Renewables lobby tackles nuclear subsidies — but not its own
Lawrence Solomon: The Green Goliath takes on nuclear – Thirty years ago, ragtag environmentalists idealistically opposed nuclear power and the monopoly utilities that kept it in business, arguing that wind, solar, biomass and ethanol were more economic as well as cleaner. It was a David versus Goliath battle, and also a battle between free markets and government regulation, because in those days, before the unions hijacked much of the renewable energy movement, environmentalists wanted only a fair contest in which governments didn’t pick winners.
Today, environmentalists are still fighting the nuclear industry. But they’re no longer ragtag and their beloved renewable energy industry is no longer different from the nuclear industry. Now it’s Goliath vs. Goliath, and also a grotesque beauty contest, with each parading its figures in front of government judges, each hoping the government will pick them as winners. (Financial Post)
Is it not true, that France has used nuclear energy to such an extent, that consumers pay just
1/3 of what Australian consumers pay for their electricity? The French have used this technology since
the 1950′s, produce 80 percent of their total output from it and sell huge surpluses to other European countries, which wished to rely more on the very expensive and totally inefficient “renewable energy”. While the Fukushima “disaster” did not cost one person’s life from radiation, but was used extensively by the media as a very scary scenario, they showed hardly any interest in the Bao dam disaster in China, which killed 171,000 people. Obviously, that number does not mean anything to the zealous, lying and phobic environmentalists and their cronies in the media and Left Wing parties.
It’s not about the electricity, it’s not about warming, it’s not about the environment. It’s about imposing a zero growth agenda in the developed countries and using the surplus capacity to distribute in one big global food stamp type program to distribute wealth goods and services to those who did not earn it.
Edward, don’t be so “they are evil”. It’s much more basic than that.
It’s about the money.