Cameron has lamely echoed Obama's warning on nuclear terrorism. On the 18th of June 2015 I had a debate on nuclear power. The Tory minister's response was woeful. She did not mention the dangers of nuclear terrorism. Hinkley Point C, she claimed would be a financial success. Her arguments are collapsing now.
Part of what I said in June debate:
"The possible accidents range from simple mechanical errors, such as not having enough carbon in the steel, to the simple human errors that happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. Technical faults also occur, but the greatest risk we now face is terrorism. Older nuclear power stations were not built to withstand terrorist attacks by drones and all the means by which people could attack them. Anyone living anywhere near a nuclear power station must be in a state of anxiety about that possibility, because of the accidents and disasters we have seen".
Intelligence website reports;-
On 13 January 2016, Paul Flynn MP wrote to the Department of Energy and Climate Change to ask it to review security at nuclear power stations in light of our report, Hostile drones.
On the 19 January, the House of Lords debated the issues raised in our report. Lord Naseby called our report ‘chilling reading’ and the government whip Viscount Younger of Leckie said of our report ‘It is informative and generally well written, and chimes very much with the work being undertaken by the cross-government working group.’
On 20 January, the shadow transport minister, Richard Burden MP, wrote to the Secretary of State for Transport asking him to assess the implications of our report and make a statement. The parliamentary under-secretary at the Department of Transport, Robert Goodwill MP, responded and confirmed that our findings aligned well with the work of the cross-departmental working group that is examining the security threats posed by drones.
Also putting the country as a hostage to fortune. Do we want a world or do twenty generations from now want a world where nuclear waste is a burden?
Its not as if they haven't asked for it. Which a problem. Hubris? Dimness?
From reading your blog generally and this particular one I don't know why the governments' plans are not thoroughly ridiculed and laughed out of the debate for the sheer demented stubbornness and refusal to have a debate. Lets just invest in increasingly dangerous nonrenewable energy for the next generation at huge cost and risk.
I don't want to get to vehement and I know its essentially about competing interests but you have to feel that these are just bad people attempting to run the show. Bad people in government leads to bad solutions for the country's future.
If they want it they should pay for it. I'll expand there. They ARE cruel. That is their business. Its not just a political point-scoring device. Britain as you know is a world leader in military arms sales. They are killers, as much as any terrorist. They and their American counterparts have shown that it is the progressive that they go after (undermine and kill).
So the next generation of plans will go ahead. Unless we stop allowing THEM to go ahead and continue attacking in every sense those who have offered no provocation. Give them a death wound and file them in history's moral failures.
I believe Paul, the real problem is inequality. Its evil and insidious. I'll tell you why. Generally speaking the rich only care about their own material wealth, yet keep power away from the likes of yourself who want judgement and justice where their is none. Yet it is they who are deluded. They will be and should be dispossessed. Simply put, there are more of us, we don't need them and we have principles. Plus good people with good intentions always overcome the weaker minded.
When is the last time you heard a convincing speech from these murderers? I suppose in these times it is important to stick to whatever principles you have and defend them.
To be honest, what is happening is that they are persecuting us. The wicked judge US. I try to speak responsibly but it should be US condemning THEM . They know this but most people don't.
Posted by: Ad | April 03, 2016 at 01:44 AM