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The original shut down decision was made by the first SPD/Greens coalition under Schröder. The Merkel government then stopped it, then resumed it again. And n
by coffeeblack 4y ago
The original shut down decision was made by the first SPD/Greens coalition under Schröder.
The Merkel government then stopped it, then resumed it again.
And now Greens try to claim it wasn’t their fault, despite it being the foundation of their party since the mid-1980s.
- bakuninsbart 4y agoYes, but the original plan of the Greens seeked to use nuclear power as a transitional technology to first replace coal. While the build up of renewable energy in Germany during the last 2 decades is very impressive, adding more gas to the mix certainly looks idiotic in hindsight. This wasn't the Greens fault, as they haven't been in government since 2005. They are now the ones having to deal with it though.
- monkeyshelli 4y agoI hope there would be some investigational journalism to dig out how much money flooded from Russia towards lobbying this to happen..
- DocTomoe 4y agoThere are plausible reports that money flew from Big Oil to anti-nuclear groups, so ... the Russians would have been in good company.
- coffeeblack 4y ago“There are plausible reports” should probably be followed by a link or two.