Transatlantic Nuclear Energy Forum
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Background
The Transatlantic Nuclear Energy Forum (TANEF) says it "aims to address key industry concerns and foster on-going strong relationships amongst nuclear energy companies and between the nuclear energy industry and governments, legislators and regulators based in the European Union and North America. [1]
TANEF was first set up in 2000 under the name of Sovereign Strategy Europe Ltd, according to Companies House in the UK. Its name was changed on 17 March 2010 to Transatlantic Nuclear Energy Forum Ltd. [2] TANEF's now dormant website was registered to Iain Malcolm, the chief executive of lobbying company Sovereign Strategy Ltd. Sovereign was last recorded as providing UK public affairs consultancy services to TANEF in the quarter from September to November 2010. [3]
In 2012, TANEF's directors according to Companies House were Sovereign's co-founder Alan John Donnelly, Jane Nottage and Andrew Kelly (Secretary). [4]
A transatlantic nuclear lobbying group
TANEF is governed by two political honorary chairs and two chairs from industry. One of each is from Europe and North America. The European Honorary Chair was Jack Cunningham, with his US Counterpart, Lindsey O. Graham, United States Senator for South Carolina. The Corporate chairs are Neville Chamberlain, Chairman, from Urenco Limited for Europe and John L. Hopkins, Group President, Government, Fluor Corporation for America.[5]
In 2004, while still a Labour MP, TANEF paid for Cunningham to visit the US.[6] That year, Cunningham also wrote to senior nuclear executives asking them to join the forum. His letter, obtained by The Sunday Times, says: “Tanef was created to provide a setting for senior executive transatlantic business-to-business and business-to-government dialogue on key nuclear energy issues and concerns . . . Membership in Tanef is being offered by select invitation with membership dues of $50,000 annually.”
- Nuclear-power firms that have joined the forum include Fluor, Urenco, which makes enriched uranium, and British Nuclear Group, the waste management arm of BNFL.[7]
Affiliations
Contact
Companies House registered address:
- Name & Registered Office: TRANSATLANTIC NUCLEAR ENERGY FORUM LIMITED
- COBURG HOUSE
- 1 COBURG STREET
- GATESHEAD
- TYNE AND WEAR NE8 1NS
- Company No. 03923090
- Alternative address:
- 4th Floor
- 60 Trafalgar Square
- London
- WC2N 5DS[8]
Notes
- ↑ Transatlantic Nuclear Energy Forum, Website
- ↑ Transatlantic Nuclear Energy Forum Limited.
- ↑ Association of Professional Political Consultants. APPC Register Entry, 1 Sep - 30 Nov 2010
- ↑ Transatlantic Nuclear Energy Forum, Companies in the UK, accessed 7 November 2012
- ↑ Transatlantic Nuclear Energy Forum, Website
- ↑ House of Commons, Register of Members' Interests, 2005.
- ↑ Robert Winnett, Revealed: Minister's Links to Nuclear Lobby, Sunday Times, 14 May, 2006.
- ↑ Transatlantic Nuclear Energy Forum as at 7 November 2012
