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Japan’s Economy Minister call for renewable energy revolution, with nuclear shutdown

Fukushima Watch: The No-Nukes Minister, WSJ, September 6, 2012,  By Takashi Mochizuki As the government finalizes its long-term energy plan, one cabinet member, Economy Minister Motohisa Furukawa, is ramping up a public campaign for zeroing out nuclear power. “It’s sad that people will become unable to go back to places where they were born, and nuclearpower has such risk.

It’s an important mission of the government, and mine as a policy maker, to eliminate such a sad risk,” Mr. Furukawa said in a speech at a conference on renewable energy Thursday….. Mr. Furukawa says dropping nukes could be good for Japan’s economy, by spurring renewable energy production. “I see great possibilities in green energy, where innovation will give birth to more innovation,” he said in his speech…..
In his latest speech, Mr. Furukawa compared Japan’s economy to the U.S. a decade ago. The U.S. succeeded, he said, in propelling economic expansion by letting information technology industries flourish. He said it’s time for Japan to do the same by feeding renewable energies
and dumping nukes.
http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2012/09/06/fukushima-watch-the-no-nukes-minister/

September 6, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general