CURRENT NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS
NATIONAL ENERGY POLICIES
from 2003 onwards
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CURRENT NEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS NATIONAL ENERGY POLICIES from 2003 onwards |
| Nuclear News from the world's press on the internet. |
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| 8-14-06 | Reuters | Indian
scientists oppose new clauses in nuclear deal They are correct of course. |
| 8-13-06 | Yemen Times | President
Saleh confirms Iran’s right to possess nuclear energy There cannot be an ethical objection to that assertion. |
| 8-1-06 | Mail and Guardian Online | Nigeria
another step closer to 'peaceful' nuclear energy Good news for Africa |
| 7-28-06 | The Daily Star | Nuclear
power for Bangladesh Every country is on the threshold of huge nuclear energy expansion. |
| 7-27-06 | US NewsWire | Nuclear
Power May Be Answer to Global Warming; NCPA Scholar Calls for
Environmentalists to 'Get Serious' About Energy Alternatives A call to arms for true environmentalists |
| 7-27-06 | Express News Service | Must
decentralize to manage power, energy better: Indian PM India has a huge country to cover so centralizing or decentralizing is a central issue. |
| 7-26-06 | Perth Now | Aistralian
opposition leader Beazley change on uranium divides Labor New policies for new times. |
| 7-25-06 | Associated Press | Mexico
Secretary: Will Have To Double Oil Exploration Spending Energy is needed all over the world in large quantities. |
| 7-25-06 | Politics.ie | Government
secures pledge of Nuclear Free island of Ireland The island of Erin has traditionally had no industry or science of note. |
| 7-18-05 | The Advertiser | We
must accept nuclear power: PM in Australia Around the world the word is ‘nuclear’ after a dangerous hiatus in rational energy planning caused by the Kyoto conference. |
| 7-18-06 | The Sydney Morning Herald | The
Australian nuclear debate we have to have A very rational commentary. |
| 7-17-06 | The Nation | The
G-8's Risky Nuclear Embrace This is an opinion article |
| 7-12-06 | Christian Science Monitor | In
energy, we're all connected - a plea to the G8 summit. There is more to it than oil and gas. |
| 7-2-06 | The Observer | Nuclear
cutback in energy plans Political vote gathering. |
| 7-2-06 | 24 Dash.com | Ruling
out UK nuclear power stations woud be 'irresponsible' It is an environmental firm. |
| 6-30-06 | M&C News | Nuclear
power has renaissance in Europe Even Germany is now in favor of nuclear power as well as Switzerland, while plants are being built in Finland Rumania and Bulgaria. Belgium has extended the phase out period and the Czech Republic could build. |
| 6-19-06 | MSC | US
Looks at Nuclear Power Let’s have the first order to break the log jam, fellows! |
| 6-19-06 | The New Nation | The
nuclear power option A rational policy argument from Bangladesh |
| 6-12-06 | AFX News Ltd. | India,
US to hold talks on details of nuclear cooperation deal There’s a long way to go before agreement. Look at the last paragraph. |
| 6-12-06 | The Canada Press | Premier
McGuinty firm on nuclear power in Ontario … and he is absolutely correct. |
| 6-10-06 | Dominican Today | Russia’s
Putin defends nuclear energy Good. He had to put Gorbachov into place |
| 6-6-06 | Xinhua | Nuclear
power "answer" to S. Africa's energy supply: official China is keeping a close eye on other nation’s nuclear power intentions. |
| 5-31-06 | RIA Novosti | Belarus
drafts concept of nuclear power plant construction The nuclear world proceeds but it is a shame that politicians and their need for popularity get in the way.. |
| 5-25-06 | The New Zealand Herald | Australia
faces tough choices on its nuclear future And I am sure they will get it right when all the politicking has died away. |
| 5-24-06 | Queensland Sunday Mail | Beazley
declares nuclear war - Australia Backward people! |
| 5-22-06 | UPI | Russian-U.S.
nuclear cooperation urged No new news but it’s a healthy sign that we speak openly about cooperation. |
| 5-21-06 | The Sundat Times (Australia) | Western
Australia misses U-boat He says “nuclear power or global warming” but global warming has little to do with man’s actions, so it is coming anyway. However, we still need nuclear energy to improve and sustain our standard of living. |
| 5-19-06 | Planet Ark (Reuters) | Morocco
Rules Out Nuclear Option to Ease Oil Burden Morocco is temporarily OK and in the future can also import electricity from more advanced countries |
| 5-15-06 | Reuters | Indonesia
eyes nuclear power by 2015 Good. |
| 5-15-06 | Online Journal | Why
Iraq and now Iran? A well-considered article … print it out for careful reading. (It’s long) |
| 5-15-06 | IRNA | Ahmadinejad:
Iran will defend legal rights of all free nations He is absolutely right on that score but it’s mixed up with a religious fanaticism that matches George Bush’s |
| 5-13-06 | Andnetwork | Zambia:
Uranium for Energy It’s the sensible thing to do … compete with Canada and Australia and keep prices down. |
| 5-12-06 | BBC | David
Miliband, UK environment secretary, has said he is not opposed to a new
generation of civil nuclear power stations. Well duh! |
| 5-8-06 | The Argus | Spurning
nuclear energy may prove foolish A rational voice. |
| 5-8-06 | Sydney Morning Herald | Power
struggle raises fears over green credentials - Australia Inevitably rational thought must win out for clean nuclear energy. |
| 5-7-06 | American Chronicle | Global
Warming, The Big Con Debunking the Global warming chicken-littles |
| 5-7-06 | A. A. | Nuclear
separation in Turkey It’s nice to see a renewables guy note that nuclear power is needed and inevitable. |
| 5-4-06 | Detroit Free Press | Michigan
launches next phase of energy plan Clearing away the infrastructure for rational policies. |
| 4-26-06 | News Wales | Coal
and Severn Barrage plan for Welsh energy They really don’t have anything coordinated. I’d like to see a salt-water barrage last for 150 years and generate 3,000 MW! |
| 4-24-06 | The European Magazine (New Babel) | Power
around Europe Europe is not yet a unified country and some of the old timers show their ‘independence.’ |
| 4-24-06 | New Kerala | India
and Germany agree to cooperate on trade, energy, science and technology Some progress in bringing India back into the fold. |
| 4-24-06 | Swiss Info | Chernobyl
legacy hangs over Swiss energy policy Get over it, nothing much happened compared to other industrial accidents. |
| 4-19-06 | Canadian Press | Nuclear
our best option, premier says 'No major nuclear accidents in Ontario in
more than two decades, McGuinty notes They need to do more than talk … building is the best option. |
| 4-19-06 | Reuters | Declared
dead after Chernobyl, nuclear lives again As it should be. |
| 4-17-06 | The Telegraph | Gas-fired
power stations 'needed to stave off blackouts' Britain is dithering – gas-fired power stations simply bring with them increased costs. They’ve wasted three years since the last White Paper. |
| 4-5-06 | The Irish Examiner | Energy
crisis may force State nuclear Even Ireland will have to become sensible – exporting paid activists to Austria would help. |
| 4.3.06 | The People's Daily (Xinhua) & Washington Post | Sino-Australian
co-op on nuclear energy solely for peaceful purposes:Wen China is acting as the future world leader should, and Australia would like to sell uranium! |
| 4-2-06 | Reuters AlrtNews | Nuclear
power debate heats up before German summit Europe really has to get it’s act in order … unfortunately it hasn’t a President. If Germany was rational, Austria would be isolated as the only nincompoops. |
| 3-31-06 | China View | Ghana
atomic energy commission appeals for (adequate) government support Indeed “nuclear science and technology, addresses the problems of health, industry, agriculture and environment.” |
| 3-29-06 | The Scotsman | Micro-generation
initiative launched A return to the dark ages … and all based on the myth of any human effect on a normal global warming cycle. It’s disturbing to feel rational thinkers can believe the lunatic fringe. |
| 3-27-06 | Independent Catholic News | Christian
report urges low consumption, non-nuclear energy strategy No condoms in HIV Africa and no sensible power in developed countries – the sense of Rome. |
| 3-24-06 | Guardian Unlimited | No
atom of doubt - We must conquer our irrational fear of nuclear fission if
we are to stop the catastrophic effects of global warming James Lovelock … there is no one more vehement than a born-again environmentalist |
| 3-24-06 | San Diego.com | European
Union to boost energy coordination, but shy away from EU energy policy That’s a rational decision since Europe is not going to be able to agree on a policy which fits, for example, Germany and Slovenia, conditions are so different. |
| 3-24-06 | The Hindu Times (from Beijing) | China
to build more nuclear power plants to meet energy crunch Notice how many … one a year to raise nuclear power to 4% ! |
| 3-23-06 | The Scotsman | Nuclear
friction among Liberal Democrats gathering energy They cannot all be dummies … Scots are usually quite prosaic. |
| 3-23-06 | China View (Xinhua) | Govt
approves outline for long-term nuclear development Rational … China needs power not Greenpeace fiddling |
| 3-22-06 | Financial Times | British
Energy and BNFL (BNG) and Urenco for sale When nuclear power supplies a large amount of British energy it is foolish to sell off its underpinnings. |
| 3-20-06 | India Monitor | India,
China, Pakistan and a nuclear deal Notice that Japan is not in the export market and so is also expluded from any other nuclear deals except with the USA. |
| 3-20-06 | RIA Novosti | Reality
pushes energy egotism away Russian Nuclear policy |
| 3-18-06 | Canada Free Press | The
European Union adopts ambitious biofuels strategy Take good note of the paragraph in blue … some EU politicians know their long term problems in energy. |
| 3-17-06 | The International Herald Tribune | Nuclear
power for India is good for us all True and well argued. |
| 3-16-06 | EuroActiv | NGOs
attack EU nuclear research funding The R&D aspect of energy policy is becoming a hot political topic as EU leaders prepare to agree on a common energy policy later this month. |
| 3-14-06 | The Finanancial Express | Nuclear
solution takes centre stage at G8 summit As it should … it has been far too long away off the agenda. |
| 3-12-06 | new Kerala | We
want to finance n-projects, says the Power Finance Corporation of India Financial support is even more important than political or engineering support |
| 3-12-06 | Western Mail | Liberal
Democrats call for postcard policies Shame Wales. There are one or two rational voices in my home country but the rest act like sheep following a few professional activists from Amsterdam. They will never keep Wales beautiful if they cover it with ineffective 300-foot high wind mills. One would think that the excellent experience of Wilfa and Trawsfynydd nuclear plants over the past 30 years would have some effect. |
| 3-11-06 | WISI and many others (AP) | North
Korea vows to strengthen its peaceful nuclear activities You can hardly dispute the statements in this poece … Bushes visit to India was a flub. |
| 3-9-06 | Sofia News Agency | Bulgaria
Possibly to Halt Electricity Export in 2007 … thereby losing a good source of revenue from customers like Austria. |
| 3-9-06 | ZeeNews | With
eight plants under construction. India plans to set up more. It’s great to see real action. |
| 3-8-06 | ADN Kronos International | EU
unveils blueprint to secure suppies of energy at lower prices Good luck making anything work with Greenpeace in your back door. |
| 3-8-06 | Forbes | UK's
Blair says meeting energy/climate targets without nuclear a 'major challenge' At last he is getting it right … for challenge read impossibility. |
| 3-7-06 | The Baltic Times | Estonian
opposition leader criticizes Prime Minister Ansip on nuclear power Politics but these three countries need a replacement plant. |
| 3-5-06 | Guardian Unlimited (AP) | China
Promises More Rural Spending When nuclear energy is mentioned in the same breath as medicine, rationality is returning. |
| 2-28-06 | Seattle Post Intelligence | Russia
drafts ambitious nuclear power plan Good … it’s about time the world’s leaders, Russia and USA, stood up to the plate. |
| 2-27-06 | EU Observer | Baltic
states agree to build nuclear reactor Old stagnant Europe based around Berlin, Paris and Greenpeace will be dragged to the necessity of nuclear power by newer minds |
| 2-27-06 | Stuff New Zealand News | Climate
change forecast getting worse It’s about time that New Zealand took note. |
| 2-25-06 | The Toronto Star | It's
time Canada gets serious about energy – again? Canada used to have a rational energy policy now they have gone crazy. Take care in reading this article: items are taken out of context and appear to be principal considerations. |
| 2-25-06 | EurasiaNet | Kazakhstan
government pushing nuclear power despite nuclear activists touting public
fears Greenpeace has done a good job in spreading their destructive messages everywhere that there is progress. |
| 2-24-06 | News.com (Australia AAP) | Australia’s
PM Howard backs nuclear power Australia can hardly last on coal while the population grows … and it has the fuel. |
| 2-22-06 | vanguard (Lagos) | Nigeria
Not Interested in Becoming Nuclear Power – but read on Obasanjo is entirely correct. |
| 2-21-06 | Yahoo News (Reuters) | Egyptian
opposition leader seeks nuclear reactors At least he is making the right point – 6x2000 MW reactors would do it. |
| 2-21--06 | Washington Post (AP) | China
to Expand Use of Nuclear Power by 40 new plants The announcements from all over the world would double the number of existing plants |
| 2-16-06 | China News | New
nuclear power plant to be built in Fujian China is leading the way in all sectors of the globe. |
| 2-15-06 | Zaman.com | Energy
Minister: Nuclear Energy a must for Turkey Romania promises to export nuclear generated power to Turkey at the same time. |
| 2-15-06 | Reuters - South Africa | South
Africa to spend $94 mln on nuclear energy development It won’t solve the 2007 problem but ground should be broken immediately. |
| 2-15-06 | Russian News Online | Russia
ready to build nuclear power plants in Vietnam Vietnam doesn’t have the expertise but it does have the need. Why isn’t the US there? |
| 2-13-06 | Reporter (Greece) | Turkey:
Three nuclear power plants to be set up by 2014 The news is rational everywhere – we need to divert the lunatic Chicken-little fringe of wind-power supporters to bird flu |
| 2-12-08 | Kidder Nespapers | Brazil
poised to join nuclear elite The more the merrier. |
| 2-12-06 | San Francisco Chronicle | Nuclear
power plans surge ahead - 14 new plants set to go online in 10 states over
next 20 years The best news we could look for other than actually breaking ground on the first site. |
| 2-7-06 | TMC Net | Japan
hails U.S. initiative to expand nuclear energy worldwide We see any nuclear initiative as a domestic issue, the world sees it as global. |
| 2-6-06 | Middle East and North African Financial Network | Amid
protests, U.K. mulls nuclear energy The world is watching for Britain to become a global leader once again and opt for reason – clean and benign nuclear power. |
| 2-6-06 | Financial Times | US
budget calls for building of new nuclear plants Great news but be wary of the time this takes. The anti-viruses are still out there.! |
| 1-31-06 | via Associated Press | Full
text of Bush's State of the Union address A bit of something for everybody. |
| 1-31-06 | Namibian | Namibia
considers nuclear power option Since it has uranium, nuclear power is a good option for Namibia given funding and expertise. |
| 1-27-06 | Derry Journal and The Scotsman | The
Irish are negative and the Scots are positive. It says a lot about the inhabitants of these two countries and why Eire is still so backward. |