Malcolm Wicks

In February 2006, The Guardian reported how, although he is supposedly "neutral" about nuclear power, he "just can't help himself slagging off anyone who argues that Britain can do without it. Last week he was talking to the Scottish press about Germany's plans to shut down its nuclear plants. 'I would at least hope that the environmental fundamentalists would ... think through the implications', he said. Asked to identify those 'fundamentalists, he said: 'I mean people who are so committed to the environmental agenda but who imagine that the answer can be windmills and some tidal power and some solar power and some recycling.' Wicks's balanced energy review will be presented to Tony Blair in the summer."

The Guardian continued: "In the meantime, perhaps Wicks could inform the public about the mysterious public consultations that the Department of Trade and Industry is supposed to be holding on the energy review. So far there have been no announcements, no postings on the website and no reporting of what was said by whom to whom". ^[1]

External Links

^ John Vidal, Eco Soundings, The Guardian, March 1, 2006, Society, page8