Yesterday, the World Energy Congress opened in Rome. Among the attendees was Italy's prime minister, and one of the main sponsors was ENEL, Italy's biggest energy company whose main shareholder is the government.
The World Energy Congress has a plan that lets global warming emissions keep increasing until 2030, and proposes an expansion of nuclear power. ENEL for its part plans to get around the inconvenient fact that nuclear power was voted out of Italy in a referendum 20 years ago by building a new reactor in nearby Slovakia instead of in Italy.
Unimpressed by this hypocrisy, our Italian colleagues decided to drop in on the opening with a message of their own. The full story's on our international website, and the reactions of the audience and delegates in this one minute video should bring a smile to your face:
Update (13/11/2007): Our international office has put together a great little slideshow on how events unfolded:
