skybluetony176
Well-Known Member
Labour laid the foundations to fast track any new nuclear power stations under the reformed planning act in 2008. Basically following an energy review in 2006 labour acknowledged that we needed more nuclear generation. The 2008 planning act was the first step in making it happen quickly. Basically nuclear power stations under the act were deemed nationally significant infrastructure meaning the government could pretty much just grant planning and that’s that. IIRC the Tories in opposition opposed it, footage from a PMQ’s was doing the rounds of Blair mocking Cameron for opposing it. Then the banking crisis hit and it took a back seat, then there was a GE which put the coalition in charge, three backers were still on the table but the coalition didn’t move it forward. Hinckley C is currently under construction but I think I’m right in saying that it was May who got that moving using Labours plan for nuclear generation and the planning act labour put in place in 2008. If you’re going to blame anyone you’ve got to blame Cameron, the foundation’s were laid but he did nothing with it. Prior to labours 2006 energy review there was actually a cross party agreement on not developing more nuclear plants so prior to that you have to blame everyone.
The real fuck up is we learned fuck all from the Suez crisis, we should have been developing wind power in the 70’s with the Scandinavians in the wake of the Suez crisis and then we would have been where we are now with wind 20, 30 maybe 40 years ago. The under elopement of wind, especially off shore is the real kicker.