No Nukes News: Addicted to Power

Tue Mar 30 19:22:30 EDT 2010

No Nukes News

Mar. 30, 2010

“What we’re seeing is a well-orchestrated international public relations
campaign by a very desperate nuclear industry
 I think it is really
important to realize that there is an element of stampeding the herd in the
direction of nuclear power, when in fact it may be a cliff we are heading
to, not a bridge to the future.”  

~ Dr. Gordon Edwards, CCNR

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Ontario Electricity Consumers Subsidize OPG to Burn Coal

Catch this: In 2009, OPG received a $412 million subsidy from Ontario’s
electricity consumers to compensate it for the operating losses of its
Nanticoke and Lambton coal-fired power plants. Why, you ask?  As a result of
the coal plants’ high fixed costs and low volumes in 2009 (their lowest
level in 45 years), the average cost of producing a kWh of coal-fired
electricity is now greater than the wholesale market price of electricity
and therefore the coal plants are no longer profitable.. We’re actually
paying OPG to pollute our air! To add insult to injury, Ontario’s coal-fired
electricity generation in 2009 caused 246 deaths, 342 hospital admissions,
406 emergency room visits and almost 123,000 minor illnesses (e.g. asthma
attacks) in Ontario. (To find out more see:
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/phaseout%20progress%202010.pd
f )

What is wrong with this picture?

We can stop burning coal today! Please send an email to Premier McGuinty
asking him to speed up the coal phase-out and shut all ON’s coal plants down
by the G-20 this June (and send me a copy)
https://www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/feedback.asp?Lang=EN

And if you’re up for distributing FREE copies of our leaflets on coal or
nukes with postcards to politicos, please order them here:
http://cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets 

Thank you!

-angela at cleanairalliance.org

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Nuclear waste piles up, and it's costing taxpayers billions

"Fifty-three years into commercial nuclear power ... the US still has no
safe, sound, permanent storage plan for high-level radioactive waste," he
told reporters. Meanwhile, the spent fuel stacking up at the sites is a
terrorist target, he and others said.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2010/0324/Nuclear-waste-piles-up-and-it-s-costi
ng-taxpayers-billions 

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Nukes pollute water

This being a blog about nuclear power we’d like to mark World Water Day by
reminding us all of the places around the world where drinking water
supplies have been put at risk by the nuclear industry.

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/nuclear-reaction/2010/03/world_water_day.html

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What To Do With Nuclear Waste After Yucca Mountain 

The tasks facing the commission are daunting, given the renewed pressure to
build new nuclear power reactors, maintain a large and antiquated federal
nuclear infrastructure, and placate U.S. voters opposed to nuclear waste
sites in their backyards. 

http://www.counterpunch.org/alvarez03262010.html

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Anti-uranium doctors renew threat to resign 

Nearly two-dozen doctors in Sept-Îles, Que., are renewing their threats to
resign and leave the province after the government rejected calls for a
moratorium on uranium mining and exploration in the region.

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2010/03/22/mtl-uranium-sept-iles-doctors.html

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The Order of the Liberator San Martin: Recognition, Remembrance, And
Solidarity 

Thirty years ago, a workers' blockade in New Brunswick stopped the
Argentinian dictatorship from bringing a nuclear reactor online. The
longshoremen of Saint John refused to load a $120-million cargo of heavy
water bound for Argentina. The blockade also shone an international
spotlight on Argentina's tyranny and its political prisoners, and helped
force the release of 11 jailed trade unionists. Argentina's democratic
government is now honouring the Saint John longshoremen with the highest
award it can give them.

http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/2009_04_01_archive.html

http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/city/article/651909 

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Wind Energy Investment of $65 Billion May Curb Fossil Fuel Use

China WindPower Group Ltd., Iberdrola SA and Duke Energy Corp. will lead
development of an estimated $65 billion of wind-power plants this year that
let utilities reduce their reliance on fossil fuels. The estimate from
Bloomberg New Energy Finance assumes a 9 percent increase in global
installations of wind turbines this year, adding as much as 41 gigawatts of
generation capacity. That’s the equivalent of 34 new nuclear power stations.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-03-21/wind-energy-investment-of-65-bil
lion-may-curb-fossil-fuel-use.html 

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Pay more for energy

Bullfrog Power has just launched a campaign is to increase the level of
dialogue in homes across the country related to renewable energy and energy
pricing. The campaign is intended to provoke discussion on two issues:
first, why it makes sense to pay more for renewable energy, and second, why
it makes sense to pay more for conventional energy.

The campaign will run for approximately 8 weeks across much of the country,
and offers a spectrum of answers to the why pay more question from the
perspectives of our customers presented largely in testimonial-style
formats. 

Check it out: www.paymoreforenergy.ca
<http://www.paymoreforenergy.ca?utm_source=engomassemail&utm_medium=email&ut
m_term=marapr2010&utm_content=&utm_campaign=ipaymore>  

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Solar energy hotbed

As winter melts into spring, Southwestern Ontario is quickly powering up to
become Canada's biggest solar energy hotbed. From small rooftop solar cells
and pole-mounted panels that swivel like sunflowers, to a Sarnia venture
that's touted to become the largest energy producer of its kind on the
continent, the region is in a sunshine state of mind.

http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2010/03/19/13293966.html

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Oregon town uses geothermal energy to stay warm

Geothermal wells in Klamath Falls, Ore., mark one of the nation's most
ambitious uses of a green energy resource with a tiny carbon footprint and
could serve as a model for a still-fledgling industry.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011406843_geothermal22.ht
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Post Carbon Exchange

Encouraging to see these deep-thinkers hopeful about progress in shutting
down coal and ramping up clean energy around the world. 

10 min. video discussion between Richard Heinberg
<http://www.postcarbon.org/>  (Post Carbon Institute) and Lester
<http://www.earthpolicy.org/>  Brown (Earth Policy Institute).

http://www.postcarbon.org/video/83004-post-carbon-exchange-1-richard-heinber
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Making Your Home More Energy Efficient

5 minute you-tube video – addresses the blower-door test, windows, weather
stripping, water-heaters, furnace wrapping, lights, energy audits and more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_HVvbej3aI 

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Future Earth - Addicted to Power

The Passionate Eye, CBC TV News Network

Modern life would be impossible without enough energy, but it's an addiction
that could cost the Earth. We rely on fossil fuels - oil, coal, and gas -
which all emit the carbon that contributes to global warming. The dilemma is
how to keep the lights on without cooking the planet. Future Earth: Addicted
to Power illustrates the disastrous consequences of continuing our addiction
to power through photo-real CGI, but it also includes gripping interviews
with experts who explore how adopting new technologies and making changes to
the way we live can avert these disasters.

Watch it online!
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/futureearthpower/

Future Earth - 2025

The Passionate Eye, CBC TV News Network

Its estimated the world's ever growing population will need 50% more water
in the next 20 years. Future Earth 2025 creates credible disaster scenarios
based on changing weather and rain patterns, and uses the testimony of world
leading scientists and engineers to project the future, and explore how
these disasters can be diverted by adopting new technologies and making
changes to the way we live. Future Earth 2025 is produced by UK based Darlow
Smithson.

Watch it online!
http://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/passionateeyeshowcase/2010/futureearth2025/ 

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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

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