Hi Reg,
Many thanks for your email.
We are currently planning our programme of public engagement for the rest of this year. Once we confirm it, details will appear on our web site and in our regular newsletter and of course we will also be happy to advise you of locations and timings for you to post on your web site.
With regards to the comments you make about the bungalow we are aware of the concerns the Civil Nuclear Constabulary have with unoccupied properties near to a nuclear site.
Therefore, due to the current structural condition of the bungalow the only sensible course of action is to demolish it, but please be assured that any moves to do this will of course be subject to the relevant permissions and licences. We have already received some positive local feedback about our intentions to remove this building.
Kind regards,
Tim Proudler
Horizon Nuclear Power
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Chris Huhne dims his nuclear doubts?
From The Sunday Times May 30, 2010
Energy minister dims his nuclear doubtsJonathan Oliver
Chris Huhne said rising gas and oil prices would make nuclear power more attractive
CHRIS HUHNE, the Liberal Democrat energy secretary, last night signalled a softening of his opposition to nuclear power, insisting he was no “ideological ayatollah”.
Huhne, who once described nuclear power as a “failed” technology, claimed that plants would be built despite the government’s refusal to subsidise the industry.
“It is very clear from the coalition agreement that there will be a new generation of nuclear power,” he said in an interview with The Sunday Times.
Last year the government identified 10 sites where nuclear reactors could be built.
The arrival of Huhne, the most radical of the five Lib Dem cabinet ministers, at the Department of Energy and Climate Change had sparked concern that the entire civil nuclear programme might be put on hold. But he insisted that despite budgetary restrictions there was an appetite to build plants.
“The investors who are most interested in this issue accept the situation where there will be no subsidy,” he said.
He said the likely rise in gas and oil prices over the next few years would make nuclear more attractive to private finance. “They are looking at the likely rise in the carbon price. That will provide an incentive to all low-carbon and zero-carbon forms of energy.”
Huhne, who worked in the City before entering politics, added: “I am not an ideological ayatollah against nuclear power per se.
“I am simply a sceptical economist about the record of nuclear power on delivering on time and to budget in a way that can make returns for investors.”
Huhne’s background as an economist means that he is unafraid of entering the debate on capital gains tax. He delivered a blunt warning to the Tory malcontents who are calling for planned capital gains tax (CGT) rises to be watered down.
Taunting the backbench rebel leaders, he said: “What I don’t see in the debate from David Davis and John Redwood is an awareness of the constraints that we’re facing and the sense of competing priorities. It is terribly easy to run a single-issue campaign saying we don’t like this but that doesn’t take account of the world of government.”
That last remark will particularly irritate Davis and Redwood, who were both ministers in the previous Tory government.
The row over CGT is turning into the first big test of coalition unity. During the pre-deal negotiations, the Lib Dems argued successfully for an increase in the levy, now 18%, to nearer the higher-rate income tax level of 40%.
The extra money raised is to be used to help fund the Lib Dems’ key goal of cutting the burden on the low paid by raising the starting income tax threshold.
However, many Tories fear that increasing CGT will hit people who plan to sell shares or second homes to fund their retirement.
Huhne said any watering-down of the pledge on increasing CGT would seriously undermine the coalition deal.
“One of the things people might say is ‘I don’t like that’, so they pull at that little piece of string and you find that all the rest of the woolly jumper is unravelling,” he said. “You have to be very, very careful. If you move something, everything else changes.”
Huhne, a member of the four-man coalition negotiation team for the Lib Dems, reminded the Tory rebels that the party’s failure to win the election was the reason why they now needed to compromise.
“The coalition agreement is a good agreement,” he said. “You have to remember why it’s there — remember the context. We can’t take one bit of it and say we don’t like that.
“One thing I do think is missing from the debate on CGT is a reminder of what the strategy actually is. The strategy is to lift lower and middle income people out of income tax ... We all want to see people facing relatively low marginal rates of tax and obviously nobody wants to raise rates of tax if we can possibly help it.
“But the change that might be happening on CGT from 18% to 40% needs to be put in context of the sorts of marginal rates that low-income people are facing when they go from benefit into work.”
He pointed out that they often faced marginal rates of approaching 60% on their new earnings.
In another provocative remark targeted at the Tory right wing, he pointed out that Margaret Thatcher’s favourite cabinet minister had been an outspoken backer of Lib Dem tax policy. “One of our greatest supporters on raising the low-income threshold, who will be a pin-up to both John Redwood and David Davis, is Norman Tebbit,” said Huhne.
While the coalition has been described as an “austerity” or “hairshirt” government, the climate change secretary insisted nobody needed to cancel their bank holiday mini-breaks.
He said that the planned shift in aviation taxation to a “greener” per plane levy would not prompt the demise of the budget airlines. “My guess is airlines like Flybe, Ryanair and easyJet will have relatively little to fear,” he said.
However, he warned that other airlines, such as British Airways, which fly emptier jets, would be hard hit. “The flights which are frankly going to be hit hardest are the ones on scheduled routes which have very low load factors,” he said.
Huhne, although a committed environmentalist, insisted that motorists should not be alarmed by the new government. “We are in a time of transition,” he said. “We will be moving to an economy where pretty much everything you and I enjoy doing — even everything that Jeremy Clarkson enjoys doing — will still be able to be done but can be done in a different way.
“Look at the Tesla which is an electric car that does 0-60mph in four seconds.”
Of more immediate concern will be the furore surrounding David Laws, Huhne’s Lib Dem colleague, and his parliamentary expenses claims relating to his boyfriend’s flat.
Huhne said: “This obviously is an extremely regrettable situation. Clearly David did not set out to profit from the taxpayer; his claims were always low. This was about him protecting his privacy.
“He has an enormous talent and I hope we can look beyond this immediate issue. I hope the [standards] commissioner will see it in the round.”
Chilly wife
Chris Huhne revealed how his quest to cut his carbon footprint was frequently thwarted by his wife Vicky Pryce.
The energy secretary said his Greek-born spouse resisted his attempts to turn down the central heating in their draughty five-storey Georgian house in south London.
“Since my wife has Mediterranean blood, our tolerance for cold is slightly different,” he said. “Our London home is more difficult to heat than our Eastleigh home. It is problematic from the point of view of English Heritage, since it is a listed building.”
In addition to homes in Clapham and his Hampshire constituency, the minister owns five buy-to-let properties.
Huhne, who has three children and two stepchildren, is one of the wealthiest men in the cabinet, with a fortune estimated at £3m.
Pryce works as chief economist at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
cycles into his Whitehall office some days, but he insisted:
I don’t have a car with a red box following me.”
Energy minister dims his nuclear doubtsJonathan Oliver
Chris Huhne said rising gas and oil prices would make nuclear power more attractive
CHRIS HUHNE, the Liberal Democrat energy secretary, last night signalled a softening of his opposition to nuclear power, insisting he was no “ideological ayatollah”.
Huhne, who once described nuclear power as a “failed” technology, claimed that plants would be built despite the government’s refusal to subsidise the industry.
“It is very clear from the coalition agreement that there will be a new generation of nuclear power,” he said in an interview with The Sunday Times.
Last year the government identified 10 sites where nuclear reactors could be built.
The arrival of Huhne, the most radical of the five Lib Dem cabinet ministers, at the Department of Energy and Climate Change had sparked concern that the entire civil nuclear programme might be put on hold. But he insisted that despite budgetary restrictions there was an appetite to build plants.
“The investors who are most interested in this issue accept the situation where there will be no subsidy,” he said.
He said the likely rise in gas and oil prices over the next few years would make nuclear more attractive to private finance. “They are looking at the likely rise in the carbon price. That will provide an incentive to all low-carbon and zero-carbon forms of energy.”
Huhne, who worked in the City before entering politics, added: “I am not an ideological ayatollah against nuclear power per se.
“I am simply a sceptical economist about the record of nuclear power on delivering on time and to budget in a way that can make returns for investors.”
Huhne’s background as an economist means that he is unafraid of entering the debate on capital gains tax. He delivered a blunt warning to the Tory malcontents who are calling for planned capital gains tax (CGT) rises to be watered down.
Taunting the backbench rebel leaders, he said: “What I don’t see in the debate from David Davis and John Redwood is an awareness of the constraints that we’re facing and the sense of competing priorities. It is terribly easy to run a single-issue campaign saying we don’t like this but that doesn’t take account of the world of government.”
That last remark will particularly irritate Davis and Redwood, who were both ministers in the previous Tory government.
The row over CGT is turning into the first big test of coalition unity. During the pre-deal negotiations, the Lib Dems argued successfully for an increase in the levy, now 18%, to nearer the higher-rate income tax level of 40%.
The extra money raised is to be used to help fund the Lib Dems’ key goal of cutting the burden on the low paid by raising the starting income tax threshold.
However, many Tories fear that increasing CGT will hit people who plan to sell shares or second homes to fund their retirement.
Huhne said any watering-down of the pledge on increasing CGT would seriously undermine the coalition deal.
“One of the things people might say is ‘I don’t like that’, so they pull at that little piece of string and you find that all the rest of the woolly jumper is unravelling,” he said. “You have to be very, very careful. If you move something, everything else changes.”
Huhne, a member of the four-man coalition negotiation team for the Lib Dems, reminded the Tory rebels that the party’s failure to win the election was the reason why they now needed to compromise.
“The coalition agreement is a good agreement,” he said. “You have to remember why it’s there — remember the context. We can’t take one bit of it and say we don’t like that.
“One thing I do think is missing from the debate on CGT is a reminder of what the strategy actually is. The strategy is to lift lower and middle income people out of income tax ... We all want to see people facing relatively low marginal rates of tax and obviously nobody wants to raise rates of tax if we can possibly help it.
“But the change that might be happening on CGT from 18% to 40% needs to be put in context of the sorts of marginal rates that low-income people are facing when they go from benefit into work.”
He pointed out that they often faced marginal rates of approaching 60% on their new earnings.
In another provocative remark targeted at the Tory right wing, he pointed out that Margaret Thatcher’s favourite cabinet minister had been an outspoken backer of Lib Dem tax policy. “One of our greatest supporters on raising the low-income threshold, who will be a pin-up to both John Redwood and David Davis, is Norman Tebbit,” said Huhne.
While the coalition has been described as an “austerity” or “hairshirt” government, the climate change secretary insisted nobody needed to cancel their bank holiday mini-breaks.
He said that the planned shift in aviation taxation to a “greener” per plane levy would not prompt the demise of the budget airlines. “My guess is airlines like Flybe, Ryanair and easyJet will have relatively little to fear,” he said.
However, he warned that other airlines, such as British Airways, which fly emptier jets, would be hard hit. “The flights which are frankly going to be hit hardest are the ones on scheduled routes which have very low load factors,” he said.
Huhne, although a committed environmentalist, insisted that motorists should not be alarmed by the new government. “We are in a time of transition,” he said. “We will be moving to an economy where pretty much everything you and I enjoy doing — even everything that Jeremy Clarkson enjoys doing — will still be able to be done but can be done in a different way.
“Look at the Tesla which is an electric car that does 0-60mph in four seconds.”
Of more immediate concern will be the furore surrounding David Laws, Huhne’s Lib Dem colleague, and his parliamentary expenses claims relating to his boyfriend’s flat.
Huhne said: “This obviously is an extremely regrettable situation. Clearly David did not set out to profit from the taxpayer; his claims were always low. This was about him protecting his privacy.
“He has an enormous talent and I hope we can look beyond this immediate issue. I hope the [standards] commissioner will see it in the round.”
Chilly wife
Chris Huhne revealed how his quest to cut his carbon footprint was frequently thwarted by his wife Vicky Pryce.
The energy secretary said his Greek-born spouse resisted his attempts to turn down the central heating in their draughty five-storey Georgian house in south London.
“Since my wife has Mediterranean blood, our tolerance for cold is slightly different,” he said. “Our London home is more difficult to heat than our Eastleigh home. It is problematic from the point of view of English Heritage, since it is a listed building.”
In addition to homes in Clapham and his Hampshire constituency, the minister owns five buy-to-let properties.
Huhne, who has three children and two stepchildren, is one of the wealthiest men in the cabinet, with a fortune estimated at £3m.
Pryce works as chief economist at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
cycles into his Whitehall office some days, but he insisted:
I don’t have a car with a red box following me.”
New Green Tax to fund Power Infrastructure
From Times Online May 31, 2010
A proposed levy on power suppliers that could add £10-20 to a typical household’s annual electricity bill is being considered by the Treasury, The Times has learnt.
Officials are attracted by the idea of an electricity tax that would help to create a fund to finance green power projects.
The tax could generate capital for the Lib-Con Government’s proposed green investment bank and is being debated within Whitehall as concern mounts over the reluctance of power companies to commit funds to new power generation projects. Within the past month, three gas-fired power stations have been suspended because the projects were uneconomic.
NM Rothschild, the investment bank, which has a close relationship with the Treasury, has proposed the levy to fund new power infrastructure. Sources close to the Treasury indicate that the proposal is based on a levy of about £2 per megawatt hour on the wholesale price of electricity, which is currently about £45 per mwh.
However, the levy inevitably would be passed on to customers, pushing up the average annual dual fuel household bill of £1,000 a year by an estimated £10 to £20, at a time when household income is under pressure.
A raft of subsidies designed to encourage households to switch to green heating and electricity sources has already started to force up bills.
National Energy Action, a charity that aims to wipe out fuel poverty, recently expressed alarm that additional levies and high fuel costs were forcing up consumer bills.
Alarm bells have begun to ring as utilities delay new power generation schemes, intended to replace the planned closure of elderly and obsolete coal and oil-fired power stations.
Scottish & Southern has pushed back by two years to 2015 the expected opening of an 870 megawatt gas-fired power station in Wales and E.ON has suspended its final investment decision for a 1,200 megawatt gas-fired station in Derbyshire. At Kingsnorth in Kent, where E.ON has to close a coal-fired station because of European emissions controls, the expected opening of replacement plant is delayed until 2016. The German utility yesterday blamed the economic downturn for wrecking its investment plans. Electricity consumption in Britain fell by 7 per cent last year and E.ON and other utilities are digging in their heels over the harsh economics of fully replacing Britain’s ageing power stations.
“Britain’s power grid was gold-plated and up until now we have had spare capacity, but you are not going to see like-for-like replacement unless market conditions improve,” an E.ON spokesman said. “If you are trying to make an investment at a time when there are very low power prices, you don’t get very far.”
The Government wants a third of Britain’s power to come from renewables but weakening enthusiasm among utilities for building conventional fossil fuel plants is highlighting the greater burden of financing more expensive nuclear and renewable power projects.
A proposed levy on power suppliers that could add £10-20 to a typical household’s annual electricity bill is being considered by the Treasury, The Times has learnt.
Officials are attracted by the idea of an electricity tax that would help to create a fund to finance green power projects.
The tax could generate capital for the Lib-Con Government’s proposed green investment bank and is being debated within Whitehall as concern mounts over the reluctance of power companies to commit funds to new power generation projects. Within the past month, three gas-fired power stations have been suspended because the projects were uneconomic.
NM Rothschild, the investment bank, which has a close relationship with the Treasury, has proposed the levy to fund new power infrastructure. Sources close to the Treasury indicate that the proposal is based on a levy of about £2 per megawatt hour on the wholesale price of electricity, which is currently about £45 per mwh.
However, the levy inevitably would be passed on to customers, pushing up the average annual dual fuel household bill of £1,000 a year by an estimated £10 to £20, at a time when household income is under pressure.
A raft of subsidies designed to encourage households to switch to green heating and electricity sources has already started to force up bills.
National Energy Action, a charity that aims to wipe out fuel poverty, recently expressed alarm that additional levies and high fuel costs were forcing up consumer bills.
Alarm bells have begun to ring as utilities delay new power generation schemes, intended to replace the planned closure of elderly and obsolete coal and oil-fired power stations.
Scottish & Southern has pushed back by two years to 2015 the expected opening of an 870 megawatt gas-fired power station in Wales and E.ON has suspended its final investment decision for a 1,200 megawatt gas-fired station in Derbyshire. At Kingsnorth in Kent, where E.ON has to close a coal-fired station because of European emissions controls, the expected opening of replacement plant is delayed until 2016. The German utility yesterday blamed the economic downturn for wrecking its investment plans. Electricity consumption in Britain fell by 7 per cent last year and E.ON and other utilities are digging in their heels over the harsh economics of fully replacing Britain’s ageing power stations.
“Britain’s power grid was gold-plated and up until now we have had spare capacity, but you are not going to see like-for-like replacement unless market conditions improve,” an E.ON spokesman said. “If you are trying to make an investment at a time when there are very low power prices, you don’t get very far.”
The Government wants a third of Britain’s power to come from renewables but weakening enthusiasm among utilities for building conventional fossil fuel plants is highlighting the greater burden of financing more expensive nuclear and renewable power projects.
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Low Level Radiation and Health Conference
A member of SANE will be attending this conference as it is a great concern to the people of The Severn Vale and the whole of humanity.
If any others from our community want to attend please contact oldburynuclear@btinternet.com
Low Level Radiation and Health Conference in Manchester in June
Please see the draft details of the conference.
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Saturday 19th, 2010 Saturday JUNE 19th, 2010
9.30-10: Registration
10.00 Welcome to Manchester
Session Chair:
Sean Morris, NFLA secretary
ALICE STEWART LECTURE
10.10 Childhood leukemia in the vicinity of German Nuclear Power facilities - results and consequences of the KiKK study. Professor Wolfgang Weiss (German Federal Office for Radiation Protection)
10.55 Questions and Answers
Theme 1: Radiation Risks
11.10 Radiation-induced bystander effects – latest news
Dr Carmel Mothersill (McMaster University, Canada)
11, 30 COFFEE
11.50 Shape of the dose-response relationship and its impact on leukemia risk, Dr Alfred Koerblein (Environmental Institute, Munich)
12.10 Radiation biology of environmental and medical exposures
Professor Eric Wright (University of Dundee)
12.30 Chernobyl and Epidemiology TBC
Professor Richard Wakeford (University of Manchester)
12.50 – 1.10 Questions and discussion
1.15-2.00 LUNCH
2.00: Workshops:
Very low levels of radiation and health effects, John Urquhart, PhD student, Open University
Forgotten Heroes? A Case Study of Britain’s Cold War Atomic Test Veterans and the Burden of Proof. Tracey Morris, University of St Andrews
Third workshop TBC
3.30: TEA
4.0 Theme 2: Managing Radioactive wastes
Session Chair: Pete Roche, Energy and Environment Consultancy Edinburgh
Geological Repository – the holes in the argument
Dr Rachel Western, Former nuclear researcher Friends of the Earth and NIREX
4.20 UK Uranium supplies: health and environmental impacts
Peter Diehl, WISE Uranium website
4.40 -5 Questions and discussion
7.00 Evening meal and social, pub Briton’s Protection, 50 Gt Bridgewater St, Manchester M1 5DL.
Sunday June 20th
11.00 Strategy workshop Briton’s Protection pub
Briton’s Protection pub which is about 8 minutes walk from the Friends Meeting House behind the Bridgewater Concert Hall - 50 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, M1 5DL, telephone 0161 236 5895. Lunches £5-£7 a head.
The UK and Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities was established in November 1980 and reaches its 30th anniversary this year. It is the primary local government organisation on nuclear issues. It takes a leading role within local government and lobbying central government on nuclear power, nuclear safety and nuclear weapons proliferation issues. It seeks to build a nuclear weapons free world, and is a close partner of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki led Mayors for Peace. It also opposes expansion of the nuclear fuel cycle - seeing renewable energy, microgeneration and energy efficiency as a cleaner and more sustainable alternative.
The NFLA has taken a continuing interest in the technical, political and scientific debate on the effects of low level radiation on health and has produced many policy briefings and supported considerable independent research on this important issue. It has recently submitted to the Government its concern on the effects of low level radiation around nuclear sites and urged the UK Government to lengthen the consultation on the justification of new nuclear power stations to adequately consider the findings of the COMARE commission into the German government's KIKK report. It campaigns for public safety, health and environmental protection.
The Low Level Radiation and Health Conference was set up in 1985 by members of the public keen to find out more about these issues and so 2010 celebrates its 25th silver anniversary. Since its inception, the conference has been organised by a different voluntary group of members of the public and the event has rotated to different parts of the UK.
The conference is a unique event bringing together members of the nuclear industry, Government organisations, monitoring agencies, Local authorities, medics, academic researchers, health workers, environmental health officers, campaigners and interested lay people. It is an educational event which aims to provide up to the minute research via presentations by a range of people from government, regulators, industry and academics thus making these issues accessible to as broad a range of people as possible by keeping the costs as low as reasonably practicable.
Conference Organising Group:
Contact: Janine Allis-Smith janine@core.furness.co.uk
Sean Morris, Nuclear Free Local Authorities Secretary
Email: s.morris4@manchester.gov.uk
Jill Sutcliffe, 01403 700395, jillandmark@lineone.net
Silver Anniversary
21st Low Level Radiation and Health Conference
1985-2010
Nuclear energy – new build and new radiation paradigm
Nuclear Free Local Authorities
1980-2010
Low Level Radiation
Low Level Radiation
and Health Conference
1985-2010
Manchester Quaker Meeting Hall, 6 Mount St, Manchester
Jointly held by Low Radiation and Health Conference and the Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA)
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Saturday 19th, 2010 Saturday JUNE 19th, 2010
9.30-10: Registration
10.00 Welcome to Manchester
Session Chair:
Sean Morris, NFLA secretary
ALICE STEWART LECTURE
10.10 Childhood leukemia in the vicinity of German Nuclear Power facilities - results and consequences of the KiKK study. Professor Wolfgang Weiss (German Federal Office for Radiation Protection)
10.55 Questions and Answers
Theme 1: Radiation Risks
11.10 Radiation-induced bystander effects – latest news
Dr Carmel Mothersill (McMaster University, Canada)
11, 30 COFFEE
11.50 Shape of the dose-response relationship and its impact on leukemia risk, Dr Alfred Koerblein (Environmental Institute, Munich)
12.10 Radiation biology of environmental and medical exposures
Professor Eric Wright (University of Dundee)
12.30 Chernobyl and Epidemiology TBC
Professor Richard Wakeford (University of Manchester)
12.50 – 1.10 Questions and discussion
1.15-2.00 LUNCH
2.00: Workshops:
Very low levels of radiation and health effects, John Urquhart, PhD student, Open University
Forgotten Heroes? A Case Study of Britain’s Cold War Atomic Test Veterans and the Burden of Proof. Tracey Morris, University of St Andrews
Third workshop TBC
3.30: TEA
4.0 Theme 2: Managing Radioactive wastes
Session Chair: Pete Roche, Energy and Environment Consultancy Edinburgh
Geological Repository – the holes in the argument
Dr Rachel Western, Former nuclear researcher Friends of the Earth and NIREX
4.20 UK Uranium supplies: health and environmental impacts
Peter Diehl, WISE Uranium website
4.40 -5 Questions and discussion
7.00 Evening meal and social, pub Briton’s Protection, 50 Gt Bridgewater St, Manchester M1 5DL.
Sunday June 20th
11.00 Strategy workshop Briton’s Protection pub
Briton’s Protection pub which is about 8 minutes walk from the Friends Meeting House behind the Bridgewater Concert Hall - 50 Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester, M1 5DL, telephone 0161 236 5895. Lunches £5-£7 a head.
The UK and Ireland Nuclear Free Local Authorities was established in November 1980 and reaches its 30th anniversary this year. It is the primary local government organisation on nuclear issues. It takes a leading role within local government and lobbying central government on nuclear power, nuclear safety and nuclear weapons proliferation issues. It seeks to build a nuclear weapons free world, and is a close partner of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki led Mayors for Peace. It also opposes expansion of the nuclear fuel cycle - seeing renewable energy, microgeneration and energy efficiency as a cleaner and more sustainable alternative.
The NFLA has taken a continuing interest in the technical, political and scientific debate on the effects of low level radiation on health and has produced many policy briefings and supported considerable independent research on this important issue. It has recently submitted to the Government its concern on the effects of low level radiation around nuclear sites and urged the UK Government to lengthen the consultation on the justification of new nuclear power stations to adequately consider the findings of the COMARE commission into the German government's KIKK report. It campaigns for public safety, health and environmental protection.
The Low Level Radiation and Health Conference was set up in 1985 by members of the public keen to find out more about these issues and so 2010 celebrates its 25th silver anniversary. Since its inception, the conference has been organised by a different voluntary group of members of the public and the event has rotated to different parts of the UK.
The conference is a unique event bringing together members of the nuclear industry, Government organisations, monitoring agencies, Local authorities, medics, academic researchers, health workers, environmental health officers, campaigners and interested lay people. It is an educational event which aims to provide up to the minute research via presentations by a range of people from government, regulators, industry and academics thus making these issues accessible to as broad a range of people as possible by keeping the costs as low as reasonably practicable.
Conference Organising Group:
Contact: Janine Allis-Smith janine@core.furness.co.uk
Sean Morris, Nuclear Free Local Authorities Secretary
Email: s.morris4@manchester.gov.uk
Jill Sutcliffe, 01403 700395, jillandmark@lineone.net
Silver Anniversary
21st Low Level Radiation and Health Conference
1985-2010
Nuclear energy – new build and new radiation paradigm
Nuclear Free Local Authorities
1980-2010
Low Level Radiation
Low Level Radiation
and Health Conference
1985-2010
Manchester Quaker Meeting Hall, 6 Mount St, Manchester
Jointly held by Low Radiation and Health Conference and the Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA)
Steve Webb responds to our thoughts on the Conservative/Lib Dem Coalition Agreement
Many thanks again to our MP, Steve Webb, for his continued support and assistance in these uncertain times. It is good to know we have a voice in the corridors of Whitehall!
In addition to forwarding our concerns to the Sec of State for DECC, Chris Huhne, Steve has commented on our thoughts on the Cons/Lib Dem Coalition agreement (see our blog entry dated 23rd May 2010) as follows:
"Re the many questions on the blog (!), it’s probably too early to answer many of them. For example, there is a commitment to scrapping the IPC, but not a specific date or detailed proposals for what will take its place (as this will require new primary legislation). However, given that Horizon have apparently put back their application re Oldbury for three years, then it’s hard to believe that the IPC will still be in place by then. I certainly agree with your point that it is bizarre that Horizon were the filter for the views of local residents!
You raise some fundamental points about the relative ‘power’ of the nuclear lobby as against private citizens, which is why democratic accountability, including at a local level is so crucial.
Re Lib Dem MPs being ‘gagged’ I think it’s important to recall that both the other two parties are pro nuclear. Being able to vote against nuclear in the House of Commons but being outvoted by 5 to 1 by Labour and the Tories combined was never going to achieve much for my constituents. Having a Lib Dem Secretary of State for energy and climate change and a commitment to no public subsidy offers a lot more representation in a very real way."
In addition to forwarding our concerns to the Sec of State for DECC, Chris Huhne, Steve has commented on our thoughts on the Cons/Lib Dem Coalition agreement (see our blog entry dated 23rd May 2010) as follows:
"Re the many questions on the blog (!), it’s probably too early to answer many of them. For example, there is a commitment to scrapping the IPC, but not a specific date or detailed proposals for what will take its place (as this will require new primary legislation). However, given that Horizon have apparently put back their application re Oldbury for three years, then it’s hard to believe that the IPC will still be in place by then. I certainly agree with your point that it is bizarre that Horizon were the filter for the views of local residents!
You raise some fundamental points about the relative ‘power’ of the nuclear lobby as against private citizens, which is why democratic accountability, including at a local level is so crucial.
Re Lib Dem MPs being ‘gagged’ I think it’s important to recall that both the other two parties are pro nuclear. Being able to vote against nuclear in the House of Commons but being outvoted by 5 to 1 by Labour and the Tories combined was never going to achieve much for my constituents. Having a Lib Dem Secretary of State for energy and climate change and a commitment to no public subsidy offers a lot more representation in a very real way."
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
New photomontage shows how the views from the edge of the Cotwolds could look if E-on/Rwe/Horizon get their way
One of our members has provided the above "before" photo and an "after" photomontage of the view from the monument above North Nibley. The cooling towers have been scaled roughly in proportion to the existing power station at Oldbury based on the sizes given by Horizon. They speak for themselves, this monstrous devastation has to be stopped!!!!!!
When taking the photo our member reports that walkers around the monument that day had no knowledge of the governments plans! It just shows that the DECC and E-on / Rwe / Horizon need to make sure they properly consult with all communities affected by this monstrosity ... we have at every stage so far called for the consultations to be taken to all communities (not just Thornbury and the nearby villages) but so far no exhibitions have taken place elsewhere and these communities are not being given a fair opportunity to take part on the debate.
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
CLIC clunk CLIC!---Lets be safe rather than sorry!
As we are all aware CLIC Sargent have decided to accept sponsorship from Horizon Nuclear Power, the child of Eon and RWE , two German energy companies who have decided to attempt to invest in nuclear in the UK because new nuclear is banned in Germany.
What integrity and authenticity does this give to CLIC Sargent?
We note from their website that they have a football based theme called:-
Kick for children with cancer!
maybe this should read:-
KiKK for children with Cancer!
KiKK is the study in Germany into childhood leukaemias and cancer that has stopped all development of new nuclear power plants.
Check out the CLIC Sargent website at http://www.clicsargent.org.uk/Getinvolved
What integrity and authenticity does this give to CLIC Sargent?
We note from their website that they have a football based theme called:-
Kick for children with cancer!
maybe this should read:-
KiKK for children with Cancer!
KiKK is the study in Germany into childhood leukaemias and cancer that has stopped all development of new nuclear power plants.
Check out the CLIC Sargent website at http://www.clicsargent.org.uk/Getinvolved
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