The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Bruce wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote:
http://www.independent.co.uk/environ...e-1629327.html

At last some sense.


This is about just four individuals who have changed their minds:

Stephen Tindale is no longer director of Greenpeace.

"Lord" Chris Smith was a Labour politician, so he is well used to
totally abandoning all his principles every time the wind changes
direction.

Mark Lynas - who?

Chris Goodall - who?

When green *organisations* such as Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth
change their minds about nuclear power, that will be news. In the
meantime, four old has-been swallows don't make a summer.


FOE already has changed its mind IIRC.


Complete rubbish. Friends of the Earth has not changed its mind about
nuclear and it never will.

http://www.foe.co.uk/resource/faqs/nuclear_energy2.html


Porritt? is that the guy?


Porritt has nothing to do with Friends of the Earth. Since leaving the
organisation he has bent his ideas wherever the wind might blow them in
order to gain lucrative commissions from government and royalty - he is
Charlie's personal adviser.


ISTR he reluctantly concluded it was teh lesser of the current evils.


No doubt his career would have been far less lucrative had he stuck to
his principles.

You have grossly misrepresented his views on nuclear power. Here's a
useful summary in his own words, published last year in The Independent:

"Simply stated, it is the view of the Sustainable Development Commission
that this Government has got it completely wrong on nuclear power.
Despite the fact that it’s going to cost UK taxpayers at least £75
billion to clean up the legacy of our current nuclear programme, that we
still have no solution to the problems of nuclear waste, that nuclear
power remains very expensive, that the risks of proliferation and
threats to national security remain very high, and that the contribution
from a new nuclear programme (if it ever materialises) to total energy
needs and CO2 abatement will remain relatively low, Ministers are now
putting more effort into encouraging nuclear power than they have
devoted to the entire field of renewables over the last ten years.

"As they see it, this is the only manageable mega-fix available to them,
the ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card. But this is a sad and
extraordinarily ill-judged illusion."

So, you're wrong again.