https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXUOdXfF6ks&feature=youtu.be

https://www.fertilizerdaily.com/20190905-yara-and-nel-to-produce-green-ammonia/

Labour's 'nuclear is renewable' claim is an insult to dead uranium miners

In a 'boiler room' coup Labour seems to be secretly plotting to re-launch the new nuclear build programme by renaming nuclear power as 'renewable'. Their 'expert report' argues that the current level of nuclear generation needs to be maintained, which means building more nuclear power on top of Hinkley Point C. But they seriously expect nobody to notice this because they are calling the new nuclear renewable.

In fact even the report recognises that more nuclear power is not needed to meet Labour's decarbonisation targets. But what it does not stress enough is just how costly the new nuclear commitment will be, and swallows whole the nuclear industry's claim that the next nuclear power station will be cheap. In fact the report backs the Government's 'blank cheque' approach to nuclear funding in that the state will pay all the bills, whatever they are, and make it very difficult for anybody to do a comparison with renewable energy - because renewables would look much, much cheaper.

The biggest cheek of the report is to say 'For the purposes of this analysis, we have considered nuclear power as a contributing towards renewable and low-carbon energy supply' (Section 4.13) https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ThirtyBy2030report.pdf

Nuclear power cannot be considered renewable. These power plant will be fuelled by a non-renewable energy source, uranium. Apart from anything else uranium mining is associated with very high levels of lung cancer among its workers. That is according to research carried out by a section of the US Health Service dealing with occupational helath and safety . See
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pgms/worknotify/uranium.html

In their studies, amongst the increased levels of death, around 400 out of around 4000 miners studied dies from lung cancer - whereas the normalised rate for the study should have been several times less than this - less than 100. Various other diseases were found to be at much higher than expected levels. Altogether the study found that amongst the miners 1595 had died compared to an expected number of 986 deaths.
It really is an insult to these people and their families that they are being airbrushed from reality through the fake argument that nuclear power is 'renewable.

And of course all the reactors planned for the UK are URANIUM reactors.

https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2019/10/19/edfs-pr-is-as-bankrupt-as-its-reactors/

https://www.ft.com/content/c63ebe88-bcde-11e9-89e2-41e555e96722

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/07/edf-unions-call-for-hinkley-point-project-to-be-postponed

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-edf-restructuring-strike/edf-unions-plan-massive-strike-to-stop-proposed-restructuring-idUKKBN1W21BP

https://www.ft.com/content/ef9d4de8-e3e9-11e5-ac45-5c039e797d1c

How the Fixed Term Parliament Act has destroyed our constitution

The coalition between the Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives tore a gaping hole in the British constitution that was not understood at the time but through which we are now falling headlong. It has allowed a zombie Government to stagger about in the middle of the greatest British political crisis for several decades when in fact it should already have resigned.

The hole was created by the Fixed Term Parliament Act (FTPA) which was seen at the time as a clever expedient to ensure that the coalition led by David Cameron could not be easily dismantled. But it had the unintended consequence of destroying the carefully woven set of conventions that underpinned the notion of confidence in the Government.

The Government is apparently ignoring the pre-existing convention that it should resign if it loses a vote of confidence using the excuse that its wish to call an election has been thwarted under the rules of the FTPA. But the way our constitution has always worked is that whilst the outgoing PM had the power to call a General Election, this has been subservient to the fact that PMs have only stayed in office if they have the confidence of the House of Commons. You can see this in some examples quoted by Catherine Haddon, below. For example Baldwin resigned, in 1923, only after losing a vote on his Queen's Speech following the 1923 General Election to allow Ramsay Macdonald to form a Labour Government.

The way that the Government (aided implicitly by the Opposition in that they have so far not tabled a vote of confidence) have so far behaved is to make us look more unstable than Italian Government. In that case, as illustrated very recently, when it became apparent that he no longer had a Parliamentary majority (given Salvini's defection from the Govt), PM Conte tendered his resignation. He has only continued because a new Government coalition has been formed.

Yet Johnson, despite having no majority on the key issue of the day, has sat tight. The acid test of whether the British constitution has been totally blown is whether a) he will lose the vote on his Queen's Speech after October 14th and b) if he loses whether he resigns. If he does not resign, the UK will be an even bigger global laughing stock than it already is. Our constitution will be plainly totally shot, with conventions that no longer work in the light of the FTPA and the bankruptcy of British politicians.

It may not be the politicians' fault that there are deep divisions over Brexit, but it patently IS their fault that this zombie Government continues to stagger on. Either it should resign or the Opposition must no-confidence it under the terms of the FTPA if it won't go otherwise. Anything else is total lunacy.

http://theconversation.com/hung-parliaments-have-voted-down-the-queens-speech-before-heres-what-happened-79384