Former Oilman Aims To Overturn WWF's Anti-Nuclear Policy [1]
Submitted by Bob Burton [2] on
Greg Bourne [3], the former president of BP [4] Australia and current head of WWF Australia [5] (formerly known as the World Wildlife Fund), last week argued [6] that Australian environmentalists should learn to live with uranium mining. "The key issues are if we're going to be a nation exporting uranium, we have to know absolutely it's only being used for peaceful purposes and waste products are being stored safely," he said. This week, Bourne is in London at WWF International's global energy taskforce, where he wants to overturn the group's stance [7] that "WWF does not believe that nuclear power is the solution to global warming. In fact, WWF has a vision for the future which phases out the use of fossil fuel and nuclear in the share of energy use across the globe." The Australian reports that in March, Bourne apparently "ordered the organisation's global anti-nuclear policy be removed from WWF Australia's website."