No Nukes News: Emergency Alert

[Angela Bischoff]

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The World
☢ New Poll Finds Canadians Do Not Trust Nuclear Energy and Reactors In a national poll of over 2000 Canadians, the vast majority have strong concerns about nuclear power and small modular reactors and believe it is the wrong path to deal with climate change.

☢ Former SNC-Lavalin executive sentenced to 8½ years in prison for fraud and corruption The Montreal engineering giant also settled criminal charges and agreed to a $280-million fine and a three-year probation order. SNC-Lavalin is the same company that is handling much of Canada's nuclear waste and rebuilding reactors at Darlington.

☢ Is This The Death Knell For Nuclear? Money spent on building and running nuclear power stations is diverting cash away from competitors that are cheaper, faster and lower carbon. Stabilizing the climate is urgent, nuclear power is slow.

☢ Forgetting Fukushima Now, with the 2020 Summer Olympics approaching, and some events scheduled to be held in Fukushima prefecture, all sorts of tactics are being used to bury social and environmental problems associated with the nuclear disaster.

☢ Fukushima’s Hot Particles in Japan: Their Meaning for the Olympics and Beyond Hundreds of thousands of people—athletes, officials, media, and spectators—will flood into Japan for the 2020 Olympics. But radiation exposure dangers from Fukushima have not ended since the explosions spread radioactive contamination over large areas reaching Tokyo and beyond.

☢ U.S. Lawmakers oppose Ontario’s Lake Huron high-level nuclear waste storage “The government of Canada should look for a new location that is far away from the Great Lakes for storing its nuclear waste.”

☢ Evacuations after Severe Nuclear Accidents This article discusses the experience of evacuations during the Fukushima nuclear disaster; whether lengthy evacuations from large cities are feasible; and some emergency plans for evacuations in NA and Canada. 

 

 

Ontario
☢ Pickering Nuclear emergency – Next time it could be real On Jan. 12, the Ontario Emergency Measures Office issued and then withdrew an emergency alert for the Pickering Nuclear Station. This alert was a reminder that the Pickering Nuclear Station has a long history of serious accidents.

☢ NB Power signs three deals to bring more Quebec electricity into the province and Transmission line to deliver hydropower from Canada to US gets key approval - What is Ontario waiting for? We already have the transmission lines, and QC is offering us their low-cost renewable water power at half the cost of Pickering, and one third the cost of rebuilding Darlington and Bruce nuclear stations.

☢ Ontario should denuclearize its power generation A catastrophe such as Chernobyl or Fukushima happening at Pickering may be difficult to comprehend, but the consequences would be so severe we need to rethink our reliance on nuclear power in Ontario.

☢ Elephant in the Room 11 min. video about the Pickering Nuclear station by filmmaker Kyoko Yokoma
 
☢ Critics say Doug Ford's goal of keeping an aging nuclear plant online is 'playing with fire' “As it gets older, the metal is getting progressively more brittle, meaning it is more inclined to break, more inclined to crack, more inclined to split, and that is very dangerous,” Dr. Gordon Edwards said. 

 

 

Renewables and Conservation
☼ Third phase of giant Dubai solar park to go online in April The solar park has a planned capacity of 5,000MW once all phases are operational in 2030.

☼ €40-Billion Compensation Plan to Drive Germany’s Coal Phaseout by 2038 First Germany took on a nuclear phaseout by 2022. Now national and regional governments in Germany have sealed the deal on a plan to phase out coal and fund a realistic transition for workers and communities that still depend on the industry. 

 

 

Take Action
☢ Emergency alert – Province plans to keep old Pickering Plant running Rather than waiting for the next emergency alert, let’s give Pickering-Uxbridge MPP Bethlenfalvy a wake-up call and tell him it is time to shut this old and dangerous plant down – call him now at 905-509-0336 and email him at peter.bethlenfalvy at pc.ola.org

☢ Stop BWXT Uranium Plant downtown Toronto and Peterborough from getting a 10-year license extension Jan. 27 is the deadline to submit a written deputation to the CNSC. Find out more here and here. Watch a 28-min video here. Sign the petition here. Join the FB page.

☢ Stop the giant Hamilton gas pipeline - sign the petition Say no to the proposed Hamilton Pipeline and fracked gas imports from the U.S. and read the 2-page factsheet here.

☢ A big day for Pickering An important motion calling for the immediate dismantling of the Pickering Nuclear Plant after shutdown in 2024 will be voted on by  Pickering Town Council on Mon. Jan. 27, 7 p.m. Join us! And you can also spread the word by distributing our new pamphlet to your friends, family and neighbours and signing our petition.

☢ Order your FREE leaflets here calling on the Ford Government to Cut the Cuts and invest in water power from Quebec rather than rebuilding 10 nuclear reactors and immediately dismantle Pickering after shutdown in 2024. 

 

 

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