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Minister’s stance against buying nuclear electricity is welcome
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Thursday July 13, 2006 17:35 by Friends of the Earth info at foe dot ie 9 Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2. 01-6394652
Energy Green Paper must promote renewables and cut waste Friends of the Earth today welcomed Minister for the Environment, Dick Roche's statement that Ireland should not buy electricity from UK nuclear power stations in future. His statement came in the wake of the publication of the British government's energy review on Tuesday which gave the go ahead for a new generation of nuclear power stations. Asked on RTE's Morning Ireland whether Ireland's anti-nuclear stance was hypocritical if in future we were just going to buy electricity from British nuclear power plants Minister Roche replied: |
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Jump To Comment: 1This is absolute bullshit. Ireland's economy is growing so fast that the demand for electricity will double by 2020. There is not the remotest possibility that Ireland can meet this demand from domestically-generated electricity. We will have to import it from both the U.K. and continental Europe or the lights will go out. Its as simple as that. In fact, we're allready importing electricity from these locations. There is no we can impose conditions on what type of plant the countries that sell electricity to Ireland use to generate that electricity. There isn't even any way of knowing which plants the electricity they sell to us comes from. All electricity produced in the U.K. goes into the same National Grid regardless of whether it comes from coal-powered, oil-powered, gas-powered or nuclear-powered plants. Once its in there, there is no way electricity consumers can distinguish between the different sources. If you doubt this, next time you visit London ask the manager of your hotel for a guarantee that the electricity in your room comes from non-nuclear power stations. I bet he'll still be rolling on the floor laughing by the the time you leave.