I think some local context is worth it (I’m Swedish). This is a result of the fairly new parliamentary coalition in Sweden between the right wing conservatives and the fascist party. The position of the fascists range from that climate change is a hoax to climate policy doesn’t work. The conservatives have generally just used nuclear power as a copout so they won’t have to acknowledge that they lack any climate policy. They also have several open climate change deniers in parliament.
Since they took power, they’ve been shutting down project after project, budget after budget relating to climate policy (edit: especially when to comes to solar and wind power, and deforestation), especially after completely shutting down the department for environmental policy. So my guess is that this is mostly a way to cancel the old plan to make Sweden fossil free.
Thank you for the context. This is exactly the reason I voted to exit nuclear here in Switzerland back in 2017. I’d have been happy to keep nuclear (it’s not ideal but trading a problem that needs solving in a decade for one that needs solving in a century is an improvemnt) but I felt it was used as a crutch to kick the sustainability issue down the road. And it sure looks like I was right.
They dragged their feet some more in 2018-19 but 2020 was the first year where the previous record from 2015 of 340MW of additional capacity was surpassed and since then each year we’re building a good chunk more than the year before. We still got a huge ways to go but it feels good no longer being the back end of the train.
But as soon as the new climate law was voted in the regressives in the country started crying for more nuclear again…
I think some local context is worth it (I’m Swedish). This is a result of the fairly new parliamentary coalition in Sweden between the right wing conservatives and the fascist party. The position of the fascists range from that climate change is a hoax to climate policy doesn’t work. The conservatives have generally just used nuclear power as a copout so they won’t have to acknowledge that they lack any climate policy. They also have several open climate change deniers in parliament.
Since they took power, they’ve been shutting down project after project, budget after budget relating to climate policy (edit: especially when to comes to solar and wind power, and deforestation), especially after completely shutting down the department for environmental policy. So my guess is that this is mostly a way to cancel the old plan to make Sweden fossil free.
Thank you for the context. This is exactly the reason I voted to exit nuclear here in Switzerland back in 2017. I’d have been happy to keep nuclear (it’s not ideal but trading a problem that needs solving in a decade for one that needs solving in a century is an improvemnt) but I felt it was used as a crutch to kick the sustainability issue down the road. And it sure looks like I was right.
They dragged their feet some more in 2018-19 but 2020 was the first year where the previous record from 2015 of 340MW of additional capacity was surpassed and since then each year we’re building a good chunk more than the year before. We still got a huge ways to go but it feels good no longer being the back end of the train.
But as soon as the new climate law was voted in the regressives in the country started crying for more nuclear again…