Germany provides a textbook example of why Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s ideological opposition to nuclear power is not in the best interests of Canadian energy security.
Germany’s abandonment of nuclear power over the past decade and pursuit of wind and solar power as an alternative forced it to burn more coal for energy – the most carbon intensive fossil fuel – and made it overly dependent on Russian dictator Vladimir Putin for 40% of its natural gas imports.
Former German chancellor Angela Merkel started shutting down Germany’s nuclear plants in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, a blunder Canada should not repeat.
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