A group of Swiss lawmakers and business leaders has launched a popular initiative for a return to nuclear energy, under the headline “Stop The Blackouts.” “We cannot do without nuclear power plants,” Vanessa Meury, president of the Stop The Blackouts committee and the only committee member who is not a politician, told Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung.
Five of the group’s six committee members are lawmakers from center and right-wing parties. The change of constitution sought by the group would render Bern officially responsible for guaranteeing energy supply, using “any form of climate-friendly electricity generation.”
“The Federal Council [the executive branch], the Parliament, the federal administration and the electric energy industry are not able to guarantee electricity supply in Switzerland at any time,” the Initiative says on its website. “The Energy Club Switzerland has therefore launched the federal popular initiative ‘Electric Energy at Any Time for Everybody (Stop the Blackouts)'
