So the UK government is pushing ahead with plans to build a new bunch of nuclear power stations, which in my view is simply a way of making the country believe we are actively reducing (the new buzz word on the street) CO2 emissions, whilst investing heavily in a technology that is dangerous and gives a poisonous legacy for our offspring to deal with. Reading on forums there is a big backlash against ‘lentil eating tree huggers’ who have stood up to complain about these new power stations. I wonder why it is that the ill-informed and all the painfully stupid people in the country, always revert to the same old name calling tactics, which make me wonder what is wrong with lentils, or having a positive outlook on trees. Having watched a few programmes on the television as of late, notably Hugh FW’s programme on the treatment of broiler chickens and the attitudes of the people he had to deal with who didn’t seem to care that the chickens were kept in hideous conditions it made me wonder truly what the state of the country is in. This country is filled with really dim people, to say that it’s OK to keep chickens in horrible conditions was OK, because the chickens ‘didn’t know any different’ is missing the point by such a long way that it would be funny if the subject matter wasn’t so dire. What has this got to do with nuclear power? Well, it’s the same mentality taking grip here, the ‘we need power’ let’s leave the small, apparently insignificant issue of disposing of nuclear waste for some other generation to deal with, because we don’t care, because ‘we need power.’ I also loved the argument that we were too dependant on nations such as Russia to provide Gas, the Middle East to provide Oil and we want to generate our own home grown power. Great argument, but where does the fuel for nuclear power stations come from? Well, I tell you what, it’s not the Lake District. It’s Canada and Australia predominately. That’s OK though, because we like Mounties and Aussies, I mean Aussies are great they all work in bars and they are always so chipper, but those Russians and Arabs… well we just don’t know what it is with them. I hate all the spin from Governments who so easily pull the blinkers over the masses in this stupid country, it drives me nuts. Honestly, I’m tempted to emigrate.

Sometimes you just feel that there is little point in even hoping that the human race will be able to run the planet economically without using up all the earth’s resources and turning it to a polluted hell hole. I figured that I could turn the following headlines into various posts and expand on them further, but I can barely be bothered today.

News on the wire is that the US Environmental Agency report that ‘BP PLC violated the Clean Air Act by making several unapproved changes at its Indiana oil refinery, significantly boosting emissions.’ Well that’s just great…

A plethora of reports in this week’s New Scientist (go buy it!) highlighting problems with the Kyoto, draining bogs in Sumatra to grow palm oil for bio-fuel releases carbon dioxide into the environment, up to 30 percent of what could be saved by the bio fuel in the first place. What great economy that is! Honestly if these people would engage their brains instead of their greed just for a second maybe just maybe…

What else? New Scientist again, this time highlighting another silly nuclear power station being built in Bulgaria, experimental blah, blah, blah, on a fault line??? Yeah, I have a nice little paragraph from the Bible which is quite apt (I’m not religious so don’t get any ideas) for all of you who think building this nuclear power plant is a good idea:

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. (translate Wormwood loosely into Ukrainian, if you’re bored)

And I don’t mean that God warned us, I mean that we’ve been warned through coincidence, history and what should be common sense.

Seems like the government is pushing forward with their inane belief that nuclear power is the way to go, with the news that British Energy has named eight potential sites for the ‘latest’ experimental nuclear power stations. This is a typical move of a government obsessed with pulling the wool over the electorates eyes, spouting stories that nuclear power is ‘clean’ and the best and ‘only’ way to reduce carbon emissions in the UK.

Friends of the Earth have dubbed the plans ‘crazy’ and I for one agree wholeheartedly. I’m sick of these mad scientists who take short cuts to temporarily solve problems. Basically what the government is doing is solving one problem of generating power in the short term by building these monstrous carbuncles, whilst creating dreadful, poisonous monuments of our millennia. The ancient Egyptians gave us the Pyramids, in thousands of years time all people may remember is that Tony Blair and the ex-sidekick, now PM Gordon Bennett Brown is repeating the mistake of building these things in the first place by coming up with the idea it would be good plan to build another bunch. You wonder how these people manage to sleep at night.

It is so much easier to waste billion of pounds of tax payers money building a new generation of nuclear power stations and waste even more money trying to work out what to do with the waste, (send it to developing countries and conveniently forget about it), than work out a sensible strategy for renewables. Frankly, building the odd wind turbine here and there isn’t really going to cut it.

What scares me is how straight away we’re told that it is going to be perfectly safe to build these things on the coast as sea defences can be created to hinder the impact of climate change. Great, so not only have they given up on the whole climate change issue, they are claiming they now know how bad it is going to be. Frankly anytime a mad scientists claims to know what is going to happen in the future, I start to worry, because these people do not know what they are going to have for their tea let alone anything else.

So, three cheers to British Energy and Gordon Bennett Brown.