Greenpeace founder now backs nuclear power

I am glad to see that some eco-nuts are starting to realize that all modern technology is bad. Welcome to the side of power.

Greenpeace founder now backs nuclear power | News Updates | Idaho Statesman: "Moore spoke at the chamber breakfast after an appearance in Idaho Falls Tuesday night that attracted 300 people. He also spoke to the Idaho Environmental Forum in Boise, all sponsored by the Partnership for Science and Technology.

He represents the Clean Air and Safe Energy Coalition, a nuclear energy-backed group promoting reactors for electric energy generation. He began his career as a leader of Greenpeace fighting nuclear testing and working to save whales.

In recent years, he has taken on causes unpopular with his former group, like old-growth logging, keeping polyvinyl chlorides and now nuclear energy.

He says his change of heart comes from his background in science and a different approach to sustainability.

He sees a need for maintaining technologies that are not harmful while fixing or replacing those that are harmful.

'We don't believe we have been making too much electricity,' he said. 'We believe we've been making energy with the wrong technologies.'

His critics, like Andrea Shipley, executive director of the Snake River Alliance, say he has simply sold out.

'The only reason Patrick Moore is backing something as unsafe and risky as nuclear power is he is being paid by the nuclear industry to do so,' Shipley said."