Alexandr Nikitin, a Russian engineer, was charged in 1996 with high treason and divulging state secrets for co-authoring a report for the Norwegian - based Bellona Foundation that documented the environmental dangers posed by
the abandoned nuclear submarines of the Russian Northern Fleet in the Kola Peninsula.
In his speech, he called on the government to suspend the UK's legally binding obligation to cut emissions and
abandon its pursuit of renewable energy in favour of
submarine - style
nuclear power.