Scottish Labour on the nuclear take?

Rob Edwards, writing in The Ferret, his investigative online news platform, has revealed that the push by the Scottish Labour Party to reverse a ban in Scotland on new nuclear plants, is funded by a PR company heavily invested in the pro-nuclear agenda. 

“Scottish Labour accepted a donation from a lobbying firm linked to a controversial “grassroots” campaign pushing to overturn Scotland’s ban on nuclear power,” Edwards wrote.

“The £7,200 contribution came from Stonehaven, a London-based public relations (PR) company which counts the French state-owned energy giant EDF as a paying client. EDF owns Scotland’s last nuclear plant at Torness and could be one of the biggest beneficiaries if the ban on new nuclear plants is overturned.”

Stonehaven also has close ties with Britain Remade, a campaign that includes the promotion of “cheaper” nuclear power and to lift the new nuclear ban in Scotland. But as The Ferret describes it, while Britain Remade “claims it is a ‘grassroots’, ‘pro-growth’ campaign group” … “former co-leader of the Scottish Greens, Patrick Harvie, claimed Britain Remade was a ‘collection of the usual corporate suspects pretending to be a grassroots campaign’. He branded the group ‘radioactive astroturf’”. (Photo of Torness nuclear power station by Taras Young/Wikimedia Commons).

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