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Last week, we revealed that the Chair of Natural England, Tony Juniper, signed a petition to block the development of Hinkley Point C – the same nuclear power plant they are now attempting to halt the construction of. So what’s the truth about Natural England and Tony Juniper? Are they simply a taxpayer funded branch of the anti-nuclear body? Well, Juniper’s activism extends back decades – to his time as director of ‘Friends of the Earth’. In 2005, he wrote an article entitled “Say no to Labour’s nuclear nightmare”, arguing that “investment in a programme to construct new nuclear power plants is not justified” and it “would greatly increase the risk of nuclear proliferation”. At the next election, he was selected as the Green Party’s parliamentary candidate for Cambridge, standing on a platform to “phase out nuclear power and resolutely oppose any new nuclear power stations”. Though he failed to win a seat, Juniper continued to fight against nuclear energy. He argued that “renewables, not nuclear, is [the] way forward”, even going on to say that “nuclear simply does not work in the context of modern energy economics”. After a quarter of a century of “following”, he once told his followers, “we can do without nuclear”. In 2016, Juniper signed the Greenpeace petition to stop the development of Hinkley Point C and promoted articles opposing the development on his [then] Twitter account. Three years later, the Conservative Government appointed the former Green candidate and anti-nuclear Juniper as the Chair of Natural England. He has since been reappointed in 2022, again by the Tories, and in 2025 by the Labour Government. In that time, Natural England have repeatedly tried to delay development and increase costs, infamously insisting upon the £700 million fish disco that will save one salmon every decade. They’ve even blocked kite festivals, new housing, road expansions, and new train lines. Under Juniper’s leadership, Natural England has stopped at nothing to block developments that would improve the lives of millions. It seems they prefer bats, newts, salmon, and hairy spiders over British industries, which have been decimated by the highest energy prices in the developed world. It begs the questions: why are we making it so hard to build in Britain? Why does the British state promote degrowth?

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