LQD: You call the British power market "free"? | 15 comments (15 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: LQD: You call the British power market (none / 0)

Is there currently a limit on the amount that nuke stations can put into the system?

Regardless, I'd love to know how they're going to prevent the shareholders in the companies from selling them off cheap after they've taken the profits but before they're forced to bear the cost of decomissioning.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 8th, 2008 at 11:12:39 AM EST

Re: LQD: You call the British power market (none / 1)

I have no idea about any limits. Such limits would be absurd, especially considering the British love affair with the Free Market(tm).

The way to avoid the second problem you mention, at least the way we do it in Sweden, is to tax nuclear electricity when it is produced and put the money in a segregated decomissioning fund.

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.

by Starvid on Tue Jan 8th, 2008 at 11:22:43 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: LQD: You call the British power market (4.00 / 2)

Since when did being absurd bother them?

Taxes are anti-business.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Tue Jan 8th, 2008 at 11:28:51 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: LQD: You call the British power market (none / 1)

That seems to be the approach that was being floated in the run up this week, although Hutton was pretty vague in his parliamentary statement and there's plenty of opportunities for the policy to change (indeed having a pot of money sitting around for decades can be an unbearable temptation for govts even if they set up a decommissioning fund on this generation of reactors).

Regards
Luke

-- #include witty_sig.h

by silburnl on Thu Jan 10th, 2008 at 10:00:30 AM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: LQD: You call the British power market (none / 0)

Well, clearly, if the shareholders skim the profits so the company doesn't keep enough assets on its balance sheet to pay for decommissioning, the company will be technically bankrupt, and will have to be bailed out... oh, wait!

We have met the enemy, and he is us — Pogo

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Jan 9th, 2008 at 02:41:09 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: LQD: You call the British power market (4.00 / 2)

Private Eye today notes that the French company that appears most likely to get the contract for the construction of the new Nuclear power stations has as its head of media relations one Andrew Brown, who just by coincidence happens to be the brother of the Prime Minister.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Jan 9th, 2008 at 03:11:32 PM EST
[ Parent ]

LQD: You call the British power market "free"? | 15 comments (15 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Top Diaries

Ireland 2023 Rugby World Cup Squad selected

Integrating Ukraine Into NATO Family

Leinster's demise and Munster's hope

Southern Irish disinterest in Northern Ireland affairs

The end is Nigh?

Joe Biden. America's Interventionist Hero

Recent Diaries

NATO Posing the What If Question

Bi-Partisan Effort to Undermine Democracy

June 2023

Ireland 2023 Rugby World Cup Squad selected

Integrating Ukraine Into NATO Family

Southern Irish disinterest in Northern Ireland affairs

Incident Ukrainian War Display Gets Int'l Attention

German Climate Activists Group Outlawed

Leinster's demise and Munster's hope

Joe Biden. America's Interventionist Hero

Targeted Assassinations: a Bankrupt Strategy

The end is Nigh?

Hijacking Peace by Zelensky for War Escalation

UA Drone Attack On Moscow

May 2023

US Provoked Conflict In Europe

U.S. Will Be Ousted From Middle-East

Settler Extremism Blessed by Jerusalem Leaders

Occasional Series