Austrian government joins voices opposing Temelin nuclear plant

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@aecl.ca>]

.....another ex-Green guy ?  (..like Ulli Simao ?)

http://www.ctknews.com/tuectk.html
Austrian government joins voices opposing Temelin nuclear plant
VIENNA, March 28 (CTK) - The Austrian government is "offensively seizing"
the opportunity to voice its opposition to the construction of the Temelin
nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic, Austrian Environment Minister
Wilhelm Molterer said today after a cabinet meeting in Vienna.
Molterer also said that "final evaluations of impact on the environment are
not possible" on the basis of the groundwork documents presented by the
Czech side.
According to information available to Austria, the analyses and data on the
probability of incidents at the plant are insufficient, Molterer said.
Molterer at the same time praised what he called "the new information
policy" from the Czech side.

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Jaro

> From: 	Franz Schoenhofer[SMTP:schoenho@via.at]
> Reply To: 	radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
> Sent: 	Wednesday March 22, 2000 4:42 PM
> To: 	Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: 	Re: Austrian opposition against Temelin
> 
> At 17:01 21.03.2000 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >Franz, was this also ignored in your local media ?    ...thanks,   Jaro.
> >
> >http://www.ctknews.com/monctk.html
> >SPOe launches "objection campaign" against Temelin
> >VIENNA, March 20 (CTK) - The Austrian opposition Social Democrat (SPOe)
> >deputy Ulli Simao and "Team for Vienna" started distributing postcards
> that
> >Austrians can send the Czech Environment Ministry with their objections
> to
> >the construction of the nuclear power plant Temelin, south Bohemia, in
> >Vienna today.
> >The SPOe press department in Vienna said that the campaign was connected
> to
> >the planned discussion on changes in Temelin's auxiliary plants since not
> >only Czechs but also foreigners including Austrians can send Czech
> >authorities their objections, according to the law on environment impact
> >assessment.
> >Simao said that "every signature counts" adding that it was the first
> time
> >that Austrians could state their objections.
> >
> >
> 
> I have been last week in Cordoba at the IAEA conference on Radioactive
> Waste Management. But today I saw such a postcard shown by a collegue of
> mine at the Federal Chancellery. I really do not know about the reaction
> of
> the Austrian press, because I have not been in Austria.
> 
> In order to compensate you for the not-possible answer to your direct
> question I would like to inform you that "Ulli Sima" (Ulli is the short
> form for Ulrike and is obviously used by her to create positive emotions
> for her among lower class persons) is a former member of the green party,
> who had several positions in the green party, but who changed to the SPOe
> very shortly before the last election, "probably" in order to be more
> successful and to reach higher positions in politics than would have been
> possible in the green party. Of course she will tell you that she did this
> only for the sake of the environment. 
> 
> We face everywhere in the world the problem of protest. I do not want to
> blame the Czech authorities for giving Austrians the possibility to put
> forward their "objections", but then it should not be surprising that they
> take the chance for their agitation.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Franz
> 
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