Greenpeace founder promotes nuclear power
No, there is no punch line...
Patrick Moore was on CBC Radio this wek talking about nuclear power. Though he still is an active environmentalist, he feels that nuclear is the only practical way to go at present.
VANCOUVER, April 28 /PRNewswire/ - Dr. Patrick Moore, Chairman and Chief Scientist of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd. and Co-Founder of Greenpeace,
appeared before a committee of US federal legislators today and called for a
revitalized program of developing alternative energy sources to reduce the
need to burn oil, natural gas and coal in electricity generation.
"Nuclear energy is the only non-greenhouse-gas-emitting power source that
can effectively replace fossil fuels and satisfy global demand," Moore told
the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Energy and Resources in
Washington, DC.
"There is now a great deal of scientific evidence showing nuclear power
to be an environmentally sound and safe choice," Moore said. Moore believes
his former colleagues at Greenpeace are unrealistic in their call for a
phasing out of both coal and nuclear power worldwide, as they have called for in Ontario, for example.
"There are simply not enough available forms of alternative energy to
replace both of them together. Given a choice between nuclear on the one hand and coal, oil and natural gas on the other, nuclear energy is by far the best option as it emits neither CO2 nor any other air pollutants."
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