Just a week after word of who will lead construction of a $100 million wind farm in Lake Erie, a proponent of Nuclear Energy calls the project a waste of resources.
Dr. Patrick Moore is co-founder of the environmental group Greenpeace, but has become what he termed 'enlightened'.... continuing to battle nuclear 'weapons', but embracing the idea of nuclear 'energy'.
He now heads the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, and travels North America to talk up the positives of nuclear power,
Speaking in Cleveland to the Nuclear Fabrication Consortium, Moore compared the U.S., which is constructing no new nuclear plants, to countries like China, which is currently building 21 plants, and even tiny nations like Finland and Slovakia, which also have plants under construction.
But he saved some of his harshest words for those who hope to supplant the nation's consumption of fossil fuels, not with nuclear power, but by increasing solar and wind power supplies.
I asked what he thought of the push for wind turbines five miles off Cleveland's coastline.
DR. PATRICK MOORE:
"I personally don't think its' worth the money to build a wind farm, and what people don't realize is; not only is that wind energy very expensive, but it isn't always there when you want it - as a matter of fact its not, more often than it is, and in order to back up the wind farm as they say, to actually have power when you need it - when the wind isn't blowing - you have to build a gas plant."
Moore pushed for nuclear plant construction instead, calling them economic engines for communities where they're built.
