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End of climate action Code Rouge-Rood at Engie-site (www.vrt.be)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Mysteriarch to c/belgium@lemmy.world

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Tooting my own horn here for a bit, but I was disappointed by the limited press coverage and complete lack of political reaction to the biggest climate action of this kind in our country.

I was wondering what you guys think of these kind of actions? Justified or not? Good target for something like this?

Full disclosure: I participated there, so I'm fully supportive of course.

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[–] gerry@mastodon.pirateparty.be 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Mysteriarch Of course, it depends on what actions we’re talking about. If the action is that you go off grid & nix all energy suppliers, install your own power generating sources, then it’d be hard to object to that.

[–] gerry@mastodon.pirateparty.be 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Mysteriarch Beyond that, it’s hard to pick a side without actually knowing the rationale for the fossil fuel plants. We know energy transmission is extremely lossy. So I could imagine situations where burning fossil fuels nearby might be less harmful than transmitting green energy from a great enough distance that inefficiencies lead to even greater harm.

[–] gerry@mastodon.pirateparty.be 1 points 1 year ago

@Mysteriarch I spoke to a few-decade power plant veteran worker. He said #Belgium had two nuclear plants that were shut down pre-maturely. He seemed to imply the licensing authority is where competency issues lie. And also said the gov is pushing for the fossil fuel plants not #Engie, fwiw. From there, I’m not sure if these 3 plants are sole driver of #codeRouge or if there are other factors.