Green Party Welcomes a Nuclear Free Wales

Wales Green Party has welcomed news that E.ON and RWE npower have pulled out of building Wylfa B, providing a 'shot in the arm' for renewable industries.

Pippa Bartolotti, Leader of Wales Green Party said:

“Nuclear power, once heralded as being so cheap it would be practically free, is choking on its own extravagance.Costs to the taxpayer of unwanted nuclear sites were always going to be unsupportable.

"The nuclear industry is shying away from shouldering the burden of nuclear because it knows that electricity prices cannot realistically keep pace with the spiralling  costs of clean up and decommissioning. These toxic installations serve little more purpose than to provide lethal weapons of mass destruction.

"Germany and Japan know the price is too high for the environment. With new Nuclear going way over budget and with no safe build in sight, we can at last reflect on the wisdom of using this type of energy.

"The intelligent way forward is to invest in renewables such as solar, tide and wind. Green energy will always provide us with more jobs, safer living and greater energy security.

"We call on all political parties to put aside their ideological differences in pursuit of a clean ecological model of development for Wales.”

ENDS