Germany Looks To Keep Last Nuclear Plants Running To Prevent Energy Disaster
Germany is strongly considering delaying the shutdown of its three remaining nuclear power plants to stave off energy shortages this winter, German government officials told The Wall Street Journal.
The decision to keep the plants open will need to be approved by parliament and has not yet been publicly endorsed by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s cabinet, according to the WSJ. Germany is still debating several aspects of keeping the plants open as the results of a stress test and review of the country’s energy requirements will need to be considered; however, officials said the results are already clear even if they have not been officially released.
The push to keep nuclear plants open to continue producing energy comes amid Germany’s energy crisis that is being exacerbated by the cut-off of Russian natural gas supplies. German energy prices are skyrocketing and the country has begun to stockpile firewood to use as fuel in preparation for a winter in which energy demand will spike due to people heating their homes, according to German media outlet Deutsche Welle.
Germany Chancellor Olaf Scholz said for the first time last Wednesday that it might be sensible to keep Germany’s final three nuclear reactors operational due to its ongoing energy crisis, according to Politico. However, the three facilities’ continued operation will only provide about 6% of the nation’s electricity as natural gas is most widely used for industry and for heating throughout the nation, according to government figures.
The three nuclear plants are expected to be kept operating until Dec. 31 as Germany faces a shortage of natural gas that is being exacerbated by Russian cutoffs and because the plants pose no danger to the public, the WSJ reported.
“The reactors are safe until Dec. 31, and obviously they will remain safe also after Dec. 31,” a senior German official told the WSJ.
A spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection denied the reports about the decision to keep the plants open in a Tuesday press release.
“This report is incorrect and lacks any factual basis,” the spokeswoman stated. “The stress test to check the stability of the power grid is still ongoing.”
The Germany Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Change directed the Daily Caller News Foundation to the press release.
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Here’s the backstory that they don’t tell you. Germany, and all of Europe were way ahead of us and spent decades shutting down their nuclear and coal fired plants instituting their own “Green New Deal” installing solar and building windmills. But the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow. As as result, they became totally dependent on Russian gas and oil. Trump warned them and they didn’t listen. Nord Stream 1 is a Russian pipeline that runs through Ukraine to supply Europe and when that was potentially threatened by the U.S. pushing Ukraine to join NATO, Putin built Nord Stream 2 that runs directly from Russia to Germany. Trump opposed it and Biden supported it. All of this, by the way, is largely responsible for the Ukraine war if you can connect the dots. Anyway Putin castrated NATO and now “owns” Germany (and Europe) with his gas and oil and they are now funding Putin while we send endless billions to Ukraine for a war that we didn’t want, didn’t vote on, and can’t win. Talk about Insanity!
So now Germany and Europe are facing massive inflation (higher than ours) and are struggling to find enough energy to get through the winter. They’re even going to impose draconian sanctions on their own citizens (such as limiting heat and hot water usage) to try and save energy. Then the supreme irony (or insanity) is that after watching all of this our government just passed a 730 Billion “Green New Deal” bill to send us down the same path.
American’s better wake up and see that this is all a scam to enrich the “elite” rich Democrat overlords and their “crony Capitalist” cohorts (who don’t worry about energy costs or inflation) and destroy the America’s middle class. As that happens, we will beg for more government help, which means more government control. Coup Complete. We will become the western equivalent of the CCP with two classes; the rich Politicians with their compliant, oligarchic corporations and the poor masses that will own nothing. Just like every other Socialist/Communist state in history,