Tony Blair and Nuclear Energy

This quote was highlighted by Andrew Warren (director, Association for the Conservation of Energy) in a letter to the Times yesterday ...

"What is unbelievably depressing about the Government's response is that they see in the evidence about greenhouse gases, not an opportunity to promote environmental concern, but a chance to make the case for nuclear power ... before power stations of whatever type are built, it should be first ascertained whether it will not be more cost effective -- quite apart from environmental considerations -- to put money into energy conservation and less into new build."

The speaker in question? Tony Blair, Labour's Shadow Energy Secretary, during electricity privatisation in 1989, in the House of Commons.