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Scotland scorns UK’s costly, dirty, unreliable nuclear strategy

Scotland’s renewable energy future SNP News 10 Nov 09 Responding to the energy national policy statements in the House of Commons on UK Government proposals to reform planning laws and fast-track a new generation of nuclear reactors, SNP Westminster Energy spokesperson, Mike Weir MP, said the plans validated the Scottish Government’s energy strategy. Mr Weir said:

“Ed Miliband’s cheerleading for the nuclear industry is well known, but reforming planning laws so that local objections can be ignored takes Labour’s obsession to a whole new level.
“Right now Scotland is capitalising on our vast clean, green energy potential, instead of following London Labour’s blind faith in costly, dirty, dangerous and unreliable nuclear power. Labour must recognise that there is no appetite and absolutely no need for new nuclear power stations north of the Border – with their horrendous waste problems and soaring decommissioning costs.

“A majority of MSPs across a range of parties oppose new nuclear power, and Labour themselves are split from top to bottom in Scotland on the issue.

“Evidence uncovered by Greenpeace has shown that waste from the new European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) in Finland will be up to seven times more hazardous than waste produced by existing nuclear reactors.

“The reality is that the UK Government is bogged down in nuclear planning issues and making NO progress and creating NO jobs, while the Scottish Government is getting on with the job of investing in the technologies of the future, and supporting thousands of energy jobs.

Scotland’s renewable energy future | SNP – Scottish National Party

November 10, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, climate change, ENERGY, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive