WRITTEN BY NEWS WIRE ON APR 25, 2023. POSTED IN LATEST NEWS
Germany Kills Its Last Nuclear Plant, Causing Electricity Bills To Soar 45%
germany nuclear plantThis past week saw the unimaginable: a leading modern industrialized economy has shut down its entire nuclear power generation grid.
Why has Germany pulled the plug on its own energy independence? Who is driving this agenda, and what does it mean for Germany’s national energy security and sovereignty? [emphasis, links added]
The closure of the facility at Emsland, and the Neckarwestheim II and Isar II facilities last week was celebrated by the Greens, and heralded as a victory for anti-nuclear campaigners at rallies hosted in Berlin and Munich.
On the surface, this may seem like it was spurred on by the 2011 meltdown at Fukushima in Japan, with pressure placed on successive governments to end the use of nuclear power that Green campaigners and politicians argue is ‘unsafe and unsustainable.’
https://climatechangedispatch.com/germany-kills-its-last-nuclear-plant-causing-electricity-bills-to-soar-45/
