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Nuclear deal will not guarantee energy security, says MP</b>

Staff Correspondent

Manorama calls for harnessing renewable

energy sources

Udupi: MP Manorama Madhwaraj said on Saturday that the nuclear deal with the U.S. will not guarantee energy security for the country. Instead, the country should harness the abundant solar, wind, geothermal, tidal wave and other renewable sources, which would guarantee energy security without affecting the environment.

In a press release issued here, Ms. Madhwaraj said that three top scientists such as former chairman of Atomic Energy Commission P.K. Iyengar, former chief of Atomic Energy Regulatory Board A. Gopalkrishnan and former director of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre A.N. Prasad had written to the Members of Parliament that there were several loopholes in the nuclear agreement with the U.S. According to them, the deal would not be governed by the agreement but controlled by the U.S. domestic laws, including the Hyde Act.

“The Union Government has been harping around the idea that the nuclear deal will provide energy security to the nation. When the agreement does not provide guarantee of fuel supplies, how could energy security be achieved?,” she asked.Scientists had confirmed that adequate solar energy fell on earth’s surface every 40 minutes to meet the entire energy needs of the world.

By tapping a portion of this energy, the country could meet all its electricity needs. There was abundant wind power, geothermal, tidal wave and other renewable sources which had been neglected in favour of large contracts, the MP said.

“For us here, power outages have become the order of the day, not because we are short of generating capacity in the State, but because of vulnerable transmission lines, substations, and gross inefficiency of power sector, and problems related to supply of coal,” she said.