120,000 signatures for stop blackout initiative
Published: Sunday, Nov 12th 2023, 16:01
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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.
Le Club de l'énergie est en train de certifier les signatures récoltées, a écrit sa présidente et politicienne UDC soleuroise Vanessa Meury à la demande de l'agence de presse Keystone-SDA, confirmant une information du journal Sonntagszeitung.
The initiative was launched by bourgeois circles 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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