Nuclear policy ‘on the hoof’ threatens future generations
LABOUR has lost its grip on government and is running around like a headless chicken. It is making up policy on the hoof in a desperate attempt to show the public that it is still in charge, but this is a dangerous road to go down and decisions made now, in panic, could have a long-lasting effect on future generations.
None more so than Gordon Brown’s announcement that Britain is to build EIGHT new nuclear power stations and will fast-track through new reforms to allow planning approval for plants without public consultation.
The British National Party acknowledges that Britain needs nuclear power. In our integrated energy policy we see nuclear energy providing up to 20% of the country’s needs and with this coming from our existing ten nuclear power stations after they have undergone a structured programme of upgrading and refurbishment.
But it must be renewable energy and a revitalised coal industry that provide the country with the bulk of its energy needs because of nuclear power’s deadly legacy - radioactive waste. Energy Secretary John Hutton talks of protecting taxpayers from the cost of decommissioning the waste, which the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority says will be £73billion over 100 years, but there is nothing forthcoming from the Government on protecting the British people from nuclear waste itself.
Our coal industry, overhauled throughout to clean coal technology, has a major role to play in providing our electricity in the future. Clean Coal is the perfect complement to nuclear, gas and renewables, ensuring that Britain isn’t relying on a single source of power.
Coal is something we have in abundance. The British Geological Survey, in a report to the Department of Trade and Industry for its review on the suitability of the UK coal resource for new technologies, found that the volume of our coal reserves represents 200 years supply based on the current UK coal consumption of 64 million tons per annum.
A thriving British coal industry will ensure our country can’t be held to ransom by imported gas. It will also close the UK’s energy gap and secure future energy supply because coal it always readily available and can be stockpiled.
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Again there are votes here waiting to be gained by a party which will invest in coal production.
TheLibLabCon alliance cannot introduce this policy as the EU won’t let them.
We could hoover up votes in Labour’s heartlands by announcimg that, when in power, we would immediately re-open the coalfields. It would destroy Labour because they would have no answer in finding alternative employment.
This policy would revitalise huge areas of the UK and take thousands off unemployment benefits.
This with the fight for pensioners’ rights could double our percentages in the old mining areas.
Does being in a state of panic include visibly shaking in front of television cameras? If so, then Jaqui Smith certainly qualifies, after her appearance on television in which she tried to announce the latest goofy ‘measures’ to tackle the knife crime which is shaming this country in the eyes of the world, while dealing untold injury, death and devastation to so many people. We are in the hands of a government which offers knee-jerk reactions with no proper forethought or practical planning.
Accident and Emergency departments clearly have more than enough on their plate, without having to contend with groups of offenders and their minders traipsing all over the place.
The article on this page demonstrates how the NuLabour regime is quite prepared to casually disregard proper public/local consultation. They make announcements as if they were the only interested and relevant party.
Full and proper consultation protocol must be observed if we are not to lose all democratic control over our own affairs, and the profiteering of big business is not to decide on the future of how the NHS or other agencies are run, or whether Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs) remain protected from pointless and destructive road-building, and so on. In the case of power supply, we are sitting on enough high-quality coal to last around four hundred years at our current rate of consumption. Why no mention of that?
I feel that Jackie Smith’s inability to get to grips with crime in this country will haunt us all for decades to come. Smith is a heathen; she hasn’t got the slightest idea how to deal with crime in general and knife crime in particular(Smith, young people are dying because you are so useless). If her latest offering on combating knife crime is the best she can do then I feel that the youth of this country are lost forever, Smith you are fast becoming a figure of great amusement alongside the rest of you Labour Party posers. I`d like to take this opportunity to “thank” you and Brown and the rest of this utterly useless Labour Party for turning my country into a third world slum. How you lot managed to form a Government in the first place amazes me.
Scargill and his mates ruined the British coal industry, and Thatcher never helped either. How would you get the coal out now, open cast mining on green belt land isn’t an option for the BNP. It would have to be back down the pit, which, I’m afraid to say, would be going round in circles with the unions etc.
More nuclear means more targets for terrorists, and windmills are a waste of time, lets hope there’s plenty of oil/gas in the falklands and British antarctic regions which is easily accessible and denied to the multi nationals!
I don’t understand ‘clean coal technology’ could you please expand?.
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Basically, generators are sited at the collieries. Coal is brought up to the generators, where it is crushed and blasted into the burners. The exhaust passes through filters, and the spent filters dropped in behind the face from whence the coal was extracted.
Heat energy is drawn off by the coolers and hot water pumped as far locally and to as many useful applications as is practical, while power is fed through the grid.
It is reckoned we could run this process for around 200 years, powering vehicles, maglev transport systems, food production teqniques, experimental test facilities for fusion generators and all manner of other developments. Possibly even ocean-going transports which themselves could also be adapted for clean-burn engines.
We British are an innovative and inventive race, and of course, necessity being the mother of …. who knows what we might achieve.
- Ed
Surely tidal power should be considered in any future energy source plans. According to [url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3694859.ece]this article[/url], the Pentland Firth area could prove to be ‘the Saudi Arabia of tidal power’. Surely this is something to invest it as well. Nuclear is great in the short term but in the long term, it is environmentally very damaging as well as being an obvious target for terrorists.
Thanks Ed
Human advance in technology ( in the advanced world )over the last 150 years is amazing and shows how clever we are as a species given the freedoms to explore and exploit what we have on this planet. Thank goodness for Western civilization!.
This country has always been at the sharp edge of technology, but I am not so sure now.
I was always against nuclear power for the dangers of it’s waste and of course its use in missiles, which could soon be pointing our way with the advances in the Middle East’s nuclear missile technology.
However beggars can’t be choosers, and nuclear is for the present an energy source we need to exploit.
With oil practically and certainly politically becoming an unviable energy source, it is to be hoped that we as a country still have the great minds, scientists, designers, and engineers to produce other forms of energy needed.
When the Middle East finally runs out of oil, it will have nothing. We need to be well away and independant of them by this time, and leave them with their dark ages again, this is one of my concerns about the ever embracing policies of the EU.
We have Turkey ( a Muslim country )about join the EU, and unless the map on my globe is a misprint I can’t see that Turkey is part of Europe, it belongs geographically and culturally with Syria, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc etc. Or you could go the other way, Egypt Sudan Ethiopia Libya etc etc. Not northwards, where we are.
We have to get out of the EU, because Turkey is the thin edge of the sword, who next Iran? Iraq? Saudi Arabia? any of the above?. Probably, as it will fit in with the New World Order that is coming our way.
I want Great Britain to be the inventive, great pioneering Isles they once were and are capable of becoming again, once we have a leadership that puts Britain first.
I think the BNP will fit that vacancy extremely well.
Nuclear is great in the short term but in the long term, it is environmentally very damaging as well as being an obvious target for terrorists.
Posted by Dendiol | July 15, 2008, 5:56 pm
The community from which the terrorists arise would have been deported back to its barbaric land.
The UK is energy-rich yet has made some dreadful, short-term decisions with respect top our natural resources. Worst of all was ‘the dash for gas’: our high-value, natural gas burnt in power stations when it should have been coal used for electricity and gas used for our domestic and industrial needs. That is why we are now importing gas at premium rates from Russia.
Can we expect any serious descisions from any of the Liblabcon Artists in the near future? The construction of Major Generating Capacity should have started years ago as it is not possible to nip to Tesco to buy a Power Station. I certainly did not see one today in our local store!
Our Labour Party is talking about more railway electrification, but have we any spare generating capacity?
What else can we expect from a Labour Party that cannot balance the party finances? They are reported to be £24,000,000 in debt last week and climbing.
Let’s hope that when the BNP speaks of “renewables” it doesn’t mean what Gordon Browntrousers means by that word–inefficient, unreliable, and unsightly wind turbines defacing our landscapes.
Off-shore wind farms yes, wave power yes, tidal power yes (in most places but not in all) but on-shore wind power, no,no,no!
The key phrase in the above article is, to my mind, “…without public consultation”. I take for granted that the BNP’s policies on energy production are, and will be, carefully worked out and the result of much asking around. However, the Misgovernment now in power is more and more refusing to represent or work in tandem with their electorate. The PM is unelected, we were never asked about immigration or the Lisbon treaty, and just look at the way they want to move dates of immovable elections around without so much as a by-your-leave. They dismiss the recommendations of consultative bodies like the Electoral Commission and also take it upon themselves to vote their members huge pay rises and allowances without a backward glance. This is symptomatic of the whole EU mindset and should be viewed with concern by those of us under the government’s heel. Sidestep the inevitable grinding down by voting BNP and make the first move back to accountability and consultation. Once the BNP is guiding the reins, we can all work together to build up the power reserves one way or another.
This article is one of the best -
most encouraging - I’ve ever read
on our website. I am gratified to find that my own thinking about clean coal technology, about which I have several times posted in the past, is in accord with party policy. Ed.’s summary of the process and its multifarious uses -amounting to everything which oil can do and more - is a little masterpiece, well worthy of incorporation into a BNP leaflet. ( Very kind of you to say so, Noel, and I may consider forwarding it as part of a synopsis on this issue - Ed )
ianpenrhyndd mentions electrification of railways. It’s true that, even at an EMF of 24kV,
current consumption is high, as it must be to shift such huge weights.
There is no disadvantage so far as I can see to reverting to the use of steam locomotives, differing from the old in having coal fed to the firebox by archimaedian screw, rather than a man with a shovel, and motive power being provided by a turbine, essential for sustained high speeds, rather than a multicylinder reciprocating motion, and a condenser to obviate the need to continually pick up water; a diminutive of the closed system used in warships, in fact.
As Ed. points out, we are an innovative and inventive race when left to our own devices and not subject to severe hindrance and interference by our power-crazed, freedom-hating, technological inferiors.
We need to make an urgent start on getting illegals, foreign criminals, failed asylum seekers off our territory, which combined with the voluntary repatriation programme, will create space and release funds for investment in
re-industrialisation; and it goes without saying that we must throw off the yoke of the EUSSR dictatorship.
With this new start, the country would still be overpopulated but we can have every confidence that given the combined brainpower within our party, and above all the honesty and integrity entirely lacking among all other politicians, our own people can put in the huge amount of hard work which will be needed build a new Britain.
It will be well defended and it will be a good and comfortable place in which to live and relax at the end of a hard day’s work.
could have a long-lasting effect on future generations. anyone who believes this just dos,nt get it …
It will be all over by 2035 … so much so that the last of us will turn out the light …
ps most of you will be gone by 2025
>>Surely tidal power should be considered in any
>>future energy source plans.
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Sorry, but tidal power is a bit of a non-starter. It is highly variable, with there only being four periods of power production a day (only two are envisaged for the Severn Barage). When these power spikes coincide with minimum demand, as they will for two weeks each month, they are near useless.
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In addition, these systems produce very little power during neap tides. You cannot run our technological 24/7 society and economy on intermittent power - which is why we need a fat chunk of nuclear power as a base-load.
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I can imagine the prime minister’s statement. “Sorry, voters, there is no bread available until the next spring tide - in two weeks time!!! ” Going for renewable power will undermine our economy and society, and be a disaster that will take decades to rectify.
Ralph