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El partido socialista de Escocia se pronuncia a favor de la energía nuclear.
Siguen con la eólica, claro (todos los partidos políticos se benefician de la generosidad de los empresarios eólicos - con fondos públicos, ser generoso es fácil...).

Pero, encarando el futuro energético con seriedad, se dieron cuenta de la futilidad de la intermitente y errática energía eólica. Por eso vuelven al nuclear.
Aquí está el artículo (en inglés):

Labour decides Scotland must have nuclear future.
PETER MACMAHON SCOTTISH GOVERNMENT EDITOR

Key points
• Labour delegates approve call for nuclear plants to be replaced or renewed
• Party previously non-commital on nuclear over waste disposal questions
• Tension may result due to Libdem opposition to nuclear

Key quote
"We support a balanced energy policy that promotes the use of all available energy in the most productive manner possible. This should include conventional fossil fuels, coal and oil, gas, renewables and nuclear."
HUGH SCULLION, AMICUS

Story in full
THE Scottish Labour Party yesterday agreed to support the building of nuclear power stations north of the Border.

In a surprise move on the final day of the party conference in Aviemore, delegates overwhelmingly approved a call for ageing nuclear plants to be replaced or renewed. Allan Wilson, the deputy enterprise minister and a member of the party''''s Scottish policy forum, confirmed that the views of the conference would be taken into account when Labour draws up its manifesto for the 2007 elections.

The decision is set to increase tensions between Labour and the Liberal Democrats, who are opposed to new nuclear power stations. However, the vote does strengthen the hand of Jack McConnell, the First Minister, who appears to have been preparing the way for the Executive to back a new generation of nuclear power stations in Scotland.

The official Executive policy - agreed with the Lib Dems - is that there should be no decision until the Committee on Radioactive Waste Managementreports to the UK government on disposal of radioactive waste.

But there is growing speculation that the committee report, expected in the summer or early autumn, will say that waste can be safely stored and that Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, will then decide in favour of building new nuclear power stations.

In Scotland, the final say over whether new stations get the go-ahead lies with the Executive under energy and planning legislation and ministers will be forced to decide one way or the other.

In an interview with The Scotsman last week, Malcolm Wicks, the UK energy minister, said Scotland should "grow up" and accept the possibility of new nuclear power stations.

Yesterday''''s vote to endorse nuclear power as part of a balanced energy policy, including "clean coal" and new, renewable technology such as wind and wave power, came after a motion proposed by the Amicus union, which represents nuclear workers.

Hugh Scullion, of Amicus, said: "It is just plain daft to rely on one energy-generating solution and future generations will not thank us for making that mistake. We support a balanced energy policy that promotes the use of all available energy in the most productive manner possible. This should include conventional fossil fuels, coal and oil, gas, renewables and nuclear."

Dr Elaine Murray, the MSP for Dumfries, said: "We cannot continue to hide forever behind a sentence from the coalition agreement that says Scottish Labour does not support the further development of nuclear power stations while waste issues remain unresolved." She said that the nuclear waste issue had to be resolved and she added that new-generation nuclear power
stations produced much less waste than older plants.

The Labour decision is unlikely to split the coalition. Sources close to Nicol Stephen, the deputy first minister, believe that when the committee on waste reports, the two parties will agree that they will study its findings, taking them to the 2007 elections. However, it now seems certain that in the elections, Labour will be pro-nuclear and the Lib Dems, still their most likely coalition partners, implacably opposed to the idea.

Chris Ballance, the Greens'''' nuclear spokesman, said: "Labour is wedded to the nuclear dinosaur rather than the renewable technology of the future. This vote, while there is still no solution to nuclear waste, is irresponsible and immature."

Mark Duchamp.
save.the.eagles@gmail.com
* The negative effects of windfarms: links to papers published by Mark Duchamp
* Al archivo fotográfico sobre las centrales eólicas, alojado en Ibérica 2000...
* Otras fotografías de interés, que puedes encontrar en Internet...

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