No Nukes News: budget opportunity

Mon Apr 2 11:14:36 EDT 2012

No Nukes News

April 2, 2012 - Please pass this onto a friend! 

Letter to the editor: With Stephen Harper visiting Japan and trying to
conjure another Asian Free-Trade Agreement I wonder if he will be invited to
tour the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to observe its devastated reactors
hit by the earthquake and subsequent meltdowns of their radioactive fuel.
Will he try to convince the government to buy our CANDU reactors since they
are so much safer? He certainly won't be able to sell them any more of our
uranium fuel since the last of their 54 reactors will be shut down in May of
this year! - Ziggy Kleinau, Binbrook, ON 

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1081> Please contact ON's Leader of
the Opposition Andrea Horwath and ask her support for the budget conditional
on phasing out dirty coal now and reducing investments in high-cost nuclear.

 <http://nyti.ms/Hxp4Fi> Japan Nuclear Plant May Be Worse Off Than Thought
New york Times

 <http://tinyurl.com/75tm4qd> Japan shuts down another nuclear reactor - all
54 reactors could be off line by May

 <http://tinyurl.com/bwh5fj7> Japan in Uproar Over Censorship of Emperor's
Anti-Nuclear Speech

 <http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/03/149443.html> ex-PM Kan, other
Democratic Party members to launch group to seek exit from nuclear power

 <http://bit.ly/Hjsys5> Fukushima reactor shows radiation levels much higher
than thought Damage from disaster so severe that clean-up expected to take
decades, according to latest examination of nuclear plant

 <http://wapo.st/GU1ylm> 1 of Japan's damaged reactors has high radiation,
no water, renewing doubts about stability

 <http://wapo.st/GWfI8q> Japan has lots of plutonium on hand, little way to
use it President Obama noted Monday that the "smallest amount of plutonium -
about the size of an apple - could kill hundreds of thousands and spark a
global crisis." . there are about 500 metric tons of plutonium in the world.

 <http://tinyurl.com/7t9rp4d> Older nuclear plants pose safety challenge
Eighty percent of the world's nuclear power plants are more than 20 years
old, which could impact safety, a draft U.N. report says a year after
Japan's Fukushima disaster.

 <http://bit.ly/Hm70AP> Fukushima's radioactivity found in California kelp

 <http://onforb.es/Htidep> Exelon's 'Nuclear Guy': No New Nukes "I'm the
nuclear guy," Rowe said. "And you won't get better results with nuclear. It
just isn't economic, and it's not economic within a foreseeable time frame."

 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/news/world-17546420> German Companies
abandon UK nuclear plans 

 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x1P3f0Ne90> Amory Lovins on why nuclear
won't solve the climate crisis - 2 min. interview 

 <http://bit.ly/GXfBGi> 400 Chernobyls: Solar Flares, Electromagnetic Pulses
and Nuclear Armageddon 

 <http://bit.ly/xdTm7P> Nuclear power will fail to achieve what George
Monbiot wants Nuclear industry's broken promises show atomic energy will not
help climate efforts

 <http://www.lfpress.com/comment/2012/03/27/19554331.html> Nuclear gives
next energy headache But green energy isn't the true elephant in the living
room. Nuclear power is. Darlington, Pickering, Bruce -- the names are
stamped on the minds of generations of taxpayers, who watched the former
Ontario Hydro go on a nuclear binge lethal to its bottom line.

 <http://tinyurl.com/c33vyl3> Harper targeted over Nordion's bomb-grade
uranium deal with Russia

 <http://bit.ly/GUPxMw> Notice of Public hearing to consider Shield Source
Inc.'s (SSI) application to renew its operating license for its Nuclear
Substance Processing Facility in Peterborough. Please consider presenting,
deadline to apply is April 2.  More info on the issue here: Tritium stays
put, needs to be cleaned up <http://bit.ly/H8SnAz>
http://www.facebook.com/TritiumAwarenessPeterborough
http://tapcanada.org/?page_id=403  Contact: Jeff Brackett
brackett at nexicom.net

 <http://bit.ly/HEMya9> Solar and Wind Energy in Germany 3 min. video - wow!

 <http://boell.org/web/139-Craig-Morris-Myths-Facts-Germany.html> Myths and
Facts: The German Switch from Nuclear to Renewables - Renewable Germany is
STILL exporting electricity to Nuclear France after shutting down many of
their nuclear plants

Events

 <http://www.elc.ab.ca/pages/WhatsNew/default.aspx?id=1108> Nuclear Power on
the Prairies - Webinar - Wed. April 4, noon EDT - a discussion of how
nuclear power facilities are regulated in Canada and how Alberta and
Saskatchewan laws may be applied to nuclear power proposals.

Act Now!

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1081> Please contact ON's Leader of
the Opposition Andrea Horwath and ask her support for the budget conditional
on phasing out dirty coal now and reducing investments in high-cost nuclear.

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1059> Send an email to ON Energy
Minister Bentley and ask him to finish the coal phase-out in 2012 and invest
in energy conservation rather than build or rebuild new nukes. 

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1067> Drummond Drops the Ball
Drummond misses the two biggest and easiest opportunities to lower our
electricity bills and save taxpayers billions: cancel the coal subsidies,
and cancel the high-cost nuclear re-investment plan. Send an email to
Premier McGuinty  <http://bit.ly/wOOENX> here. 

<http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Protect_the_children_of_Japan_against_radi
ation_exposure/?tta> Protect the children of Fukushima against radiation
exposure - Sign the AVAAZ petition 

<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10
090> Support Anti-nuclear Protestors in India - 10,000 protesting, hundreds
arrested and surrounded by police - sign the letter to the Prime Minister of
India

 <http://www.friendsofwind.ca/> Sign-up to become a Friend of Wind quickly
and easily 

Climate Change Cards for sale. 2 different sets of 8 cards/envelopes. $10
per set. Printed on FSC paper. Produced by Shirley Farlinger. Positive
climate images/sayings on the front, blank inside. Order them from me
<mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org>  while they last. 

Angela Bischoff

Outreach Director

Ontario Clean Air Alliance

Tel: 416 260-2080 x 1

160 John St., #300

Toronto, ON  M5V 2E5

angela at cleanairalliance.org

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