Caroline Lucas’ nuclear report identifies £100bn of potential savings

A report by Brighton Pavilion’s Caroline Lucas MP has identified over £100 billion of potential savings through the scrapping of the Trident renewal and axing plans for new nuclear power stations.

The Green Party leader states that cancelling the controversial Trident renewal proposal will save over £100 billion, while her report states that axing the plan to develop eight new nuclear power stations will save the UK taxpayer around £8 billion in nuclear waste costs.

Caroline Lucas said: “Scrapping these nuclear programmes would save huge amounts of money to help ease the deficit problem and save some of the essential services that the government is otherwise committed to hacking.

“But it would also ensure a more secure future for the country, something which is often claimed as the longer term purpose for the cuts.”

You can download the report entitled ‘Cut The Nuclear Deficit‘, online from the Green Party website.

Brighton Pavilion MP - Caroline Lucas

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Posted by Joseph Lewis on October 19, 2010. Filed under Featured,Green Party. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry