Resolution accepted at the 12th EGP Council, Barcelona, Spain, March 19-21, 2010
The world doesn’t need the new Chernobyl. And the whole Europe has to stand together against the danger, that will be the main threat of our Green and healthy future.
Since 1986 and for a lot of years the biggest tragedy in ecological sphere of Ukraine will be the Chernobyl catastrophe. Since that time people all over the world understood that nuclear energy is rather an everyday danger, than the best source of energy.
But while some European countries try to use alternative sources of energy, Ukraine develops nuclear energy sphere, with all its consequences. One of the examples – the bill number 5050, which was registered in the Parliament of Ukraine.
Bill 5050 “On the design, construction and building of a centralized repository for spent nuclear fuel WWER-type of the domestic power plants” despite the negative conclusions of the Ministry of the Environmental Protection and no supporting documents, that should be obligatory under this bill, was on the agenda of the Verkhovna Rada session on December 17.
The Green Party of Ukraine is the one, who is constantly acting against the usage of the nuclear energy. Research results of the foreign experts show, that the rate of leukemia and cancer among people, who live near the nuclear objects, are 2 and 1.6 times higher, than on the other territories. World Health Organization experts predict that in one year cancer will be the main death cause through the whole world. Annually almost 165 thousand cases of cancer are registered in Ukraine. Doctors predict that by 2020 the number of cases annually will increase to 200 thousand.
For saving life of millions of people not only in Ukraine, but in the nearest countries The Green Party of Ukraine try to control the government and warn the greatest danger since the Chernobyl catastrophe. Thanks to the persuasive actions of The Green Party of Ukraine, like the symbolic action of protest near the building of the Verkhovna Rada (burial of boxes of “nuclear waste"), letters to each deputy of the Parliament individually, dissemination of the needed information in the media the adoption of the bill 5050 was stopped. It was removed from the agenda of the previous session. However, the bill 5050 is in the list of documents that will be considered at 6th session of the Parliament, so approximately in the first half of 2010.
Nowadays the new challenge stands in front of the Green Party of Ukraine and the whole Green European Community. Belarus, one of the countries, which was affected by the Chernobyl catastrophe most of all, plans to build the nuclear station on its territory. In 2016 they plan to run the first energy block, and in 2018 – second.
The principal position of the Green Party of Ukraine – is to focus on providing energy need through management, energy efficiency and conservation of energy. But building new nuclear stations is not the way out! Countries should stop building new nuclear power stations, decrease the usage of the old ones and try to implement new energy supplies, like the usage of the renewable sources of energy (e.g. wind).
The Green Party of Ukraine insists on public hearings on the construction of the Belarusian nuclear plant. We think that engagement of domestic and international experts, politicians and just ordinary people. Only learning the problem from every single point of view we can find the right way out and solve the problem in the best way!
The world doesn’t need the new Chernobyl. And the whole Europe has to stand together against the danger, that will be the main threat of our Green and healthy future.
