Posted on 09/20/2008 8:49:50 PM PDT by FocusNexus
Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced Saturday the introduction of "a national energy plan" paving the way for a controversial return to nuclear energy, ANSA news agency reported.
"From now until next spring, the government will present a national energy plan," he said at the opening of an off-shore regasification unit in northeast Rovigo, adding that it will see "the launch of nuclear and renewable energy."
A month after Berlusconi returned to power in April, the Italian government said it would begin building nuclear power stations to solve the country's dependence on foreign oil and gas supplies.
The decision reversed a 20-year ban on nuclear power following a 1987 referendum in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine, a year earlier.
The country's four nuclear plants operating at the time were shut down.
Berlusconi said the new energy plan will allow Italy to lower "the cost of its energy" to the level of other European countries, adding that Britain and France will help it construct the new nuclear power stations.
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In the meantime Italy's next door neighbor France has operated 70 nuclear plants without endangering public safety, and is much less dependent on foreign oil than Italy.
Or than the US for that matter. If Italy's government can see the handwriting on the wall and change it's mind about nuclear power plants, why can't our Congress?
“In the meantime Italy’s next door neighbor France has operated 70 nuclear plants without endangering public safety, and is much less dependent on foreign oil than Italy.”
And very hypocritically, Italy was importing nuclear generated electricity from France!!!
Another country slips off the shackles of Left-Wing nuclear-phobia. You’d think that with their European role models moving toward nuclear power, the Democrats would be four square behind it.
Italy must have been run by liberals during that time, hypocrisy seems to be a primary characteristic of all liberals no matter who they are or where they are.
The old adage "do as I say, not as I do" fits liberals to a T.
“Italy must have been run by liberals during that time, hypocrisy seems to be a primary characteristic of all liberals no matter who they are or where they are.”
You are correct!
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