No Nukes News: 120,000+ Say NO to Nuclear Energy

Fri Apr 30 16:01:18 EDT 2010

No Nukes News

April 30, 2010

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Chernobyl Radiation Killed Nearly One Million People: New Book

Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation
released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor, finds a new
book from the New York Academy of Sciences published today on the 24th
anniversary of the meltdown at the Soviet facility.

The authors examined more than 5,000 published articles and studies, most
written in Slavic languages and never before available in English. 

The authors said, "For the past 23 years, it has been clear that there is a
danger greater than nuclear weapons concealed within nuclear power.
Emissions from this one reactor exceeded a hundred-fold the radioactive
contamination of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki." 

"No citizen of any country can be assured that he or she can be protected
from radioactive contamination. One nuclear reactor can pollute half the
globe," they said. "Chernobyl fallout covers the entire Northern
Hemisphere." 

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/apr2010/2010-04-26-01.html 

http://www.alternet.org/health/146619 

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<http://www.cane.org.za/nuclear-energy-related/120000-say-no-to-nuclear-ener
gy-in-germany-massive-protest/> 120,000+ Say NO to Nuclear Energy in Germany
- Massive Protest

A major demonstration - a "chain" of people between three nuclear power
plants in Northern part of Germany - took place yesterday . BRINGING OUT
approx. 120.000 PEOPLE to demonstrate for a phase-out of nuc energy and a
change towards renewable energies.

http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resour
ce-Wars/2010/04/26/120000-Germans-protest-against-nuclear/UPI-92211272310270
/
<http://news.google.com/news/story?ncl=http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Resou
rce-Wars/2010/04/26/120000-Germans-protest-against-nuclear/UPI-9221127231027
0/&hl=en> &hl=en 

http://www.cane.org.za/nuclear-energy-related/120000-say-no-to-nuclear-energ
y-in-germany-massive-protest/ 

http://www.germanenergyblog.de/?p=2505

The size and scope of the event also demonstrates that the nuclear
industry's self-proclaimed "nuclear renaissance" is still largely an
artefact of its well-funded PR machine to buy column inches and air time,
not a firm demonstration of support among large populations of the planet,
including the U.S. and France.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Nuclear-Renaissance-Collid-by-Dave-Kraft-10
0425-193.html 

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Over 100,000 rally for climate and clean energy action - Washington, DC

Washington Post downplays this amazing show of support

http://climateprogress.org/2010/04/26/100000-earth-day-rally-immigration/?ut
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Nukes jobs in peril, lobby group says

Ontario and the federal government must come up with a joint strategy to
build a next-generation nuclear reactor in Ontario, or risk permanently
shrinking the sector, says the head a nuclear industry suppliers' group.

Jack Gibbons, who heads the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, says that track
record should discourage the province from the nuclear option. "Every
nuclear project in Ontario's history has gone over budget," he said in an
interview. "We need to pursue the lower cost options," he said. Those
include increasing energy efficiency; building combined heat and power
plants - which take heat vented by natural gas-burning power plants, say,
and use it to heat nearby buildings; and water power imports from Quebec.

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/801187--ontario-nuclear-decision-nee
ded-says-industry-group

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MPP Tabuns Speaks to Negligible Health Impacts of Wind

This past week the Ontario legislature debated a Conservative resolution to
put a moratorium on all new wind turbine installations. 

The motion was defeated after a very stormy debate.  Read this fantastic
speech given by NDP MPP Peter Tabuns in response to the resolution. He sites
study after study which show no scientific evidence linking turbines with
adverse health impacts. He compares the health impacts of coal, oil, gas and
renewables, claiming that health impacts of wind are negligible, especially
in comparison to the massive health impacts of other forms of electricity
generation. And he outlines the benefits of wind technology for the local
economy and ecology.

Scroll down to nearly the bottom of the page:

http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/house-proceedings/house_detail.do?Date=2010-04-28
<http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/house-proceedings/house_detail.do?Date=2010-04-2
8&Parl=39&Sess=2&locale=en#P279_84179> &Parl=39&Sess=2&locale=en#P279_84179.

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Enriched Hypocrisy

Before criticizing Iran's nuke program, Canada should look within

Eight of the world's most powerful leaders meeting in Huntsville, Ontario,
this June will discuss Iran's nuclear power industry. Concerned over
Tehran's enrichment of uranium, Prime Minister Stephen Harper intends to use
Canada's leadership of the Group of Eight (G8) to push sanctions against the
Middle Eastern country. Anti-nuclear activists, citing the prominence and
recent growth of Canada's own nuclear industry, are pointing out
contradictions in Harper's intentions at the G8. 

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3313

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Ottawa tells energy firms to start powering down coal-fired plants

Environment Minister Jim Prentice has told Canada's major electricity
producers that they'll have to gradually retire their coal-fired plants and
replace them with cleaner sources of power - a plan that would be a boon to
natural gas producers. Under Ottawa's proposal, power companies would have
to close their coal-fired facilities as they reach the end of their
commercial life, largely over the next 10 to 15 years.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/ottawa-wants-coal-fired-po
wer-plants-to-close/article1546314/ 

Here's to a coal-free Canada! 

Order free Coal or Nuke-Free Ontario leaflets/postcards here:
<http://cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets>
http://cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets 

Sign the Petition to shut down ON's coal plants today:
<http://www.cleanairalliance.org/petition>
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/petition 

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Three Days That Could Change the World - This Weekend in New York City!

The Dr. Strangeloves in the nuclear weapons establishment certainly have the
president's ear. Their influence needs to be countered by an engaged public
in the U.S. and around the world.

We have the opportunity to do just that at the upcoming Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference (NPT RevCon), held every five
years at the United Nations in New York.

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/29-1 

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Infant Cancer Rates near Nuclear Power Plants

In 2008, a German study reported a 60% increase in solid cancers and a 120%
increase in leukemias among children living within 5 kilometers of all
German nuclear power stations. After reading the study, the German
government stated as,
"The present study confirms that in Germany there is a correlation between
the distance of the home from the nearest NPP [nuclear power plant) at the
time of diagnosis and the risk of developing cancer (particularly leukemia)
before the 5th birthday."

After reviewing more studies with the original German study, the author
reasons that radionuclides seem to be causing malformations in fetuses in
mothers living near nuclear reactors and that might be the cause of the
observed high rates of infant leukemias. He argues that embryos and fetuses
are more vulnerable to doses and risks from environmental emissions than
formerly thought.

Most propaganda from pro-nuclear people say the average radiation near
nuclear power plants are as low as or lower than that of other regions.
However, this article argues that even ephemeral spikes of nuclide emissions
from nuclear power stations would be very dangerous.

http://energy-ecology.blogspot.com/2010/04/infant-cancer-rates-near-nuclear-
power.html

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Working Together for a World Without Nuclear Weapons

- a dynamic evening of dialogue featuring 50 A-Bombing Survivors & Peace
Activists from the Japan Council Against Atomic & Hydrogen Bombs

Wed. May 5

- 5:00 pm Silent Vigil, Toronto Peace Garden 

- 5:30 pm Public Meeting, Toronto City Hall Council Chamber 

Toronto City Hall, 100 Queen Street West (Queen & Bay)

Welcome Address by Mayor David Miller. With MCs, Setsuko Thurlow, a-bombing
survivor, and Phyllis Creighton, Science for Peace. Plus, Anton Wagner
(Hiroshima Day Coalition), Bruce Mutch (Veterans Against Nuclear Arms), Dr.
Barbara Birkett (Physicians for Global Survival), Shirley Farlinger
(Canadian Voice of Women for Peace), Rob Acheson, (Canadian Department of
Peace Initiative), Metta Spencer (Peace Magazine). Hear about the tens of
thousands of people from around the world who, on the eve of the "Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference" at the United Nations
Headquarters, gathered to tell our world leaders, "Never Again".

Sponsored by www.hiroshimadaycoalition.ca

Details, please contact Helen Chilas, 416-473-8238, h-chilas at rogers.com

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Toronto Bolivia Solidarity would like to invite all friends of Bolivia and
of Mother Earth to:

Report Back from the People's Summit in Cochabamba, Bolivia

World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth 

Fri. May 7, at 7 p.m., at the Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil St., Toronto

Thousands of Indigenous organizations, scientists, and environmental and
political activists from all over the world gathered in Cochabamba Apr.
19-22 to devise strategies against climate change and in defence of the
Rights of Mother Earth. The goal was to create a people's global movement to
confront the challenges facing Mother Earth and Humanity. The peoples of the
world must make a promise to humanity to amend for the failure of the
December 2009 Copenhagen climate summit.  

Ideas to be discussed will be sustainability, living well instead of living
better, and a communitarian way of life in harmony with nature, in
opposition to the disrespectful and destructive model of capitalism. As
Pablo Solon,  ambassador to the UN of the Plurinational State of Bolivia,
has said, "We need to change the system not the climate."

For more info: Toronto Bolivia Solidarity, 416 465-5976
torontoboliviasolidarity at gmail.com 

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Celebrate MOTHER'S DAY FOR PEACE

with Ontario Voice of Women 

Saturday May 8th , 9:30 - 3 pm

Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George subway), Toronto

Lunch included.

Did you know the first Mother's Day was declared as a day for peace?  Julia
Ward-Howe, in 1870, declared.. 

"Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able
to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country
to allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs."

Presenters include: Mitra Saffari on The Democracy Movement in Iran, and
Maxine Kaufman Lacusta on her new book "Refusing to be Enemies"

Info/registration www.vowpeace.org <http://www.vowpeace.org/> 

New members welcome.

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Mining (in)justice: at home and abroad

May 7 - 9, University of Toronto

Mining (in)justice: at home and abroad is a conference on the Canadian
mining industry (including Tar Sands) set to take place in Toronto on the
weekend of May 7-9, 2010. It will feature leaders in movements against
Canadian mining companies both within and outside of Canada and provide
space for growing our own movements in alliance with communities impacted by
this industry.

http://www.solidarityresponse.net/mining-injustice-conference/

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Hot Docs is Here - Toronto 

170 documentary films!

April 29 - May 9

Check out the energy/nuke films:

 <http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/dreamland> Dreamland  With its
hydroelectric and geothermal power surplus, Iceland's clean energy
initiatives have ironically attracted heavy industries whose pollution
decimates the natural vegetation. A troubling tale of sabotage from the
front lines of the green revolution.

 <http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/gasland> Gasland  Flammable tap water,
mysterious ailments, poisoned land and livestock: Sundance prize-winner
Gasland exposes the shocking environmental calamities and cover-ups caused
by natural gas drilling, shedding an absurd light on America's new energy
race.

 <http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/into_eternity> Into Eternity  The
fascinating scientific minds behind Finland's massive underground nuclear
waste storage facility, where radioactive waste must sit untouched for at
least 100,000 years to neutralize its potential danger, are probed in this
unique and stylish film.

 <http://www.hotdocs.ca/film/title/tankograd> Tankograd  What could possibly
thrive in Chelyabinsk, Russia - the world's most radioactive city? Dance, of
course. A world-renowned modern dance company soars above the city's toxic
soil to create an inspiring future in this unique environmental essay.

For the full list of all the docs, go here: http://www.hotdocs.ca/

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Angela Bischoff

Outreach Director

Ontario Clean Air Alliance

Tel: 416 926 1907 x 246

625 Church Street, #402

Toronto, ON M4Y 2G1

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