There is no one to blame but Putin.
This is an emergency procedure due to Russia’s invasion in Ukraine. Without the invasion, the backup coal plants would just stay backup. As coal plants need weeks to start up, they cannot just be turned on when needed. They need to be turned on early and likely run with low power through the winter, just in case they might be needed. This is bad too. This is due to Putin’s war.
It’s silly to make connections to the 1986 & 2011 nuclear exit, when the cause for this short-term measure is a recent event. Without Russia invading Ukraine, the coal plants would stay off.
Tbf Germany is also very much in fault at failing to build nuclear power plants and fueling anti nuclear sentiment among their population.
Putin isn’t to blame for decades of terrible energy politics and Germany becoming depended on Russian energy even though everybody told us it was a bad idea.
The blame goes on Germany backing up Ukraine and fighting the war for USA’s personal war profiteering terrorist fetishes. This is why in East Germany, there is so much support garnering for Putin, to counterbalance supporting NATO bullshit. Citizens are suffering and they cannot keep blaming it on Putin, even after USA purposely blew up Nordstream pipelines to make Germany their oil slave.
Does anyone know of a Lemmy instance that blocks obvious Russian propaganda like this?
Edit to say: This guy moderates 3 forums!
Historical facts are Russian propaganda!!! Go to Reddit, only lies and white supremacists, no pro-Chinese/Russian facts.
Nobody asked you to post your IRL pictures, creepo.
Cool cool cool. I love the environment, unless it’s too expensive.
And another thread of “oh no! they fuck the environment and us all” when the reality is the lowest coal use in Germany for decades. With a hike in reduction the moment these shitty nuclear reactors providing basically nothing (>2% in the months they were still running) but getting renewable energy shut down were finally gone
Reactivating coal power plants for winter in case they should be needed is not the same as actually burning coal. Not that any of your favorite propagandists would ever tell you that secret.
Do you understand how coal power plants work?
Do you understand how reality works? You know this strange thing were coal usage in Germany is going down constantly while everyone is screaming at the top of their lungs how Germany is burning more coal?
