Swedish conservatives call for new energy policy with nuclear power

摘要

Sweden’s conservative Moderate party is calling for a newparliamentary energy commission which would provide the basis for arevised energy policy agreement that would include continued use ofnuclear power in Sweden’s power mix.In an opinion article August 21 in the daily newspaper SvenskaDagbladet, party leader Ulf Kristersson and party energy spokesmanLars Hjalmered said that “if Sweden does not revise its energy policy,we risk becoming a country with higher carbon dioxide emissions anda shortage of electricity.”