New UK Nuclear Power Plant Sites Revealed

The UK government announced the list of proposed sites for the next disastrous generation of nuclear power plants today.

The irony of this being announced in the very week, when the huge financial losses caused by the last nuclear plant to be built in the UK at Sellafield was not lost on well informed environmentalists. That reprocessing plant which was hailed by the nuclear industry as breaking new ground for financial success of nuclear plants, has been an abject failure. Despite the investment of literally hundreds of millions of pounds of taxpayers money, the plant has never actually properly worked!



So why are the government in the light of all the past failures of the nuclear industry insisting on going down this route? The answer does not lie in the threat of climate change or their belief in yet another false dawn for nuclear power but rather in the corrupt power of political lobbying/ This sadly dwarfs the recent fiascos over second homes and porn as a source of deep decay in our domestic political processes.



The swinging door between New Labour and senior civil servants in the relevant departments of state and the higher echelons of the nuclear power industry have been widely reported on elsewhere. It is the well funded actions and nobbling of their New Labour government minister buddies by these New Labour nuclear political lobbyists year in year out, that has overwhelmed our democratic processes and forced through this disastrous decision. This is simply repeating the history of similar nobbling of Tory governments by paid Tory nuclear political lobbyists and no doubt would happen if there were a Liberal Democrat government by Liberal Democrat paid nuclear political lobbyists.



So what can the ordinary person in the street do? Until those companies that we favour have sufficient financial clout that they can match the nuclear industries lobbying investments, then we will continue to face the destruction of our political needs and desires.

If your electricity bill is still with a nuclear promoting company such as EDF or EON, then you are helping to fund these New Labour lobbying cronies. But you can do something today, rather than just whinging about this corruption and calling for the banning of political lobbyists being members of political parties.

Go and find your electricity bill now and switch to a green non-nuclear electricity supply company such as Good Energy. Their profits will go towards lobbying for a safe green future for all of us. So do something positive and switch today. www.goodenergy.co.uk