Nuclear, wind and wave power chiefs in joint appeal on green energy

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The leaders of Britain's nuclear, wind and tidal industries today put aside years of mutual suspicion and antipathy with an unprecedented joint appeal to ministers not to abandon their commitment to combat climate change.

With the Government badly split over green energy, the heads of organisations representing more than 1,000 nuclear and renewables companies have written to David Cameron, George Osborne and Ed Davey calling on them to agree a legally binding decarbonisation target for electricity generation.

The letter, seen by The Independent, marks the first time that Britain's nuclear and renewables industries have made common cause together. It also reveals their fears that climate change sceptics in

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Significantly, the joint approach has won the backing of the environmental group Greenpeace - despite its long-standing opposition to nuclear power. It welcomed the “unity” demonstrated by the low and zero carbon industries who signed the letter and their goal to take carbon almost completely out of the electricity system by 2030.



http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nuclear-wind-and-wave-power-chiefs-in-joint-appeal-on-green-energy-8281122.html

Bravo!

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1. K&R. Just what the doctor ordered.

Now we need that kind of cooperation here.

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2. Cooperation would be nice

But the big oil, big nukes and big coal corps have been fighting renewables from day one. If they ever cooperated we could move forward. Instead we live with their Reagan ideology.

Heck did you see your nuke buddy N on the windmill thread? He actually wished another nuke plant would leak!

I'd sure hate to be known as hanging with peeps like that and the OPer here.

How do they sleep at night?