EDF fined for spying on Greenpeace nuclear campaign
TweetI have been quoted in BBC Environmental correspondent Richard Black’s latest blog, EDF fined for spying on Greenpeace nuclear campaign, on the politics and tactics surrounding nuclear, appearing...
View ArticleThe Independent View: No real choice on nuclear
Tweet This article was written for the Liberal Democrat Voice and first appeared on their website. By Tom Burke | Mon 9th September 2013 – 8:45 am Atoms are … Continue reading →
View ArticleEnergy lobby insiders will lead cold war against Labour
Tweet By Damian Carrington and Terry Macalister – The Observer Sunday 6 October 2013 Tom Burke, a former head of Friends of the Earth who worked as special adviser to several...
View ArticleBEHIND THE NUCLEAR SMOKE AND MIRRORS
Tweet There is an important question to be asked of Mr Davey. If there is no public subsidy for Hinkley C why are you having to make an application to the Brussels for state … Continue...
View ArticleThird or fourth time lucky
Tweet This article first appeared in Business Green October 2013 There is only one decision that really matters about future nuclear reactor building in Britain and that has not yet been taken....
View ArticleIt can’t be easy being George Monbiot
Tweet By Jonathon Porritt 5th December 2013 This article first appeared in Jonathon Porritt’s blog and in The Ecologist The Letter referred to in this article is the one that Jonathon Porritt, Tony...
View ArticleTHE POWER OF DREAMS
Tweet This piece first appeared in The Guardian on Thursday 10th July It has always been difficult to see what was attractive about the proposed deal with EDF to build a … Continue...
View ArticleON TURNING GOOD NEWS INTO BAD
When it comes to energy policy the Financial Times seems to be suffering the editorial equivalent of a nervous breakdown. Looking back through some of its recent … Continue...
View ArticleSolar is set to transform the global energy market – Podcast – Today Program...
We have had a very inconsistent approach to renewables and deploying renewables in Britain. We are really starting to miss out and get left behind because of that inconsistency by...
View ArticleWHOM THE GODS DESTROY
Despite frequent headlines suggesting otherwise, EDF has not yet agreed to buy two nuclear reactors from its sister French state-owned company Areva. The British Government has yet to sign a...
View ArticleAPRES MOI LE DELUGE
Louis XV’s mordant phrase aptly captures the legacy of the Coalition government’s electricity policy. The new government, whatever its composition, will inherit a policy that...
View ArticleWHAT’S IN A WORD 3
John Hutton is Chairman of the Nuclear Industries Association. On August 24th he told the Radio 4 Today audience that “The nuclear programme is going to be built without any state funding at...
View ArticleWhy Hinkley is a very bad deal for Britain – BBC News
Here at Hinkley Point alongside existing reactors is where George Osborne wants to build a new nuclear power station in Britain. It will be built by EDF, a French state owned electricity company,...
View ArticleWhy nuclear is a bad deal for Britain – BBC Politics Today – 21 October 15
Nuclear is the cuckoo in the nest it squeezes the others out of the energy market. The reason why we are doing what we are doing, making so many policy changes in energy efficiency and renewables,...
View ArticleThe future of Hinkley Point – BBC News
Delays, rising costs and now a rift at the top of EDF, the giant French company we are relying on to build a new Nuclear power station to replace this one at Hinkey Point. The chief financial …...
View ArticleLetters to PM warned of the risks of going ahead with Hinkley Point
In March 2012, on the anniversary of Fukushima, I drafted a letter to the Prime Minister that was signed by myself and three other former Directors of Friends of … Continue...
View ArticleTom Burke talks to LBC about nuclear power, Hinkley Point and EDF – 07 Mar 16
Clive Bull: A top EDF boss has resigned over the company’s plans to build Britain’s first new nuclear power plant for decades. There is an ongoing row over the 18 billion pound cost, part …...
View ArticleIs nuclear power a ticking time bomb? – France24 Debate – 8 Mar 16
I think that you really want to consider much more than just the body count of deaths when you look to evaluate a complicated problem like this. This has been a … Continue reading →
View ArticleBBC World News – Is Hinkley dead? – 8 March 16
BBC: Professor Tom Burke is the chairman of the environmental think tank E3G, he joins me now in the studio, welcome to you. Where do you think this project is floundering? Tom Burke: Well, as I...
View ArticleHinkley Point C nuclear deal contains £22bn ‘poison pill’ for taxpayer
‘If the SoSIA is signed it will change the argument over Hinkley. Instead of being an argument about why we should kill this white elephant – which the government has comprehensively lost – it will...
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