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First French Conquest 1066; Second French Conquest was Nuclear

In 2008, Labour PM Gordon Brown sold British Nuclear reactors to a foreign state – France! EDF is 84.4% French State owned!
“British Energy was the UK’s largest electricity generation company by volume, before being taken over by Électricité de France (EDF) [Electricity of France]… British Energy operated eight former UK state-owned nuclear power stations and one coal fired power station. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Energy

“Rhetoric vs reality
Posted by bex — 24 September 2008 at 10:44am
Yesterday: “I want British companies and British workers to seize the opportunity and lead the world in the transformation to a low carbon economy and I believe that we can create in modern green manufacturing and service one million new jobs” – Gordon Brown.

Today: British Energy is sold to French nuclear company EDF for £12.5 billion, exporting thousands of potential UK jobs to France…

The UK Labour Party has proven not only that it is backwards looking on energy policy but that it cannot even face reality and change direction. Less than two weeks after the French government announced dangerous defects in the reactor pressure vessel for EDF’s grossly over-cost and late nuclear reactor project at Flamanville, and a little over a month after Bouygues was fined by a French court for using illegal workers at the work site [1], the Labour Green Plan announced, on April 20th, that: “Labour also supports the development of new nuclear in the UK“. http://www.shadowdecc.org.uk/labour_launches_green_plan (April 20 2015)

This has been the long-standing position of Ed Miliband, who as Secretary of the DECC, wanted to fast-track through 10 new nuclear reactors.

Current DECC Secretary Lib Dem Ed Davey, former Labour PM Gordon Brown, and Ed Miliband all have apparent conflicts of interest regarding the nuclear industry…

Opinion:

¶ “Is Solar Power About To Crush Big Oil, Big Coal And End Global Warming?” – Something amazing has happened in the energy market. The cost of solar power has fallen to the point where, in a growing number of places, it’s cheaper than the electricity that utilities deliver from their coal-fired power plants. [Investing.com]

¶ “Fracking Could Be More Dangerous Than We Realize” – British Columbia has no regulatory requirement for groundwater monitoring at hydraulic fracturing sites unless specified by a permit. And earthquakes are caused by fluid injection during hydraulic fracturing in proximity to pre-existing faults. [CleanTechnica]

Science and Technology:

¶ The Chevy Volt is in a class of its own compared to other plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs). The Volt emits significantly less smog-forming pollution than other PHEVs, according to a GM study presented to the Society of Automotive Engineers. The Volt…