25.04.2008 - Czech president "wins" another anti-prize related to environment
Klaus owes his "victory" to his interview with the daily Hospodarske noviny in which he said "I can't see any devastation of the planet, I've never seen any in my life and I don't think any serious and sensible man could say this."
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Klaus received a Green Pearl once in the past, in 2005, for his statement in the daily Pravo: "Civic society means a challenge to free society! It is every democrat's duty to do his utmost for all his life to fight against it!"
Klaus was also proposed for Oil Guzzler, another anti-prize presented for the most environment-unfriendly act of the year.
He was nominated for "playing down the risks posed by the global climate change and for his book Blue, Not Green Planet," the organisers said.
Klaus was declared Oil Guzzler in 1993, when he was prime minister, for pushing through the completion of the Temelin nuclear power plant and for promoting financial policy that transforms nature into a single economic indicator - the GDP.
The 2007 Oil Guzzler finally went to Jiri Hodac, deputy transport minister who allegedly threatened to sue civic associations over the financial damage they allegedly caused by participating in construction proceedings.
Hodac also boycotted the government decision under which an expert team was to be established to assess alternatives to certain motorway projects.
As a result, the projects' preparation goes on though they are controversial from the environment's point of view, the organisers of the poll say.
Last year, the Oil Guzzler nominees included Prague Mayor Pavel Bem for his promotion of the construction of skyscrapers on Prague's Pankrac plain, and Bohumir Rada, a farming cooperative head who planned to establish a big crocodile farm in south Moravia.
(Ceske Noviny)
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