France Raises Solar Feed-in Tariffs; New York SEIA Calls for FITs

[jpak]

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/story?id=54119

The French Minister for Energy and the Environment announced last Monday that the government was launching an aggressive new program to propel the country to the forefront of solar energy development.

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To do that, France will create a new tariff category for commercial buildings of €0.45/kWh (US $0.57/kWh). This is intended to aid businesses, factories and farmers to take profitable advantage of their large rooftops. As a measure of the government's seriousness, there will be no limit on the size of commercial rooftop projects that qualify for the tariff. For comparison, the French commercial tariff for 2009 is higher than that for Germany, the current world leader in solar PV development.


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In related feed-in tariff news, the New York State's Solar Energy Industries Association has called on the state to introduce feed-in tariffs for solar photovoltaic systems. The recommendation by NYSEIA is the third by a state solar industry association within the past year. Previously, Florida SEIA and CalSEIA have also called for feed-in tariffs.

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The New York State's Solar Energy Industries Association also called on the PSC to set a minimum solar PV target of 2,000 MW and suggested that a target of 6,000 MW by 2020 could propel the state to the forefront of solar development not only in the United States but the world. The association argued that solar PV on just 0.5% of the land area could provide all the electricity consumed in the state.

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[NNadir]

1. This is not a particularly wise time to be subsidizing rich people.

Particularly when the point is to rape poor people so rich people can produce toxic waste.

[jpak]

2. Yes, France should return to Africa to further exploit the uranium resources of its former colonies

and give them squat in return.

:rofl:

[NNadir]

3. The French use of uranium has made the world safer for the citizens of Africa and for the

citizens of the entire planet, Giggles.

The fact that French nuclear power has prevented the dumping of billions of tons of dangerous fossil fuel waste into the atmosphere, thus the destruction of millions of human lives in Africa owing to climatic instabilty has escaped the stupid attention of anti-nuke cults.

I note with contempt that the anti-nuke cults - with their vicious and immoral selective attention are not against cell phones because of Coltan, nor against petroleum because of Nigeria, nor against coal because of the conditions of South African coal miners.

Indeed, stupid anti-nukes are responsible for the latter, having engineered the dangerous fossil fuel industry's resurgance in Germany, which will be supplied by South African coal mines.

http://africa.reuters.com/business/news/usnBAN556083.html

How about some more giggling, Giggles?

Nuclear power need not be perfect to be superior to everything else even in the moral sphere, but talking about morality to a fundie anti-nuke is the equivalent of talkig to a creationist about genetics. The anti-nuke cults are simply dogmatic morons to whom analysis has no meaning.

According to the http://www.who.int/globalchange/news/fsclimandhealth/en/index.html">World Health Organization, with which the anti-nukes are predictably morally unfamiliar, in 2000 alone, 150,000 human beings died from climate change related events.

As usual, the anti-nukes elevate the deaths of a few individuals under nuclear related immorality over hundreds of thousands of deaths from other causes.

The anti-nuke moral arithematic consists of 2 + 2 = 5 type statements, ideological cruelty for its own sake.

I, at least, will be able to live with the role my side played in history, if there is history, something that the "renewables will save us" yuppie car cults are working to prevent.

Ignorance kills, Giggles, ignorance kills.

Heckuva job. You must be very proud.

[jpak]

4. That's just stupid

The only thing French uranium mining companies have done for Africa are take their uranium and leave them with scarred landscape contaminated with mine tailings.


Oh yeah...

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[Systematic Chaos]

5. Back that up with some documented proof

you giggling hypocrite.

Edit: Oh well, that link is as pretty as it's gonna get. *sigh*

[jpak]

6. Use the Google

There is a wealth of documentation regarding French uranium mining in Africa.

http://www.wise-uranium.org/umop.html

(scroll down)

et en Francias

http://www.afrik.com/article11482.htm

Here's a good one...

NIGER: Uranium - blessing or curse?

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74738

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Few benefits

Civil society organisations in Niger and academics in the USA and UK agree that the people of Niger have not benefited from the 100,000 tonnes of uranium extracted over the past 36 years.

Niger is the world’s third to fifth-ranking producer of uranium, producing over 3,000 tonnes of uranium a year. However, the UN Development Programme’s 2006 Human Development Index considers Niger the poorest country in the world, where life expectancy is 45 years old, 71 percent of adults cannot read, and 60 percent of the population lives on less than $1 a day.

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ealth, environmental concerns

Resentment is also growing among the thousands of mine workers and people living near the mining sites in the northern region of Agadez, who complain about unsafe working conditions and exposure to radioactive poisoning in the community.

In August a movement of civil society organisations reportedly demanded that the Areva pay 300 billion CFA francs (US$647 million) in damages for years of exploration in “unfair and iniquitous conditions”.

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Niger probes uranium health scare

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5030290.stm

Niger's government is investigating reports that people living near a uranium mine may have been exposed to dangerous levels of radioactivity.

Local environmental groups say people near Arlit are suffering from diseases as a result of poor safety measures.

French independent nuclear watchdog CRIIRAD said not enough had been done to seal off radioactive scrap metal.

Cogema, the company that has been mining there for 30 years, says it has improved safety standards since 2003.

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