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Smoking Gun Part 11 – Scargill, National Union of Mineworkers, blasts Monbiot for acceptance of nuclear

ByRod Adams

Arthur Scargill, former leaders of the UK’s National Union of Mineworkers, published a commentary on August 8, 2008 on Guardian.co.uk that qualifies as one of the clearest examples of a professional coal advocate trashing nuclear power for economic reasons. Here is Mr. Scargill’s view of nuclear power and his reaction when a long time critic made a statement that accepted that nuclear power might not be worth fighting if it could meet a series of…

Better than a smoking gun – straightforward ad against nuclear power from coal industry in AU

ByRod Adams

I have some very engaged readers. Some of you even follow up if you send something interesting and I do not get around to sharing it with all of you. Daniel sent me a scan of an advertisement that appeared in the Courier-Mail out of Queensland, Australia in November 2007. it is a very straightforward effort by the coal industry to scare people about nuclear power – not really so much about the typical aspects of nuclear power that some try to use…

Smoking Gun Part 9 – Carbon Sequestration advocates share an interesting funding source

ByRod Adams

A good friend sent me a link to an interesting diary on Daily Kos titled “Clean Coal”‘s Dirty Hands?. That diary entry used an article written by Peter Montague, titled INSIGHTS: Carbon Sequestration that provides some very interesting documentation of grants provided by The Joyce Foundation to a number of mainstream environmental organizations. The essential thrust of the article was that carbon sequestration was an untested and potentially risk…

Smoking Gun – Alex Matthiessen, President of Riverkeeper, Recommends Natural Gas to Replace Indian Point

ByRod Adams

Alex Matthiessen, President of Riverkeeper, has written a letter to the editor of the New York Times with his suggestions for replacing the 2045 Megawatts of emission free electricity produced by the Indian Point nuclear power station. Because letters to the editor sections of commercial newspapers often are not reliably archived an available for future reference, I will quote that entire letter here so that future researchers will be able to fin…

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Smoking Gun: ExxonMobil admits plan to take advantage of Fukushima to market gas

ByRod Adams

As an undergraduate, I was trained to read between the lines and to interpret the words on the page in context with the author’s background and intent. With that in mind, I see an interesting marketing plan in between the following words from page 31 of ExxonMobil’s 2012 The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040. The heading of this page is “Electricity Generation: Choosing the Right Fuels”. Imagine you are the CEO of an electric utility that is bui…

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Smoking Gun – Sierra Club admits donations targeting a natural gas competitor

ByRod Adams

On February 2, 2012, the Sierra Club allowed a Time magazine blog to break a poorly kept “secret” whose existence had threatened to get out of hand. In a post titled Exclusive: How the Sierra Club Took Millions From the Natural Gas Industry—and Why They Stopped Bryan Walsh described how one of the oldest, largest, and best endowed members of the established environmental community accepted approximately $26 million dollars during the period from…

Smoking Gun Part 14 – Peter Hartley Claims Natural Gas is Cheaper Than Nuclear

ByRod Adams

Eric Berger, writing for the Houston Chronicle, published an article on Friday titled Nuclear power’s core of support gains strength. He provided some opposing view commentary from Peter Hartley, a man he describes as “an energy expert at Rice University”. Here are some of the quotes from the article: “I just don’t think there will be a big renaissance,” said Peter Hartley, an energy expert at Rice University. “I believe the new administration wi…

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Smoking gun – German president of Environmental Protection Agency touts natural gas instead of nuclear

ByRod Adams

An article in The Guardian titled UK’s faith in nuclear power threatens renewables, says German energy expert is full of evidence of the alliance between natural gas salesmen and the advocates of unreliable sources of energy like wind and solar in an effort to discourage the use of nuclear energy for economic, market-based reasons. Jochen Flasbarth, identified as “climate advisor to the German government and Federal Environment Agency president”…

Ruth Sponsler finds a "smoking gun"

ByRod Adams

Ruth Sponsler produces the excellent blog We Support Lee. (William States Lee III is the name for a proposed new nuclear plant in South Carolina near the border of Ruth’s home state of North Carolina.) She has been finding some interesting information about the political and economic ties between virulent anti-nuclear activists and fossil fuel interests. One of her most interesting recent posts is titled Anti-nuclear Politics and Coal Interests i…

Queensland bans nuclear facilities – Smoking gun part 5

ByRod Adams

Peter Beattie and his friends in Queensland Australia have succeeded in their mission of protecting the coal and gas industry in Queensland from having to compete with nuclear power. They did it the old fashioned way – they made it illegal to build or operate nuclear facilities in their state. According to a May 2, 2007 article titled New law bans nuclear power in Qld published by theage.com.au, the new law bans the following types of facilities…

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Why would UBS root for Entergy’s Merchant Nukes to Close?

ByRod Adams

…er how reasonable, is NOT a smoking gun. It is, in fact, the opposite of a smoking gun. While the article does include good stuff, there seems to be a bit of an oversight, I think. You have failed in this article to address the following basic consideration/question: While it’s true that the banks have a lot of exposure to gas and oil debt (and thus, risk of default), so that it is in their interest to see competitors close, those banks did not, I…

Salvo Against Coal From 1972 – Just Before The First Gathering of the Critical Mass Energy Project

ByRod Adams

…o my collection of smoking gun memorabilia. Normally, I tag posts with the smoking gun label when they provide evidence that a fossil fuel related entity has taken a shot at nuclear energy. In this case, the smoking gun shows that there was a time when the nuclear energy developers were taking shots at fossil fuel with some real success. I have often been accused of being a conspiracy theorist when I point to the fact that the people with the grea…

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