You buy fair trade coffee, but where does your energy come from?

Consumers are increasingly conscientious in their shopping habits, but pay little heed to the provenance of their power. Take the source of that coffee in that cup in front of you. Where’s it from? Is it ‘fair’? Who supplied it? How much does it cost? Is it ‘green’ or ‘organic’? In contrast, energy, electricity and power aren’t regarded with such evident consideration and curiosity, although paying an expensive utility bill certainly provokes its fair share of worry and concern.

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Can the world meet its climate change targets without nuclear?

Nuclear power is, for some, the black sheep of the low-carbon energy family. On the one hand you’ve got the ‘greens’: wind, solar and hydro. All of them are exceedingly clean, or at least, they seem so. As clean as a cool breeze, as a sunny day, as a rushing river. Then you’ve got nuclear. That cold-war harkening cousin of the low-carbon family.

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Berkeley Energia, Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Next all shortlisted for Investor Relations Team of the Year Award at UK Stock Market Awards

Berkeley Energia is thrilled to announce that it has been nominated for the UK Stock Market Awards ‘Investor Relations Team of the Year Award.’ Other companies that have been nominated include Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Next, all vast UK consumer brands.

Paul Atherley, Managing Director, commented: “It is a real honour to be nominated for this prestigious award, and we are among great company in our category! Communication with shareholders is extremely important to the Company and we look forward to keeping all stakeholders updated on developments as the Salamanca mine moves forward with construction.”

The nominees were selected by readers of Shares magazine, a retail investor publication with a circulation of approximately 60,000 readers. These awards are unique as the companies are chosen entirely by the private shareholder community, not via self-submission.

The UK Stock Market Awards highlighted that “readers were asked to select companies that they felt had most effectively disseminated information to existing and potential shareholders across the full range of media. Nominees have been chosen because they have outshone their peers whilst ensuring true shareholder value has been, and will continue to be, created.”

All nominations will now be put forward to an independent judging panel of experts from across the financial community, including corporate finance, law, financial services, accounting, public relations and media, and the winner will be announced at the end of February.