkley Point C on Monday. You had to feel sorry for him. Caught between the anti-nuclear brigade (of which he was once a prominent member), the climate change fanatics and the Labour party, which is trying to make as much capital out of energy prices as it can, he was reduced to barking angrily. Also it must be pretty rough being a Lib Dem. The party is beginning to look like one...
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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United Kingdom: Hinkley Point nuclear power station: a new type of nationalisation
2013-10-21 17:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Rejoice! Britain's first new nuclear power station in a generation is to be built at Hinkley Point in Somerset, and David Cameron could not be happier. "This is a very big day for our country," he said yesterday, "the first time we've built a new nuclear power station for a very long time." There is only one snag: "we" are not building it at all. Thanks to an amazingly cushy 35-year deal agreed with the government, the plant to be known as Hinkley C is the responsibility of a consortium largely...
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