Nuclear stop: Stop cheeky French nuclear lobby | Nuclear stop association

2023-05-18 11:42:24

France, contrary to the laws of physics, wants to reinterpret nuclear power as renewable energy and is delaying the expansion of renewables across the EU

Linz – On March 30, 2023, the negotiators of the EU Commission, the Council and the European Parliament reached a preliminary agreement on changing the Renewable Energy Directive. This compromise, called “RED III”, envisaged a share of renewables in total energy consumption of 42.5% by 2030. France, which completely overslept the expansion of wind and photovoltaic power, tried with all its might to be allowed to include its nuclear power in the renewable energy sources. Although nuclear energy is neither renewable nor CO2-neutral, Paris was even able to enforce this requirement to some extent.

“The French nuclear lobby is getting cheekier: Although France will be able to count part of its nuclear power into the renewables in future anyway, the backward-looking nuclear nation number 1 threatened yesterday to refuse to approve the reform of the renewable energy directive. Since France forged the so-called nuclear alliance with the states of the former east as well as Finland, the Netherlands, Croatia and Slovenia at the end of March, there was a great danger that the reform of the guidelines would have failed. To prevent this, the Swedish Presidency took the vote off the agenda. Here it is taking revenge for the first time that Germany’s transport minister prevented the end of combustion engines with the active support of Chancellor Nehammer in Brussels, because France was now using the same method,” explain Managing Director Herbert Stoiber and Chairman Roland Egger of atomstopp_atomkraftfrei leben!

“The majority of EU states do not operate any nuclear power plants, only 12 of the 27 member states have radiant reactors. So it is urgently time to give the ‘Friends of Renewables in the EU’ set up by Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler the weight they deserve. The entire federal government is called upon here, especially with our large neighboring states of Germany and Italy, neither of which are nuclear power producers, to exhaust all political and diplomatic options so that the ill-fated French nuclear alliance is put under control,” Stoiber and Egger conclude.