Newsnight – 29th March
TweetI appeared on Newsnight last night, discussing energy security along with Peter Lilley MP and Joss Garman. Click here to view the programme (interviews begin at about six and a half minutes in).
View ArticleWhy Nuclear Power makes No Sense for the UK – second briefing
TweetI am producing a series of Briefings along with Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett, following our letter of 12th March to the Prime Minister warning him that his plans for another...
View ArticleWhy Nuclear Power makes No Sense for the UK – third briefing
TweetThe third in a series of Briefings, written by Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett and me, is released today. They are released following our letter of 12th March to the Prime...
View ArticleWhy Nuclear Power makes No Sense for the UK – fourth briefing
TweetThe fourth in a series of Briefings, written by Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett and me, is released today. These are being released following our letter of 12th March to the...
View ArticleWhy Nuclear Power makes No Sense for the UK – fifth briefing
TweetThe fifth in a series of Briefings, written by Tony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett and me, is released today. These are being released following our letter of 12th March to the...
View ArticleNuclear policy: part of the Government’s omnishambles
TweetThe collapse of the Government’s nuclear policy is a somewhat overlooked part of its current omnishambles. In part this is because very few of the journalists writing about nuclear power know much...
View ArticleUK Energy Policy Will Fail If Government Persists With Nuclear Fantasies
TweetTony Juniper, Jonathon Porritt and Charles Secrett and I wrote a letter to the Prime Minister on 12th March warning him that his plans for another generation of nuclear reactors are ill-conceived...
View ArticleThe first of my video blogs: why the UK should not pursue nuclear
TweetSee below my first video blog, made in conjunction with RTCC. In two and a half minutes, I argue why the UK should not pursue nuclear as a policy option- the cost, nuclear proliferation, and waste...
View ArticleNuclear power would appear to have acquired the power to destroy logic
TweetSome people worry about nuclear power because they fear the risks to human health from radioactivity. Others are concerned about the morality of leaving a legacy of radioactive wastes that will be...
View ArticleHinkley and Sizewell will cost us £155 billion over 30 years under the CfD
TweetThe government is pressing ahead, in the face of growing difficulties, with its effort to build new nuclear power stations in Britain. So far, it has failed to come clean about what this will...
View ArticleHouse of Commons Energy Bill debate – Monday 3rd June 2013
Tweet At the House of Commons debate on the Energy Bill on Monday 3rd June Lib Dem Martin Horwood expressed his view that the UK Nuclear industry is not very competitive, it is dominated...
View ArticleNUCLEAR NONSENSE 3
Tweet Citigroup are not often listed in the pantheon of environmental campaigning organisations. Even among bankers they have a reputation for being hardnosed. So it was with some interest that I...
View ArticleThe Independent View: No real choice on nuclear
Tweet This article was written for the Liberal Democrat Voice and first appeared on their website. By Tom Burke | Mon 9th September 2013 – 8:45 am Atoms are … Continue reading →
View ArticleFUTURE IMPERFECT: THE COLLISION OF CLIMATE AND CARBON
Tweet BY TOM BURKE This article first appeared in the Montrose Journal September 2013 Two epochal forces are shaping this century. One is economic, the $6 trillion dollar investment that will be made...
View ArticleBEHIND THE NUCLEAR SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Tweet There is an important question to be asked of Mr Davey. If there is no public subsidy for Hinkley C why are you having to make an application to the Brussels for state … Continue...
View ArticleThird or fourth time lucky
Tweet This article first appeared in Business Green October 2013 There is only one decision that really matters about future nuclear reactor building in Britain and that has not yet been taken....
View ArticleViewpoint: Can we risk another Fukushima?
Tweet This article first appeared as a guest post for Greenpeace Energydesk By Tom Burke, Founding director of E3G 21ST NOV 2013 One of the more opportunistic responses to the meltdown at...
View ArticleOn Killing Dragons
Tweet This article first appeared in the November Issue of The Ends Report Consistency is becoming the rarest of phenomena in public discourse. We have a … Continue reading →
View ArticleIt can’t be easy being George Monbiot
Tweet By Jonathon Porritt 5th December 2013 This article first appeared in Jonathon Porritt’s blog and in The Ecologist The Letter referred to in this article is the one that Jonathon Porritt, Tony...
View ArticleFALLON’S FALLACY
Tweet There is a presentational trick that skilled politicians practice. It grasps that most people are more affected by the tone than the content of a speech. This is an especially important...
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