The Green Scare Problem

Uranium (Nuclear Minerals) / Nuclear Power - Economics, Design, & Industry

Matt Ridley, of the Wall Street Journal, opines that we have heard these same stale arguments before, said President Obama in his speech on climate change last week, referring to those who worry that the Environmental Protection Agency carbon-reduction plan may do more harm than good. The trouble is, we have heard his stale argument before, too - that we are doomed if we do not do what the environmental pressure groups tell us, and saved if we do. And it has frequently turned out to be really bad advice. Making dire predictions is what environmental groups do for a living,...

This is especially true when they oppose nuclear power plants, uranium mining, and block waste storage sites that Yucca Mt. Bad advice about the use of solar and wind systems and about not including the existing nuclear power in the Obama Clean Power (or carbon reduction) Plan, are just a few examples of how his administration is not doing what they should - eliminate coal plants and encourage large and small nuclear power plants.

Original URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-green-scare-problem-1439506952