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Sunday, 21 September 2014

Bring down the Cameron Government to stop Tories betraying devolution 'vow'

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The shameful efforts of the Tories and English Nationalist 'UKIP' to renege on the vow to give extra powers to the Scottish Parliame...
Friday, 19 September 2014

Give more energy powers to the Scottish Government!

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The Westminster parties may have promised some big new powers for the Scottish Parliament, but little appears to be promised to try to close...
Wednesday, 10 September 2014

Energy After the Referendum Meeting

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Energy After the Referendum Wednesday October 1 st Robert Gordon University , Garthdee House, Garthdee Road, Aberdeen, AB10 7QE Room N...

Is there a disinformation campaign to paint nuclear as 'green'?

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Green groups in the UK are now being subjected to a withering assault on their anti-nuclear position, which is amounting at worst to a campa...
Friday, 29 August 2014

Is a European (nuclear?) war inevitable if Ukraine joins NATO?

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Certainly we should deplore the Russian military intervention in Ukraine and the suffering in the East of that country, but is it worth risk...
Friday, 22 August 2014

So why don't tidal stream projects get long contracts and loan guarantees like nuclear power?

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Is the UK Government right to gain plaudits for the announcement of construction of a 6 MW tidal stream project in Pentland Firth? After al...
Tuesday, 12 August 2014

Onshore wind much more popular among public than nuclear or shale gas says DECC survey

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The latest 'tracker' polls issued by DECC show that support for onshore wind among the public is 67 per cent, with just 11 per cen...
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Dr David Toke
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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