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bananas

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Sat Oct 11, 2014, 06:04 PM Oct 2014

Austria sees red over UK nuclear plant at Hinkley Point as it accuses EU of misinterpreting the rule

Source: Financial Mail on Sunday

Austria is set to accuse the European Commission of misinterpreting the rules over state aid after it gave the go-ahead to Britain’s planned £18billion nuclear power station at Hinkley Point in Somerset.

The country opposed the EC’s clearance of the scheme last week and said EC competition law allowed for state aid in energy to be proportional and only for infant technologies, which was not the case with Hinkley Point, which will be built by France’s EDF.

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Austria’s chancellor, Werner Faymann, has written to EC president Jose Manuel Barroso warning him to ‘expect a lawsuit at the highest court’, which would be the European Court of Justice.

‘Alternative forms of energy are worthy of subsidies, not nuclear energy,’ he said

Read more: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-2789329/austria-sees-red-uk-nuclear-plant-hinkley-point.html

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Austria sees red over UK nuclear plant at Hinkley Point as it accuses EU of misinterpreting the rule (Original Post) bananas Oct 2014 OP
Austria is right--alternative sources of power such as wind and solar should be subsidized. Louisiana1976 Oct 2014 #1
Wind and solar ARE being subsidized in the UK FBaggins Oct 2014 #2

FBaggins

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2. Wind and solar ARE being subsidized in the UK
Sat Oct 11, 2014, 09:41 PM
Oct 2014

In fact, the UK promises higher prices for solar and wind (particularly offshore wind) than what they've offered the nuclear plants.

It isn't a question of either/or... it's both instead of coal.


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