Blair?s choice of nuclear power - The Herald
Blair?s choice of nuclear power - The Herald
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Our prime minister has an uncanny knack in being "right" about so many things: the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and on the need to invade and bomb Islamic countries in the Middle East to bring freedom and democracy to their people, leaving the world to contemplate the resultant anarchy.
He has then moved to arm the police, and tried to allow the police to imprison people for up to 90 days without charge or trial. Furthermore, he intends to pursue a policy in which education is seen not as a valuable public service, but, in Thatcherite terms, as a commodity purchased by parents ? essentially a relationship between customers and contractors.
Now, having squandered much of Scotland's heritage of energy resources in the North Sea, Mr Blair has perceived that nuclear power is the right answer to the looming energy crisis. He has evidently no regard for the fact that this long-foreseen catastrophe is an inevitable consequence of a global ecological crisis which has, as its basic cause, a population explosion associated with never-ending economic expansion geared to constantly increasing consumption of manufactured goods. This situation is aggravated by wars which provide a market for the arms industry, motivated by industrial aggression to control dwindling non-renewable energy resources.
Dr David Purves, 8 Strathalmond Road, Edinburgh.
Nuclear power holds the same attraction to the unprincipled opportunists who run this country as do their PFI or PPP schemes. They will get the benefits of them now while the next generation of taxpayers will be faced with the massive bills and the next unfortunate generation of politicians will get the blame for collecting the taxes to pay for them.
David McEwan Hill, 1 Tom Nan Ragh, Dalinlongart Farm, Sandbank, Argyll.
I must correct an inaccurate reference about the work of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management in Iain Macwhirter's article, We need all our energy to face the greatest task ever (November 30).
The article states that CoRWM is "expected to recommend soon the long-term storage of future nuclear waste at the existing Sellafield site in Cumbria". This is wrong on three counts. First, CoRWM will not be suggesting locations for where waste might be stored or disposed. Its job is to suggest how waste should be managed, not where.
Secondly, storage of waste is only one of the options we are looking at. For example, we are also examining the concept of disposing of radioactive waste deep underground.
Thirdly, it suggests that a decision will be imminent. In fact, we will not be making our recommendations to government until July 2006. We are now going through a rigorous assessment of the scientific, ethical, social and other issues around each option.
Professor Gordon MacKerron, chair, CoRWM, 4/F8 Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London.
Our prime minister has an uncanny knack in being "right" about so many things: the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and on the need to invade and bomb Islamic countries in the Middle East to bring freedom and democracy to their people, leaving the world to contemplate the resultant anarchy.
He has then moved to arm the police, and tried to allow the police to imprison people for up to 90 days without charge or trial. Furthermore, he intends to pursue a policy in which education is seen not as a valuable public service, but, in Thatcherite terms, as a commodity purchased by parents ? essentially a relationship between customers and contractors.
Now, having squandered much of Scotland's heritage of energy resources in the North Sea, Mr Blair has perceived that nuclear power is the right answer to the looming energy crisis. He has evidently no regard for the fact that this long-foreseen catastrophe is an inevitable consequence of a global ecological crisis which has, as its basic cause, a population explosion associated with never-ending economic expansion geared to constantly increasing consumption of manufactured goods. This situation is aggravated by wars which provide a market for the arms industry, motivated by industrial aggression to control dwindling non-renewable energy resources.
Dr David Purves, 8 Strathalmond Road, Edinburgh.
Nuclear power holds the same attraction to the unprincipled opportunists who run this country as do their PFI or PPP schemes. They will get the benefits of them now while the next generation of taxpayers will be faced with the massive bills and the next unfortunate generation of politicians will get the blame for collecting the taxes to pay for them.
David McEwan Hill, 1 Tom Nan Ragh, Dalinlongart Farm, Sandbank, Argyll.
I must correct an inaccurate reference about the work of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management in Iain Macwhirter's article, We need all our energy to face the greatest task ever (November 30).
The article states that CoRWM is "expected to recommend soon the long-term storage of future nuclear waste at the existing Sellafield site in Cumbria". This is wrong on three counts. First, CoRWM will not be suggesting locations for where waste might be stored or disposed. Its job is to suggest how waste should be managed, not where.
Secondly, storage of waste is only one of the options we are looking at. For example, we are also examining the concept of disposing of radioactive waste deep underground.
Thirdly, it suggests that a decision will be imminent. In fact, we will not be making our recommendations to government until July 2006. We are now going through a rigorous assessment of the scientific, ethical, social and other issues around each option.
Professor Gordon MacKerron, chair, CoRWM, 4/F8 Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London.
Our prime minister has an uncanny knack in being "right" about so many things: the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and on the need to invade and bomb Islamic countries in the Middle East to bring freedom and democracy to their people, leaving the world to contemplate the resultant anarchy.
He has then moved to arm the police, and tried to allow the police to imprison people for up to 90 days without charge or trial. Furthermore, he intends to pursue a policy in which education is seen not as a valuable public service, but, in Thatcherite terms, as a commodity purchased by parents ? essentially a relationship between customers and contractors.
Now, having squandered much of Scotland's heritage of energy resources in the North Sea, Mr Blair has perceived that nuclear power is the right answer to the looming energy crisis. He has evidently no regard for the fact that this long-foreseen catastrophe is an inevitable consequence of a global ecological crisis which has, as its basic cause, a population explosion associated with never-ending economic expansion geared to constantly increasing consumption of manufactured goods. This situation is aggravated by wars which provide a market for the arms industry, motivated by industrial aggression to control dwindling non-renewable energy resources.
Dr David Purves, 8 Strathalmond Road, Edinburgh.
Nuclear power holds the same attraction to the unprincipled opportunists who run this country as do their PFI or PPP schemes. They will get the benefits of them now while the next generation of taxpayers will be faced with the massive bills and the next unfortunate generation of politicians will get the blame for collecting the taxes to pay for them.
David McEwan Hill, 1 Tom Nan Ragh, Dalinlongart Farm, Sandbank, Argyll.
I must correct an inaccurate reference about the work of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management in Iain Macwhirter's article, We need all our energy to face the greatest task ever (November 30).
The article states that CoRWM is "expected to recommend soon the long-term storage of future nuclear waste at the existing Sellafield site in Cumbria". This is wrong on three counts. First, CoRWM will not be suggesting locations for where waste might be stored or disposed. Its job is to suggest how waste should be managed, not where.
Secondly, storage of waste is only one of the options we are looking at. For example, we are also examining the concept of disposing of radioactive waste deep underground.
Thirdly, it suggests that a decision will be imminent. In fact, we will not be making our recommendations to government until July 2006. We are now going through a rigorous assessment of the scientific, ethical, social and other issues around each option.
Professor Gordon MacKerron, chair, CoRWM, 4/F8 Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London.
Your Letters December 01 2005
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-- please select -- All Scotland Aberdeen (City) Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Borders Clackmannanshire Dumfries and Galloway Dundee (City) East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire Edinburgh (City) Falkirk Fife Glasgow (City) Highland Inverclyde Midlothian Moray North Ayrshire North Lanarkshire Orkney Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Shetland South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling West Dunbartonshire West Lothian Western Isles (Na H-Eileanan Siar)
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Our prime minister has an uncanny knack in being "right" about so many things: the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and on the need to invade and bomb Islamic countries in the Middle East to bring freedom and democracy to their people, leaving the world to contemplate the resultant anarchy.
He has then moved to arm the police, and tried to allow the police to imprison people for up to 90 days without charge or trial. Furthermore, he intends to pursue a policy in which education is seen not as a valuable public service, but, in Thatcherite terms, as a commodity purchased by parents ? essentially a relationship between customers and contractors.
Now, having squandered much of Scotland's heritage of energy resources in the North Sea, Mr Blair has perceived that nuclear power is the right answer to the looming energy crisis. He has evidently no regard for the fact that this long-foreseen catastrophe is an inevitable consequence of a global ecological crisis which has, as its basic cause, a population explosion associated with never-ending economic expansion geared to constantly increasing consumption of manufactured goods. This situation is aggravated by wars which provide a market for the arms industry, motivated by industrial aggression to control dwindling non-renewable energy resources.
Dr David Purves, 8 Strathalmond Road, Edinburgh.
Nuclear power holds the same attraction to the unprincipled opportunists who run this country as do their PFI or PPP schemes. They will get the benefits of them now while the next generation of taxpayers will be faced with the massive bills and the next unfortunate generation of politicians will get the blame for collecting the taxes to pay for them.
David McEwan Hill, 1 Tom Nan Ragh, Dalinlongart Farm, Sandbank, Argyll.
I must correct an inaccurate reference about the work of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management in Iain Macwhirter's article, We need all our energy to face the greatest task ever (November 30).
The article states that CoRWM is "expected to recommend soon the long-term storage of future nuclear waste at the existing Sellafield site in Cumbria". This is wrong on three counts. First, CoRWM will not be suggesting locations for where waste might be stored or disposed. Its job is to suggest how waste should be managed, not where.
Secondly, storage of waste is only one of the options we are looking at. For example, we are also examining the concept of disposing of radioactive waste deep underground.
Thirdly, it suggests that a decision will be imminent. In fact, we will not be making our recommendations to government until July 2006. We are now going through a rigorous assessment of the scientific, ethical, social and other issues around each option.
Professor Gordon MacKerron, chair, CoRWM, 4/F8 Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London.
Our prime minister has an uncanny knack in being "right" about so many things: the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and on the need to invade and bomb Islamic countries in the Middle East to bring freedom and democracy to their people, leaving the world to contemplate the resultant anarchy.
He has then moved to arm the police, and tried to allow the police to imprison people for up to 90 days without charge or trial. Furthermore, he intends to pursue a policy in which education is seen not as a valuable public service, but, in Thatcherite terms, as a commodity purchased by parents ? essentially a relationship between customers and contractors.
Now, having squandered much of Scotland's heritage of energy resources in the North Sea, Mr Blair has perceived that nuclear power is the right answer to the looming energy crisis. He has evidently no regard for the fact that this long-foreseen catastrophe is an inevitable consequence of a global ecological crisis which has, as its basic cause, a population explosion associated with never-ending economic expansion geared to constantly increasing consumption of manufactured goods. This situation is aggravated by wars which provide a market for the arms industry, motivated by industrial aggression to control dwindling non-renewable energy resources.
Dr David Purves, 8 Strathalmond Road, Edinburgh.
Nuclear power holds the same attraction to the unprincipled opportunists who run this country as do their PFI or PPP schemes. They will get the benefits of them now while the next generation of taxpayers will be faced with the massive bills and the next unfortunate generation of politicians will get the blame for collecting the taxes to pay for them.
David McEwan Hill, 1 Tom Nan Ragh, Dalinlongart Farm, Sandbank, Argyll.
I must correct an inaccurate reference about the work of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management in Iain Macwhirter's article, We need all our energy to face the greatest task ever (November 30).
The article states that CoRWM is "expected to recommend soon the long-term storage of future nuclear waste at the existing Sellafield site in Cumbria". This is wrong on three counts. First, CoRWM will not be suggesting locations for where waste might be stored or disposed. Its job is to suggest how waste should be managed, not where.
Secondly, storage of waste is only one of the options we are looking at. For example, we are also examining the concept of disposing of radioactive waste deep underground.
Thirdly, it suggests that a decision will be imminent. In fact, we will not be making our recommendations to government until July 2006. We are now going through a rigorous assessment of the scientific, ethical, social and other issues around each option.
Professor Gordon MacKerron, chair, CoRWM, 4/F8 Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London.
Our prime minister has an uncanny knack in being "right" about so many things: the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and on the need to invade and bomb Islamic countries in the Middle East to bring freedom and democracy to their people, leaving the world to contemplate the resultant anarchy.
He has then moved to arm the police, and tried to allow the police to imprison people for up to 90 days without charge or trial. Furthermore, he intends to pursue a policy in which education is seen not as a valuable public service, but, in Thatcherite terms, as a commodity purchased by parents ? essentially a relationship between customers and contractors.
Now, having squandered much of Scotland's heritage of energy resources in the North Sea, Mr Blair has perceived that nuclear power is the right answer to the looming energy crisis. He has evidently no regard for the fact that this long-foreseen catastrophe is an inevitable consequence of a global ecological crisis which has, as its basic cause, a population explosion associated with never-ending economic expansion geared to constantly increasing consumption of manufactured goods. This situation is aggravated by wars which provide a market for the arms industry, motivated by industrial aggression to control dwindling non-renewable energy resources.
Dr David Purves, 8 Strathalmond Road, Edinburgh.
Nuclear power holds the same attraction to the unprincipled opportunists who run this country as do their PFI or PPP schemes. They will get the benefits of them now while the next generation of taxpayers will be faced with the massive bills and the next unfortunate generation of politicians will get the blame for collecting the taxes to pay for them.
David McEwan Hill, 1 Tom Nan Ragh, Dalinlongart Farm, Sandbank, Argyll.
I must correct an inaccurate reference about the work of the Committee on Radioactive Waste Management in Iain Macwhirter's article, We need all our energy to face the greatest task ever (November 30).
The article states that CoRWM is "expected to recommend soon the long-term storage of future nuclear waste at the existing Sellafield site in Cumbria". This is wrong on three counts. First, CoRWM will not be suggesting locations for where waste might be stored or disposed. Its job is to suggest how waste should be managed, not where.
Secondly, storage of waste is only one of the options we are looking at. For example, we are also examining the concept of disposing of radioactive waste deep underground.
Thirdly, it suggests that a decision will be imminent. In fact, we will not be making our recommendations to government until July 2006. We are now going through a rigorous assessment of the scientific, ethical, social and other issues around each option.
Professor Gordon MacKerron, chair, CoRWM, 4/F8 Ashdown House, 123 Victoria Street, London.
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