German CEO: "We Can't Fill All of Germany with Windmills"

May 7 (EIRNS)--Wulf Bernotat, the CEO of Germany's energy firm E.ON, today denounced the nonsensical anti-nuclear policy of Germany, and the misplaced emphasis on climate rather than energy policy, which are responsible for the fact that the so-called "national energy summits" in Germany have all failed to answer the question of where energy is to come from in the future. Even if Germany wants to meet climate protection targets, he told Die Welt today, it is an illusion to believe that coal and nuclear power can be replaced by so-called renewables. "We cannot fill all of Germany with windmills." Bernotat accused politicians of capitulating to public opinion. In private, he said, the politicians tell him that Germany's exit from nuclear power is "nonsense," but they would never tell their own constituents that. Under such conditions, the issue of energy is left hostage to emotions and sober arguments are not possible in the public debate.

Bernotat also attacked the supranational EU Commission in Brussels for its deregulation strategy for energy prices and power grids, as creating obstacles for investments.

Asked why E.ON is not repatriating its profits from its stake in Gazprom in Russia to invest in Germany, Bernotat said that its profits made in Russia will remain in Russia for investments there. On May 4, Burnotat had announced that E.ON intended to invest in building nuclear power plants in Eastern Europe and Turkey, and was looking for a partner in Russia.

As in the case of Maglev, nuclear power plants can be built abroad by German companies, but not in Germany itself as long as the genocidal, Green ideology of Al Gore continues to be tolerated.