1. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    on nuclear power: The nuclear era is gradually coming to an end. The share of nuclear energy worldwide continues to decline. While Germans are worried about ailing nuclear power plants in France, China is relying more on renewables. BERLIN taz | A symbolic development: for the first time in around 40 years, the share of nuclear power in global electricity generation reached single digits again in 2021. Only 9,8 percent of the electricity...

  2. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    Bärbel Bas (SPD) would support keeping the gas importer Uniper permanently in state hands. She also advocates nationalizing the supply of water, electricity and gas. Berlin. Bundestag President Bärbel Bas (SPD) is calling for the basic energy supply to be placed comprehensively in state hands. “When it comes to water, electricity or gas, you have to ask yourself whether the supply...

  3. Newsletter XXXVII 2022 - September 17 to 23 - News+ Low-level ionizing radiation also poses a risk

    demonstrate for the climate The "Fridays for Future" movement had called for a global climate strike today - and numerous people followed the call in more than 250 cities. In Berlin alone, 30.000 took to the streets for climate justice. [...] People also took to the streets in many other countries - for example in New Zealand, Indonesia or the Democratic Republic of Congo. It...

  4. Newsletter XXXVI 2022 - September 09th to 16th - News+ permanent vigil in front of ANF Framatome in Lingen

    Photovoltaic systems must be installed on all new non-residential buildings; other countries are hesitant. Other countries will also follow, but the details will differ in each case. In Berlin, the solar law has stipulated a solar obligation from January 2023, which applies to new buildings and, in the case of roof modifications, also to existing buildings. In Hamburg there will also be a requirement from January 2023...

  5. Newsletter XXXV 2022 - September 01st to 08th - News+ No nuclear power plant runtime extensions!

    German nuclear power plants should be available as emergency reserves for electricity supply until next spring. This is the result of a stress test that Economics Minister Habeck presented in Berlin. Accordingly, the two power plants Neckarwestheim 2 in Baden-Württemberg and Isar 2 in Bavaria should form an “operational reserve until mid-April 2023”. The third remaining Emsland power plant should...

  6. Newsletter XXXIII 2022 - August 14th to 21st - News+ Brainwashed? – Strategic communication!

    Six Greenpeace activists protested a four-ton replica of the yellow Castor container on Thursday morning in front of the party headquarters of Alliance 90/The Greens in Berlin. They unfurled a banner reading “Nuclear power? Not a day longer!”. With this, the environmentalists referred to the claims made by prominent politicians from the ranks of...

  7. Newsletter XXXII 2022 - August 07th to 13th - News+ Real existing politicians who do not do what is necessary

    that Isar 2 still has unused fuel elements to this extent? Is this a bad corporate strategy, or was an 'arrow' deliberately placed in the quiver in order to put the governing coalition in Berlin in trouble?" ask the nuclear power opponents from Wendland... * Speicher | Control power | Excess electricity Energy supply What happens to excess electricity The...

  8. Newsletter XXXI 2022 - August 01st to 06th - News+ Withdraw the nuclear weapons from Europe!

    "served the purpose of deterring the Soviet Union," the traditional Swiss newspaper Der Bund quoted him as saying... * TÜV Süd | Report Federal Environment Ministry sharply criticizes TÜV paper on nuclear power plants Berlin A report on the two Bavarian nuclear power plants has been heavily criticized the requirements of nuclear law, according to the Federal Environment Ministry. The TÜV does not have the mandate...

  9. Newsletter XXIX 2022 - July 17th to 24th - News+ Government in the climate crisis

    Otto Schily (SPD) has warned against Germany taking a one-sided course towards Ukraine. “A bellicism has spread in Germany that is risky,” Schily told the German Press Agency in Berlin. “The Greens, of all places, are too one-sided here,” said Schily... * Austria | Zwentendorf referendum destroys jobs and dreams An extremely narrow majority of...

  10. Newsletter XXVI 2022 - June 26th to July 01st - News+ Study: Renewable energies more reliable than nuclear energy

    | Nuclear repair | reliable Uncertain Study: renewable energy more reliable than nuclear energy According to a new study by the German research institute DIW and the Technical University of Berlin, nuclear energy is far less reliable than previously assumed. The study, carried out on behalf of the Swiss Energy Foundation (SES), raises serious questions about...

  11. Newsletter XXIV 2022 - June 10th to 17th - News+ Majority for nuclear weapons? – Now the peace movement speaks

    Opes Solutions integrates lightweight solar modules without glass, but with recycled plastic from the sea, into vehicles. The panels replace the shell of the car or trailer. The Berlin company has also optimized the layout of the modules for this purpose. * Denmark | Energy transition | CO2 | CCS Danish energy company uses government funding to enter controversial CCS Ørsted wants to...

  12. Newsletter XXIII 2022 - June 01st to 09th - News+ Noam Chomsky: From Class Struggle to Green Revolution

    from 2035 In the fight for more climate protection, the EU Parliament wants to ban the sale of new cars with combustion engines from 2035. * Wind | Wannsee | renewable Renewable energies in Berlin Association suggests Wannsee reactor as a location for wind turbines Under pressure from the federal government, Berlin is looking for ways to set up wind turbines in the city. More options seem conceivable than...

  13. Newsletter XXI 2022 - May 20th to 26th - News+ Politics of the forked tongue: They talk about peace but want war

    But according to his latest report, politicians are not preparing adequately for the “new era”. * FDP | Federal states | Wind DUH Accusation: FDP and several federal states are slowing down wind energy from Berlin - The Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) intends to ban states' own blanket distance regulations for wind energy in May 2022. So far the FDP has...

  14. Newsletter XX 2022 - May 13th to 19th - News+ A flood of open letters and the day of freedom of the press

    is being used. This measure should apply for twelve months and relieve consumers. * Taxonomy | Greenwashing | Objection Germany opposes green EU label for nuclear power Brussels/Berlin - As announced, Germany will speak out against a sustainability label for nuclear power proposed by the EU Commission. * Russia | Finland | Sweden | NATO Russian response to...

  15. Newsletter XVI 2022 - April 15-21 - News+ Ukraine: When consumers want to avoid war

    tearing up the ground in front of the Ministry of Economic Affairs Disguised as construction workers, activists from the climate protest group “Last Generation” tore up the sidewalk in front of the Federal Ministry of Economics in Berlin. They laid down pipes labeled “Qatar Stream” and sat in front of the entrance to the building with a banner reading “Stop Fossil Madness.” * Easter March |...

  16. Newsletter XIV 2022 - April 01st to 07th - News+ Media: The truth and all the other victims

    to accelerate Russian energy imports. In the future, clear and binding rules for species protection should apply when expanding wind energy * Renewable Cuba is exploring energy cooperation in Berlin The Cuban Minister for Energy and Mining, Nicolás Liván Arronte, is currently in Berlin and took part in the Berlin Dialogue on the Energy Transition 2022... * Duration | Nuclear lobby | Kin...

  17. Newsletter XIII 2022 - March 26-31 - News+ A month of war in Ukraine: developing a tragedy

    responsible. Because of them, the then federal government practically liquidated the solar industry between 2012 and 2015, explains the professor for renewable energy systems from HTW Berlin in ntv's "Climate Laboratory". "That's the fatal thing," he says. Germany gave the world cheap solar energy, but it stopped using it at exactly that moment. Is a comeback possible?...

  18. Newsletter XI 2022 - March 12th to 18th - News+ Poisoned Bravery

    | Ukraine | Russia “You don't stop Putin with peace doves” Everyone wants an end to the war - but the path is controversial More than 20.000 people took part in the peace demonstration in Berlin - including refugees from Ukraine. There is disagreement about what to do against Putin... "Slava Ukraini", honor of Ukraine, she shouted loudly, stretched the Ukrainian flag into the sky and said...

  19. Newsletter IX 2022 - February 28th to March 06th - News+ Farewell to Russian gas – who wins, who loses

    Actions by the peace movement as well as at the memorial and protest events on the occasion of the 11th Fukushima anniversary (March 11, 2022) at the Lingen and Neckarwestheim nuclear power plant sites and in Berlin. Supporting organizations: • .broadcast • AG Schacht Konrad • Action alliance CASTOR resistance Neckarwestheim • Action alliance Energiewende Heilbronn • Action alliance Münsterland against...

  20. Newsletter VIII 2022 - February 20-27 - News+ America's disastrous 60-year war

    criminal liars like the horror clowns Don Trumpl and Kim Young nonsense. Just another fake giant, pocket filler and "great statesman" Putin "The most terrible"... * Peace rally in Berlin-Mitte Hundreds of thousands demonstrate in Berlin against the attack on Ukraine The rush to the peace rally against the Russian attack on Ukraine is huge: the police speak so far...