Originally from: Farmtalking
                        
I notice a very interesting post on FMD New from Brent in Canada.
I've copied it below for those of you who haven't seen it already.

It's interesting to me because there are proposals for a new wind farm locally, (south east coast of Berwickshire, Scotland) which is attracting more opposition daily.

I realise we are going to have to increase our supplies of power if we want to continue using it at the same and increased levels.

There is much debate concerning the efficiency of wind farms and it seems that all Governments are likely to turn to increased nuclear energy.

It may be the sensible thing to do for many reasons but...what do you think?

Brent wrote –

"Who would you choose to decide how to dispose of nuclear waste — a focus group or leading scientists?

Quite how this has happened is hard to explain, except when one realises that the committee comes under the auspices of Defra — the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — which has a lamentable track record in encouraging and retaining scientific know-how. This is the body which, in its previous incarnation, refused to listen to the world’s greatest experts on foot-and-mouth during the 2001 outbreak, which allowed the leading scientists in its animal health laboratories to be poached by foreign governments, and which withdrew funding from Professor Alan Ebringer, who was reaching important conclusions on the alleged links between BSE and variform CJD. Examining Professor Ball’s long and detailed letter to Mr Morley, the same syndrome can be detected. Defra has assembled a committee that draws together a broad range of laypeople rather than the best available experts in nuclear waste disposal. Defra’s objective has been to win round public opinion to an agreed solution http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1062–1586734,00.html

Brent(Canada)"