No Nukes News: Politics of Power

Fri Dec 10 18:14:07 EST 2010

No Nukes News

Dec. 10, 2010

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"There's no way around it: fossil fuels or not, keeping the rich supplied
with the same amount of energy they use now implies resource takeovers with
deep colonialist and anti-democratic implications."   - Larry Lohmann

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The Politics of Power

The Grits' green energy revolution unplugged

Faced with a public backlash over rising energy costs, and an attack on
feed-in tariffs and renewables like wind and solar, the province is in
recharge mode, releasing its green-print for a clean energy future last
month. The good thing: they're doing away with dirty coal. The bad thing:
the plan calls for an expensive, long-term reliance on nukes.

As long as we continue to commit half the power grid to nuclear energy,
green alternatives will remain marginal in the supply mix. The burning
question: can Ontario meet its electricity needs without nukes?  The answer
is yes, absolutely, says Angela Bischoff, nuclear campaigner for the Ontario
Clean Air Alliance. The first step is to reduce demand.

http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=178246

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Canada wins a 6th Fossil of the Day at the 2010 UN Climate Negotiations in
Cancun

The Canadian government has been awarded yet another Fossil of the Day award
(its 6th of the conference) for its classification of one of the central
elements of the UNFCCC - historic responsibility- as a 'sidecar' issue.
Developed countries must take responsibility for their historically higher
emissions and in turn act first and do more to reduce their greenhouse gas
pollution. 

http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/

Find it all here: 2010 UN Climate Negotiations in Cancun 

Recommended links, blogs, media releases, videos etc.

http://www.manitobawildlands.org/cc_meetings_cop16.htm#links

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Wrong! Nuclear power is much more expensive than conservation, hydro, wind
and biomass which together could replace all existing nuclear. Your
electricity rates are going up because of nuclear investments going back
decades, and now they want to throw away more tens-of-billions. Tell them
NO! 

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/letter_to_dalton2> Click here to send an
email to Premier McGuinty.  

Congratulate him on speeding up the coal phase-out, but please also tell him
that you don't want Ontario to spend $83 billion or more on risky nuclear.
Tell him that we can keep our lights on at a lower cost with a combination
of energy conservation and efficiency, water power from Quebec and
small-scale, high-efficiency combined heat and power plants.

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Ship happens?

Plan to transport radioactive materials on Great Lakes creates ripples of
protest

http://metrotimes.com/news/ship-happens-1.1070979

Great Lakes Mayors Sound Alarm Over Radioactive Shipment

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2010/2010-12-02-02.html-

S.O.S: Nukes on our water

Bruce power's plan to ship radioactive parts threatens to turn our great
lakes into a poison passage

http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=178129

Bruce shipment put off

Bruce Power will wait until spring to move 16 used steam generators, 

considered to be low-level nuclear waste, if it gets permission to ship 

them to Sweden, company spokesman John Peevers said Tuesday.

http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2880509

http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2883649

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<http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2010/11/29/wikileaks-releases-embassy-cab
les-showing-nuclear-build-up-t.html> WikiLeaks releases embassy cables
showing nuclear build-up threat in Middle East 

The latest major release of classified U.S. diplomatic cables by the
whistleblower site, WikiLeaks <http://cablegate.wikileaks.org/>  underscores
the argument we have been making; that the desire for nuclear power
development in the Middle East is a covert strategy to develop - or to
appear capable of developing - nuclear weapons.

http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2010/11/29/wikileaks-releases-embassy-cabl
es-showing-nuclear-build-up-t.html

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Saskatchewan Uranium, Fallujah's Children

Report on birth defects and cancers in Iraq points to Canadian uranium

The largest single source of uranium for the US military is Saskatchewan. In
fact, Saskatchewan produces more uranium than any other region or country in
the world. 

Not only was the US using Saskatchewan uranium for DU munitions during its
occupation of Iraq, but as late as 1990 Canada was itself processing DU
which was then being sent to a US weapons manufacturer. A section of the
1970 Treaty in the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) prohibits the
sale of Canadian uranium for use in weaponry.

http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3685 

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Valuing the greenhouse gas emissions from nuclear power: A critical survey

This article screens 103 lifecycle studies of greenhouse gas-equivalent
emissions for nuclear power Plants. It concludes that the lifetime GHG
emissions of a nuclear reactor is 66 g CO2e/kWh, due to reliance on existing
fossil-fuel infrastructure for plant construction, decommissioning, and fuel
processing along with the energy intensity of uranium mining and enrichment.
Thus, nuclear energy is in no way ''carbon free'' or ''emissions free,''
even though it is much better (from

purely a carbon-equivalent emissions standpoint) than coal, oil, and natural
gas electricity generators, but worse than renewable and small scale
distributed generators

http://www.nirs.org/climate/background/sovacool_nuclear_ghg.pdf

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Canadian Parliament adopts resolution supporting a Nuclear Weapons
Convention

The Canadian House of Commons gave unanimous consent this afternoon to a
motion submitted by the Bill Siksay MP <http://www.billsiksay.ca/> , Chair
of the Canadian Section of Parliamentarians for Nuclear Nonproliferation and
Disarmament (PNND), endorsing the United Nations Secretary-Generals
Five-Point-Plan for nuclear disarmament
<http://www.un.org/en/events/peaceday/2009/sgproposal.shtml>  and calling on
the Government of Canada to engage in negotiations for a nuclear weapons
convention as proposed by the UN Secretary-General.

http://www.billsiksay.ca/

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Offshore wind would boost Ontario economy

Ontario could create new industries, reinvigorate old ones, and generate
thousands of new jobs over the next 15 years by building a vibrant offshore
wind market around the Great Lakes, according to a report prepared by the
Conference Board of Canada.

http://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/article/903344--offshore-wind-would-boos
t-ontario-economy-report

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PM allows unelected Senate to kill climate bill in unprecedented vote

http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/news/2010/release/index.php?WEBYEP_DI=6
5

Send a letter to MPs and the Prime Minister to respect democracy and heed
the will of Canadians:

http://action.davidsuzuki.org/C-311

Send a protest email to members of the Senate here:

http://www.justearth.net/campaign-protest-senates-actions-bill-c-311

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Opponents speak out on GE plan in Peterborough

http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2884610

No Nuclear Production in Peterborough - Petition

This petition constitutes a request for more active community consultation
regarding General Electric Peterborough's application to assemble low
enriched uranium in fuel bundle fabrication.

 http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/nuclear_peterborough/

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Investing in green energy will pay dividends, wind energy group says

While it's true the price of electricity in Ontario is rising, the increase
is the product of several factors; the application of the HST to electricity
purchases and the need for investments in new electricity supply and
infrastructure to ensure a reliable and environmentally sustainable
electricity system in Ontario. The recent price hikes in Ontario have
nothing to do with new wind energy generation under the Green Energy Act as
none of these projects are scheduled for operation until next year.

http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2010-11-18/Mailbox/Investing_in_green_energy_w
ill_pay_dividends.html

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Nukes got you down? Do something!

Join us at an OCAA Outreach meeting to learn more about our campaigns, and
opportunities for you to plug in.

Thur. Dec. 16, 6 - 7:30 p.m.

519 Church St. Community Centre, Toronto

Meet our team - Christmas sweets provided!

Contact me for more info and to rsvp.

angela at cleanairalliance.org 

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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 <http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/> 

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