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UK’s Chris Huhne losing support, due to his pro nuclear backdown

what Huhne had to say on nuclear power may have been too pragmatic even for his own party, which has grave doubts about the technology. Huhne himself has previously argued that “outdated” nuclear power is not needed to meet the UK’s climate targets. “Nuclear is a tried, tested and failed technology,” he said in November 2007.

Lib Dems will not be reassured by Chris Huhne’s speech guardian.co.uk,   21 September 2010 n the early days of the coalition there was a fair amount of cautious goodwill from environmentalists.

The coalition agreement appeared to include some of the best of both the Tory and Lib Dem environmental policies, and having the greenest mainstream party (the Lib Dems) at the heart of government could only be a good thing, many reasoned.

When Chris Huhne landed the top job in the Department of Energy and Climate Change, the green mood only improved. And David Cameron courted green opinion by promising to be the “greenest government ever”.

That phrase, which Huhne repeated in his speech to the Lib Dem conference in Liverpool today, may come back to haunt them both as the department struggles to make sharp cuts and deliver what Huhne described as the “third industrial revolution” — the low-carbon economy…….

The coalition document itself included the phrase, “Liberal Democrats have long opposed any new nuclear construction.”…….

Today’s message was rather different. “There is an important place for new nuclear stations in our energy mix as long as there is no public subsidy ……

Lib Dems will not be reassured by Chris Huhne’s speech | Politics | guardian.co.uk

September 23, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, UK | antinuclear, nuclear, reactors