An evil plan hatched by dirty nuclear dog ENEL, leaked to Greenpeace
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By Aslihan Tumer , Nuclear campaigner at Greenpeace International
The Mochovce plant is a nuclear dog whose owners like very dirty tricks.
It seems that the Nukes industry has been up to its old tricks in trying to prevent any sort of transparent public process. In this case “seeing it” is definitely “believing it”.
Some kind soul leaked our colleagues in Slovakia a power point presentation which outlines the dastardly plans of the Slovak electric utility, whose majority owners are Italian company ENEL, for the up and coming environmental impact assessment of Mochvoce - their nuclear reactor. [Check out an example from their Powerpoint presentation below.]
They have so little confidence in their “clean & safe” reactor that they came up with this lovely plan to do as much as possible to manipulate the public hearings in order to make sure things go well for them.
They want to:
• prevent any protests in the area by organizing their own demonstrations
• restrict the participation of the public in a “public” hearing
• reach the lowest possible media and public attention
• prevent a legally required hearing in the neighbouring country of Austria
So another nuclear utility bites the 'transparency dust'. ENEL has always presented itself as a champion in transparency. With this document it shows it is willing to use communist era manipulation to avoid public scrutiny. And with reason: the Mochovce project sports two 1970s Russian designed nuclear reactors that are not even equipped with secondary containment. No wonder they don’t want anyone finding out.
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Update: The Powerpoint presentation is now available here.
Update 22/09: Greenpeace asked Paolo Ruzzini, CEO of Slovenské elektrárne, 15 questions about the preparation of the public hearing for the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Mochovce 3,4 nuclear reactor project. Here's his answer.
Comments
Why not release the whole Powerpoint presentation? I don't see the issue of their own demostrations displayed in the slide shown, and as much as I support Greenpeace, I'm not prone to blindly believe things that are not shown...
Posted by: Marcos | September 11, 2009 6:01 PM
There's a link to the entire Powerpoint presentation in the blog post - here's the link again: *Updated link: http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/mochovce-leaked-presentation
Posted by: Laura | September 11, 2009 6:05 PM
Link is dead.
Posted by: Marci | September 11, 2009 8:17 PM
the link to the powerpoint is broken.. I wouls really love to read it..
Posted by: lylu | September 11, 2009 11:30 PM
hi there, the link to ppt doesn't work ... here's the error message -
"Sorry! We couldn't find that page!"
Posted by: reuben | September 12, 2009 2:13 AM
Marcos, you can also find it on: http://greenpeace.hu/up_files/1252659758Mochovce.pdf
Posted by: Jan Haverkamp - Greenpeace | September 12, 2009 10:03 AM
(Slovak original under) (Translation from Slovak by Jan Haverkamp)
Slovenske elektrarne is preparaed to participate in public EIA hearing in Slovakia and Austria
Bratislava, 11 September 2009 – Every step of Slovenske elektrarne a.s. in the environmental impact assessment process (EIA) was prepared strictly within the law. The company confirms its transparency in the EIA process for the construction of the 3rd and 4th block of the NPP Mochovce inviting all interested parties and media to the public hearing that will take place on 18 September in Bratislava. According to the information published by the Ministry of Environment of the Slovak Republic and Austria there will be a public hearing on 25 September in Vienna, Austria. Experts of Slovenske elektrarne are prepared to participate there, as prescribed in local and international law, and are prepared to communicate with all interested parties in the construction of the 3rd and 4th block of the NPP Mochovce.
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SLOVENSKÉ ELEKTRÁRNE SÚ PRIPRAVENÉ ZÚČASTNIŤSA NA VEREJNOM
PREROKOVANÍ EIA V SR A RAKÚSKU
Bratislava, 11. september 2009 – Každýkrok Slovenských elektrární, a.s., v procese posudzovania vplyvov na životnéprostredie (EIA) bol spravený striktne v súlade so zákonom. Spoločnosť potvrdzuje svoju transparentnosť v procese EIA na Dostavbu 3. a 4. bloku AE Mochovce pozvaním všetkých zainteresovaných strán a médií na verejné prerokovanie, ktoré sa uskutoční 18. septembra v Bratislave. Podľa informácií zverejnených Ministerstvom životného prostredia SR a Rakúska sa prerokovanie uskutoční aj 25. septembra v rakúskej Viedni. Odborníci zo Slovenských elektrární sú pripravení zúčastniť sa na ňom, v súlade s miestnou a medzinárodnou legislatívou, a sú pripravení komunikovať všetkým zainteresovaným stranám prínosy Dostavby 3. a 4. bloku AE Mochovce.
Posted by: Jan Haverkamp - Greenpeace | September 12, 2009 10:25 AM
Interesting to see in the official reaction from SE that it avoids mentioning ENEL, it does not deny having produced this powerpoint, and that it denies to be aware that most of the manipulations proposed in the powerpoint are in breach of the law. What is the status of this strategy paper?
Greenpeace has asked SE CEO Paolo Ruzzini 15 questions of clarifications. Curious on the answer.
Posted by: Jan Haverkamp - Greenpeace | September 12, 2009 10:28 AM
The lionk does not work so I wonder too why we cannotv see the whole power point with the alleged offences.
Posted by: Iain Plumtree | September 12, 2009 6:07 PM
It works, although a bit slow:
http://greenpeace.hu/up_files/1252659758Mochovce.pdf
Posted by: Bob | September 17, 2009 8:35 PM