No Future for the Dinosaur Nuclear Power! - Not nuclear power secures energy supply, but extending the use of renewable energies
Press release 2006/1 -Tobias Pflüger (MEP)
In light of the intentions declared yesterday, by the EU energy commissar Andris Piebalgs, to wage, also in the future and even more strongly on the use of nuclear energy, the European deputy without party affiliation, elected on the list of the PDS, coordinator of the Left Fraction (GUE/NGL) in the subcommittee Security and Defence and member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Tobias Pflüger, declares:
The joker, now produced one more time, of supply security is not at all fit to allow waging on the extension of the running periods and the construction of new nuclear power plants. How large anyhow are the uranium reserves in the EU? The significant uranium deposits after all lie, among other countries, in Russia, Kazakhstan, Niger, and Namibia.
The gas dispute now put aside between Russia and the Ukraine comes just at the right moment for the European advocates of atomic energy to push ahead for the renaissance of atomic power. It is completely unreasonable that despite the unresolved end deposit question, dangerous atomic waste transports, and radioactive contamination of land and sea areas around atomic facilities, stakes continue to be put on atomic energy, the dinosaur among energy sources.
The most recent pushes in the direction of new nuclear facilities one more time show the incredibility of the EU positions in the struggle around the Iranian nuclear programme. New installation of atomic power stations is being suggested to the member states, while Iran, for instance, is asked to renounce to uranium enrichment.
Especially in the year of the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, the option for the European Union as well as for energy supply world-wide can only be: Instead of uranium and mineral energy sources, there must be encouraged the efficient and decentralised utilisation of regenerative energy sources. What is now called for, are binding EU guidelines for renewable energies and energy efficiency.
Berlin, January 5, 2006
Translated by Carla Krüger, January 5, 2006
In light of the intentions declared yesterday, by the EU energy commissar Andris Piebalgs, to wage, also in the future and even more strongly on the use of nuclear energy, the European deputy without party affiliation, elected on the list of the PDS, coordinator of the Left Fraction (GUE/NGL) in the subcommittee Security and Defence and member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Tobias Pflüger, declares:
The joker, now produced one more time, of supply security is not at all fit to allow waging on the extension of the running periods and the construction of new nuclear power plants. How large anyhow are the uranium reserves in the EU? The significant uranium deposits after all lie, among other countries, in Russia, Kazakhstan, Niger, and Namibia.
The gas dispute now put aside between Russia and the Ukraine comes just at the right moment for the European advocates of atomic energy to push ahead for the renaissance of atomic power. It is completely unreasonable that despite the unresolved end deposit question, dangerous atomic waste transports, and radioactive contamination of land and sea areas around atomic facilities, stakes continue to be put on atomic energy, the dinosaur among energy sources.
The most recent pushes in the direction of new nuclear facilities one more time show the incredibility of the EU positions in the struggle around the Iranian nuclear programme. New installation of atomic power stations is being suggested to the member states, while Iran, for instance, is asked to renounce to uranium enrichment.
Especially in the year of the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, the option for the European Union as well as for energy supply world-wide can only be: Instead of uranium and mineral energy sources, there must be encouraged the efficient and decentralised utilisation of regenerative energy sources. What is now called for, are binding EU guidelines for renewable energies and energy efficiency.
Berlin, January 5, 2006
Translated by Carla Krüger, January 5, 2006
Tobias Pflüger - 2006/01/09 14:36
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