tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170081273861935078.post8114023716750788761..comments2020-04-19T11:26:16.399+01:00Comments on Thinking Again, with your former Green Party MEP: Nuclear Power?Catherine Rowetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356313351798903675noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170081273861935078.post-67229208464171321832008-01-19T09:52:00.000+00:002008-01-19T09:52:00.000+00:00Effectively what Christopher Booker is saying is t...Effectively what Christopher Booker is saying is that of course Nuclear Power is necessary because if we didn't have it we'd have to pay more for our electricity and we wouldn't be able to rush around in fast cars and fly all over the world in aeroplanes which we like doing. Now the reasoning is that if we are to continue to do that (which evidently we must be allowed to do or life won't be worthCatherine Rowetthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15356313351798903675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170081273861935078.post-40893813745314411192008-01-15T12:00:00.000+00:002008-01-15T12:00:00.000+00:00Sorry, I didn't format that link very well, but if...Sorry, I didn't format that link very well, but if you paste it into a browser it should work (not helpful that Blogger says "You can use some HTML tags" without listing which they are).<BR/><BR/>For all his pro-nuclear bombast Mr Booker does raise the serious question how the shortfall in electricity supply is to be made up once the senescent coal and nuclear plants are decommissioned. And Tigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01869909234608355932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170081273861935078.post-73125968932205727502008-01-14T17:22:00.000+00:002008-01-14T17:22:00.000+00:00For an opposing view (which you may wish to answer...For an opposing view (which you may wish to answer point by point) see Christopher Booker's piece in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph:<BR/><BR/>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=URUGSXPRADV1XQFIQMFCFFWAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/13/nbook113.xmlTigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01869909234608355932noreply@blogger.com