DOB Profiles Bruno Comby, Founder of EFNE

The Canadian oil business magazine takes a look at the man who founded Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy, Bruno Comby (pictured at left with James Lovelock):

Bruno Comby is an engineer who writes health books, a son of the oilpatch who campaigns against global warming and an environmental activist who strongly favors nuclear power. "No technical subject is more misrepresented or exaggerated than radioactive waste disposal," asserts this Alberta-raised Frenchman. "Far from being the most dangerous source of energy, nuclear generation is demonstrably the safest, and it would be an environmentally clean source of electricity for the oilsands."

Ten years ago, Comby (shown at left) launched Environmentalists For Nuclear Energy, a non-profit network which claims more than 8,000 supporters in 56 nations. The Paris-headquartered group, which goes by the initials EFN, has incorporated chapters in France, the United States, Canada, Japan, Britain and other countries. "We want the world to realise that there are genuine environmentalists on both sides of the nuclear question," says the French eco-crusader.

Besdies Comby, we should also point out groups in the U.S. like the African-American Environmentalist Association.