Green statement on Nuclear Power go ahead

10th January 2008

Bernard Little, Sheffield Green Party Councillor, said, "We need massive investment now in energy conservation and renewable energy to tackle climate change and provide a secure energy source. At best a new generation of nuclear power stations can reduce carbon emissions by 4% by 2025. This is too little too late. We need big reductions in greenhouse gas emissions within eight years now if we are to avoid the worst impact of climate change.

"High quality uranium deposits are limited in quantity and Britain will be dependent on overseas suppliers. The problems of possible terrorist attack on a nuclear power station and of safe storage of radioactive waste has not been solved.

"If the Government was really committed to offshore wind and wave power as well as nuclear as it claims, places like Sheffield, with its engineering skills, would be gearing up now for the thousands of lasting jobs that would be created. This is not happening."

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