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Dear Activist,

Here is your June issue of Network.

In this issue you will read about the success of StopEsso Day and I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who took part. We are sending out the Sheffield Skillshare booking form with the postal version of Network and I will get a copy to everyone on email. Please send this in to me as soon as possible as we sold out last year.

Network is an Adobe Acrobat document and you'll need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open it. You can get this from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.

very best wishes

Jill
Active Supporters Unit
Greenpeace UK
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Nuclear call to action - Stop new nuclear power stations being built..!
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Subject: Greenpeace Active Supporters
Nuclear call to action - Stop new nuclear power stations being built..!

The Government is currently conducting an energy review, looking at how the UK's energy will be produced in the next 50 years. This is the most wide-ranging and long term energy review for decades and its recommendations will form Government policy.

This gives the Government a unique opportunity to move beyond old, polluting energy industries and set a new course to a clean, renewable future using technologies such as off-shore wind and solar power. However, it seems that the Government is thinking what we hoped was unthinkable: that the solution is to build new nuclear power stations.
As nuclear power stations do not emit the carbon dioxide that contributes to climate change, some politicians, including the Energy Minister Brian Wilson
and Tony Blair himself see new nuclear power as the solution to our future electricity needs.

We have to convince them that it is not.

Nuclear power produces nuclear waste, to which there is no solution and which will threaten ourselves and future generations for millions of years into the future. It carries with it the inherent risk of a catastrophic nuclear accident, spreading radioactive contamination far and wide. It routinely discharges nuclear waste into the environment, threatening the health of those in the vicinity.
And, nuclear power is expensive. The industry has been subsidised to the tune of billions of pounds over the last 50 years- and has failed to perform. Money spent on subsidising nuclear stations will suppress the emergence of new, clean renewable technologies. A dirty and dangerous technology is not a sustainable way to address the problem of climate change.
What you can do The energy review has asked for everyone's views. Please send an email to them, as an individual, putting your views across about how you think the Government should be planning future energy policy.
Let them know that the risks of nuclear power are not acceptable and that there should be no new nuclear power stations built.
And let them know that you think that future investment should be in clean, green renewable energy.

You can email your submission to Allan Brereton at:

energyteam@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk
Even better, you can write to him at:
Performance and Innovation Unit
4th Floor
Admiralty House
The Mall
London SW1A 2WH

If you want to look at the remit of the energy review and read other organisation's submissions visit:
www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/innovation/2001/energy/energyscope.shtml
The Government's specific thoughts on nuclear power and renewable energy can be found under 'scoping notes'.

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Jill Phillips
Greenpeace UK