AMEC
Background
Amec is one of Britain's leading engineering companies. In 2004, it was awarded major reconstruction contracts in Iraq.[1]
Nuclear Lobbying
On March 23, 2005 it invited some of Britain's most senior business journalists for breakfast at the St Stephen's Club in Westminster. Speakers at the event included David King, the government chief scientist, Brian Wilson, the former energy minister, and Dipesh Shah, chief executive of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, who made a pitch for nuclear energy in order "to stop the lights going out".
A Lucrative Clean up
Nuclear Decommissioning Agency. [Nuclear News Flashes (2006) 6 January
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The Amec partnership will face fierce competition from British Nuclear Group, that operates BNFL's four sites including Sellafield, as well as a host of foreign companies such as the controversial American company Bechtel, Fluor, and the French firm Cogema. [2]
CH2M Hill is a leading engineering company that has been cited by American Democrats as having a "conflict of interest" in its work in Iraq. [3] Its new president is the former American Department of Energy Assistant Secretary Jessie Roberson. [Nuclear News Flashes (2006) 20 January]
Related Articles
- Jonathan Leake and Dan Box, "When PR goes nuclear", New Statesman, May 27, 2005
