No Need for Nuclear: The Renewables are Here

An all- day conference held at Conway Hall on 17^th June

To give an impression of the high quality of this event, here is a thumbnail of the contributions made by just 3 of the 20 speakers:

Caroline Lucas, Green Party, speaking by video link from New York, (there to support the UN Treaty banning Nuclear Weapons), celebrated the milestone reached in the UK at midday on 7^th June 2017, when renewable energy generation (combined solar, wind, hydro and biomass) for the first time met over 50% of electricity demand. She quoted the proverb: “When storms come, some build walls, while others build windmills”.

Andrew Warren, Chairman, British Energy Efficiency Federation, said it is a scandal that we have no government research into whether the £24 billion being spent on Hinkley Point C would be better spent on energy efficiency. He pointed out that despite government predictions (in 2003) that energy demand would rise three-fold over the next ten years, energy demand actually fell by 15.2% between 2005 and 2015 (with a fall in gas sales of 32% over the same period). Much of this fall has been due to much greater energy efficiency (especially in lighting technology) driven by EU regulation. The only actual blackouts the UK has experienced in recent years have been due to outages at nuclear power plants.

Chris Baugh, Assistant General Secretary, PCS union, argued against the myth that nuclear power creates more jobs than renewables. He pointed out that most of the steel manufactured in Germany today goes to building wind turbines and that the German steel unions back the German Green Party.

By Paolo Enock

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