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From Lauraibm

Full article: A Done Deal (7-Sep-07)

Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and other environmental groups have decided not to engage with the nuclear power consultation, despite the issue being of great importance to their organisations. It is believed by the environmental groups named that inserting new nuclear power stations without looking at what the evidence says is best is the wrong decision.

The environmental groups believe that nuclear power is not the only way to go; there is an unjustifiable negative view of renewable and other approaches that could help us to go low carbon at the same time as meeting our future energy needs. In addition the consultation does not highlight the huge proven potential for combined heat and power systems and more decentralised energy networks to contribute to meeting our carbon reductions targets.

Finally the fact that the government have been reluctant to highlight that if the proposed new stations were built they would only contribute about 4% of our energy demand, is a further reason for the environmental groups to not engage with the consultation.