EU ENERGY POLICY, BIOMASS, EMISSIONS TRADING, GLOBAL WARMING, SECURITY OF SUPPLY
January 1st, 2006
BY DEIRDRE MASON
THE MEDIA rush to pick up on the revival of nuclear energy as a serious UK option, made plain in the Department of Trade and Industry's recent Energy Review consultation document, has diverted attention from which tail will, in practice, be wagging the UK energy dog over the coming months. Some of the drivers are undoubtedly global - the Kyoto and Montreal protocol obligations and the realities of limited oil and gas reserves.
Others clearly derive from European Union (EU) legal obligations, with which the UK must comply under the terms of its ...
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