Posted on 03/17/2007 6:44:02 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
RENNES, France - Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of five French cities Saturday to protest plans to build the next generation of nuclear reactors.
The simultaneous protests organized by Get Out Of Nuclear, a collective made up of hundreds of associations, was intended to raise the prominence of the issue in the run-up to April-May presidential elections. Smaller-party candidates resolutely opposed to the construction of new facilities called European pressurized-water reactors joined the protesters.
The nation must "get out of the nuclear business" and "invest in renewable energies like solar energy or wind power," said Olivier Besancenot of the Radical Communist League, marching with protesters in the western city of Rennes. Organizers claimed the number of protesters in Rennes was 30,000 to 40,000. Police estimated the crowd at 10,000.
There were also protests, with estimated crowds ranging from 4,000 to 9,000 people, in Lyon, Toulouse, Lille and Strasbourg.
The most nuclear energy-dependent country in the world, France has dozens of reactors churning out most of its electricity.
The first EPR is to be built in Flamanville, in northern France, and would be operational by 2012 — when the new president's five-year mandate ends.
Electricite de France, the state electrical company, has said the reactor would pave the way for other plants to adopt the more efficient pressurized-water technology by 2020.
Socialist candidate Segolene Royal, whom polls place second behind the conservative Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, has said she would "open the debate" on EPR construction should she win, but made no "yes" or "no" commitment. Sarkozy has not directly addressed the issue.
Environmental activists and demonstrators march in Rennes, western France, Saturday, March 17, 2007. Thousands of people filled the streets of five French cities Saturday to protest plans to build the next generation of nuclear reactors — fuel-efficient but seen by anti-nuclear activists as a relaunching of France's nuclear energy program. Banner reads 'Yes to alternative solution against Nuclear'. (AP Photo/David Vincent)
Freeze in the dark then froggies....
So they don't want coal or gas energy, they don't want nuclear energy, and they don't want to pay for solar and wind (which in France is not as feasible to carry out as in someplace like Texas anyway). Basically, they want to go back to the dark ages. I say let them go.
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Very nice, Thanks!
Don't wish for all of freeperdom to be angry and not type (say) anything about it. Personally find the signs pretty (otherwise they'd have other colors, pictures, sizes, etc.), and of the opinion that currently all of the type should stay (after they get established, then the Notes and even the Warning, and potentially even the links to the other pinglists can be removed).
You will note that even Royal is not enough of a moonbat to come out against.
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Good luck with that, comrade.
Dumb bastard frogs protesting the single thing that they are ding right. Stupid frogs!
I swear that these people have a collective death wish. They just can't seem to move their own destruction along fast enough. Why don't they just take a lesson from the reverand Jim Jones and get it over with already.
All I can say is...LOL!
The only warm guy in France 3 years hence.
Vous devriez vous geler dans l'obscurité les grenouilles stupides !
The Islamists have been leading them by the nose in that general direction, already. It sucks to be French.
The heavy use on Nuclear power is about the only the things the Frogs have gotten right. Yet, their lefties now want them to regress to wind and solar power. Back to the 12th century eh guys?
Lefties are same around the world.
Stupid.
your pinglist banner is wildly excessive in size. :)
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