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Energy Choices Conference 2004 |
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fourth joint NIA/BNES one day conference |
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Keynote Speaker
Mike O'Brien MP
Minister for
Energy
Department of
Trade and Industry
Sir Anthony Cleaver
Chairman
Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
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Thursday 2 December
2004
Church House Conference Centre, London SW1
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“A
superb event at a great venue”
Delegate, Energy Choices 2003 |
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As early as next
year,
Britain
will become a net importer of gas as
North Sea
reserves decline. In less than two decades, the combined
contribution to Britain’s electricity supply from coal and nuclear
power stations – currently around 50% - is likely to dwindle into
insignificance as existing stations close, with the result that
Britain’s electricity generating system will be dominated by gas,
together with a small, but growing, contribution from renewables.
The transition from being self-sufficient in energy to becoming
dependent on imported supplies of a single energy source raises
important questions about the future cost of energy, the
environmental impact of the energy sector, and crucially, about the
diversity and security of the country’s energy supplies.
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| Could the lights
indeed go out unless measures are taken urgently to address the
risks? |
| We are privileged this
year to welcome as our keynote speakers Mike O'Brien MP, the
Minister for Energy who steered the Energy Bill through its
Parliamentary passage and is responsible for the implementation of
the 2003 Energy White Paper, and Sir Anthony Cleaver, who is the
first Chairman of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. Their views
on how the Government and the NDA aim to rise to the challenges
ahead will provide delegates with valuable insights into the high
level strategies that shape energy policy, and
the future of nuclear energy and the nuclear industry in this
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| This year’s Energy
Choices conference and exhibition is ideally timed to examine
the implications of this significant shift in
Britain
’s energy position, and for its distinguished speakers to make a
telling contribution to the swelling debate around future energy
policy and the role of nuclear energy.
High profile interventions by the prominent environmentalist,
Professor James Lovelock, and by the Prime Minister, who said about
nuclear energy to the House of Commons Liaison Committee that “you
cannot remove it from the agenda if you are serious about the issue
of climate change”, have given the debate added impetus and
highlighted the importance of this year’s event.
That debate was fuelled this year by the interest and concern
generated by BBC 2’s “If … the lights go out” in March. We are especially fortunate
that Dai Richards, the programme’s producer, will be speaking at
conference to give a fascinating first-hand account of how the
drama-documentary was made. |
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Energy Choices 2004 promises to be an
unmissable occasion in the energy calendar.
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