We strongly agree with Dr David Lowry’s well-reasoned criticism of the information commissioner who has refused public interest access to information on key EDF and DECC nuclear waste contracts (Report, 31 May). There is no justifiable reason for the information commissioner, EDF or the DECC to keep secret these key facts from the people of the UK and north Somerset in particular. In doing so, the commissioner has put EDF’s narrow commercial interests before the interest of the health and safety of the community. There is a key public interest in all of us knowing exactly the economic case for how or if radioactive waste from the proposed reactors at Hinkley Point C may be dealt with.
Dr Paul Dorfman
Founder, Nuclear Consulting Group, The Energy Institute, UCL
JRCT Nuclear policy research fellow
Dr Carl Iwan Clowes
Prof David Elliott
Emeritus professor of technology policy, The Open University
Dr Phil Johnstone
Research fellow, Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Jeremy Leggett
Founder and chairman of Solarcentury and SolarAid, Author of The Carbon War and Half Gone
Jonathon Porritt
Founder, director and trustee, Forum for the Future, Co-director of the Prince of Wales’s business & sustainability programme
Pete Roche
Editor, No2NuclearPower, Policy adviser to the Nuclear Free Local Authorities
Prof Andy Stirling
Director of Science for SPRU, Co-director Centre on Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways to Sustainability, University of Sussex
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