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Huh? EU Suddenly Declares Natural Gas, Nuclear To Be ‘Climate Friendly’
Technocracy News ^ | 7/7/2022 | John Hayward w/Breitbart

Posted on 07/08/2022 10:44:33 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

The European Parliament on Wednesday voted not to block a proposed rule that would designate gas and nuclear power plants as “climate-friendly.” The rule will take effect unless 20 of the European Union’s (EU) 27 member states band together to stop it.

The EU keeps a “taxonomy,” or rulebook, that designates which types of energy investment can be labeled “green.” The terminology is considered valuable for marketing purposes and to attract investors looking for climate-friendly projects. “Green” projects are also eligible for favorable government loans, and even outright government subsidies.

The taxonomy is supposed to prevent “greenwashing,” loosely defined as falsely claiming a project is climate-friendly, although radical Greens derisively use the term for every enterprise they deem insufficiently pure.

The law approved 328-278 by the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday will add numerous natural gas and nuclear energy projects to the taxonomy, beginning next year.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Government; Society
KEYWORDS: becausewesayso; climatechange; energy; energyschadenfreude; eu; eurocrats; euroweenies; naturalgas; nuclear; nuclearpower; nukes; utilities
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Good. Natgas emits half the CO2 of coal per kilowatt hour, and nuclear emits no CO2 per kilowatt hour.


21 posted on 07/08/2022 11:50:14 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
...designate gas and nuclear power plants as “climate-friendly.”

That's globally - right? Why not? Maybe the very first vote on the global warming hoax. Historic!

22 posted on 07/08/2022 12:33:15 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

HOW DARE YOU!!!

Who voted for these EU bureaucrats anyway???


23 posted on 07/08/2022 12:37:15 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Looking at the steel and.concrete used to make the reactors changes that. But nukes are still some of the lowest co2. They are by far the safest power on the planet even with three major accidents they as a whole have killed less people than coal.

https://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/energy-and-the-environment/carbon-dioxide-emissions-from-electricity.aspx


24 posted on 07/08/2022 1:20:15 PM PDT by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Well why not? After all they are basically down to COAL and Wood Stoves at this point, LOL:-)


25 posted on 07/08/2022 1:29:12 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: entropy12

The other way to express the metric is “1 new coal fired plant per week, between India and China”.


26 posted on 07/08/2022 2:01:27 PM PDT by G Larry (Anybody notice that Satan is hard at work?)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Yet Germany’s parliaments voted today to continue with the shutdown of their nuclear power plants, even though it means they will have to burn coal instead. They are even going to abandon their precious Paris Accord carbon goals. Eventually, they will go back to being completely dependent on Russia for gas.


27 posted on 07/08/2022 2:38:45 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: Signalman

I am waiting for more than a decade for the climate crazies to answer ONE SIMPLE QUESTION, as follows.

Who caused the global warming which ended the last ice age?
For those living in Rio Linda, during last ice age there were no cars, no factories, no coal mining, no heaters in caves burning wood, and no tree huggers.


28 posted on 07/08/2022 5:55:41 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump/DeSantis & MAGA! are the only way to keep USA viable. Are so many somany)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Funny how that works.


29 posted on 07/11/2022 10:22:36 AM PDT by taxcontrol (The choice is clear - either live as a slave on your knees or die as a free citizen on your feet.)
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