The venerable veteran Labour politician, Tony Benn,
who died today, who once was responsible for the British nuclear power programme when he was
Technology Minister in the late 1960s, when asked a few years ago by The Times if he had made any
political mistakes in his life, responded:
“Yes, nuclear power: I was told it was, when I was in
charge of it, that atomic energy was cheap, safe and peaceful. It isn’t.”
(Times Magazine, 11 September
2010)
A serious problem for today’s politics is both
Coalition ministers and their Labour opponents have not learned from Tony
Benn’s conversion on the road to energy sustainability, and do support new
nuclear.
And where have they chosen? Hinkley Point, alongside
the flooded Somerset levels, close to the most recent earthquake which happened
in the Bristol Channel just off the coast earlier this year, and at a location
which is the only place in Britain to have suffered a Tsunami, in 1607, which
devastated the area.
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