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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

…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…

Smoking Gun Part 22 – John Hofmeister Explains Why Energy Companies are Parochial (aka Destructively Competitive)

…has been quite some time since I last published an article designated as a smoking gun, but in the past few days a number of events have convinced me that it is vitally important to work harder to raise awareness about the multi-decade effort by energy competitors to put as many barriers as possible in the way of nuclear energy developments. Here is a quote from Hofmeister’s book: By extension, don’t expect the whole energy industry to speak with…

Smoking Gun Part 10 – Scottish government signals support for reopening Longannet

…paigners 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 supp…

Smoking Gun Attack on Nuclear From Aloys Wobben, Enercon Managing Director

…ut a Tim 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 disc…

Smoking gun – part 1 (Direct anti-nuclear business comment from coal supporter)

…. My plan 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 il…

Not quite a "smoking gun" – Coal plant versus nuclear or alternatives

…the Clean 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 cho…

Smoking gun – part 2 (Direct anti-nuclear political comment from coal supporter)

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…

Smoking Gun – Former Royal Dutch Shell Exec Proclaims End to Nuclear Power

…Englert Wow! We invaded a country on less evidence than that.That’s not a smoking gun; it’s a signed confession and the judge has tossed out the motion to suppress. Ioannes Jean Demesure is correct. Support nuclear energy simply because it’s the best way to generate electricity, NOT because of the religion of AGW and false goddess Gaia. BTW, the Red Chinese will continue to use and expand nuclear energy. Being communist, they don’t care what the…

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Smoking Gun Part 18 – An Oldie But a Goodie – Oil Heat Institute of Long Island Ad Using Scare Tactics to Fight Shoreham

…probably comes from the same major oil/gas company. My purpose with these ‘smoking gun‘ posts is not to demonize business and advertising. It is a very important part of our economy. What I am trying to do is to educate nukes about what I believe is the appropriate way to compete. We need to stop fooling ourselves into thinking that it is “the liberals” or “the environmentalists” who have led to the lack of new plant orders or who have led the bat…

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Smoking Gun – NCPC & John F. Kennedy

…clean-up). Also … there’s a consistent theme on the site (with respect to smoking guns) that oil and natural gas industries are aligned against nuclear power (which is why I am posting this here). This doesn’t appear to be the case with Kerr-McGee. They started as a major oil and chemical company, and picked up extensive operations in uranium mining, milling, and nuclear fuel development (which underpin the environmental concerns in this case). S…

Smoking Gun 6 – Chesapeake Energy Strategy

I love honest people. Engaging in straightforward discussions and even arguments is one of my favorite pastimes. This morning, I opened up my copy of Chesapeake Energy’s annual report and read the following clear statement of objectives: Some of the great public debates of the next 10 years will focus on how we should meet America’s growing need for more electricity. Presently, coal meets 52% of our electricity needs, nuclear 21%, natural gas 21%…

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