User:Pete Roche

Peter Roche is a nuclear consultant for Greenpeace and an adviser to the Nuclear Free Local Authorities. Until April 2004 he was a nuclear campaigner for Greenpeace UK for thirteen years. He has an honours degree in Ecological Sciences from Edinburgh University. He was co-founder of the Scottish Campaign to Resist the Atomic Menace (SCRAM) in 1976, which organised some of the largest anti-nuclear power demonstrations in the UK at the Torness nuclear station outside Edinburgh in the 1970s and 80s. For 30 years, he has worked on environmental matters as campaigner, and on energy efficiency matters as consultant. He has represented Greenpeace at international and national fora, including OSPAR, IMO, and UN meetings, and the BNFL National Stakeholder Dialogue in the UK. He was also a member of the Government’s Committee Examining Radiation Risks of Internal Emitters (CERRIE). More recently he has been assisting in the Scottish Parliament with a Member’s Bill on Energy Efficiency and Microgeneration.