Today I learned two things: That the UK government was subsidising the building of a new nuclear power station as a way of externalising the cost of maintaining the Royal Navy’s nuclear submarines, and that they are guaranteeing a price per Megawatt hour to the owners of the new nuclear plant (the French government!) that is TWICE the guaranteed price offered to the off-shore wind turbine industry. This guaranteed price will be paid by the UK electricity consumers.
Put simply: They are building a dangerous & vulnerable nuclear power station (that will create deadly nuclear waste materials that will need to be buried for 1000s of years) on the south coast of England NOT for the ‘good of the people’, not because it’s logically the best thing to do to cut carbon emissions & pollution from coal-fired power stations, but because it suits the interests of the military-industrial complex. They are making sure both that nuclear power is cost-effective & that renewable technologies are not encouraged. This is, at best short-sighted madness & at worst, simply evil.
Our government doesn’t represent our wishes, the government isn’t benevolent. We are seen as expendable, a resource to be exploited & nothing more.
Conclusion: If we believe this to be true, how should we act?
By opting out of the system they have created - pay less tax, generate your own electricity, tune in, turn on, drop out.