Poll: Germans oppose nuclear power extension (61%-33%)

[kristopher]

Poll: Germans oppose nuclear power extension

BERLIN

A majority of Germans oppose government plans to put off a shutdown of the country's nuclear power plants by an average 12 years, according to a poll released Friday.

The poll for ZDF television found that 61 percent opposed the plan announced earlier this week to undo a previous government's decade-old decision to shut down all German nuclear plants by 2021.

The poll of 1,221 people -- conducted Tuesday through Thursday -- found that 33 percent supported the change.

Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has portrayed the change as a way to keep energy cheap until more renewable energy is available. Merkel has described nuclear power as a "bridging technology" and there is no talk of Germany building any new nuclear plants.

Nuclear energy has been unpopular in Germany since the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

The poll found that 65 percent of respondents agree with the charge...

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9I530B00.htm

[Kringle]

1. Germany can get rid of nules, just like Sweden did in 2000 .nt

[Kringle]

2. typo, ..... nukes ......

[CJvR]

5. Sweden has...

...plenty of nuclear power running - about half the total electrical power generation, the rest is hydro and the rounding errors are wind.

Indeed the investments made in more effective turbines and generators have kept the generating power of the remaining 10 reactors on the level of the original 12.

[Dogmudgeon]

12. I'm pretty sure Sweden lifted the ban last year

The referendum leading to the ban was controversial, because there were three choices given: "No", "Heck No", and "Hell No". "Yes" was not a choice.

Nuclear energy is now favored by a majority of the population.

--d!

[Confusious]

6. That's funny

I read an article that Sweden has 3 plants in operation, and plans on replacing those 3.

[madokie]

3. Smart Germans

rec

[kristopher]

4. If they are so smart why did they put the right wing back in power?

That ALWAYS has a negative outcome.

[Confusious]

7. German right wing

Is more like our left wing.

If you kept up on international politics.

[kristopher]

8. That is the view of them by the far right in this country.

[Confusious]

9. Oh please.

The german right wing are less right wing then the democrats are here.

The people the far right here would like are an illegal party in germany.

[madokie]

10. spot on

[bananas]

11. Merkel ally quits after claiming Nazis didn't start war

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/merkel-ally-quits-after-claiming-nazis-didnt-start-war-2076379.html

Merkel ally quits after claiming Nazis didn't start war
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
Saturday, 11 September 2010

In Poland, she remains Germany's most hated living politician. Her unashamedly revanchist political views once prompted a Warsaw news magazine to portray her on its front cover clad in a sinister, swastika-covered Nazi SS uniform.

But yesterday, Erika Steinbach, probably the last surviving bête noire in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative government, took the first step towards bowing out of politics altogether after she started an explosive row over who was to blame for starting the Second World War.

Mrs Steinbach, 67, announced her formal departure from the leadership of Ms Merkel's Christian Democratic Party after enraging Germany's Central Council of Jews by inferring that Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939 was merely a response to Poland's military mobilisation earlier that year.

"I am beginning to get the impression that you can't say what you want in Germany any more, even if one is talking about facts," is how the veteran right-winger responded to criticism from within her own party and its liberal coalition partners about her remarks. A Polish government spokesman said her comments were identical to " Nazi propaganda".

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[Confusious]

13. you missed

"They interpreted Mrs Steinbach's resignation as an important victory for Ms Merkel, who has suffered her as an uncomfortable party bedfellow for the past decade. Opinion polls have shown that most Germans no longer have much sympathy for expellees."

Why would it be a victory if she was such an ally?

Maybe you would like people to judge the democratic party on the basis of one person? Bill nelson, Evan Bayh, joe lieberman?

One person in a party of millions is not representative of the entire party.