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Wednesday, 31 December 2014

So why is renewable energy so much more expensive in the UK compared to other countries?

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British renewable energy is a lot more costly compared to renewable energy in other European countries, according to a recently published re...
Sunday, 21 December 2014

Mass redundancies in social science and humanities likely if research funding proposals are implemented

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The Government is not only cutting back on the amount of research money available to universities, but it is considering a plan that is lik...
Friday, 12 December 2014

Renewable Energy near top of SNP shopping list in case of minority Labour Government

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The left's hopes of keeping the Tories out of office rose significantly when Alex Salmond implied that the SNP Westminster MPs would sup...
Sunday, 30 November 2014

New study highlights enthusiasm of British farmers for renewable energy

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A new study published by 'Forum For the Future' highlights the enthusiasm for investing and deploying renewable energy by farmers ...
Friday, 28 November 2014

Government implies it may not sign Hinkley C deal before General Election

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The Government has refused to confirm that it it will sign a contract with EDF allowing Hinkley C to be built before April 2015, which is o...
Thursday, 20 November 2014

The real secret letter from the Treasury about disastrous Hinkley C is revealed

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Hot on the heels of news of further escalations of delays (and thus)  costs for EPRs being built in Finland and France there is news that th...
Friday, 31 October 2014

pro-nuclear analyst calls for Hinkley C to be abandoned

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Chris Goodall, one of those pro-nuclear greens who saw the radioactive light a few years ago but who didn't notice the sheer uneconomic ...
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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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