Greenpeace complains to EU over Slovak nuclear plans

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

BRUSSELS (AFP) — The environmental group Greenpeace filed an official complaint with the European Commission on Friday, alleging illegal Slovakian state aid for a "pre-Chernobyl" nuclear power plant project.

The complaint claims that the Slovak authorities used "market-distorting measures" to push through "what would otherwise have been an unviable and unattractive project".

"What this case highlights is pretty simple: when you take dirty tricks out of the equation, nuclear power is expensive, unreliable and underperforming," said Greenpeace EU dirty-energy campaigner Jan Haverkamp in a statement.

A spokeswoman for the commission made no comment on the matter, saying only that the European competition watchdog had not yet received such a complaint.

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