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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Sunak to waste more money on Britain’s nuclear weapons

“Just weeks after the dust has settled on a budget that did nothing to address the real problems that we face, the government has made yet more public money available for Britain’s nuclear weapons industry and is unusually linking nuclear power and nuclear weapons in the same breath. It’s good that the prime minister is owning up to the linkage, but the suggestion that they are needed for both national and energy security is a complete fallacy. “As the long-delayed Hinkley Point C shows, nuclear power is neither a timely nor cost effective way of generating electricity. It is extremely cynical of the government to use a genuine issue like energy security to greenwash nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The additional funding pumped into these will inevitably find its way into the pockets of investors through government contracts financed by the public.” Read statement by clicking HERE

Bromley & Beckenham CND Newsletter 2017 p2

Notice from Secreta ry Grateful thanks to those of you who are officers, attend meetings, campaign, give donations and pay their subs. As usual the newsletter has been reduced to one per year mainly recording our campaigning. Subs are now due raised to £5 -please send them to Tahrir Swift.[see the last page of this newsletter]. CND still very much needs support especially with the continued conflicts and civil wars. Our military interventions in Iraq and Syria has made the human rights situation a great deal worse, brought about divisions and more conflicts. It is said that between Iraq, Syria and Yemen there are 24 million children 'threatened by conflict' (UNICEF) . There are also concerns regarding the UK's plans for Trident renewal, the use of drones and the dangers from nuclear power pollution from the Fukushima fall out. It would be really supportive if local Bromley and Beckenham members could also join National CND...

2023 Bromley Borough CND Events

Local leafleting on the first Saturday of the month 14:30-16:30 for more details check out our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/garrettecnd or contact anncgarrett@yahoo.com April 26th - Chernobyl Day stall and vigil - Bromley Market Square 12 00 - 3pm Hiroshima Vigil - August 5th opposite the Churchill Theatre 12 - 3pm - poems and statements. Nagasaki Day - August 9th - Peace Picnic in the Tutu Peace Garden at Grove Park 1.30 - 3pm Poems , music and statements. [ SE London Peace, Justice and Solidarity Network] August 28th Bank Holiday stall - 12 - 3pm Bromley Market Square Sept 21st Peace One Day event at Bromley Friends Meeting House 7 -10pm . Stalls, speaker, films , poetry and music. November 12th - White Poppy Ceremony 10.30 - 11. 00 a.m. at Bromley War Memorial [ SE London Peace, Justice and Solidarity Network ] speeches, poems and music.

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