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…claim government positive over Longannet reopening qualifies as a smoking gun where active campaigners against nuclear power indicate that part of the reason for their opposition is that the have financial or political reasons for supporting fossil power instead. The written text of the story might not include as direct a comment as I normally like, but the timing of the discussion and the contrast between “no chance” for nuclear and support for…

…Wirth pep talk to the natural gas industry that I called the best smoking gun ever. When I went on Clean Skies TV for an interview, Susan McGinnis challenged me on that assertion stating that Wirth never said anything bad about nuclear energy, that he agreed it would be part of the mix. (Of course, he put it well down on his list of alternatives and used an effective rhetorical technique of damning with faint praise.) I have recently discovered a…

…n is to post that material on the blog with titles beginning with “Smoking gun”. As time goes on, you can find these nuggets grouped together using a simple blog search. I found one such nugget this morning in an article written by Jamie Freed titled Fuel for thought: nuke debate heats up published on Saturday, Jan 14, 2006 in the Sydney Morning Herald. Here is a quote from the article: On the other hand, for all of coal’s environmental ills, Aust…

…an Air Act Amendments of 1990) I put this project into the “almost smoking gun” category because of the direct competition aspect – AMP-Ohio needs baseload capacity in order to provide more predictable pricing for electricity, a vital commodity important to the economic vitality of its member cities, towns and villages. Despite all suggestions to the contrary, the only real choices are coal, natural gas and nuclear power. If nuclear is chosen, a f…

…riers to entry or to prevent existing barriers from being torn down. That is why this story qualifies as a smoking gun….

Back on 14 January 2006, I posted a comment titled “Smoking gun – part 1” in which I told you that I would be on the look out for nuclear opposition that can be directly tied to the desires of competitive industries to maintain their market share. Though there is enough circumstantial evidence out there to convince me that fossil fuel interests are often behind anti-nuclear groups, there is not a good source of evidence that can persuade those th…

…of coal, oil and gas. Those are the big three that qualify as toting real guns in the competitive battle against nuclear fission, all others are toting pop guns.) … There was the green advocacy non-profit staffer, hoping against hope that nuclear doesn’t make its way into the mainstream of energy choices. (“Let’s spend the money it takes to build one nuclear plant and spend it putting solar and small wind on every public school in the country.”)…