Nuclear Spin
Contents
Individuals
- Lord John Birt – Until he resigned as Blair's "Blue Skies" advisor in December 2005, Birt was said to have the close ear of the Prime Minister. He was also pro-nuclear. His influence is now on the wane as he has left Downing Street to join Terra Firma, the private equity firm founded by City financier Guy Hands.
- {[Tony Blair]] and Number 10
- Yvette Cooper - wife of Ed Balls - whose father is Tony Cooper - chair of the Nuclear Industry Association until Dec 2004 and now 'represents the interests of west cumbria' on the NDA
- Philip Dewhurst
- Ian Fells – discredited government advisor
- John Hutton - Work and Pensions Secretary - Nuclear champion. MP for Barrow-in-Furness where Trident submarines were built
- Bernard Ingham
- Lord Jenkin who is very pro nuclear
- David King - The government's chief scientist
- James Lovelock
- Geoffrey Norris – special advisor to Tony Blair
- Jamie Reed - the former BNFL press officer who replaced “nuclear Jack� Cunningham as the MP for Copeland.
- Brian Wilson - ex-Energy Minister
Maybes:
- Grace McGlynn
- Greg Butler - both ex-BNFL (Butler still gets £80,000 a year from BNFL) who are on IDM - and who have both done technical papers for NNC for CORWM.
- Bob Church - until recently AMEC now BNFL
- Lord Sainsbury
- Jack Cunningham
The media
- Simon Jenkins – Guardian Columnist
- Jason Nisse journalist with the IOS - on the board of Nirex........and declared in favour of nuclear dumping
Organisations
- The Committee for Radioactive Waste Management (CoRWM) has appointed Luther Pendragon to help it reassure people that nuclear waste is being dealt with (D. Bloch (2005) Luther Pendragon Takes On Nuclear Waste Brief, PR Week, 12 August, p8).
- Nuclear Industry Association - The chair of the NIA is BNFL group corporate affairs director Philip Dewhurst.
Companies
- British Nuclear Fuels Limited and its US subsidiary:
- British Energy has appointed Craig Stevenson, formerly Monsanto's top UK spin doctor, as head of government affairs. Also hired Financial Dynamics
PR and Lobbying firms
- Bell Pottinger
- Connect
- Facilitating Change Limited
- Financial Dynamics
- Fleishman Hillard
- ForthRoad Limited
- The Future Foundation
- Good Relations
- Grayling Political Strategy
- International Future Forum
- Kingsmead Communications Limited
- Luther Pendragon
- PR21 now known as Zeno
- Promise PR
- Weber Shandwick
Web Companies
- Sticky New Media - Web Design Company working for both the Nuclear Industry Association and XXXX