Sweden wants away from oil: changeover by 2021
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Sweden will be the first western European country’s dependence on oil finish. In 15 years, bio fuels and renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuels, reported the British daily The Guardian. That northern European country will also no new nuclear power stations built, said Minister for Sustainable Development Mona Sahlin.
Committee ensures implementation
The preparation of the nine million inhabitants in the state entirely new energy policy will be assisted by a committee consisting of industry experts, academics, farmers, car makers, civil servants and other persons. In a few months, the members of the first report in Parliament. The reasons for Sweden’s switch to renewable energies arise from the necessity of a possible economic crisis because of high crude oil prices counter. “Our dependence on oil should be finished no later than 2020,” Mona Sahlin announced. “There are better alternatives to oil,” said the minister. Energiekommittee: danger of an economic recession with rising oil demand
Energiekomittee The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences shares the views of the minister and also recognizes that a greater demand for oil to a global economic recession. “Moreover, the increasingly scarce resources, but the demand increases further,” said the experts. Sahlin, the dependence on oil as the largest global problem. Since 1996, the price of oil tripled in Sweden. In the 70 years since Sweden by the energy crisis severely hit.
Referendum in 1980 sealed nuclear exit .The power supply since then is based primarily on water and nuclear power. Fossil fuels are primarily for the transport sector. Heaters in homes during the last years successively on geothermal heat, or converted from waste incineration. A referendum in 1980 initiated the end of nuclear energy. In the coming years, nuclear power plants shut down. The Swedish Government is working with the two major local carmakers Saab and Volvo, with new engines for ethanol and bio fuels forward. Already last year, the Swedish Energy Agency announced in the public sector switch to renewable energies. Sweden would umweltfreundlichstes country in the world with Sweden would be the complete withdrawal from fossil fuels without further construction of nuclear power plants the most environmentally friendly country in the world. Iceland will also exclusively by 2050 to abandon fossil fuels. Cars and boats are then compared with hydrogen, from renewable energy is produced. Only in the last week, U.S. President George Bush announced to reduce dependence on oil, and in addition to want nuclear power plants to build. Ecologists warn, however, before a “renaissance of nuclear power”. The technology is also outdated and too expensive - calculates the cost of disposing of nuclear waste.
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