{"id":1188394,"date":"2022-01-04T19:35:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188394"},"modified":"2022-01-04T19:35:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T00:35:23","slug":"eu-plan-declares-nuclear-power-and-natural-gas-green-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/eu-plan-declares-nuclear-power-and-natural-gas-green-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Plan Declares Nuclear Power and Natural Gas \u2018Green Energy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feu-plan-declares-nuclear-power-and-natural-gas-green-energy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1188394&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-110502346-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">ROME, Italy \u2014 The European Commission has issued a draft recommendation including nuclear energy and natural gas on a list of investments that qualify as \u201cgreen\u201d energy.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/new-eu-rules-spark-fight-over-what-is-green-energy-11641224818?mod=hp_listb_pos2\">proposal<\/a> allows investments in nuclear power plants to be classified as green until 2045 while natural gas investments can be considered green until at least 2030 if their carbon emissions are under a determined limit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cCould this winter\u2019s energy crisis be shocking Europe into climate realism?\u201d the editors of the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> (<em>WSJ<\/em>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-european-revelation-on-climate-green-energy-nuclear-natural-gas-france-germany-11641228156?mod=opinion_lead_pos3\">asked<\/a> in astonishment Monday in reaction to the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone please pass the smelling salts to the Sierra Club,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p>The draft recommendation still needs approval from EU governments and the European Parliament, and highlights fault lines dividing differing energy policies.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The German government registered its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/03\/leftist-german-govt-rejects-eu-plan-to-meet-climate-goals-with-dangerous-nuclear-energy\/\">opposition<\/a> to the plan Monday, a predictable move given it is in the midst of dismantling its entire nuclear energy program. Germany intends to decommission its remaining three nuclear power plants by the end of 2022 whereas France has taken the opposite tack, modernizing existing reactors and building new ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is that rarest of cases in climate policy where the politics aligns with energy reality,\u201d declared the <em>WSJ<\/em> editorial. \u201cIf environmentalists mean what they say about the urgency of cutting CO2 emissions, nuclear is the only widely available power source that\u2019s zero-emitting and more reliable than wind or solar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a world far from ready to wean itself off fossil fuels, natural gas stands out as much lower emitting than others,\u201d the editors added. \u201cThe growth in natural gas to account for about one-third of United States electricity generation in 2019 helps explain the roughly 14% decline in gross CO2 emissions since the mid-2000s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The draft proposal has provoked consternation from more radical environmentalists, who object to any fossil fuels being included in programs of sustainability and who reject nuclear energy outright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClassifying investments in gas and nuclear power as sustainable contradicts the Green Deal,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/news\/eu-draft-on-financing-nuclear-and-gas-plants-raises-ire\/\">said<\/a> Ska Keller, the president of the Green group in the European Parliament, in reference to the energy initiative intended to make the EU carbon-neutral by 2050.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tdwilliamsrome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @tdwilliamsrome<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROME, Italy \u2014 The European Commission has issued a draft recommendation including nuclear energy and natural gas on a list of investments that qualify as \u201cgreen\u201d energy. 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