Kuchtova argues that the commission's working methods are poor and complains that partial results have been released without the opinions of opponents. Industry and Trade Minister Martin Riman (Civic Democratic Party; ODS) claims the Greens are breaking the coalition agreement by their stance to the commission's work. The commission was to map the Czech Republic's energy needs and propose a solution, but only partial results have been presented, Kuchtova said. Riman, however, is of the opinion that the Greens are still trying Czech Greens to resolve party tensions by autumn-official ...
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Danes suspected of robbery to be taken to homeland from CzechRep ... to avoid their responsibility. "The commission has worked for a year and no-one has ever said its work was not good..," Riman said, adding that if attacks on the commission's work stop, he is able to submit a new energy concept for the Czech Republic by end-2008. The independent expert commission on Friday recommended to the government to open all issues related to the energy sector and make them available for evaluation. Reactions of politicians signal that they see the commission's report as a recommendation that nuclear energy be used more. Premier Mirek Topolanek stressed, however, that the commission's task was not to determine whether or not the Czech Republic should opt for nuclear energy. "I do not know an independent commission which would say something else than that we will have to," he said. Topolanek wants discussion on the completion of nuclear resources to start soon.
He would like administrative proceedings whose outcome would not be final to be launched. The final decision will probably not be made by his government due to the coalition agreement in which the coalition pledged not to build nuclear units. Kuchtova said that in the presented document, the Greens welcomed in particular the part on alternative energy sources, energy saving and the Czech Republic's wider connection to European energy networks. Vladimir Dlouhy, the commission's member and former industry and trade minister, called on the Greens to inform the public that the country's energy policy would be much more expensive without nuclear power plants and that the country would also be much more vulnerable. Dlouhy sees nuclear energy as the cheapest option. Social Democrats (CSSD) vice-chairman Milan Urban said in Questions that the CSSD were also prepared to take part in the commission's work. He noted that the country would not make do without nuclear energy. "Renewable sources and energy saving also have to be given the highest possible support," he added. According to the results of a new Eurobarometr poll published on Thursday, Czechs together with Lithuanians are the biggest friends of the use of nuclear energy out of all 27 EU member countries.
(Ceske Noviny)
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