It adds that the nuclear industry will receive pounds 8bn in subsidy between 1989 and 1998 and that a new study shows it will

It adds that the nuclear industry will receive pounds 8bn in subsidy between 1989 and 1998, and that a new study shows it will need an extra pounds 30bn of public money to manage nuclear waste and decommissioning its facilities.. They say it appears to fly in the face of his own Government’s policy to expand green energy sources. Last week energy minister John Battel promised a new, strong drive to develop renewable energy options, including wind power.Dr Cunningham’s letter declared his “emphatic opposition” to the plan to build the turbines, on 120-foot towers, at Drigg on the Cumbrian coast.But supporters point out that the area to be taken up by the turbines is tiny compared to the massive 300-acre Drigg nuclear dump next door, which contains three quarters of a million cubic metres of radioactive waste, and to the 1,000-acre Sellafield complex, with its hundreds of buildings, which Dr Cunningham has vigorously supported.His letter also refers to “debate about the viability of wind farms” and adds that they “can, of course, only produce small and intermittent amounts of electricity and then only with substantial subsidy”.Friends of the Earth say this seems to conflict with the Government’s support for wind power as part of its policy of providing 10 per cent of Britain’s electricity from renewable sources by the year 2010. Sir Bernard, group vice- president, is a paid consultant to British Nuclear Fuels, which operates both Sellafield and the dump.The objection from Dr Cunningham – local MP for both the wind farm site and Sellafield – in a letter read to a public enquiry into the project last week, has angered both Friends of the Earth and the firm proposing the windmills. He is venting his ire against a plan to build five windmills subsidised at a few pence a kilowatt hour.
He is joined by Sir Bernard Ingham’s anti-wind power group, Country Guardian, whose local representative says the turbines would disfigure an “undeveloped and unspoiled” area, though they would be built on the edge of Britain’s biggest radioactive waste site. But he has not, in a damascene conversion, turned against the vast, hideous Sellafield site which, with the rest of the nuclear industry, has swallowed billions of public money.

JACK CUNNINGHAM, the famously pro-nuclear agriculture minister, has taken up arms against an energy development in his Cumbrian constituency, saying it is “massively intrusive” and needs “substantial subsidy”. A change in the law by the previous Conservative government also means they have to stay at the port of entry. In Dover there is resentment at the financial burden, and petitions are circulating demanding why local taxpayers should be lumbered with it.Under the Geneva Convention the Home Office only has to let in those who are living in fear of persecution by the state Merely being terrorised by neo-Nazi gangs does not qualify To date not one Romany has been granted asylum.. He fled here, he said, after a firebomb attack on his home in which his daughter was burned.While seeking asylum, refugees are not allowed to work, and thus have to depend on benefits. It emphasised the financial benefits of asylum over here.One who appeared on the documentary discussing the benefit system, Ladislav Scuka, denied it was an incitement for more to follow him.

Three were jailed, but for comparatively short periods on relatively minor charges. One skinhead who received a suspended sentence said he felt no remorse for what happened.Apart from violence, the Romanies say they face the daily indignity of being treated like second class citizens. Many bars and restaurants in the Czech and Slovak republics refuse to serve them.The arrival of the Romanies in Dover reportedly began after the screening of a programme on Czech TV about compatriots who were settling in Britain. He died on his 18th birthday.Those of the gang who were caught were either freed or received suspended sentences. One who tried to climb out, Tibor Danihel, was battered with baseball bats and flung back in and drowned. In Pisek in the Czech Republic, four young Romanies were chased into a lake.

The authorities, the Romanies complain, turn a blind eye if they can.Repeatedly the World in Action programme-makers came across examples of brutality, often by skinhead gangs, which has resulted in murders and maiming. There are daily catalogues of stabbings, beatings, burnings, and segregation practiced in many towns. Two people were injured during the disruption.News of the march had sent a group of about 60 asylum seekers to London “demanding … free food, housing, and health care – the vanguard of an invasion that could be hundreds strong”, according to the capital’s evening paper. The inference was simple: the fascist march was just an excuse to exploit London’s rich resources.Yet the experience of the Romanies in Eastern Europe suggests the fear of trampling neo-Nazi boots is not fabricated Tens of thousands were gassed under Hitler’s Third Reich.

Since the collapse of communism in the region, moreover, Europe’s largest stateless minority has been systematically persecuted in many countries of the former Soviet bloc.In the Czech Republic, 29 gypies have been killed in the last five years; the figures are roughly similar for Slovakia. The NF supporters intended to march along the seafront but, faced with anti-racist protesters, they decided to abandon their demonstration and leave the town, rather than being ordered to do so by police. THEY are sly and manipulative scroungers. They have come over here, in the guise of political refugees, to milk the British social security system.