POOR DEAL FOR NUCLEAR IN EU CARBON TRADING EXEMPTIONS
September 1st, 2009
BY EMMA JACKSON
MOST nuclear energy activities have been left out of a new European Commission list of industries exempt from the European Union's (EU) plans to auction carbon dioxide emissions permits from 2013.
Brussels unveiled on September 18 (NOTE - JEREMY ACTUALLY THIS WAS RELEASED LATE FRIDAY) a draft list of industrial and business sectors it fears could relocate outside Europe to jurisdictions with weaker climate change rules in future. Among these was the processing of nuclear fuel, which will be given carbon emission permits under the EU's emissions ...
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