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I am assuming there is Russian interference in the European Nuclear sector, they don't trust us or particularly like us much.
I have to disagree this is a war in Ukraine though, the sooner the British Govt drops this rhetoric the sooner we will get some sort of normality out there!
"Western countries are being urged to stop buying Russian nuclear fuel amid fears the trade is funding the war in Ukraine.
Russia is one of the world’s largest uranium suppliers with around 40pc of global capacity for uranium enrichment.
While Europe has been weaning itself off Russian fossil fuels, its nuclear sector is still heavily dependent on Russian imports.
“We need to escalate our collective pressure against the Kremlin, and the nuclear industry is exactly one of the arenas that needs to be considered,” said Tobias Ellwood, chairman of Parliament's defence committee."
I suspected the German Greens may have been involved someway in stopping this mine being developed but I would not discount Russian interference as well.
It is screaming out that Europe needs domestically sourced Uranium for security but for some reason, wind is the answer.
As for the windmills - by the time you have mined the metal out of the ground, forged it into shape, dug the whole for it to go in and extracted all the lime for concrete for its base and its expected lifespan before requiring repair and replacing. You may as well just burnt the coal.
These people are just so ignorant and arrogant it defies belief!
I fear he has come up with the answers Paul. It's...wait for it.....wind and solar!! Yay!
And he's fanatical about it too.
Unfortunately he hasn't realised he's a great asset for the fossil fuels industry, and its successful future because no government would allow the emissions and chaos he's pushing for.
A quick look at the GB energy dashboard for electricity generation just now tells me wind's contributing 3% (same as coal) and solar 2%.
It's tragic.
https://www.energydashboard.co.uk/live
Has that idiot Castillon, im trying to remember his name, come up with any answers on how they are going to provide energy post fossil fuels?
I agree the European continent should not be trading with other blocs for Uranium.
That includes, Russia/Asia, Africa and the Americas.
The only trade we should really be doing with Russia, is cabbages, vodka, caviar and fine Russian ladies.
I suspect BKY's approach now will be to get the Advisory Committee to put pressure on business and government to grant these permits. That's useful groundwork however things pan out.
I reckon BKY will wait for at least the first judgement in the administrative appeal, and the outcome of the next general election, before taking any further legal action (eg international arbitration). If an unfavourable government gets elected in 2023 and doesn't comply promptly with the appeal judgement at the end of that legal process, BKY must surely go for compensation through arbitration or whatever's the best legal route. Early in 2024 perhaps. Otherwise it's another 4 years + in the wilderness. This could become a litigation play which itself could take years.
Hopefully the government will just grant the permits now, do the right thing politically environmentally socially economically legally morally. Can't be that difficult. JFDI.
I am not here to discuss the wrongs and rights of Ukraine v the Russians it is complex and involves several hundred years of history and a couple of World Wars.
It amused me that the EU are such hypocrites that while virtue signalling the sanctions against Putin they are still buying Nuclear Fuel and other things besides! I hope that at some point the EUSSR will realise it needs it's own source of nuclear fuel and that there is one potentially in Spain.
Russia's warmongering?
Oh come on all they have done is annexed Russian speaking enclaves which Kruschev stupidly gave away in the 1950s.
The Ukrainians since 2014 have been causing problems for these Russian enclaves which the UN have done nothing about.
Why the Russians have left it so long before taking action I have no idea.
Why NATO tried to get Ukraine to join them is bewildering as it is the soft underbelly entry point into Russia, talk about prodding the Russian bear.
Yes just scrape it off the ground in Retortillo.
Although I fear Greenpeace is just using Russia's warmongering to push its anti-nuke agenda.
From the DT today:
France has been accused of helping to fund Vladimir Putin’s war effort by continuing to import nuclear fuel from Russia.
Greenpeace on Friday called it “scandalous” that uranium was still being bought by European companies to be used in nuclear power stations across the continent.
The campaigning charity this week filmed the arrival of dozens of drums of uranium, both raw and enriched, from Russia at the northern French port of Dunkirk.
Imports of nuclear fuel from Russia remain legal in Europe as Brussels has not been able to ban them in eight rounds of sanctions packages.
Rumours of good news or just a bit of Spanish ramping?
up 10% atm...over in spain
https://youtu.be/eZQyVUTcpM4
Keep The Faith....
Lol easyp!
The Sunday Times has a good full page article on p8 Biz Section today about nuclear's growing importance, the Russia problem, looming supply side problems etc etc. It even says miners are licking their lips at the prospect of higher prices.
One day for BKY hopefully...
Morals...in Spanish Politics!
Can Spain morally take nuclear electric from the French for their base load if they have withdrawn from the ECT?
Nobody is answering what Spain are going to do for their base load energy?
So this notification seems to be just a technical legal step to preserve BKY's right to pursue international arbitration in future, if Spain withdraws from the ECT.
Otherwise BKY's approach remains persistence rather than confrontation atm. Imo BKY are well advised, so I guess we have to live with the ongoing delay, and keep going with the softly softly approach rather than pile in with lawsuits now. That said, I doubt anyone realistically thinks the government will ever change tack. As the next election approaches, the best tactic might be to wait in the hope of a favourable government getting in, then go on the attack and launch the lawsuits if this current lot get back in.
The administrative appeal is still to be resolved after nearly a year disappointingly. That might change things if MITECO or CSN are ordered to reconsider, but then again this is a government who've already said they'll say no whatever.
Now Berkeley submits Notification of Investment Dispute to the PM, sounds like an ultimatum. It's good to see BKY makes some meaningful moves recently, rather than just wait.
BKY also mentioned about Spain's intention (rumour) to withdraw from Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). Anyone head about this and any comments?
Interesting that BKY's own lawyer is on this advisory committee. Indicates (as if we didn't already know) that legally BKY's position is sound. Hopefully it will help put some pressure on to Government to grant these permits, or even just to act lawfully for once.
And we need to hear where we're at with this administrative appeal too.
More avoidable emissions for cop 27 to fret about ineffectually.
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/one-spains-largest-hydro-power-plants-halt-operations-drought-worsens
Well Spain apparently but the eco idiots will say no.
Personally I fear the USA has played its part in what is going on in that area of the world and has been agitating their since 2014. One of the cogs in this wheel is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland.
There is no way in this world the Russians were ever going to allow Ukraine in NATO due to the flatness of the land and it being a launch pad into Russia.
Someone somewhere thought it amusing to try it and now look what we have, but hey ho we can freeze and starve for this endeavour.
Spain sources/buys nearly 40% of its uranium from Russia (through state-controlled Rosatom) and continues to do so, even though there is no moral social economic environmental or financial case, given that BKY's project is ready to go, and is only being held up because of Miteco's unlawful withholding of permitting.
Russia has started and is pursuing and paying for a bloody illegal war, funded in part by this Spanish money. Sanctions don't include uranium yet.
So yes, the Spanish taxpayer is funding murder, pursuing the coalition's absurd unconscionable ideology and unlawful actions. It needs to stop buying Russian uranium, and permit the mine or pay BKY compensation.
https://euobserver.com/world/156226
Funding murder?