Posted on 09/01/2022 6:21:46 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Boris Johnson has given the green light to the Sizewell C nuclear power plant in Suffolk, promising £700m of government funding for the project.
He confirmed the move during a speech from the site in one of his final acts as prime minister - and amid the rising cost of living crisis - saying he was "absolutely confident it will get over the line" in the next few weeks.
The government has previously said the £20bn power plant would take just under a decade to build and could power six million homes.
Mr Johnson is due to be replaced as prime minister next week when either Rishi Sunak or Liz Truss is announced as his successor.
In his speech, the PM praised the history of nuclear discoveries in the UK, but asked "what happened to us?" - claiming British nuclear energy was in "paralysis".
He decried the "short termism" that he said led to no new nuclear power plants being built in the UK in nearly 30 years, while the likes of France had built four in the same timeframe.
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Wait, I don’t understand, I thought wind and solar?
“Boris Johnson approves £700m funding for nuclear power plant”
TAKE THAT, PUTIN!!!!
(actually, the above is not sarcastic, for the first time in 6 months of the Ukraine War)
10 years from now when it comes online it will be a blow to Putin! ha ha
“Our proposals for Sizewell C will see the creation of a 3.2-gigawatt power station to provide reliable low-carbon electricity which doesn’t rely on the weather.”
For you Germans here, that means that 45 Million Brits will now be able to take hot showers daily.
“10 years from now when it comes online it will be a blow to Putin! ha ha”
True, but it is still the right mindset. They keep using the ‘far off in the future’ excuse to prevent the plants from being built - but as some of the Europeans are now seeming to learn, the future, eventually, will show up - and their new nukes, canceled a decade ago, are now starting to bite them by not existing - just as they desperately need the power from them.
6 years.
West should be building these plants now. And reupping oil drilling, now, for a transition.... if there was any sense in a responsible energy policy.
Keep energy cheap to avoid poverty. Build the infrastructure to avoid the conditions which result in increase waste. There’s a whole lot of energy wasted in poor societies.
Good work Boris.
You haven’t done much right during your tenure. And the best time to greenlight this plant was when you became PM.
But credit where it’s due.
10 Years, more like 20 after all the Environmental Groups get done bogging it down in the courts.
The only time that he felt he could do it was on his way out.
Just to charge all their EVs ?
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Not really. This has been planning for years. The two new large nuclear projects (this and Hinckley C, now at an advanced construction stage), have always been part of the ‘green new deal’ energy strategy.
BoJo is still PM?
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