Dr David Lowry - Environmental Policy and Research Consultant

 

Sept 17th 2013

 

So the junior coalition partners have now reached their nuclear nadir, with Lib Dem conference vote to abandon commitment to green renewable energy in favour of  dirty and dangerous nuclear power.(“Climate fears bring U-turn on nuclear power plants,”  The Guardian 16 Sept.)

 

First they  oversaw preparation prepared an “alternative”  report on the UK nuclear WMD Trident
programme, concluding they wanted to keep  these hugely expensive WMDs, but only enough to kill

75, 000,000 innocent civilians with three operational submarines instead of the wicked Tories, who want 4 subs, to kill 100,000,000 innocents.

 

Now they have reversed decades of sensible opposition to nuclear power, to launch themselves lemming–like over the electoral cliff, on the very day the nuclear disaster in high-tech Japan 30 months ago has resulted in their final nuclear plant being closed. (“Japan
turns off last nuclear reactor.” The Guardian Sept.16).

 

Last week the Coalition government published revised proposals (“County councils sidelined from nuclear waste dump site decisions,” 12 Sept. www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/sep/12/county-councils-nuclear-waste-dump-sites) for finding a site or sites for long term radioactive waste management ( or “disposal” as the proposals misleadingly call them).  The  new plan would give local councillors the
chance to enhance their local community with an atomic amenity, and host hundreds of tonnes of radioactive waste for tens of thousands of years.

 

To be consistent, any Lib Dem councillor who voted for  the Lib Dem U-turn to back nuclear power, should surely now campaign for their community to offer itself up as a prospective host for this  nuclear waste they are intent on creating.

 

 

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