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“as it would not do to encourage that kind of projects, because that
might create confusion among politicians and make them decide
not to build nuclear power plants.”
Mogens Camre felt the pulse in this matter: The multinational
energy corporations had no interest in self-sufficiently and
economically sustainable forms of energy. He found that it was an
appalling instance for the decline of democracy. “Our energy policy
is being determined by technocrats who are directly or indirectly,
personally financially dependent on Denmark's implementing
nuclear power plants. We politicians are becoming the slaves
of a technical and economic development which is governed by
multinational profit interests, and which even has the means to
influence the opinion of the people by propaganda and advertising,”
was Mogens Camre's comment.
The demagogues of atomic power were on their way in. In
autumn of 1975, the Danish daily newspaper
wrote that
now the people must realise that nuclear power equals welfare.
According to Ove Guldberg, former cabinet minister and now
spokesman on energy for the Liberals, “the wind energy prophets
are hardly distinguishable from those who are trying to undermine
and obstruct the necessary decisions in the labour market and
the education sector.” With this remark, Ove Guldberg had typecast
the economists, professors and engineers who worked for wind
power.
It is evident that the larger respectable enterprises would
no longer come out in the open with plans for developing and
marketing wind turbines. Bankers, business people, even employees
would be of opinion that if their enterprise showed interest in
wind energy it was gambling with its future which illustrates that
business climate was already totally infected by nuclear power.
Børsen
7.5
Getting Together
I harvested some personal experience during presentations in
Danish assembly houses, inns, and folk high schools. My 1970s
calendars show many months with four lectures a week. Of to
evening and weekend meetings with slides, topics and folders on
wind energy.
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