The Economic Council of the CDU has warned of major damage to German companies in view of the impending shutdown of the last three nuclear power plants in Germany. “The shutdown of the nuclear power plants next Saturday is a great danger for Germany as a business location,” said association president Astrid Hamker to the newspapers of the editorial network Germany (RND, Wednesday editions). “Cuting the supply on the energy market when inflation rates are high is an economically unwise decision,” Hamker continued. “As long as the economy suffers from high inflation rates, all power plants must be connected to the grid.”
Hamker also warned of rising electricity prices. “The shutdown of nuclear power plants makes electricity prices more expensive for our companies,” she told the RND newspapers, predicting job losses. “While our European neighbors want to build nuclear facilities and restart production in their own country, the federal government is promoting the further migration of know-how and the loss of secure industrial jobs.”
The last three nuclear power plants are switched off
The FDP also intensified its criticism of the nuclear phase-out planned for Saturday. “The shutdown of the world’s most modern and safest nuclear power plants in Germany is a dramatic mistake that will have painful economic and ecological consequences for us,” said FDP Vice President Wolfgang Kubicki to the newspapers of the Funke media group (Wednesday editions). “Anyone who relies on coal power while low-carbon nuclear power plants are being planned and built around the world must not appeal to reason or science.”
The struggle of the Greens obviously does not serve the world climate, but the “satisfaction of a clientele who finally want to win the ideological struggles of their youth,” said Kubicki. On Saturday, the last three German nuclear power plants Isar 2, Neckarwestheim and Emsland will go offline. The operators have already prepared for the decommissioning.
