Thursday 30 August 2012

Germany’s new “renewable” energy policy: building new coal-fired plants!!!

Since when coal-fired plants have been considered source of renewable/green energy??? Germany’s new “renewable” energy policy: http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/49120?goback=.gde_3734003_member_155071529   "In mid-August, Germany opened a new 2200MW coal-fired power station near Cologne, and virtually not a word has been said about it. This dearth of reporting is even more surprising when one considers that Germany has said building new coal plants is necessary because electricity produced by wind and solar has turned out to be unaffordablyexpensive and unreliable.
In a deteriorating economic situation, Germany’s new environment minister, Peter Altmaier, who is as politically close to Chancellor Angela Merkel as it gets, has underlined time and again the importance of not further harming Europe’s – and Germany’s – economy by increasing the cost of electricity.
He is also worried that his country could become dependent on foreign imports of electricity, the mainstay of its industrial sector. To avoid that risk, Altmaier has given the green light to build twenty-three new coal-fired plants, which are currently under construction."

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