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Hartlepool

Hartlepool, is one of the eleven sites that could potentially host a new nuclear station included on the Government’s list published on 15th April 2009.

It is the site of two Advanced Gas-cooled reactors owned by British Energy.

British Energy  held a public meeting on 11th March 2009 in the Grand Hotel, Hartlepool to discuss the prospects for a new nuclear station. Local campaigner, Geoff Lilley, explains here why he is against a new reactor at Hartlepool.
 

Iris Ryder, Green Party mayoral candidate for Hartlepool and Eurocandidate in the 2009 elections, told the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette : “The Green Party and has long campaigned against nuclear power due to its high cost and the unsolved problems with radioactive waste and risks of radioactive discharges.

In 2004 Greenpeace published a report which showed that the offshore wind industry could create 76,000 jobs with 38,000 of them in North-East England.
 

Last Updated 9 June 2009

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