Mon, Nov 13th 2023
The Swiss Energy Club’s Stop Blackout Initiative already has 120,000 signatures. It has therefore passed the hurdle of the required 100,000 signatures. The initiative aims to lift the ban on the construction of nuclear power plants in Switzerland.
The Energy Club is now in the process of certifying the collected signatures, wrote its president and Solothurn SVP politician Vanessa Meury at the request of the Keystone-SDA news agency, confirming a report in the Sonntagszeitung newspaper.
The initiative was launched with the aim of being able to build nuclear power plants in Switzerland again. Without electricity, society and the economy would grind to a halt, the committee wrote at the launch in August 2022, adding: “Switzerland must now urgently ensure a secure, independent, environmentally friendly and climate-friendly power supply.”
Among other things, it should be stipulated in the constitution that “all climate-friendly forms of electricity generation are permitted”. This would allow the construction of new nuclear power plants in Switzerland again. The committee criticizes the fact that this is currently prohibited as a “nonsensical ban on technology”. The environmentally and climate-friendly combination of hydropower and nuclear power is being abandoned without necessity.
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