The Guardian: Taxpayers’ £184m aid to private energy firm
A letter marked “restricted: commercial and market sensitive”, obtained by the Guardian, shows the government paid £184,812,087 to British Energy on March 1 for “spent fuel liabilities”. These liabilities are long standing reprocessing contracts with the state-owned British Nuclear Fuels, at Sellafield in Cumbria.
Posted on July 18th, 2005 at 9:47 am
AFAIK, the fact that it acts as a conduit for these payments is the main reason the government hasn’t yet shut down the Dept. of Trade and Industry.
Chris