Tuesday, 26 November 2013

EU citizen? You can add your name to a couple of letters about nuclear power which may affect your future.

So... I'm really bad at getting round to writing letters... that's why, when someone else has done it for me, even better than me...I'm happy...especially when I can put my name to it, too.

There are two such letter out there at the moment, both about the fact that a whole lot of us don't want nuclear power and a whole lot of us don't want to subsidise it... and probably even more don't want their energy bills to go up in the future, especially when other people's are going down.

The first is an open letter from Energy Fair to E.U. Commissioner Almunia:

No valid justification for subsidising nuclear power, which you can endorse. The instructions are with their letter and they will make sure that your endorsement reaches the commissioner, with copies to Günther Oettinger, Commissioner for Energy, Connie Hedegaard, Commissioner for Climate Action, and President José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission.

The link to the letter is http://www.energyfair.org.uk/home/open-letter

The letter is also in The Ecologist, http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2160503/nuclear_subsidies_open_letter_to_commissioner_almunia.html

The other E protest is a new one from Global 2000. (Their previous successful petition against nuclear power being included in the EU subsidies for renewable energy was called “My Voice Against Nuclear Power”.)

This new E protest is “Not a single cent for nuclear power!” and is against any new state aid for nuclear power.   Using the Global 2000 form you can send the EU Commissioner for Competition Almunia an email.

This is the link   http://www.my-voice.eu/

Why?

These are six relevant articles!

http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/30/hinkley-c-nuclear-power-plant-get-twice-rate-solar-pv-uk-government/?utm_source=Cleantechnica+News&utm_campaign=07cc6df6e8-RSS_

http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/news/comment/hinkley-a-huge-contribution-towards-yesterdays-energy-thinking/ 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/oct/21/nuclear-power-energy-edf-deal

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/sep/04/fukushima-farce-nuclear-industry-flaw

http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=208

http://cus.net/news/news4.html





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