Natural Gas and Nuclear Are Now Green Energy – Is It Up With That?

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

The long-anticipated collapse of the EU’s renewable energy push has finally arrived. The EU has actually admitted renewables don’t work, by moving to broaden their definition of green energy to include reliable sources of electricity such as natural gas and nuclear power.

Rage as EU moves forward with plan to label gas and nuclear as ‘green’

Brussels faces backlash and accusations of whitewashing after publishing draft proposals on New Year’s Eve

Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
Monday, January 3, 2022 23.18 AEDT

The European Commission is facing backlash over a plan to allow gas and nuclear to be labeled as “green” investments, as Germany’s economy minister led accusations against “green washing”.

The EU chief executive allegedly tried to bury the proposals by introducing long-delayed technical rules in a green investment guidebook for diplomats on New Year’s Eve, hours before the deadline expires.

The draft proposals seen by the Guardian would allow gas and nuclear to be included in the EU’s “classification of environmentally sustainable economic activities”, subject to certain conditions.

The classification system is a classification system that aims to direct billions of people to clean energy projects to meet the EU’s target of net zero emissions by 2050.

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The Austrian government has repeated its threat to sue the commission if the plan goes ahead. Leonore Gewessler, the country’s climate action minister, said neither gas nor nuclear fall under the category “because they are bad for the climate and environment and destroy our children’s future”.

She added: “We will take a close look at the current draft and have given legal opinions on nuclear energy in the classification. If these plans are made this way, we will sue.”

She also accused the committee of a “night and fog activity” at the time of publication, an allegation echoed by Luxembourg’s energy minister, Claude Turmes, who described the draft as a provocation encourage.

However, the opponents are said to be unable to secure the mega-volume needed to thwart the plans.

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Germany’s Finance Minister, Christian Lindner of the FDP, told the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Sunday that Germany needs gas-fired power plants as a transition technology because it has foreshadowed nuclear and coal power. “I am grateful for the arguments that have been brought up by the committee,” he said.

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The plans have attracted the fury of Greta Thunberg and other young climate activists, who say this “fake climate action” contradicts the EU’s goal of net zero emissions by 2050.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/03/fury-eu-moves-ahead-plans-label-gas-nuclear-green

Greta Thunberg is on a rampage – but no one cares.

In the wake of The catastrophic September green energy crisis in Europe We all know the EU’s commitment to renewable energy must come to an end, but personally I am amazed that the EU bureaucracy moves so quickly. Their haste in making this decision is proof of how worried EU leaders are about rising energy prices and blackouts.

We can only imagine how the green teams are reacting to this sudden setback, how the massive meetings and phone calls must have taken place. I mean, the EU is the most dedicated green energy champion on the planet, everything seems to be moving in their direction, and then suddenly with this one stroke of the pen, it’s all over.