Yet more empty rhetoric i fear.

I see from the front of today's Guardian the government is to start pricing in the carbon cost of government projects such as road building and airport expansion. Sounds promising but i note that the article suggests this may make nuclear power more attractive. Ridiculous notion; as if carbon is the only danger to the planet and humanity. What about pricing in the disposal and management of the waste. I always ask any supporter of nuclear power, would you want the waste dumped in your local area...

Putting the detail of the proposal to one side, at face value this sounds like yet another wheeze by the government to sound green whilst not really delivering. In recent months there has been a lot of this. Remember Gordon Brown's almost evangelical speech on saving the planet only to be followed 2 days later by announcement that the Heathrow expansion will go ahead. Oh... but now it might not because they are going to cost the carbon. My prediction...we will still end up spending time protesting at Heathrow in the not too distant future as the government announce that they have costed the carbon and balanced against the market forces its a price worth paying.