NOBODY LIKES IT?

This might be the very definition of a political success:

Both Businesses and Greens Blast EU Energy Program
Carolyn Henson, January 10, 2007 (Dow Jones Newswires via Nasdaq.com)
- Business warned of lost competitiveness and environmentalists of a lost opportunity Wednesday after the European Commission published a far-reaching package of proposals to tackle global warming and secure future energy requirements…

- Nuclear power was another dividing point. While business supported the commission's call for the nuclear option to remain open, environmentalists are seeking an end to nuclear energy, pointing to the risk of serious accidents and the nuclear waste legacy…
- One group was positive, however - consumers. They saluted E.U. Antitrust Commissioner Neelie Kroes' call for the energy production and supply networks - often owned by just one dominant energy company - to be separated, or " unbundled" in the jargon, as a key way to improve competition…

- Some specific industries welcomed particular parts of the program, seeing opportunities for growth. The call for speeding up development of low-emission technologies such as carbon capture and storage was strongly welcomed by chemical industry groups, which said they had a "crucial part to play"…