Translation of "l'énorme centrale nucléaire " (French → English) :

Europe has huge untapped potential here that should be set against the fact that the construction of new nuclear power plants will make us dependent on them for many more decades to come – in other words new investments in nuclear energy are a means of postponing and preventing the expansion of renewable energy, a way of mortgaging the future.

39. Recalls that the EU electricity market is still suffering from a number of serious distortions, such as insufficient ownership unbundling requirements, ineffective wholesale markets, increased market concentration, large direct and indirect subsidies for fossil fuels and nuclear power, no non-discriminatory access to storage power plants, non-segregated nuclear decommissioning funds and non-internalisation of external costs, and insists that the Commission tackle these issues in its reports on internal electricity and gas markets at the end of the year and put forward new legislative initiatives, to put an end to those huge market distortions which ...[+++] penalise renewable energy production;

It's a known fact that in virtually all environmental companies, whether they're involved in household waste management, nuclear waste management or nuclear energy production, when it comes to safety concerns and safety and environmental repercussions, the private sector shouldn't necessarily be allowed to get involved because their main concern is to limit their liability (1725) The consequences of this could be enormous.

1. Welcomes the closure of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and urges the EU to support the Ukraine in radically improving its energy intensity, so as to permit it to end its reliance on nuclear power altogether; emphasises that the potential for wind power in the region is enormous and that the use of small scale hydro has the potential to produce four times more than the present capacity of operating power plants;

The shutdown of the coal-fired generation and the obsolescence of some of the nuclear plants, plus the vibrant, economic growth of Ontario and the demand for electricity in the industrial and residential sectors, is putting on a lot of pressure.

Even more seriously, our understanding is that Ontario has now been going forward into CCME processes around global warming, and in the aftermath of the National Air Issues Coordinating Committee, or NAICC, report on acid rain, arguing very strongly against strong action on CO and SO precisely because of the enormous increases in those kinds of emissions which are going to come from Ontario Hydro because of the nuclear shutdown.