{"id":22310,"date":"2013-09-17T09:51:37","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T08:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=22310"},"modified":"2013-09-17T09:51:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T08:51:37","slug":"do-you-want-it-warm-today-and-fried-tomorrow-the-nuclear-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/09\/17\/do-you-want-it-warm-today-and-fried-tomorrow-the-nuclear-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you want it warm today and fried tomorrow? The nuclear debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From this morning's letters page in the Guardian:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There are far cheaper, safer, quicker, more efficient ways of addressing the climate challenge than pursuing nuclear power. Accelerating the deployment of energy-efficiency measures, demand-response, demand-reduction and distributed-generation policies, and renewable technologies, would help drive wholesale electricity costs down and deliver more value for money as a pathway to decarbonising electricity generation.<\/p>\n<p>The Green New Deal Group, of which I am part, outlined just such an approach in a\u00a0<a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greennewdealgroup.org\/?p=222\">report last week<\/a>. Investment in renewables, alongside a nationwide project to make every building in the country energy-efficient, would create hundreds of thousands of high-quality jobs across the country, as well as reducing both fuel bills and emissions.<br \/>\n<strong>Caroline Lucas MP<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Green, Brighton Pavilion<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I too, of course, am a member <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greennewdealgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Green-New-Deal-5th-Anniversary1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">of the\u00a0Green New Deal group<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this morning&#8217;s letters page in the Guardian: There are far cheaper, safer, quicker, more efficient ways of addressing the climate challenge than pursuing nuclear<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/09\/17\/do-you-want-it-warm-today-and-fried-tomorrow-the-nuclear-debate\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-new-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}