Late last year, Belgium announced they would close all of their nuclear power plants by 2025. However, the recent spike in gas prices has put those plans on hold. Best of all, the nuclear plants will probably be allowed to operate beyond 2025. PHOTO CREDIT: Pixabay
Tony Heller outlines how the Green New Deal is at the root of Europe and America’s current problems.
France closed down a lot of their nuclear power plants, switched to using natural gas and coal, But when coal and gas prices went too high, they started re-opening nuclear plants along with build new ones. Atomic energy is an abundant source of power and has much less carbon emissions than fossil fuels. Not surprising… Read More Analysis: Green Energy Push, Not Russian Invasion, Spiking Oil Prices, Endangers Security
Whoops! Nuclear plants help reduce carbon emissions and states that close nuclear facilities see emissions go higher. According to E&E News, shortly after several New England states shut down nuclear power plants saw large increases in emissions. E&E reports, shortly after New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania shut nuclear energy facilities in their states during 2019,… Read More Scientists: New England States That Closed Nuclear Plants Have Higher Emissions
Consequently, Germany’s electricity bills, which are very expensive, will go even higher or the country will have to rely even more on coal and natural gas. Environmentalists know about high electric bills but, as the below report demonstrates, don’t care. France, on the other hand, is rebuilding their nuclear plants despite initially having shut them… Read More Germany Closes 3 Of Its 6 Nuclear Plants
In response to Governor Gavin Newsom’s order issued in April outlawing fracking in 2024, the state is drawing down its allowing the drilling method. According to the Associated Press, in a letter to Aera Energy, the Golden State’s oil and gas regulator, Uduak-Joe Ntuk, said in a letter to the company he could not approve… Read More Citing “Urgent Climate Effects,” California Essentially Bans Fracking
Last year, Wyoming’s legislature passed a law allowing for coal or natural gas generation to be replaced with nuclear energy. Bill Gates’ TerraPower and Warren Buffett’s PacificCorp announced they will jointly construct a nuclear power plant at the site of an old coal plant in rural Wyoming. Image by Markus Distelrath from Pixabay
John Stossel has a column published at Reason‘s website pointing out that if environmentalists really believed climate change is an existential threat, they should support nuclear power — the only technology that has a track record of rapidly replacing fossil fuels.
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