Go Greenpeace!
Guardian
At the high court earlier today, Mr Justice Sullivan granted the environmental group Greenpeace an order quashing the government’s decision to build new nuclear power stations.Greenpeace had accused the government of reneging on its promise to carry out “the fullest consultation” before making its decision.
It said the government failed to present clear proposals and information on key issues surrounding a new generation of nuclear plants, such as the disposal of radioactive waste and the financial costs of building new plants.
Mr Justice Sullivan said the consultation document gave every appearance of being simply an “issues paper”.
It contained no actual proposals and, even if it had, the information given to consultees was “wholly insufficient for them to make an intelligent response”.
The information given on waste was “not merely inadequate but also misleading”.
Sarah North, the head of Greenpeace’s nuclear campaign, said: “The government’s so-called consultation on nuclear power was obviously a sham, and we’re pleased that the judge has agreed with us … They’ve now been forced back to the drawing board to conduct a proper and lengthy review.”
I’m opposed to Nuclear power. Working day to day with computer systems I know that if technology can go wrong, it will. If that technology is inheriantly dangerous and there are safer alternatives we shouldn’t use them. Moreover if the safer technologies need improvements before they are efficient at larger scales then lets spend government money on improving them and selling them to the rest of the world!