Stop the Hogs!

Posted: **Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:03 pm**

Call to Action: Tell them we don’t want a nuclear power plant in our province.

Email the Saskatchewan Cabinet and the Leader of the Opposition about the Uranium Development Partnership.

Let’s tell them that we already know that the process is flawed.

Your email doesn’t have to be long. If all you can send is, “I don’t want a nuclear power plant in Saskatchewan!”, then that’s okay.

All you have to do is copy this list of email addresses to your message and you are set:

premier@gov.sk.ca; minister.edu@gov.sk.ca; minister.er@gov.sk.ca; minister.fin@gov.sk.ca; minister.fnmr@gov.sk.ca; minister.he@gov.sk.ca; minister.hi@gov.sk.ca; minister.jus@gov.sk.ca; minister.gs@gov.sk.ca; minister.ag@gov.sk.ca; minister.ei@gov.sk.ca; minister.ss@gov.sk.ca; minister.cc@gov.sk.ca; minister.env@gov.sk.ca; minister.tpcs@gov.sk.ca; minister.aeel@gov.sk.ca; minister.ma@gov.sk.ca; minister.cpsp@gov.sk.ca; lcalvert@mla.legassembly.sk.ca

Please pass this on to your friends!

Karen Pedersen, Chair
North Saskatchewan Environmental Society

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:14 am**

Please Mr Premier do not even consider a nuclear expansion.

From: Don Byers
To: premier@gov.sk.ca
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 4:48 PM
Subject: Nuclear power.

Please Mr Premier do not even consider a nuclear expansion. It is simply too costly and dangerous.

With the collapse of the world economies, you must realise there will soon be surpluses of energy, particularly in the U.S.

They will soon be building sustainable alternative energy the same as Europe and others are doing.

The U.S. is opening up their hydrocarbon resources that have been sat on.

We are going to wind up with a white elephant sitting is the woods that we will have to clean up, costing billions.

I say these things as a 37-year veteran of the energy industry in Sask., most of it with S.P.C. and Sask Energy.

Please use your good sense and do not get sucked in by industry people and others who just want to make big bucks at our citizens’ expense.

Don Byers, Maple Creek.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:16 am**

NO Nuclear Power Plant, NO Uranium Mining, NO Nuclear Waste Storage

----- Original Message -----
From: Elaine Hughes
To: lcalvert@mla.legassembly.sk.ca ; minister.cpsp@gov.sk.ca ; minister.ma@gov.sk.ca ; minister.aeel@gov.sk.ca ; minister.tpcs@gov.sk.ca ; SK Min.Env.Heppner ; minister.cc@gov.sk.ca ; minister.ss@gov.sk.ca ; minister.ei@gov.sk.ca ; minister.ag@gov.sk.ca ; minister.gs@gov.sk.ca ; minister.jus@gov.sk.ca ; minister.hi@gov.sk.ca ; minister.he@gov.sk.ca ; minister.fnmr@gov.sk.ca ; minister.fin@gov.sk.ca ; minister.er@gov.sk.ca ; minister.edu@gov.sk.ca ; SK Premier Wall
Cc: Greenpeace Canada ; GlobalResearch.ca ; SK NDP Caucus ; SK Greens - Jones, A. Jones ; SK Party Caucus
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 7:03 PM
Subject: NO Nuclear Power Plant, NO Uranium Mining, NO Nuclear Waste Storage

Premier Wall, Members of the Cabinet, Leader of the Opposition and all MLAs -

This is to let all of you know that, regardless of what you say or the Uranium Development Partnership Report says, I do NOT, under any circumstances, want a nuclear power plant in my province.

We don’t need the extra electricity and we don’t need the ‘dirty’ money selling it to the Americans will bring - all at the expense of our land, air, water, wildlife, fish, birds and children of the future.

I do NOT want my province to be used as a storage dump for nuclear waste materials, our own or anyone else's; there is NO SAFE way to store this material.

And, finally, I do NOT want this province to mine uranium for our own use or for anyone else's.

Saskatchewan uranium has killed enough babies wherever the war machines have touched the earth, such as in Iraq and Afghanistan, and those yet unborn children of Armed Forces personnel who, being sent by the warmakers to invade these countries, have been exposed to the Depleted Uranium in bullets and armaments, bringing the poison home in their bodies.

Incredibly, we are knowingly creating this monstrous and shameful legacy – I want it to stop!

Thank you for your time.

Elaine Hughes
Archerwill, SK

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:26 am**

Nuclear and uranium not the answer

From: Denis Sauvageau
To: premier@gov.sk.ca ; minister.edu@gov.sk.ca ; minister.er@gov.sk.ca ; minister.fin@gov.sk.ca ; minister.fnmr@gov.sk.ca ; minister.he@gov.sk.ca ; minister.hi@gov.sk.ca ; minister.jus@gov.sk.ca ; minister.gs@gov.sk.ca ; minister.ag@gov.sk.ca ; minister.ei@gov.sk.ca ; minister.ss@gov.sk.ca ; minister.cc@gov.sk.ca ; minister.env@gov.sk.ca ; minister.tpcs@gov.sk.ca ; minister.aeel@gov.sk.ca ; minister.ma@gov.sk.ca ; minister.cpsp@gov.sk.ca ; lcalvert@mla.legassembly.sk.ca
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 9:45 AM

Dear Saskatchewan elected officials;

I would like to express my concerns with the proposed Uranium/Nuclear Reactor plans for Saskatchewan.

I live in the Peace Region of Northern Alberta and over the past 2 years have been studying the pros and cons of Nuclear Power.

A straw dog was tossed into our communities and now we find ourselves in community-dividing battle which will leave scars for years to come.

Propaganda often refers to this approach as "progress" which leads to a better quality of life.

Currently, the world is facing an energy crisis which in many ways is directly connected to the economic crisis we are now facing.

That energy crisis is primarily rooted in the fact that we are at a cross roads and that we know that oil reserves are being depleted.

We are seeing countries go to war in order to maintain their prosperity and dominance in the world scene.

Do we want more of that for the future of our children and grandchildren?

T Boone Pickens, an oil tycoon from Texas, recently stated "we are not going to drill ourselves out of this energy crisis".

We should all be aware that the current status of fuel supply for nuclear power generation is also finite, with a number of experts stating that we currently have a 50 to 60 year supply of feasible uranium reserves.

Nuclear Power currently generates 15-16% of world electricity needs when the 440 reactors are operational.

Common sense tells me that if we were to double that number to 880 reactors, we would need to double the fuel supply which would then leave us with 30 years supply of fuel.

How sustainable is that? And, if we are talking about GHG emission reductions, we will have raised capacity to merely 30%?

I ask, "are we going to dive into another energy source that will create more tension and wars on the world scene?"

As elected members of the Saskatchewan Government, I ask that you look into the future well beyond your current term in office so that you may consider decisions that are in the best interest of future generations.

Energy conservation, wind power, solar power, geothermal, hydro, micro hydro, biogas, co-generation, etc... are all sustainable, readily available, and renewable energy options.

Renewable energy sources are the way of the future and, as Al Gore stated in an interview, we must focus our future energy needs on energy sources which will not lead to more wars.

As a modern civilization, it is high time that we shift some of the focus away from our addiction to oil as the evidence clearly shows that this energy source is past it's prime.

For the reasons outlined above and many other reasons (long term waste management, environmental risks, human error, lack of transparency, economic boondoggle, mining tailings, effects of radiation on human body, etc), I do not support Saskatchewan, Alberta or any other Province or nation building more nuclear reactors which would create more nuclear sacrifice zones.

Let's shift our focus on energy options which truly exemplify what human kind is truly capable of.

Why wait for our children to have to do this, when they could be talking to their children about the visionary approach that the previous generations had.

Let's not leave our children with the arduous responsibility of dealing with a toxic legacy.

Denis Sauvageau
Falher Alberta

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:02 am**

Stop the Hogs!

CALL TO ACTION: Tell them we don’t want a nuclear power!

CALL TO ACTION: Tell them we don’t want a nuclear power!

Please Mr Premier do not even consider a nuclear expansion.

NO Nuclear Power Plant, NO Uranium Mining, NO Nuclear Waste

Nuclear and uranium not the answer

Nuclear Power