Energy secretary says government is ‘putting forward the money’ for new nuclear power station as Greens say money better spent on green energy
Good morning. As you will probably have heard already, Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, has announced plans to build a new nuclear power station in Suffolk, Sizewell C. Here is the Guardian story.
Oops. That is our story from 2009, when Gordon Brown was prime minister, Miliband was energy secretary for the first time, and Sizewell C was first getting the go-ahead from government.
We’re funding it. And that’s the big difference.
We’re actually putting put forward the money to make it happen.
This is the biggest investment in nuclear, new nuclear, in more than half a century in Britain. Sizewell C. Small modular reactors, Rolls-Royce, it was announced at 7am this morning, have won that competition. Nuclear fusion.
We’re doing this because we want energy security for the country, long-term energy security. Good jobs, 10,000 jobs, at Sizewell alone. And, frankly, something I care a lot about, to tackle the climate crisis, because we’ve got to get off insecure, volatile fossil fuels, both for security and for climate reasons.
