More Nuclear Spin, in the U.S. and UK [1]
Submitted by Diane Farsetta [2] on
"If we are going to seriously address our energy needs as well as our concerns about global climate change [3], one source stands out -- nuclear," writes Christine Todd Whitman [4] in the San Francisco Chronicle. It's one of two recent op/eds by the former EPA administrator (the other was in BusinessWeek [5]) that fail to disclose that Whitman is a paid consultant [6] for the Nuclear Energy Institute [7] (NEI). Patrick Moore [8], Whitman's co-chair of the NEI-funded "Clean and Safe Energy Coalition [9]," has also been busy, promoting nuclear power [10] in Michigan [11]. "Nuclear energy is the key," Moore told a Grand Rapids audience [12]. Meanwhile, in Britain, environmental groups have dismissed a public consultation on nuclear power [13] as a "public relations stitch-up" by the pro-nuclear government. This is the second consultation [14] on the issue; Greenpeace [15] won a legal challenge against the first [16]. Liberal Democrat Sir Menzies Campbell accused the UK government of "making up its mind on nuclear power long before this latest consultation had even begun," reports the BBC [17].