By Liz S

“The Pennsylvania Department of Health will be distributing free potassium iodide (KI) tablets to those York County residents that live, learn or work within 10 miles of the Peach Bottom power plant“

“Has the UK Government, responsible for nuclear power regulation in Scotland ever shown such concern for Scots living near nuclear facilities in Scotland ?”

Nope.

Indeed as far as UK governments are concerned, both the Tories & also the Labour party , all they seek to do is to impose more Nuclear power Stations within Scotland.

Potential various dire consequences and fallout (pun intended) be damned.

However it seems that they, UK governments via Tories & Labour, also have scant regard for the consequences and impact re Climate change as well.

The new Tory leader Badenoch was reported in a 2025 BBC article on having “pledged to scrap the UK’s landmark climate change legislation and replace it with a strategy for “cheap and reliable” energy“

Also in July 2026 The Telegraph “confirmed she, Badenoch, will block prospective (Tory) parliamentary candidates and reject former (Tory) MPs who support the 2050 net-zero emissions target“.

Then there is the new Labour leader and UK PM , as in the supposed ‘big “change” from Starmer’ one Andy Burnham, who seems to be going very cold on climate change facts and reality , that is, he is seems to be ignoring the fact that the Earth is heating up.

So far, since taking over as the new UK PM, it has been reported that:

“Andy Burnham will tell firms bidding for public contracts to prove they are creating jobs rather than meeting green and social targets in a bid to get more people into work”. (Source BBC website UK Business section August 2026)

“Burnham’s “emergency” Cobra meeting on the drought didn’t even mention climate, with the Prime Minister blaming the growing numbers of wildfires on disposable barbecues“. (Adam Bienkov wrote on Bluesky in August 2026)

So seems to be that “disposable barbecues” are Labour’s chosen scapegoats for wildfires , but surely not for the drought that exists in both England and Wales nor indeed for the deaths reported due to these heatwaves (Met Office July 2026 – “An estimated 2,877 people died from heat-related causes during the severe May and June heatwaves in England and Wales”).

“Andy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets” (Adam Bienkov posted this on Bluesky in August 2026 based on an article by The Guardian newspaper).

So currently there are wildfires , heatwaves, drought, deaths due to the unprecedented high temperatures within certain places in his UK State.

However Burnham tries to not mention climate change( while he also seems to be conveniently forgetting Labour’s GB Energy Ltd, as in Labour’s so called 2024 Green revolution manifesto policy).

So as to the new oil field (Rosebank) and the new Gas field (Jackdaw) why is there no announcement from Burnham yet on what his final decision is upon them.

Well it’s obvious is it not.

Now is not the time to announce it , especially when we have so much catastrophic consequences happening within certain places in his UK State all because of this EXCESSIVE HEAT via Climate change.

So I suspect that the new Labour UK government, under Burnham as the new UK PM, are only waiting until what they (and he) thinks is a much better time to give the ‘green’ light to these two fields going ahead.

I only suspect this as being the case because so far , Burnham has abandoned the pretence in respect to one of Labour’s 2024 flagship policies, GB Energy, and he is also adopting some very non climate friendly decisions / policies .

Climate change catastrophes within the UK State ?

Burnham seems ‘Mad for it’ ( to quote a Manchester saying).

Liz S