Energy issues

29. 9. 2024 | September 29, 2005 - The exhibition called "The Harmony, Ecology and Economics in Housing" took place at the Research Library of South Bohemia in České Budějovice in September 2005. A short report is here.

31. 1. 2018 | The deputies of the Economic Committee of the Chamber of Deputies should discuss at their first meeting how to build and pay new nuclear blocks in the Czech Republic. According to Calla and Friends of the Earth Czech Republic (Hnutí DUHA), the question is fundamentally different: how can we cover our energy needs in 20 years without expensive and risky atomic reactors? A bet that restricts new sources only to the expansion of Dukovany or Temelin NPPs is risky due to enormous financial pressure and geopolitical risks. Why is that so? More in a press release.

11. 10. 2017 | The actual consequence of the governmental approval of the material called the "Report on the necessity of securing the economic interests of the state in the field of using the most strategic raw materials in the EU and some other raw materials" would be the preservation of the domestic uranium industry, with significant state support. The state enterprise DIAMO has prepared the report for the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and in particular for its own sake, without prior consultation with the competent Ministry of the Environment. Although the title of the material gives the impression that it deals primarily with a topic of lithium, so very much discussed by politicians, the reality is that we are supposed to return to the raw materials of the last century instead of the 21st century. More in a press release.

10. 10. 2017 | Calla has decided to file a lawsuit in order to get access to a major technical and economic study on the realization of the research program of the Bukov Underground Research Laboratory (Bukov URL) in the former uranium mines in the Vysočina Region, which should prove the suitability of the site for research activities connected to a deep geological repository. In violation of the Act on Free Access to Information, the Radioactive Waste Repository Authority (RAWRA) refused to provide the study and the opponent's reports and its decision on the appeal was confirmed by the Director of RAWRA. More in a press release.

22. 9. 2017 | Under 25 years, brown coal consumption is set to decrease by 73%. The State Energy Policy of the Czech Republic, which is the main strategic document that was prepared by the Ministry of Industry and approved by the government, presupposes this. At the same time, however, Minister Jan Mládek and then Minister Jiří Havlíček insisted that the new nuclear reactors will ensure our energy needs. Environmental organizations warn about the extreme risk of betting on one unbearably expensive and hazardous horse. More in a press release published on the occasion of the Prime Minister's and the Minister of Industry and Trade's meeting.

19. 9. 2017 | The Alliance for Energy Self-Sufficiency, Calla and the Prague office of the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, presented a new publication by Emeritus Professor Stephen Thomas "Weaknesses of candidates for reactor construction in the Czech Republic: delays, cost overrun, cancellation of projects", which brings a unique insight into the state of the currently-deployed nuclear power plants in the world. The publication focuses primarily on technologies that may be considered for the planned construction of new nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic. See a complete press release.

22. 8. 2017 | The governmental task to accede to the Supplementary Protocol to the Vienna Convention on Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage from January 1, 2017 remains unfulfilled. CEZ has limited liability for nuclear damages in Dukovany or Temelin NPPs only up to CZK 8 billion. More in a press release.

10. 8. 2017 | Radioactive Waste Repository Authority (RAWRA) has strengthened doubts as to whether hundreds of millions of Czech crowns, which will vanish into the Underground Research Laboratory (URL) Bukov (situated in the former uranium mine site) in the future, are efficiently spent resources. RAWRA has decided to conceal the fundamental technical and economic study of the implementation of the research program at URL Bukov, which was to prove the suitability of the site for research activities related to a deep geological repository (DGR). More in a press release.

29. 6. 2017 | Radioactive Waste Repository Authority (RAWRA/SÚRAO), which is in charge of the siting process for a deep geological repository for high-level waste, has decided to continue the tradition of denying its previously promised promises and statements. RAWRA announced to the mayors that it commissioned a tender for geological survey in all sites. That is, the geological survey for which exploration permits for geological work were approved for the years 2015-2016. However, because RAWRA has failed to conduct the geological survey, it has now begun to claim that geological survey ("průzkum") are no longer considered, but only geological research ("výzkum") which does not require any exploration permits. More in a press release.