Nuclear spin
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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.
- 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
- Sir 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 Ministe
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).
- Nirex has hired Promise PR and Good Relations
- 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
Web Companies
- Sticky New Media - Web Design Company working for both the Nuclear Industry Association and XXXX
The NIA - Sticky New Media Partnership
South Coast based Sticky New Media were chosen to partner the NIA in the development of the new NIA web-site following an indepth, comprehensive appraisal process that included new media agencies from across Britain.
With a brief that focused on developing features that 'enabled' the membership and provided a dedicated area for nuclear industry access to news, business and provided an online voice for the members, it was clear to Philip Owen, Partner and Webmaster at Sticky New Media, that database technology would feature heavily. The site finally includes 3 main custom databases, a links database capable of managing many thousands of URLs, several cgi flat file stock databases providing collaborative working and discussion, event and diary services.
Sticky New Media have also been awarded the contract to handle the monthly promotion and maintenance of niauk.org, including technical support, search engine submission reporting and visitor statistics monitoring, to ensure that the site continues to grow awareness and visitor traffic. The site has been planned as a series of modules and these will continue to be brought on-line in the near future, adding even more functionality and value to the site.
Sticky New Media can be contacted by telephone on 023 9273 4201, e-mail on bnif@stickynewmedia.co.uk or by visiting their web-site at http://www.stickynewmedia.co.uk/
Sticky New Media The Clock Tower, Great Southsea Street, Southsea, Hampshire PO5 3BY
