No Nukes News: death knell for CANDU reactors
Bischoff Angela
greenspi at web.ca
Sat Oct 17 10:45:31 EDT 2009
No Nukes News
Oct. 16 /09
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We’re Onto Iggy
With the feds moving forward on the privatization of AECL, we really
need to get Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff on side. We too believe
that privatizing the crown corporation will be its death knell, and
we’re hoping that Iggy won’t oppose it. But to be sure, we’re going
door-to-door in his riding distributing leaflets and postcards
encouraging his constituents to tell him that they do NOT support
further subsidies going down the nuclear sinkhole.
If you can spare a few hours to help us distribute leaflets in Iggy’s
Etobicoke-Lakeshore riding, let me know and I’ll set you up. And if
you live anywhere in Canada and could help distribute postcards, I’ll
mail them to you for free. THANK YOU!
angela at cleanairalliance.org
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AECL sale could be ``death knell'' for CANDU reactors.
The federal government is preparing to unveil recommendations on how
to restructure Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, and several foreign
and domestic players in the nuclear industry are positioning
themselves to make a bid for AECL's assets.
But industry insiders and experts say the sale of the Crown
corporation's reactor business could spell the beginning of the end
for AECL's storied CANDU technology, long considered the cornerstone
of Canada's nuclear industry. <snip>
Another complication is the Ontario government's suspension of its
plan to build two new reactors in Darlington, Ont. Industry sources
said it's difficult to make an offer for AECL without knowing whether
the project will go ahead. But an Ontario government spokeswoman said
the province is waiting for the federal government to clarify its
plans for restructuring AECL, which was expected to build the reactors.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/AECL+sale+could+death+knell
+CANDU+reactors/2103432/story.html
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Ontario bets big with Arnprior solar project
The construction site, along Galetta Side Road, houses 312,000 glossy
solar panels on 13,000 racks that run row after row after row the
length and breadth of the 200-acre field. Some of those rows are a
kilometre long. Walking between racks of sloping solar modules that
look like an alien crop of machinery is, well, a walk into the future.
But then as far as the Ontario government is concerned, this is the
future.
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Smitherman+dedicates+west
+solar+farm/2107618/story.html
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Listen to Helen Caldicott on CBC
For those of you who missed Helen Caldicott’s presentations in ON,
you can catch her interview on CBC radio here:
http://www.cbc.ca/asithappens/latestshow.html
Her interview is the last 13 minutes of Part 3, and it’s worth
listening to.
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Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
Commissioned by Helen Caldicott
The overarching finding of this study is that a zero-CO2 U.S. economy
can be achieved within the next thirty to fifty years without the use
of nuclear power
and without acquiring carbon credits from other countries. In other
words, actual physical emissions of CO2 from the energy sector can be
eliminated with technologies that are now available or foreseeable.
This can be done at reasonable cost while creating a much more secure
energy supply than at present. Read the report here:
http://www.carbonfreenuclearfree.org/files/images/
CarbonFreeNuclearFree.pdf
And watch the 3 min. video with author Arjun Makhijani here:
http://www.carbonfreenuclearfree.org/
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Need energy? Forget nuclear and go natural
On top of the perennial challenges of global poverty and injustice,
the two biggest threats facing human civilisation in the 21st century
are climate change and nuclear war. It would be absurd to respond to
one by increasing the risks of the other. Yet that is what nuclear
power does.
http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/need-energy-
forget-nuclear-and-go-natural-20091014-gvzo.html
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Atomic Accomplice
How Canada Deals in Deadly Deceit
This new book by award-winning investigative journalist Paul McKay
exposes Canada’s continuing role in abetting atomic arms
proliferation. By continuing to bankroll reactor and uranium exports,
Canada is courting calamity in two ways: by increasing the potential
for atomic proliferation, and by diverting precious support for
safer, more sensible and sustainable energy alternatives.
The final chapters in the book expose the flaws of nuclear advocates
who claim that Canadian reactor and uranium exports are a vital
measure to combat catastrophic climate change, and can solve energy
and poverty problems in developing countries.
To purchase a copy, contact Angela at cleanairalliance.org and I’ll mail
you one ($20 plus $2 postage).
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N.S. legislates ban on the exploration and mining of uranium
A moratorium on the exploration and mining of uranium in Nova Scotia
will be turned into law by the provincial government.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/
ALeqM5hFokFZcs6_NlKO8jR-s3f27Q-G2g
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Amory Lovins on Nuclear Facts and Logic
The world in 2008 invested more in renewable power than in fossil-
fueled power. Why? Because renewables are cheaper, faster, vaster,
equally or more carbon-free, and more attractive to investors.
Worldwide, distributed renewables in 2008 added 40 billion watts and
got $100 billion of private investment; nuclear added and got zero,
despite its far larger subsidies and generally stronger government
support.
http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-13-stewart-brands-nuclear-
enthusiasm-falls-short-on-facts-and-logic/
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Veterans Against Nuclear Arms presents:
Why is it Time for an Arctic Nuclear Weapons-free Zone?
With Phyllis Creighton
Tues. Oct. 27, 11 a.m., sandwiches and tea as 12:15 p.m.
St. Andrew’s United Church, 117 Bloor Street East (Bloor and Yonge)
All welcome.
For more info: atobias at primus.ca or 416 423 8523.
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Zero Nuclear Weapons
Public Forum
Fri. November 13 and Sat. Nov. 14
Toronto City Hall, Queen and Bay
The purpose of the forum is to help citizens understand the urgent
need to push for the abolition of nuclear weapons, in light of the
hopeful climate and the means for achieving it.
Sponsored by: the Canadian Pugwash Group, Science for Peace,
Physicians for Global Survival, and Canadian Voice of Women for Peace.
Forum website here: http://zeronuclearweapons.com/
Forum agenda here: http://zeronuclearweapons.com/agenda.html
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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
angela at cleanairalliance.org
www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca
www.cleanairalliance.org
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