La central nuclear de Lemoiz y la formación del ecologismo vasco (1972-1987): conservacionismo, nacionalismo e izquierda heterodoxa

Abstract

This article focuses on analysing the factors that turned the conflict surrounding the Lemoiz nuclear project into one of the key elements of the Transition in the Basque Country and how this conflict was the main element in understanding the subsequent process of making of Basque environmentalism. To this end, on the one hand, we carried an analysis made of the currents of thought that participated through different organisations in the creation of the anti-nuclear movement in its different phases while, on the other hand, once the conflict over Lemoiz had ended with the nuclear moratorium of 1982, it is shown how these ideological origins of the anti-nuclear movement were basic to shaping Basque environmentalism in its making of process during the 1980s. All this is placed in comparison with other similar movements that allow us to assess the specificities and shared elements of the process of formation of the anti-nuclear movement in the Basque Country and Basque environmentalism.