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February 10, 2012
Opposition to planned nuclear tax grows
Published: 20 Aug 10 12:31 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100820-29293.html
Some 40 German bosses and economic figures lashed out Friday at a government proposal to tax nuclear energy production, warning it would hamper investment in Europe's biggest economy.
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The letter is to be printed Saturday as a full-page ad in other German newspapers and takes aim at a mooted tax on nuclear plants that could raise €2.3 billion ($2.9 billion) per year for the state as it seeks to balance the public finances.
Chancellor Angela Merkel wants nuclear power plant operators to pay the tax in exchange for an extension of the plants' lifetimes, which is to end in around 2020 under the terms of a previous decision.
"A precipitate exit from nuclear power would destroy billions of euros in capital," the letter warned.
"We cannot give up for the time being on coal or nuclear energy if we want energy prices to remain affordable for all," it added.
Among those who signed the letter were the heads of major power companies EON, RWE and Vattenfall.
The leaders of industrial giants BASF, Bayer and ThyssenKrupp added their names, as did heads of the retail group Metro, media group Bertelsmann and Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank.
Without being named directly, the leader of one major German company called the text a "warning shot for the government."
Merkel's government aims to decide on its new energy policy by the end of September.
AFP (news@thelocal.de)
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Then when the deal is sealed and the trade-off is that they have to share the enormous profits they will reap with the public, suddenly the 'warning shots' are fired and all the big guns stick together to say 'you cannot touch our socially subsidized profits!'
Take the money, we paid to build the plants which now operate at enormous profits as the capital expenses have been paid. Don't be intimidated chancellor, The threat that German companies will no longer invest in Germany is laughable.
http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2010/08/what-nuclear-energy-renaissance-/68715.aspx
Who said anything about a renaissance? And what does your article have to do with the topic being discussed?