1. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    as a “nuclear bomb for our country”, suddenly complain about a lack of “openness to technology” and talk about 100 questions? Why is the – unchanged – law blocked by the FDP two months later? And who is lying to whom here?... * Heat pump | Collect data | Heat transition Heat transition: Why useful energy is so important End consumers expect the heating in winter to ensure that they...

  2. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    Liberal ranks. The spirit that always denies In the traffic light coalition, the FDP reliably acts as a “spirit that always denies”: the heat transition is happening too quickly for it, the transport transition is blocking it as much as it can. It does not offer alternatives for climate protection measures - that is anything but constructive... * Earth Overload Day

  3. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    and for electricity production. So far, however, interested farmers have had to fight against sometimes strong resistance. This could change now. [...] Farmer Hussong's plan has been blocked since 2018. Ironically, the Saarland Chamber of Agriculture refused to approve his project for years. At a general meeting in 2012, it decided that PV systems should not...

  4. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    achieved. Also at the price that climate-damaging coal-fired power plants will step in as a reserve where renewables have not yet been sufficiently developed. Union has blocked the nuclear phase-out for years The Union has blocked their expansion and that of the necessary transmission networks for years - even though they themselves decided on the nuclear phase-out that is now taking place in 2011 - together...

  5. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    Due to moisture, two water pumps in the secondary circuit in the reactor automatically switched off, whereupon two emergency pumps started up. However, their water inflow was blocked because of two valves that had not been opened again after previous maintenance. This led to the dissipation of decay heat in the reactor, which was then shut down, collapsing and the fuel rods becoming...

  6. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    - Nuclear power accidents by country#France *** March 12th Wissing Lobbyist | combustion engine | E-Fuels | Exxon Wissing blocks the end of combustion engines: E-fuels could save Big Oil The FDP is fighting against the end of combustion engines and the use of synthetic fuels. Who is lobbying for it – and who benefits from it. BERLIN taz | The FDP has plunged Europe into chaos: It has long wanted to...

  7. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    The study shows that not a single bird collided with a rotor blade during the entire monitoring period... * Isar | Shut down | Decentralized power supply Isar II nuclear power plant blocked - activists demand final nuclear phase-out At midday on Saturday, around 50 supporters of the “Shutdown” initiative blocked the Isar II nuclear power plant near Landshut. In a press release...

  8. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    if the material does not radiate. The operator EnBW sees the Karlsruhe district as having an obligation to dispose of waste, but there is a legal dispute with the Enzkreis... * Isar | End of term | Access blocked Activists block access to the Isar 2 nuclear power plant On Saturday, around 50 demonstrators blocked access to the Isar 2 nuclear power plant near Landshut. The opponents of nuclear power wanted...

  9. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    considered sustainable and appropriately worthy of funding. This could cause a dispute between Germany and France, which are divided on the nuclear issue... * Bundesrat | Whistleblower Federal Council blocks: What bothers the states about the whistleblower law More than a year ago, Germany should have introduced better protection for whistleblowers. Now the Federal Council is blocking the law. The...

  10. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    to the Emsland nuclear power plant In protest against continued operation, around 30 climate activists blocked access to the Emsland nuclear power plant with a “non-violent sit-in” on Sunday. Police described the action as peaceful. The activists announced “larger actions of civil disobedience” in the event that a further extension of the term was discussed. The nuclear power plant...

  11. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    towards 30 billion euros. “And I assume that we will have 40 billion in backlog next year,” added the entrepreneur... * Climate policy protest | Energy transition blocked About politics and protest: Is this time still suitable for us? Everyone wants to save the climate – and wastes a lot of energy in the process. Here protest folklore, there green realpolitik. And in between: a lot...

  12. Newsletter L 2022 - December 15th to 19th - News+ Criminalization of activists of the last generation

    Talking about putting us on track for a fusion reactor is more PR for further funding of research than reality. It's time to land... * Energy transition | Politics blocked | Farmers Politics blocks energy transition Interest in photovoltaic open spaces in the southwest greater than permitted The targeted expansion volume of 200 megawatts annually for PV open spaces in RLP...

  13. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    connected. Nothing more can be elicited from him. The message can be heard across the country in a similar way: This federal government is torn apart when it comes to climate and is therefore at least partially blocked. The first finding is obvious. No less than six departments in the traffic light government are supposed to take care of the climate: economy, environment, development, transport, construction and the foreign office. And...

  14. Newsletter XLVIII 2022 - December 01st to 07th - News+ The New York Times and the new climate deniers

    PPAs for short are now the method of choice for supplying this CO2-free electricity to customers such as industry and companies. This instrument is massively blocked by the way in which revenue is skimmed off, as financing is no longer possible in this way. New systems are becoming more expensive and green, cheaper electricity for industry and medium-sized businesses is becoming significantly scarcer. Companies are increasingly relying on...

  15. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    When public debate is dominated by morality and feelings are fueled and exploited, factual arguments have a hard time and sober and rational debate is blocked... *** December 29th Resistance | Exit | Stretch operation Nuclear phase-out as a success story Stretch operation postpones the end of nuclear power plants in Germany The use of nuclear power in Germany would...

  16. Newsletter XLVII 2022 - November 24th to 30th - News+ More garbage to Grafenrheinfeld: The Schweinfurt action alliance against nuclear power is concerned

    So it's actually possible in Munich too. The proponents of a nuclear arms policy ala Franz Josef Strauss gasp. * Penalties | Last generation | Climate glue airport blocked: Completely exaggerated reactions “Last Generation” briefly paralyzes BER. The response from conservative and social democratic politicians raises fears of harsh repression for all those who do not...

  17. Newsletter XLI 2022 - October 16th to 22nd - News+ The "Friends of MIK" in AFD, CDU/CSU and FDP are ready to fight for the nuclear industry until democracy is over

    out declared a savior. The reality is that we have an enormous surplus of electricity and wind turbines for nuclear and coal are constantly being shut down. This also drives up the price of electricity and blocks the energy transition. With the Chancellor's "power word", the SPD and the Greens in Lower Saxony are breaking their first election promise even before the state government is formed and the Green party congress resolutions are being kept...

  18. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    on Thursday at a meeting of a public monitoring commission in Colmar... * Green Party Congress | Climate protection | Expansion of wind and solar “Everything is far too complicated and a lot of things are blocked” The Greens are meeting at the federal party conference at the weekend. Climate activists are bothered by too much government pragmatism in Berlin and also in North Rhine-Westphalia. Reiner Priggen, the green doyen in...

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

    The majority of nuclear power plants are not working precisely due to drought and safety deficiencies. Nuclear power is and remains a high-risk technology... * Use reserve | Blackout | Energy transition blocked No blackout The electricity stress test is here: Two nuclear power plants will remain in reserve after January 1st. That's okay, but now the big offensive to transform the energy system must finally begin...

  20. Newsletter XXXIV 2022 - August 22nd to 31st - News+ Nuclear power plant Neckarwestheim 2: Hundreds of damage to pipes hidden

    New York, they had not found a consensus on future disarmament agreements. In the end, it was Russia that formally blocked passage through the operation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. However, the nuclear weapons states and their allies had previously blocked other important agreements. [...] The IPPNW focuses on the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons...

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