05/30/2005
Nuclear lobbying heats up while renewables leap-frog atomic power capacity
BERLIN, Halo Energy, 30 May 2005 - According to the International Energy Agency 20 per cent of the energy used world-wide originates from renewable energies; 77 per cent is produced by oil, gas and coal and only 3.3 per cent originate from 440 nuclear reactors.
Milan Nitzschke, MD of the German Association for Renewable Energy (BEE) remarks: "The renewables industry continues to grow and in Germany this trend will carry on regardless from anticipated Government changes. Since oil-, gas- and as well uranium reserves are becoming scarce, this widening gap can be closed with boundless renewable resources."
However, renewable technology consultants Halo Energy point out that across Europe pro nuclear campaign sound bites appear to be a fast track ticket to high powered Government jobs. This includes Tony Blair's pro nuclear UK Government and the so called 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, which let to a nuclear industry come back in this former Soviet state.
Not surprisingly, the German Government opposition leader, CDU politician Angelika Merkel, who had been educated as a nuclear scientist in communist East Germany, proposed an eight year extension for currently operating nuclear power plants in Germany. In East Germany, nuclear science and the fossil fuel based economy was totally state controlled and centralised, leaving no space whatsoever for smarter energy solutions.
The CDU's (Christian Democrats) backward looking pro nuclear move turns also a blind eye on nuclear safety debates, which flared up again this month following a nuclear accident in the Sellafield reprocessing plant, which was according to the Irish Environment Ministry one of the worst European atomic accidents since the Ukrainian Chernobyl disaster (source: The Independent).
Halo Energy consultant Ralph Kappler comments: "Despite being hailed by Anglo-Saxon business media as a Thatcher like figure head, the German opposition leader and its party still lack the backbone that the Thatcher Government had more then twenty years ago during their show down with backward looking coal mining lobbyists."
Milan Nitzschke, MD of the German Association for Renewable Energy (BEE) remarks: "The renewables industry continues to grow and in Germany this trend will carry on regardless from anticipated Government changes. Since oil-, gas- and as well uranium reserves are becoming scarce, this widening gap can be closed with boundless renewable resources."
However, renewable technology consultants Halo Energy point out that across Europe pro nuclear campaign sound bites appear to be a fast track ticket to high powered Government jobs. This includes Tony Blair's pro nuclear UK Government and the so called 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, which let to a nuclear industry come back in this former Soviet state.
Not surprisingly, the German Government opposition leader, CDU politician Angelika Merkel, who had been educated as a nuclear scientist in communist East Germany, proposed an eight year extension for currently operating nuclear power plants in Germany. In East Germany, nuclear science and the fossil fuel based economy was totally state controlled and centralised, leaving no space whatsoever for smarter energy solutions.
The CDU's (Christian Democrats) backward looking pro nuclear move turns also a blind eye on nuclear safety debates, which flared up again this month following a nuclear accident in the Sellafield reprocessing plant, which was according to the Irish Environment Ministry one of the worst European atomic accidents since the Ukrainian Chernobyl disaster (source: The Independent).
Halo Energy consultant Ralph Kappler comments: "Despite being hailed by Anglo-Saxon business media as a Thatcher like figure head, the German opposition leader and its party still lack the backbone that the Thatcher Government had more then twenty years ago during their show down with backward looking coal mining lobbyists."
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- Halo Energy
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