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Saturday, 14 April 2012

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STOP NUCLEAR GETTING A BLANK CHEQUE FROM THE TREASURY! The key thing is to try and ensure nuclear does not get given a blank cheque on ...
Friday, 16 December 2011

Has the Scottish Government done a deal with George Osborne?

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On the face of it the Scottish Government's targets and statements about renewable energy seem impressive, but under the surface doubts ...
Sunday, 11 December 2011

Storm causes sudden shutdown of Hunterston B nuclear power plant...again

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A Scottish nuclear power station was forced to shutdown by the storm on December 8th. Attention has been focussed by anti-windfarm sources o...
Wednesday, 7 December 2011

US to tax solar panels?

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As if it was not bad enough that European states are clawing back on the solar feed-in tariff rates, the US is moving towards actually artif...
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Monday, 28 November 2011

How Tories have abandoned pre-election solar promises

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Those of us who were active in the campaign to install feed-in tariffs for small renewables remember how the Conservatives captured the supp...
Sunday, 2 October 2011

Split up the big six! - Green Competition not brown oligopolies!

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I wrote this post in October 2011, but it makes sense now as well since some independent generators have recently been reported as complaini...
Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Government to cut subsidies for community wind power?

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Despite being acclaimed as being a low cost carbon source even by the nuclear-friendly Committee on Climate Change, onshore wind is due to h...
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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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