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Thursday January 12, 2006 20:34 by marcus
Veronica McDermott is a rep for BNFL in Ireland and has had an article in the Sunday Business Post (10/12/06) and been heavily quoted in an article in the Sunday Independent (08/01/06) both of which promote nuclear power as a real option and both of which only refer to her as a public affairs consultant. this along with David McWilliams article a few weeks ago shows that there is a pro-nuclear agenda being pushed in our papers preparing the nuclear industry to pounce when energy becomes a major issue. Veronica McDermott has appeared in the Sunday Business Post (10/12/06) and was quoted at length in the Sunday Independent (08/01/06)last week defending nuclear power. Neither paper mentioned that she is a BNFL rep in Ireland something easily found out by a word search of her name. She is called a public affairs consultant in both articles. In the sbp article she goes on about climate change then ridicules the alternatives: “we are treated to fantastic delusions about Ireland's wave and wind resources powering the universe, which is entirely possible in theory, but hardly practical in reality”, explaining in detail who around Europe is now planning on building new plants. This is the same tactic used by the incineration industry and those pushing for it, using examples of incinerators around Europe but neglecting to mention those who do not feel the need for them due to adequate recycling. I wrote a letter to the sbp - not printed and this weeks Sun Indo - will see if printed, highlighting the fact that Germany is planning on phasing out its nuclear programme by 2020, Sweden is planning on being fossil fuel-free in 15 years without new nuclear stations and that over 50,000 people are employed in the wind industry in Denmark. |
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