Quotes

dalia-grybauskaite"A second set of priorities that I see for myself and this government is a further reduction of dependence on a single source. First of all, this involves putting forward three bills during the spring session, namely: the LNG law, the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) law, and amendments to the Law on Heating Sector... talks on the Visaginas NPP (VAE) and debates on the required laws will be one of the key tasks during the parliamentary spring session." Dalia Grybauskaite, Lithuanian President, on 12 January 2012 (source: BNS)

"We are very gas dependent and we have to do something about it. In my opinion it will be very difficult to achieve a clean energy household in 2050 without nuclear energy." "Do you have to build a nuclear energy plant or do you import energy generated by nuclear from France, which is what we are doing now? So there are two questions: can we do without - and I don't think we can - and do we need our own nuclear power plant?"
Maria van der Hoeven, Dutch economics minister on 19 May