Ken Silverstein reports that when the 3 amigos met in Canada, they had vowed to collectively produce half of all their electricity from clean power sources. But what the leaders of the U.S., Canada and Mexico did not plan on was that their joint announcement would coincide with the closure of a major nuclear plant in California, which has become the clean energy capital of the world. It is ironic and begs the question of why the traditional environmental movement is so vehemently opposed to nuclear energy, especially since it is the only fuel that can burn around the clock without releasing any carbon emissions.
While this writer has had good relations among all those along the environmental continuum for 16 years, critics will maintain that it is the fossil fuel interests that have bankrolled some of the legacy groups, but additional sources of funding have come from wind and solar interests. In 1970, a leader of the petroleum industry and the head of the Atlantic Richfield Co. contributed $200,000 to fund Friends of the Earth, an organization that is strident in its opposition to nuclear energy, citing both safety and cost issues.
The topic is part of a book by F. William Engdahl titled Century of War ... Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Orders, says Rod Adams, author of the blog Atomic Insights. The discovery moved Anderson up to exhibit number one in my long-running effort to prove that the illogically tight linkage between environmental groups and antinuclear groups can be traced directly to the need for the oil and gas industry to discourage the use of nuclear energy, writes Adams. He goes on to say that oil and gas marketers are savvy and realize that transparent donations would be viewed with a jaundiced eye by journalists and others. By surreptitiously giving money, Adams says that those in the fossil fuel sector could establish proxies to do their fighting for them. Why? The oil industry fears nuclear.
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