Blogposts tagged 'Public Consultations'

New nuclear sites: have your say

Posted by jossc - 1 May 2009 at 9:23am - 0 Comments

Proposed sites of new nuclear power stations
Proposed sites of new nuclear power stations. See below for key

Do you live in the vicinity of one of these 11 locations, which are being proposed as potential sites for new nuclear power stations? Happy about it? If not, then you've got less than three weeks to read and respond to the information provided by the companies bidding to develop each site as part of the government's 'consultation' process.

Not only that, but if you take the information contained in the 'have your say' guide on the  government's website, you'll run the risk of being seriously misled over issues as fundamental as how much  nuclear actually contributes to the UK's energy mix, and how and where the spent fuel will be disposed of.

Article tagged as: EDF, nuclear power, public consultations, RWE

Nuclear sites: have your say

Publication date:  28 April, 2009

Why the government’s 'Have Your Say' guide to new nuclear plants is seriously misleading, and the steps you can take to contribute to the consultation and effectively register your opposition to new nuclear build in your neighbourhood.

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Article tagged as: nuclear, public consultations

Leaked legal documents say the government is open to challenges over new nuclear power

Posted by niall - 17 November 2008 at 10:29pm - 0 Comments

The government would have you believe that all is well in the world of nuclear power. That the path to building more of them in the UK is smooth and care-free.

It isn't. We know this because we're keeping a keen eye on the whole process. A very keen eye. And Greenpeace investigations have exposed that the path is not as smooth as the government will have you believe.

Legal advice from top lawyers says that the government's nuclear plans are open to a number of challenges, on a number of fronts, over a number of years.

Article tagged as: climate change, energy white paper, legal challenge, nuclear, nuclear power, public consultations

Leaked documents: Legal advice to the government on new nuclear power

Publication date:  17 November, 2008

We've got our hands on a legal document that "explores the processes of consultation and policy development that are under way in the UK with the purpose of creating a national nuclear policy statement and smoothing the way for the provate sector to develop new nuclear power station capacity."

Looks like the government's plans are open to a number of challenges, on a number of fronts, over a number of years. Interesting reading if you're into this sort of thing.

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Article tagged as: energy white paper, nuclear, nuclear power, nuclear waste, public consultations

Breaking news - another nuclear consultation was fixed

Posted by tracy - 17 October 2008 at 9:02am - 4 Comments

It's official, Brown's personal pollsters tried to fix another public consultation on new nuclear power.

Late yesterday we received an astonishing response to our complaint to the Marketing Research Standards Board about the government's second public consultation on nuclear power. The board sets the standards for opinion research and found that the market research company Opinion Leader Research breached the Code of Conduct. The board said Opinion Leader "information was inaccurately or misleadingly presented, or was imbalanced, which gave rise to a material risk of respondents being led towards a particular answer."

Article tagged as: DBERR, nuclear, nuclear consultations, nuclear power, opinion leader, public consultations

The story of Plane Stupid and the flying mole

Posted by bex - 9 April 2008 at 2:17pm - 0 Comments

The wrong un

Image from Plane Stupid

I don't know if you've been following this story about the mole who tried to infiltrate Plane Stupid recently but if you're anything like me, you'll be less surprised at the fact that someone's tried to infiltrate a direct action group working on aviation than at the fact that somebody's felt the need to invent the word 'threatscape'.

Toby Kendall / 'Ken Tobias' (the spy concerned, who listed Top Gun as his favourite movie on Bebo, along with 'war movies' and 'revenge movies') works / worked for 'security' firm C2i International. C2i apparently works closely with clients "to understand their unique threatscape" before delivering "appropriate and proactive solutions".

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, government, heathrow, public consultations

Government "wobbling" over Heathrow

Posted by bex - 28 February 2008 at 5:35pm - 10 Comments

Heathrow voices tour

Out and about on our Heathrow Voices tour last year.

If you're one of the many, many thousands of people involved in the opposition to Heathrow expansion, you may want to give yourself a pat on the back. The day after the 'consultation' closed, there's news that we're getting the message through to 'the highest levels of Labour'.

In one of two Heathrow stories in today's Evening Standard, the paper's chief political correspondent wrote:

Ministers are under increasing pressure to rethink plans for Heathrow expansion after 18,000 people lodged objections to the plans.

The scale of the protest is understood to have taken the government by surprise and is causing concern at the highest levels of Labour at the political fall-out if plans for a third runway are given the go-ahead.

Article tagged as: airport expansion, aviation, climate change, heathrow, public consultations

Read all about it: our official response to the Heathrow consultation

Posted by bex - 27 February 2008 at 6:16pm - 0 Comments

We've formally submitted our main concerns about Heathrow expansion to the government (almost as if this was a real consultation and the government was genuinely seeking views on airport expansion...).

You can read the full submission, but this is the introduction:

Greenpeace believes that if the government is serious about tackling climate change, there should be no question of increasing the number of flights coming in and out of Heathrow Airport. Instead the Government should be radically rethinking its out-of-date policy on aviation, implementing strategies to cap the number of flights at current levels with a view to reducing them in the future and move towards a sustainable, low-carbon transport system.

Greenpeace also considers this consultation process to be seriously flawed: designed to push through a decision that has already been made and without properly taking into account the effect on the environment, or seriously considering alternatives.

Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, heathrow, public consultations

Greenpeace response to Heathrow consultation

Publication date:  27 February, 2008

Greenpeace response to the Department for Transport's consultation "Adding capacity at Heathrow Airport"

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Article tagged as: aviation, climate change, heathrow, public consultations, public transport

Secrets and lies

Posted by nathan - 18 January 2008 at 10:33am - 22 Comments

It really doesn't come as any surprise to learn that, whilst Gordon Brown's government were claiming to be having an honest and open conversation about the future of nuclear power with the British public, secret deals had already been done in Whitehall which would pave the way for a new fleet of reactors.

At the weekend, the Independent on Sunday revealed that, whilst the first nuclear consultation (which was slammed by the High Court for being flawed, misleading and inadequate) was underway, Brown's energy adviser Geoffrey Norris held at least nine secret meetings at Number 10 with the bosses of nuclear energy companies such as EDF, Eon and BNFL.

Article tagged as: BNFL, EDF, eon, government, nuclear power, public consultations
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