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| Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood message to candidates over nuclear energy | |
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| By Carl Roberts Presenter, Sunday Politics Wales | By Carl Roberts Presenter, Sunday Politics Wales |
| The leader of Plaid Cymru expects candidates in next year's council election on Anglesey to make clear the party's opposition to nuclear energy. | |
| The island's nuclear station Wylfa is due to end production by 2014. | |
| Leanne Wood said Plaid will work to create jobs on the island but preferred renewable technologies over nuclear. | Leanne Wood said Plaid will work to create jobs on the island but preferred renewable technologies over nuclear. |
| It's a different position than that taken by ex-party leader and local AM Ieuan Wyn Jones, who supports a new nuclear station Wylfa B. | |
| Welsh Secretary David Jones also says a future for Wylfa is "critical" to the economy. | Welsh Secretary David Jones also says a future for Wylfa is "critical" to the economy. |
| Hundreds of jobs would be created at a new station as part of the Horizon energy project, which is the subject of French and Chinese investment interest. | Hundreds of jobs would be created at a new station as part of the Horizon energy project, which is the subject of French and Chinese investment interest. |
| The existing reactor, which started producing electricity in 1971, will close by 2014. | The existing reactor, which started producing electricity in 1971, will close by 2014. |
| Plaid Cymru opposes the building of a new nuclear power station in Wales, although Ynys Mon AM Ieuan Wyn Jones supports efforts to secure a new power station on the island. | Plaid Cymru opposes the building of a new nuclear power station in Wales, although Ynys Mon AM Ieuan Wyn Jones supports efforts to secure a new power station on the island. |
| Voters on Anglesey go to the polls next May after council elections were postponed for a year after the Welsh government appointed commissioners to run it. | Voters on Anglesey go to the polls next May after council elections were postponed for a year after the Welsh government appointed commissioners to run it. |
| Plaid Cymru candidates have been given instructions from their party leader. | Plaid Cymru candidates have been given instructions from their party leader. |
| "I'll be telling those candidates in that election to make sure that they communicate Plaid Cymru's clear message with their voters, which is about doing everything we can at local government level, working with the assembly and also at Westminster level to create as many possible jobs as possible on that island," said Ms Wood told the Sunday Politics Wales programme. | "I'll be telling those candidates in that election to make sure that they communicate Plaid Cymru's clear message with their voters, which is about doing everything we can at local government level, working with the assembly and also at Westminster level to create as many possible jobs as possible on that island," said Ms Wood told the Sunday Politics Wales programme. |
| 'Hope and opportunity' | 'Hope and opportunity' |
| However, if a new station is built at Wylfa Ms Wood said Plaid councillors on the island would lobby to ensure "the jobs created there go to local people and that the local people there have the skills to be able to do those jobs". | However, if a new station is built at Wylfa Ms Wood said Plaid councillors on the island would lobby to ensure "the jobs created there go to local people and that the local people there have the skills to be able to do those jobs". |
| Earlier this month, Ms Wood delivered her first leader's speech at conference and promised a "green new deal" to stimulate the Welsh economy. | Earlier this month, Ms Wood delivered her first leader's speech at conference and promised a "green new deal" to stimulate the Welsh economy. |
| Ms Wood told supporters in Brecon the party would "aim to provide skills, work, hope and opportunity" for young people. | Ms Wood told supporters in Brecon the party would "aim to provide skills, work, hope and opportunity" for young people. |
| She also said a Plaid government would establish new national bodies to invest in green energy and boost innovation and enterprise. | She also said a Plaid government would establish new national bodies to invest in green energy and boost innovation and enterprise. |
| On the Sunday Politics programme, Ms Wood responded to the news she was captured on video swearing an oath to Welsh republicanism at an event in a Cardiff wine bar on the day the Queen attended the Senedd to officially open the Assembly in June 2011. | On the Sunday Politics programme, Ms Wood responded to the news she was captured on video swearing an oath to Welsh republicanism at an event in a Cardiff wine bar on the day the Queen attended the Senedd to officially open the Assembly in June 2011. |
| The South Wales Central AM boycotted the visit and later that evening attended an event organised by a nationalist group called Balchder Cymru (Pride of Wales). | The South Wales Central AM boycotted the visit and later that evening attended an event organised by a nationalist group called Balchder Cymru (Pride of Wales). |
| "That was a piece of political theatre designed to highlight some antiquated legislation around the law of treason. I think I've learned my lesson and I won't be performing in political theatre again," she said. | "That was a piece of political theatre designed to highlight some antiquated legislation around the law of treason. I think I've learned my lesson and I won't be performing in political theatre again," she said. |
| The Sunday Politics is on BBC1 Wales at 11:00 BST on Sunday. | The Sunday Politics is on BBC1 Wales at 11:00 BST on Sunday. |