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Monday, 27 December 2010

Letter in Guardian calling for real feed-in tariffs

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See http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/dec/27/wrong-policy-on-renewable-energy  for the text of a letter in the Guardian calling for...
Wednesday, 22 December 2010

tax nuclear windfall profits and give it to renewables

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See a letter (text below) I had published in the Guardian about how EDF will make billions a year for doing nothing extra out of the Governm...

Germany goes for renewables, UK for nuclear

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As you can read in a report in 'Renewable Energy World', Germany is now planning to increase the share of renewable energy as a prop...
Sunday, 19 December 2010

One very big reason why nuclear power ain't green

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It seems strange to have to explain why nuclear power isn't green, but it is all over the British press from the Government that it is, ...
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UK Government to subsidise nuclear power and limit renewables

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Government to shift resources from wind power to nuclear power…….by Dave Toke Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne is heralding...
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Dr David Toke is Reader in Energy Politics in the Department of Politics and International Relations in the University of Aberdeen. You can see his profile at https://www.abdn.ac.uk/people/david.toke?count=10 He has been campaigning on energy issues for about 35 years, and in 1990 his book ‘Green Energy’ was an influential argument in the UK for a non-nuclear approach to dealing with global warming. He was a key player in the campaign to establish feed-in tariffs for small renewable projects in the UK, achieved in 2008. He has consistently argued that the UK's proposed nuclear power programme is not only uneconomic compared to renewable energy, but that it is undeliverable short of one or more governments signing what amounts to a 'blank cheque' to pay for the nuclear power plant. His latest book, published by Routledge is called 'Low Carbon Politics'. He has published many papers in leading political science journals on environmental, especially energy (and renewable energy) issues and he is also a frequent and well cited contributor to the journal 'Energy Policy' published by Elsevier. His twitter address is @DaveToke
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