Greenpeace tries to block Brazil nuclear plant

[frigidmagi]

CNN

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) -- Greenpeace announced Tuesday it is seeking a court injunction to block the construction of a third nuclear power plant in Brazil, which is searching for ways to produce more energy for Latin America's largest nation.
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Greenpeace activists protest against the use of nuclear energy in September in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

The environmental group said it is filing a suit and seeking a restraining order in federal court in Angra dos Reis, a coastal resort south of Rio de Janeiro.

It's the site of Brazil's two other nuclear power plants.

Nuclear plants Angra 1 and Angra 2 have an installed capacity of about 2,000 megawatts. Angra 3 would raise capacity to 3,300 megawatts at a cost of about $3.6 billion, according to the Mines and Energy Ministry.

In August, the government moved to restart work on Angra 3, which has been stalled since the 1980s by lack of funds.

Greenpeace said in a statement that it will cite the federal government, the Eletronuclear power company, the Ibama environmental protection agency and the Rio de Janeiro State Environmental Engineering Federation, or Feema, claiming that the construction of Angra 3 is "illegal and unconstitutional.

Is there anyone who actually reads their Constitution?

[Dark Silver]

That would just screw up people like the Greenpeace.

And how the fuck is the construction of a Nuclear Power Facility unconstitutional? In Brazil or the US?

Are they fucking idiots?

Wait...don't answer that, this is the Greenpeace we're talking about..

[Rogue 9]

Fuck them up the ass with a nuclear-powered chainsaw. Nuclear energy is about our best hope for actually filling our power-generation needs without wrecking the environment.

[Destructionator XV]

Someone needs publicly and loudly call Greenpeace a bunch of bullshitting liars, and someone should sue them out of existence. I'm not sure what they could be sued for, but they need to be.