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DEUTSCH TREAT
German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder and representatives from leading
utilities are expected to sign an agreement today to phase out
nuclear power within 25 years.  The government has taken steps to
ensure that the country's greenhouse gas emissions decline, even as
nuclear power is taken away from the electricity grid.  It wants
renewable energy to account for 10 percent of the country's energy
supply by 2010 and 50 percent by 2050, and it has established an
"eco-tax" meant to encourage conservation by making fossil fuels more
expensive.  Anti-nuke activists, meanwhile, say the deal being signed
today won't shut the nuclear industry down quickly enough.

straight to the source:  Christian Science Monitor, Lucian Kim, 11 Jun 2001
<http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2001/06/11/p6s1.htm>

straight to the source:  Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune,
Associated Press, Geir Moulson, 11 Jun 2001
<http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=84341239>

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