Bill Hone
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pinned post!
Just testing the video function. Oh, it's Portman Road, Ipswich.
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about 1 year ago
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The food and water were meant for the birds, but if you're hungry....
about 1 month ago
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Energy bills soaring & the King's making money! Itās medieval! He says he cares about the environment so youād expect him to stand behind, clean power. Iāve signed a petition to demand Crown Estate lower fees on seabeds and make wind farms more affordable to build. Will you join me?
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King Charles: Stop Profiting At Britainās Expense!
Energy bills are soaring, and the King is getting rich at our expense. Sign the petition to demand the Crown Estate lower fees on seabeds and make wind farms more affordable to build.
https://act.gp/48TINlv
about 2 months ago
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notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS
NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back
https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/
about 2 months ago
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Together Against Sizewell C
2 months ago
A must-read article: "An analysis of the Sizewell C deal shows that balance of risks is one-sided with the risks falling almost entirely on taxpayers and consumers, with minimal penalties and generous incentives offered to investors. The subsidies...š§µš 1/2
policybrief.org/briefs/sizew...
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Sizewell C ā the last of its kind - Policy Brief
The new finance deal for Sizewell C
https://policybrief.org/briefs/sizewell-c-the-last-of-its-kind/
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Great Britain wastes £180,000 every hour switching off wind turbines and overpaying gas generators and nuclear power stations to switch on. That's £1,074,924,669 so far this year!
wastedwind.energy
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Wasted Wind
Britain wastes millions a day switching off wind turbines. See how much has been wasted today, and in 2025.
https://wastedwind.energy
4 months ago
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www.crowdjustice.com/case/sizewel...
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TASCās new legal challenge against Sizewell Cās secret flood defences
Together Against Sizewell C (TASC) is a community-based group of like-minded individuals who have been actively campaigning on a voluntary basis, since 2013, to stop the Sizewell C project.
https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/sizewell-c-legal-challenge/?mc_cid=f0439ab9a2&mc_eid=d8dcfb9c9b
6 months ago
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stoptrump.org.uk/petition-can...
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Petition: Cancel Trumpās state visit
Stop Trump Coalition
https://stoptrump.org.uk/petition-cancel/
12 months ago
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Bill Hone
Together Against Sizewell C
about 1 year ago
Gaslighting again- easy to say Sizewell C is on time & budget when you refuse to reveal what the cost & timescale will be. If all is well why no FID? Ps Pyke knows- the RAB
#nuclear
tax will put electricity bills up from start of build!
#SayNo2SizewellC
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2493077...
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Sizewell C 'has high chance' of avoiding over-spend pitfall, report says
Developers of Sizewell C at Leiston, Suffolk, are confident that the project is progressing on time and to budget.
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24930778.sizewell-c-likely-avoid-over-spend-says-report/?ref=rss
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Chris.
My son's 40th birthday. Acrylic on birthday card envelope
https://billhone.substack.com/p/chris
about 1 year ago
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Bill Hone
Andy Brown
about 1 year ago
If you want to know why your electricity bill is so high look no further than the bad decisions of governments to prioritise expensive dirty nuclear power stations over reductions in peak time use.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion...
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Utility bills need to be brought under control as the cost of living continues to bite - Andy Brown
There are few more challenging experiences than getting to the end of the month and finding that there isnāt enough money to pay the bills. For many people the cost of living crisis remains a grinding...
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/columnists/utility-bills-need-to-be-brought-under-control-as-the-cost-of-living-continues-to-bite-andy-brown-4942327
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Bill Hone
E3G - Third Generation Environmentalism
about 1 year ago
The government can reach its 2030 clean power target whilst lowering the average household electricity bill by more than Ā£200. š°āļø How? By implementing the policy reforms in our Electricity Bills Charter. š See our proposals below. š§µš
www.e3g.org/publications...
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The UK's clean power mission: Delivering the prize
UK government can both achieve its Clean Power 2030 mission and bring down electricity bills for households.
https://www.e3g.org/publications/the-uks-clean-power-mission-delivering-the-prize/
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Just testing the video function. Oh, it's Portman Road, Ipswich.
#itfc
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about 1 year ago
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Bill Hone
Together Against Sizewell C
about 1 year ago
It's a great cause, but be under no illusion, "The nuclear plant [Sizewell C] about to take shape near Leiston has donated £20k towards the effort" has actually donated nothing! It is spending taxpayers £££'s!
#SayNo2SizewellC
www.eadt.co.uk/news/2486832...
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Sutton Hoo burial ship reconstruction team's delight at Sizewell C support
Reconstruction of the ancient Sutton Hoo burial ship at Woodbridge, Suffolk, has moved closer thanks to support from the Sizewell C nuclear project
https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/24868328.sutton-hoo-ship-reconstruction-gains-sizewell-c-backing/?ref=rss
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Bill Hone
Together Against Sizewell C
about 1 year ago
"The arguments against new
#nuclear
power plants have never been stronger...we now have the govtās own energy operator saying that not only is new nuclear not needed to decarbonise the grid, but it will increase the cost of electricity to households."
scottishleftreview.scot/why-labour-s...
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Why Labour Should Stop Supporting Nuclear Power
Labour should scrap nuclear power on the grounds of cost, safety, environmental priorities, national security and climate change, write Gordon Morgan and Bill Ramsay.
https://scottishleftreview.scot/why-labour-should-stop-supporting-nuclear-power/
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Bill Hone
Together Against Sizewell C
about 1 year ago
@NFLAUKandI "The Sizewell C site presents its own costly challenges, namely a need for considerable expenditure on coastal defences as the East Coast will be increasingly subject to inundation & storm surges because of
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#SayNo2SizewellC
www.nuclearpolicy.info/news/told-yo...
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Bill Hone
Together Against Sizewell C
about 1 year ago
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[email protected]
calls on govt to examine Value for Money for Sizewell C arguing that HPC has seen spiralling costs & warns "Sizewell C's construction āwill saddle consumers with higher bills long before it delivers a single unit of electricity... 1/2
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Labour donor Dale Vince urges ārigorous financial scrutinyā of Sizewell C costs
Green energy entrepreneur voices concerns over projectās funding and āspiralling costsā of UKās other nuclear plants
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/28/labour-donor-dale-vince-urges-rigorous-financial-scrutiny-of-sizewell-c-costs
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Bill Hone
Together Against Sizewell C
about 1 year ago
Same EPR reactor design Keir Starmer & Ed_Miliband want to build at Sizewell C- no wonder investors are so hard to find Olkiluoto 3: "completed a staggering 14yrs behind schedule, with expenses ballooning well beyond initial estimates"
#SayNo2SizewellC
Rachel Reeves
nord.news/en/2024/12/1...
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Olkiluoto 3: Financial Disaster Strikes Areva and Siemens as Project Costs Soar to ā¬8.5 Billion
https://nord.news/en/2024/12/19/olkiluoto-3-financial-disaster-strikes-areva-and-siemens-as-project-costs-soar-to-e8-5-billion/
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Janne M. Korhonen
about 1 year ago
Yeah, I've co-written two books to argue the case for
#nuclear
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, even demonstrated for it, but the reality is this. With the unexpectedly rapid advance of RE technologies, I really don't see much of a future for nuclear electricity in deregulated markets. It's just not a good investment.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Why do NHS hospitals ask you to phone them on a number that is never answered?
about 1 year ago
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Bill Hone
Together Against Sizewell C
about 1 year ago
Great blog from @jonathonporritt "I blame both Tony Blairā a critical part of the whole deep nuclear state working away behind the scenesā as well as UKās astonishingly gullible media which just goes along with all this nuclear crap, year after year after year"
jonathonporritt.com/tony-blair-n...
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TONY BLAIR: STILL A NUCLEAR NUTTER! - Jonathon Porritt
Explore why Tony Blair's nuclear energy policies continue to face criticism. This analysis highlights decades of policy failures, the impact on the UK's energy future, and the challenges of nuclear po...
https://jonathonporritt.com/tony-blair-nuclear-energy-failure/
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And then your next train is delayed, and when it eventually departs, instead of picking up time, it gets even later!
about 1 year ago
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Greater Anglia services out of Liverpool Street all running slow. (No change there?) Of course they don't tell you in advance. Delay-repay forms at the ready!!
about 1 year ago
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action.stopsizewellc.org/valueformoney
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Scrutinise Sizewell C
Petition to David Goldstone, Independent Chair of the Treasury's new 'Office of Value for Money' We, the undersigned, urge you, as the new Office of Value for Money's independent Chair*, to call in th...
https://action.stopsizewellc.org/valueformoney
about 1 year ago
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