Nuclear Power Exhibition to be held in Thornbury
By jmitchell27 | Thursday, January 21, 2010, 16:22
Next month representatives from the Department for Energy and Climate Change will be available to discuss the viability of a new nuclear power station at Oldbury. The exhibition will be held over a three day period at the Turnberries Centre in Thornbury from the 4th to the 6th of February. In addition there will be a public discussion the same Saturday at the Thornbury Leisure Centre.
No doubt many local people will have something to say about the development of a new power station here, so be sure to register for the discussion at the leisure centre by following this link http://www.nuclear-nps-events.info/locations.aspx?loc=9 and selecting the registration option.
If you do hold a strong opinion about this then I strongly advise that you do show up as all too often local people get the impression that large bodies have already made firm decisions even without consulting the people they will affect - only today the Gazette reported that residents in Stinchcombe who were protesting the installation of a wind monitoring mast have been told that plans will still go ahead, with one planning inspector describing it's visual impact as 'limited'.
However, we all know that that local concerns with energy production must always be balanced against environmental and monetary cost, so I would like to tell residents that tomorrow evening at 7.30pm the Sustainable Thornbury group will be screening the film "The Age of Stupid" at the Village Hall in Severn Beach. Hopefully this will help give people some idea of what our priorities should be - helped by the fact that a Q&A session will be held after the film.
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I agree that if we're even going to consider using renewable energy sources like wind turbines to try and provide the bulk of our power then we have to commit to it fully - without doing this it seems that energy quotas just wouldn't be met. That's why I'm going to try and get to the consultation this week, just to see if Nuclear power can alleviate the burden we've placed on ourselves by relying on fossil fuels so much over the years.
By jmitchell27 at 11:36 on 01/02/10
ReportI'm not too interested in radioactive scare stories - there's a lot of misinformation on all sides - but I totally agree that natural energy sources need to be exploited to the extent that every/most towns should be generating some of their own energy via wind turbines. I'd go so far as to make it a requirement for every new (large-scale?) development. Instead we're likely to face years of planning applications, appeals, rejections, re-applications before even one turbine can get erected!
By Philip_Ruse at 16:51 on 26/01/10
ReportThere was a very interesting video posted on TED that claimed that we will have to rely on Fusion energy if we really want a large amount of sustainable energy for the future of the world (fossil fuels were rejected completely out of hand). More interestingly the speaker said that Nuclear power won't actually be able to cope with the heavy demand that will be placed on the energy industry in the coming years.
You can check out the video here tinyurl.com/yanmqqu and see for yourself what this man has to say. I found it be very interesting and extremely relevant because of the Oldfield and Stinchcombe energy plans.
By jmitchell27 at 17:34 on 25/01/10
Report1st: Sellafield is now the most hazardous place in Europe, The Observer, Sunday 19 April 2009
2nd: Nuclear waste from Sellafield just been shipped to Japan, lots of secrets!?!?!?!?
3rd: stop radioactivity: Kraftwerk 1987, problems still not been solved: tinyurl.com/2bznz4
4th: the German conservatives now want to get rid of nuclear power
5th: Maybe we need the nuclear power, because we are 20 years behind European countries reg renewable energy and therefore are not able to keep up with demand.
6th : 'Home', climate change movie on utube, produced free for the world tinyurl.com/ory3hk
The Solution:
ONSHORE WINDENERGY NOW !!!! :
To benefit the British people and communities and NOT the RICH on offshore projects! If we were used already to wind power like in other European countries, we do not need to be scared anymore of falling house prices, which does not exist in all these small communities abroad!!!!
By simple1 at 22:31 on 22/01/10
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