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.
Environmentalists denounced the move, and demonstrated outside the European Parliament to show their displeasure, because they are unalterably hostile to nuclear power, no matter how “clean” it might be.
“It’s dirty politics and it’s an outrageous outcome to label gas and nuclear as green and keep more money flowing to Putin’s war chest, but now we will fight this in the courts,” howled Greenpeace EU’s Ariadna Rodrigo.
As the Associated Press pointed out, nuclear power is unquestionably “clean” and “climate-friendly” by any scientific definitions of the terms, as it produces no carbon emissions. Green purists insist nuclear power is too risky to play a major role in achieving “carbon neutrality.”
Liquid natural gas (LNG) is also climate-friendly by any rational definition, producing roughly 30 percent less carbon dioxide than fuel oil and 45 percent less than coal, plus dramatically reduced or zero emissions of other compounds thought to be harmful to the environment. Greens despise LNG because it is a “fossil fuel.”
The founders of Greenpeace might differ from the current EU mouthpiece. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/greenpeace-co-founder-joins-climate-change-skeptics
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Natural gas is not environmentally friendly. Water supplies get contaminated, it causes local pollution, in areas where it gets fracked, people end up getting very sick. Blood noses, neurological illness, increased mortality, marked increase general health problems. Nuclear, well that depends how they dispose of the waste and where. Then there is the history and risk of meltdowns, terrorist attacks and wartime attack, which can be devastating. This isn’t even a “green” problem, these are concerns intelligent people need to consider and the greedy fat cats wanting to benefit from this cash cow will be more then happy to feed… Read more »
We do understand, Jamie. Thanks for expressing your POV.
Today in august 2022 old coal factories in Germany is back as new green clean energy.
Flour in your water is a healthy nutrient.