Energy Fair in the

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is a group of six people leading a campaign that claims that the

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industry receives unfair subsidies, consisting of: * Dörte Fouquet, senior partner of the law firm Becker Büttner Held (BBH) and Director of the

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. *

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, energy policy consultant, senior research fellow at

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. * David Lowry, research policy consultant, specialising in nuclear issues. *Pete Roche, energy consultant, policy adviser to the Scottish Nuclear Free Local Authorities, and the National Steering Committee of United Kingdom Nuclear Free Local Authorities. * Stephen Thomas, energy policy researcher, University of Greenwich Business School. *Gerry Wolff, coordinator, Desertec-UK and the Kyoto2 Support Group. In February 2011 and January 2012, the group, supported by other organisations and environmentalists, lodged formal complaints with the European Union's Directorate General for Competition, alleging that the Government was providing unlawful State aid in the form of subsidies for nuclear power industry, in breach of

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.Legal bid to halt nuclear construction
Energy Fair, published 2011-11-07, accessed 2012-01-20 One of the largest subsidies is the cap on liabilities for

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s which the nuclear power industry has negotiated with governments. “Like car drivers, the operators of nuclear plants should be properly insured,” said Gerry Wolff, coordinator of the Energy Fair group. The group calculates that, "if nuclear operators were fully insured against the cost of nuclear disasters like those at

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and

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, the price of nuclear electricity would rise by at least

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0.14 per kWh and perhaps as much as €2.36, depending on assumptions made".

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