I’l spare you my wrathful howlings at the news and limit myself to a few adjectives:

cant, hypocrisy, craven mendacity, in thrall to corporate gigantism, fear-babbling mono-mania…

That’ll do.

What about -

i) the fact that these newly intended nuclear power stations may not even get built…? What if we’re already post-peak enough to disable the construction effort and timescale required at such a scale?

ii) the ‘nuclear power stations drown upon sea-level rise attendant upon imminent (and immanent) global warming’ hypothesis? And that goes for the ones already existing, as well as any new ones our Tone and his CBI controllers deem it necessary to build (necessary that is to assuage their enormous distorted egos and ensure the flow of profit and growth unto death);

iii) the idea that nuclear is at best capable of a tiny and insignificant contribution to domestic and industrial energy needs only… ‘keeping the lights on’ is the absolute best case scenario for nuclear – its an irrelevance on every other scale and mode (even somewhere like France with its 80-odd percent nuclear dependency); do we really want the lights on that badly? Are we that scared of the dark?

Love, vitality and deep camaraderie to everyone feeling the full horror of these demonic events today – may we all have the skill, the resources and the fluency to expose this great and despicable con for what it is – and may enough of the lost and hypnotised now be shaken from their consensus trance to halt this hubrsitic madness with the power of their outrage and the brilliance of their imaginations.

Problem is I don’t have quite the same feelings of violent anger towards Charles as I do towards Tony. In the last 48 hours I’ve watched ‘The Road to Guantanamo’, listened to Rob Newman’s ‘Apocalypso Now’ and read George Monbiot’s piece A Well of Hypocricy. The result of all of this was that last night I a had a very vivd dream in which…. *!?#£$!….. **deleted due to fear of being labelled a terrorist** (but it wasn’t pleasant and it involved a fella called Tony and some high powered weaponry). I’ll spare you the gruesome details and I know it wouldn’t change anything if he copped it – but I feel he should know how is divisiveness has made me feel! Grrrrrr!

Its grassroots activism all the way now, fighting every battle as it comes along, whiel we do our best to change everybody’s consciousness.

The media has represented the “anti-nuclear” resistance in reporting this story – largely it appears through the figure of Tony Juniper. He’s had lots of important things to say, but I feel that in these soundbite times we have to prioritise our expressed reasons against these developments.

Talking about the terrorist threat created by having more potential nuclear targets, and the hypocrisy of our position over Iran when we choose more nuclear power are points that are all well and good. But in those brief moments of reply afforded by the media, it seems to me that the anti-nuclear resistance should concentrate on destroying the pro-nuclear arguments on its own terms, I.E.:

1) That its a low carbon solution – some pithy way of highlighting the carbon emissions across the lifecycle of nuclear power generation needs to be found.

2) That it deals with problems of energy security – there is never any mention about Uranium imports, or being dependent on foreign supplies of nuclear materials & technology, or the competition for nuclear materials.

3) That its a long term solution – lets foreground global supplies of uranium and the “peak uranium” concept.

4) That its a business as usual solution – even with nuclear, a radical decrease in our energy usage is essential.

Looks like we’re going to have to fight them on the beaches, and the estauries and anywhere else they want to build one of these tombstones.