ANGELA'S No Nukes News: ON at a Crossroad

ANGELA'S No Nukes News: ON at a Crossroad

Postby Oscar » Fri Mar 20, 2015 8:44 am

ANGELA'S No Nukes News: ON at a Crossroad

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March 20, 2015


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Re: ANGELA'S No Nukes News: ON at a Crossroad

Postby Oscar » Sun May 03, 2015 9:12 am

ANGELA'S No Nukes News: Nuclear Power and the Climate - May 1, 2015

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May 1, 2015

Ontario's Coal Phase out: Lessons from a massive climate achievement This report looks back at how this remarkable success was achieved by a small organization and the lessons learned from one of the biggest environmental success stories in recent times.
[ http://www.cleanairalliance.org/ontario ... hievement/ ]

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☢ Nuclear Power: Totally Unqualified to Combat Climate Change An Open Letter from the World Business Academy to leading climatologist Dr. James Hansen regarding his advocacy of nuclear power as a solution to global warming.
[ https://worldbusiness.org/nuclear-power ... te-change/ ]

☢ Canada-India uranium deal will spur proliferation Arms control experts say Canada's uranium will end up fuelling the Indo-Pakistani arms race, directly or indirectly. CBC's The Current also profiled this issue in this 25 min. interview.
[ http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada- ... -1.3036540 ]

☢ Renewables and nuclear power: Report from the World Uranium Symposium Premier Wynne is under intense pressure to rebuild the old reactors at Darlington and Bruce. Doing so would make absolutely no economic sense, would send customers' hydro bills through the roof, and likely bankrupt the province. Instead, she should make a deal with Quebec to buy their excess water power, and build wind projects in the north. Also from the symposium, an audio report from Nuclear Hotseat containing interviews with more than 20 activists, world experts, and filmmakers. Almost as good as being there.
[ http://rabble.ca/columnists/2015/04/ren ... -symposium ]

☢ Chernobyl: 29 years later April 26 marked the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Fairwinds lists superb resources about Chernobyl – A human perspective. Greenpeace released a new report detailing clean up efforts; nearly three decades after the start of the Chernobyl disaster, its atomic legacy is a stark and ominous reminder that nuclear power can never be a safe energy source. CBS News 60 Minutes aired an episode on Chernobyl – video, audio and transcript, 13 min. And finally, this blog lists a dozen of the best links related to the major nuclear accident in the Ukraine.
[ http://www.ibtimes.com/chernobyl-29-yea ... ck-1895146 ]

☢ Forest fire threatens Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear zone Ukraine’s largest forest fire since 1992 is just 20 miles away from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant. Wildfires pose a high risk of redistributing radioactivity. More on this from Greenpeace International, and Beyond Nuclear. [ http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/ ... 5F20150428 ]

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Re: ANGELA'S No Nukes News: ON at a Crossroad

Postby Oscar » Tue Jun 23, 2015 10:16 am

ANGELA'S No Nukes News: Don't Nuke the Planet - June 23, 2015

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June 23, 2015 – Please pass this onto a friend!

“If objective information suggests that serious and irreversible damage may result, a project should be halted or modified, even in the absence of indisputable proof." - Pope Francis

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The World

☢ Clean Energy Groups Launch International Campaign to Keep Nuclear Power out of Global Climate Talks 7 international clean energy organizations launched a major new campaign in support of a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy system and to prevent nuclear power from being considered as a climate crisis solution when the world's governments meet at the COP 21 conference in Paris in December 2015. [ http://www.nirs.org/cop21/finalinitialp ... 1615us.pdf ]

☢ Nuclear Power in Decline Nuclear power, once lauded as an energy source that would be “too cheap to meter,” is becoming too costly to use. [ http://www.earth-policy.org/books/tgt/tgtch4 ]

☢ Officials Still Don't Know What To Do With 620,000 Tons Of Radioactive Fukushima Water, 4 Years After Japan Tsunami
[ http://www.weather.com/science/environm ... cial_tweet ]

☢ The issues Federal Conservatives don’t want to talk about. Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq was to rule on a proposed nuclear waste site on the shores of Lake Huron by September, after a federal review panel recommended approval. But it is highly divisive among communities affected, so Aglukkaq merely put the decision off until December, after the election.
[ http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015 ... arper.html ]

☢ Nuclear Waste and Decommissioning are a Generational Transfer of Risks by Arnie Gunderson
[ http://www.fairewinds.org/nuclear-energ ... er-of-risk ]

☢ Nuclear Waste: Abandonment vs Rolling Stewardship by Dr. Gordon Edwards. OPG hopes to abandon ON's nuclear waste under the shore of Lake Huron. But there is a better way - "rolling stewardship" - above ground, monitored, and retrievable, with a changing of the guard every generation. [ http://ccnr.org/Rolling_Stewardship.pdf ]

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Re: ANGELA'S No Nukes News: ON at a Crossroad

Postby Oscar » Fri Jul 10, 2015 4:03 pm

ANGELA'S No Nukes News: Pope Francis and Naomi Klein weigh in

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July 9, 2015

Help us plug Ontario into low-cost power from Quebec Please sign our petition here calling for water power rather than 10 rebuilt nuclear reactors. And please order our free leaflets to distribute to your friends and neighbours.

“Nuclear power risks catastrophe, steals resources from climate change solutions, produces mountains of ferocious radioactive waste, continually vents radiation, and spreads H-bomb material.” - J. M. LaForge, NukeWatch

The World

☢ Pope Francis calls Nuclear Power Plants a modern-day Tower of Babel "Human beings should not break the natural laws set by God," the Pope said. This is probably the first clear-cut criticism of the "civil use" of nuclear power issued by the Vatican.

☢ Naomi Klein: Dr. James Hansen is wrong on nuclear power 6 min. video. Klein discusses why nuclear power cannot be a solution to our climate crisis.

☢ Don't Nuke the Climate telebriefing: Lessons from Japan and Germany Featuring Amory Lovins. 90 min. audio file

☢ America's Nuclear Waste: A Forgotten Ticking Timebomb The RealNews discusses their investigation into widespread nuclear disposal sites leaking radiation into the environment. 8 min. video with transcript.

☢ Even low doses of radiation increase risk of dying from leukaemia A study coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the specialised cancer agency of the World Health Organisation, shows that protracted exposure to low doses of ionising radiation can cause leukaemia. Here’s Ian Fairlie’s take on why these findings are so relevant.

☢ Update on Fukushima with Kevin Kamps interviewed by Thom Hartmann. 6 min. video

☢ SNC-Lavalin consortium chosen to run Chalk River nuclear lab It is perhaps understandable that the article does not mention the ethical scandals that have plagued SNC-Lavalin in recent years. It is less understandable why the article doesn't mention that the production of medical isotopes using the Chalk River reactor was scheduled to end in 2016, a deadline that is now extended to 2018.

☢ Sen. Kirk urges EPA to protect the Great Lakes against "devastating impact" of proposed Canadian shoreline radioactive waste dump

☢ Great Lakes mayors still opposed to burying nuclear waste near Lake Huron A group representing Great Lakes cities remains officially opposed to storing nuclear waste in an underground vault near Kincardine

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