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Nuclear power: for us – or US?
Some years ago Tom Levitt was "completely" AGAINST nuclear power! He doesn't say why.
Now he is IN FAVOUR of this dangerous and very expensive form of energy production. Again he doesn't say why.
We need him to justify his position because not only does he represent this constituency but he represents many voters who are against nuclear power and all it implies.
It's understandable that someone keen to promote nuclear power would not want to get involved in debates about, 1) the huge expense involved in building and decommissioning, 2) the almost insurmountable problems of waste disposal (i.e. storage virtually for ever), 3) the queries over increased cancer levels, and 4) the deafening silence over the CARBON COST of production – the ongoing carbon emissions due to the mining, transportation and processing of URANIUM being the main contributor.
The United States is having difficulty building more nuclear power stations because of the strength of the anti-nuclear lobby there (Germany is now getting rid of its nuclear industry altogether). The result of this for the United States is that significant supplies of plutonium for nuclear bomb production (WMDs) cannot be guaranteed in the decades to come.
Could it be that our pro-US Labour government is (with the Conservatives and Lib Dems following suit) thinking of supplying the United States with it's future plutonium requirements? Is nuclear power really about plutonium production? And is this why the US and Britain are threatening Iran – over it's "civilian" nuclear power plants?
Now, five years since the invasion and occupation of Iraq the world has become a much more dangerous place. Despite Brown's promises of withdrawal from Iraq little of significance has occurred. More troops are being sent to Afghanistan while mercenaries/ PMSCs (Private Military and Security Companies – unaccountable private armies) outnumber the British army in Iraq 6:1. Gordon Brown has sent our war ships to threaten the Iranian coast and there is fear that US invective will justify an Israeli "strike" against this comparatively defenceless country. In addition threats of terrorism at home and abroad add to the conviction that we need a very different foreign policy.
The Stop the War Coalition has joined with the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and the British Muslim Initiative in organising our national part of what will be a GLOBAL DAY of day of protest against Bush and Brown's wars and threats of more war. On the fifth anniversary of the invasion, join protesters from High Peak on the World Against War national demonstration in London on 15th March 2008 – assemble 12.o'clock Trafalgar Square. The warmongering is not in our name, we are still campaigning for peace – don't do nothing.
For more information, phone Buxton Against War 01298 27042 or 01663 744227.
Molly Selden
Buxton Against War
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