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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...
United Kingdom: Rally outside Huddersfield bank over fossil fuel extraction funding fears
2013-10-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Examiner: Climate change campaigners held a protest outside a Huddersfield bank over the amount of money it lends to firms which extract fossil fuels
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United Kingdom: Nuclear power station at Hinkley gets go-ahead as coalition signs off EDF deal
2013-10-20 23:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Britain is to embark on building the first nuclear power station for two decades on Monday as the coalition hands a multibillion subsidy to France's EDF with help from a state-owned Chinese firm. The two planned pressurised water reactors at Hinkley Point C, Somerset, are the first to start construction in Europe since Japan's Fukushima disaster and the first in the UK since the Sizewell B power station came online in 1995. The new reactors, which will cost 14bn, are due to start operating...
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United Kingdom: Nuclear power plant set for go-ahead
2013-10-20 19:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: The government is set to give the go-ahead for the UK's first new nuclear plant in a generation on Monday. French-owned EDF Energy will lead a consortium that includes Chinese investors to build the Hinkley Point C power station in Somerset. Ministers and EDF have been in talks for more than a year. But it is understood that the two sides have agreed the all-important "strike price" - the guaranteed rate to be paid for electricity produced at the site. Chancellor George Osborne removed...
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