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Eurogas head says if nuclear not acceptable, talk to nat gas suppliers (Smoking gun)

ByRod Adams

…the distant future. Finally, the interview hit the topic that makes this a smoking gun. I can guess exactly what kind of serious and concerned face Cirelli must have been wearing as he responded in the following exchange. How will the accident at Fukushima impact the role of gas? It has been a terrible tragedy in Japan. The nuclear industry will have to take on board any lessons from these dreadful events. But it is clear that an energy-hungry wor…

Smoking Gun Part 16 – Leader of British National Union Of Miners Demands CCS and Nuclear Shutdown

ByRod Adams

…s that come together to oppose nuclear power plants. Scargill has made the smoking gun series here before. One thing you have to admire about the man is that he is not devious about promoting coal while bashing nuclear. If you listen closely, you will find that he is very specific about the kind of coal he likes – it is deep underground, not from open pits and it is British, not imported. (Coal from open pits, South Africa or the US does not repre…

Smoking Gun Part 17 – German Renewable Industry Spokesman Presses for Nuclear Shutdown

ByRod Adams

…or example in Britain, he added. As always, my point in bringing you these smoking gun stories is to work to undermine the “moral high ground” that has been assumed by many of the participants in the energy discussions. I have nothing against commercial enterprises working hard to sell their wares, and I fully recognize that one effective tool in marketing is to denigrate your competition. Those who battle nuclear power are often doing it for fina…

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CNN promotes natural gas as “safer” than nuclear – smoking gun

ByRod Adams

…actively involved in running the network, is what qualifies this post as a smoking gun. Here is a comment that I left in response to the article on the CNN web site. It might not make it through moderation. Wonder how much ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and the American Natural Gas Alliance have paid CNN to run advertisements over the years? Is this article a “make good” or just a freebie in return for all of that exceptional business from loyal cust…

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Smoking gun – Antinuclear talking points coined by coal interests

ByRod Adams

…ave been developing for many years. After I published a recent post titled Smoking gun: AEC told President Kennedy why coal industry was opposed to nuclear energy, Kirk Sorensen sent me an email that included a clipping from the Knoxville News-Sentinel that he had discovered while going through papers in the basement of an Oak Ridge National Laboratory retiree. That October 2, 1966 News-Sentinel article, titled Coal Industry Overwhelmed, contained…

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Shale gas – boom, bubble, financial manipulation or smoking gun attack on competition?

ByRod Adams

…le?. The article includes an intriguing section that almost qualifies as a smoking gun in a somewhat convoluted way. The article suggest that the low natural gas prices that have prevailed in North America during the period from mid 2008-2013 have been partially due to financial manipulation. Here is a sample quote: She explores both of these findings and their implications in a new report, “Shale and Wall Street: Was the Decline in Natural Gas Pr…

Smoking gun part 26 – Coal lobbies versus National Reactor Testing Station
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Smoking gun part 26 – Coal lobbies versus National Reactor Testing Station

ByRod Adams

…s later, it still is remote, in more ways than one. I found a fascinating, smoking gun-quality, story at the beginning of Chapter 19. Between 1965 and 1970, utility companies in the United States ordered a hundred nuclear power plants—all of them moderated and cooled by water. Shaw and the others felt that the torch had passed to industry, and water-moderated reactors should no longer require federally subsidized research1. The national coal lobby…

Smoking Gun Part 8 – (Gas industry firing at coal with Sierra Club assist)

ByRod Adams

…Club handy? PS – I almost forgot to explain why this story qualifies as a “smoking gun”. Normally, I use that key word when I find articles that directly support the notion that the fossil fuel industry is supporting efforts to hamper the development of atomic energy. I expect that most of you can understand that the battle in Kansas is not about clean air; if a nuclear plant was the proposal instead of a coal plant there would be similar attempts…

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Smoking Gun – Jan Lundberg antinuclear activist & heir to petroleum wealth

ByRod Adams

A ‘smoking gun’ article is one that reveals a direct connection between a fossil fuel or alternative energy system promoter and a strongly antinuclear attitude. One of my guiding theories about energy is that a great deal of the discussion about safety, cost, and waste disposal is really a cover for a normal business activity of competing for market share. As is the case in many commodity businesses, there is also an underlying agenda to restrict…

Smoking gun part 13 – Energy Reorganization Act of 1974

ByRod Adams

…ation Act of 1974 that I thought would be worth preserving as part of the “smoking gun” series. Here goes: Shannon: Just in case it has gotten lost in our give and take, the postulate that I am trying to advance is that people associated with fossil fuel and desiring to maintain its market share played at least as large a role in the slowdown of nuclear power development as “the leftists” that you blame. You wrote: For which you have zero evidence…

Smoking Gun Part 4 (direct anti-nuclear comment from Dick Armey, who is advocating coal instead)

ByRod Adams

…percent.” At this point, I began to get suspicious that there might be a ‘smoking gun’ here since I know that there are also a large number of potential nuclear power plant projects under investigation in Texas that ELIMINATE (as opposed to reducing) emissions if they replace older coal or gas plants. Then comes the real kicker. Opponents to the coal-fired power plants hope to promote alternative solutions to the looming energy crisis. Two such o…

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Jerry Taylor of Cato Institute – Fires Back at My "Smoking Gun" Accusation That He is Opposed To Nuclear Energy BECAUSE He Prefers Natural Gas

ByRod Adams

…king the time to produce an interesting and well referenced rebuttal to my smoking gun post. It deserves an additional response, and I promise to produce that response by Wednesday, April 14. I would work on it more quickly, but I happen to have a completely booked weekend. I am attending the American Nuclear Society Student Conference 2010, being held in Ann Arbor MI. Last night, we had the welcoming dinner – there were more than 500 eager studen…

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