When they (fitfully) admit climate change might be happening, they try to shift the blame on to air travel and power stations. “What about other polluters?” their spokesman recently asked, “we need to take a bit of pressure off the motorist”. Telling quote “Green energy? It’s green tokenism ­ a great invention for unscrupulous politicians who can say: ‘look what we’re doing about climate change’.” (Bernard Ingham, director, Supporters of Nuclear Energy) SOCIETY OF MOTOR MANUFACTURERS www.smmt.co.uk Where are they based? London (outside the congestion charge zone) What do they believe?.. an Englishman’s SUV is his castle. He personally claims credit for thwarting 80 per cent of planning applications for windfarms in Britain. Country Guardian were, however, in trouble after their claims debunking wind power, reprinted by a local campaign organisation, were ruled to be misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority. The organisation’s business address is the Westminster headquarters of the British Nuclear Energy Society, a body set up to promote nuclear power and linked to nuclear companies including BNFL and British Energy. Notorious for…Though he denies there is a link with Supporters of Nuclear Energy, Ingham is also the brains behind the anti-windfarm pressure group Country Guardian.

Hence the need for Supporters of Nuclear Energy, which is led by Baroness Thatcher’s terrier-like press spokesman, former consultant for British Nuclear Fuels and self-confessed enemy of environmentalists, Bernard Ingham. Notorious for…CEFIC President Eggbert Voscherau claimed the new chemicals policy would “de-industrialise Europe”. CEFIC even managed to enlist trade union support, despite the fact that 3,000 cases of chemical-related occupational asthma are reported in the UK every year. There are environmentalists who share this belief, since nuclear power is a carbon-free method of producing electricity. The bulk of the green movement, however, remains hostile to the nuclear industry, largely because of worries about radioactive waste.

that Britain should build a new generation of nuclear power stations. SUPPORTERS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY www.sone .uk Where are they based? London What do they believe?… that the proposed EU chemicals policy on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) would dissolve 2.35 million jobs and result in the whole industry moving to China. The new directive would have reversed the burden of proof ­ forcing companies to prove that chemicals are safe rather than forcing the EU to prove that they are dangerous.

However, even though REACH was described as a “text-book example of innovation-friendly regulation”, intensive lobbying killed the initiative. Scientific Alliance’s distrust of environmentalists fits well with the BAA’s long campaign to abolish the aggregates levy ­ an environmental tax ­ levied on quarries. Notorious for…At a recent Scientific Alliance conference, a speaker attributed rises in sea-level around Japan not to climate change but to the machinations of the Japanese pineapple industry, which, it was claimed, is causing land to subside by drilling for too much fresh water. THE EUROPEAN CHEMICALS TRADE ASSOCIATION (CEFIC) www.cefic.be Where are they based?Brussels What do they believe?… A leading member is Philip Stott, Britain’s foremost academic scourge of “eco-fundamentalists”.