Thursday, September 27, 2012

Merkel denies misleading public over nuclear dump

Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday denied she had lied to the public about the suitability of a permanent location for the country's central nuclear waste dump when she was environment minister in the 1990s. In a rare five-hour appearance before a parliamentary inquiry, Merkel rebutted allegations that the then government had put political considerations before scientific findings when it decided to focus the search for a waste dump only in Gorleben in northern Germany. "I deny any...

URL: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/27/us-germany-merkel-nuclear-idUSBRE88Q13U20120927?feedType=RSS&feedName=environmentNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2Fenvironment+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Environment%29
Enclosure: http://s1.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20120927&t=2&i=657422124&w=460&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&r=CBRE88Q16OE00

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