“We do things we didn’t want to do, but we need quick solutions to existential problems,” Nouripour told the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post” and the Bonn “General-Anzeiger” (Friday editions) in view of the energy crisis caused by the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine to phase out nuclear power and coal.
The Greens stuck to their goal, Nouripour assured. “But if the two nuclear power plants in the south are needed for grid stability this winter, because Bavaria in particular has skipped grid expansion after all these years of the CSU government in energy policy, then we will support it.”
According to the party leader, this does not mean a fundamental change of course. “Our program is our compass. We stick to the lesson. Our people understand that”, assures Nouripour. The Greens remained the “anti-nuclear party”.
As for the climate-damaging energy source of coal, Nouripour said the coal phase-out in North Rhine-Westphalia, which was brought forward by eight years, is also a model for an earlier coal phase-out across Germany. “We need to get rid of coal at high speed and massively expand renewables,” he demanded.
(SDA)
Source: Blick
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