Bernard Ingham
Sir Bernard Ingham worked as press secretary for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
He is secretary of Supporters of Nuclear Energy (SONE), a pro-nuclear energy lobbying group with strong links to the British Nuclear Energy Society [1] [2].
On the Today programme on November 29, 2005, Ingham claimed that nuclear power is "the cheapest option" and "the cleanest of all methods of electricity generation", and dismissed windpower as "unreliable, intermittent, and therefore basically mucky". He also claimed that "nuclear doesn't want subsidies". [3] [4]
External links
- Biography on website of Celebrity Speakers Associates (CSA), October 28, 2003.
- List of committee members, SONE website, October 7, 2005.
- Audio archive of the Today programme, BBC Radio 4, November 29, 2005. Audio clip featuring Ingham speaking on behalf of nuclear power at 2m45s, and transcript.
Articles
- Peter Preston, "Who to press-gang in Wakeham's wake?", The Observer, February 3, 2002.
- Chris Grimshaw, "It's official: no dark Machiavellian conspiracy for new nuclear power", Corporate Watch newsletter, issue 21, December 2004.
