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The
Scottish Nationalists could only conceivably form a pro-independence
coalition at Holyrood with the Greens and the Trotskyites.
Closing down the nuclear industry is a non-negotiable
condition for SNP entering a coalition agreement with the Greens.
Allan Wilson, the
defending Labour candidate in Cunninghame North, has issued a stark warning
to
workers at Hunterston power station: "Vote Scottish Nationalist if you want
to destroy your industry
and jobs".
Mr Wilson said that the SNP's "irrational and irresponsible" hostility to
nuclear power had now been
made even more dangerous for his constituents as a result of the Green
Party's insistence that closing
down the nuclear industry is its only non-negotiable condition for entering
a coalition agreement.”
He said: "The Scottish Nationalists could only conceivably form a
pro-independence coalition at
Holyrood with the Greens and the Trotskyites. It is absolutely clear that
the first victim of any such
rag-bag agreement would be the civil nuclear power industry in Scotland."
Mr Wilson said: "At a time when many responsible environmentalists are
facing up to the fact that
nuclear power is an essential component in any strategy for combating
climate change, the SNP would
wilfully destroy an industry which not only makes that contribution at
present but also provides the
livelihoods of hundreds of families in Cunninghame North.”
"Their reasons for doing so are entirely political and have nothing to do
with either energy policy or
a response to the climate change agenda. It is completely fraudulent for
them to suggest that the
carbon-free contribution of nuclear could be replaced within any realistic
timetable by other sources
of low-carbon generation.”
"I am a supporter of renewable energy and have done my best to advance that
cause as a Minister.
However, it is completely false to say that renewables are in conflict with
nuclear power. From the
point of view of delivering a low-carbon energy mix and combating global
warming, they are two sides of
the same coin."
Mr Wilson said that both Nationalist and Green politicians should be asked
why they are right and far
more eminent environmentalists - like James Lovelock of Gaia fame and
Patrick Moore, the founder of
Greenpeace - are wrong, since both have come out as strong supporters of
nuclear power because of the
climate change issue.
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