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