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Tuesday, 3 July 2012

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Why the EU should say ‘no’ to Tory blackmail The EU should say ‘no’ to the ‘renegotiation’ of British terms of EU membership – even ...
Saturday, 30 June 2012

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Renewables heading for brick wall despite success The success of the Renewables Obligation (RO) is underlined by the latest set of figure...

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Government 'may' give details of strike price for nuclear contracts In answer to questions from Lib Dem MP Martin Horwood t...
Monday, 25 June 2012

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Funding Hinkley C is impossible for the Government Barring some unlikely  bizarre manoeuvres  and political chicanery it is impossible ...
Thursday, 7 June 2012

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Tories plot to cut wind through planning bans and subsidy cuts Conservative-orchestrated policies on planning and funding windfarms is poi...
Wednesday, 23 May 2012

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Electricity Market Reform Bill - More gas and not much else The Government's Electricity Market Reform (EMR) (published on May 22...
Saturday, 19 May 2012

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Crazy American decision to impose 31 per cent tax on solar pv Just as many countries in the world are giving incentives to expand the m...
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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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