{"id":22761,"date":"2013-10-21T08:12:28","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T07:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=22761"},"modified":"2013-10-21T09:56:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T08:56:30","slug":"hinkley-point-poverty-of-thinking-pointing-to-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/10\/21\/hinkley-point-poverty-of-thinking-pointing-to-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hinkley Point: poverty of thinking pointing to a disaster waiting to happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2013\/oct\/21\/britain-nuclear-power-station-hinkley-edf\" target=\"_blank\">Hinkly Point C nuclear power station is to go ahead<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, the UK government is going to give a state owned French company working in partnership with a Chinese state owned company a subsidy to build a nuclear power station on low lying land inherently at risk of long term flooding.<\/p>\n<p>If you want an example of poverty of thinking pointing to a long term disaster where none of the short term recipients of gain from this decision will carry the responsibility for sorting out the mess then this is it.<\/p>\n<p>That's a fair summary for much of our energy policy though. And that's what's really worrying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hinkly Point C nuclear power station is to go ahead. So, the UK government is going to give a state owned French company working in<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/10\/21\/hinkley-point-poverty-of-thinking-pointing-to-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen\/\"><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":[35,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22761","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=22761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}