Friday, February 6, 2009

Which Green Scare Will I Swallow This Decade

Remember when nuclear power was the big bogey man in Green Religion? That was before we knew about how EVIL carbon the building block of life really is. Now a new generation is fighting the new "devil" with an old one.

From Andrew Bolt:

Lesson learned, but swiftly forgotten

One green scare starts, another quietly dies:

NUCLEAR reactors are to be built in Sweden for the first time in nearly 30 years after the Government decided to abandon a decades-old commitment to phase out the power source.

Sweden joins a list of EU countries that have chosen nuclear energy under pressure to diversify from fossil fuels and meet tough climate-change targets for cutting CO2 emissions.

The dramatic policy switch showed that even in a country where popular opinion has been against nuclear power previously - and one with extensive hydroelectric resources - atomic generation is seen as part of an emissions-free energy strategy.



Article

No comments:

Post a Comment