Germany’s dependence on Russian fuel criticised by Dolan
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The European Commission’s plan to include nuclear energy in the Green taxonomy prompted sharp criticism from Germany, with its environment minister calling the plan “absolutely wrong”. The Commission argues that natural gas and nuclear power is a key component in helping lower-income countries transition to cleaner power like solar and offshore wind energy.
It comes as Mr Macron took over the presidency of the bloc.
According to Bojan Pancevski, a German author and correspondent, Olaf Scholz has found himself alone in the EU as the bloc sided with French President Emmanuel Macron’s proposals to include nuclear energy into the taxonomy.
During the debate on nuclear energy, France led a group of 12 countries that supported the inclusion of nuclear energy as a part of a green taxonomy.
On Twitter, he said: “Germany finds itself unusually isolated in the EU after the bloc aligned with scientific consensus and wants to declare nuclear helpful to combating climate change – just as Germany shutters its last nuclear powerplants & energy prices explode.
“The German government must now go against EU consensus, also because it includes the Greens, a party rooted in the anti-nuclear movement.
“Green fundamentals have been rattled recently with the nuclear renaissance and the advent of gentech COVID-19 vaccines.
Mr Panceveski went on to criticise Germany for “going against scientific consensus” and failing to meet its emissions targets after abandoning nuclear energy.
Germany has been accused of making itself too reliant on imported Russian natural gas, at a time when Moscow is threatening to invade Ukraine.
He further criticised them for working with Russia to build the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, will double direct Russian gas imports,
Mr Panceveski said: “Anti-nuclear sentiment is a long part of the national discourse in Germany and Austria, where climate change is often reported with a degree of mysticism while fraudulent anti-science like homoeopathy is covered by medical insurances.”
Austria has even gone as far as threatening to take the Commission to the EU Court of Justice if they went ahead with the decision.
He continued: “For these reasons, Germany tried to convince the EU to follow its anti-nuclear “energy transformation” (as they call it here), but after that policy tanked, the EU, under French leadership, is now going in the opposite direction.
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“In Germany, many say that the EU nuclear shift is driven by French desire to boost its nuclear industry.
“Yet France can meet its climate targets, and Germany is not even close.”
France relies heavily on nuclear energy, as it generates 70 percent of its electricity. However, it aims to reduce this by half over the next 15 years.
“Meanwhile, even veteran green ideologues such as James Lovelock have long lobbied for nuclear, as well as pioneer climate scientists like James Hansen etc.
“Despite all of the above: Germany actually imports nuclear energy from France and Czechia, but not many people here seem particularly bothered by that practice which is largely absent from the public debate.”
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