No Nukes News: nuclear renaissance up in smoke

Tue Jan 18 12:39:01 EST 2011

No Nukes News

Jan. 18, 2011

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Why the nuclear renaissance is at risk of going up in smoke - With
governments unwilling to shoulder the financial risks, nuclear plants are
becoming a tough sell

North America's much-touted nuclear revival is in jeopardy, but it is not
environmental and safety concerns that are undermining it. The industry is
finding it increasingly difficult to make the economic case in both Canada
and the United States.

The enormous capital cost of building reactors is just one factor holding
back the long-promised nuclear renaissance. Just as critical is the risk
that already high costs will balloon as companies build new-generation
plants that must be able to withstand the impact of a terrorist crashing an
airliner into one.

https://secure.globeadvisor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/gam/20110117/RBAGE
NDANUCLEAR0117ATL

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AECL bidder backs out

The Conservative government’s efforts to sell off Canada’s nuclear power
agency secretly collapsed this week after the most likely buyer walked away
from the negotiating table

For one thing, AECL is not the commercial prize it may have been in its
commercial heyday of building its famous Candu nuclear reactors around the
world.The agency has not sold a reactor since the 1990s, and had none on its
books when the Harper government decided to sell the whole thing. AECL's
current refurbishment of reactors in Ontario and New Brunswick are both so
far over budget and behind schedule that Canadian taxpayers are facing
hundreds of millions of dollars in contract penalties.

Sources close to the failed negotiations with Bruce Power say no matter who
finally ends up with AECL, the government will remain on the hook for the
billions of dollars in outstanding liabilities for reactor refurbishments
and nuclear waste disposal. Finally, AECL earned an international black eye
from the roughly $600 million it wasted building two new medical-isotope
reactors that don't work, and likely will never be put into operation.

Sources also told CBC News that behind the scenes, the Ontario government
has been complicating any possible deal-making with onerous demands of its
own.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2011/01/14/can-aecl-sale-bruce.html

Potential buyers have walked away from AECL

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/922286--buyers-haved-walked-away-fro
m-aecl-union-says

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Dirty coal-fired electricity exports are costing us the air we breathe

Ontario’s  <http://ocaa.cmail1.com/t/y/l/atjod/nuhhkudyk/r> dirty coal-fired
electricity generation rose by 29% last year according to the Independent
Electricity System Operator.

Ontario has more than sufficient coal-free generation capacity
<http://ocaa.cmail1.com/t/y/l/atjod/nuhhkudyk/y>  to shut down its dirty
coal plants today, yet Ontario Power Generation (OPG) continues to operate
its giant Nanticoke coal plant to export power to the United States.  

Exporting dirty coal power may be good for OPG's bottom line, but it is not
good for our health or our climate. According to Ontario Government
calculations, OPG’s coal-fired electricity generation caused up to 158,000
asthma attacks last year. It also released harmful particulate matter, lead
and mercury into our environment while pumping out thousands of tonnes of
greenhouse gases.

Please send a letter to Premier Dalton McGuinty
<http://ocaa.cmail1.com/t/y/l/atjod/nuhhkudyk/j>  and ask him to tell OPG to
stop exporting dirty coal-fired electricity to the U.S.

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Lets kick start 2011 by getting the government to end tax breaks to dirty
fuels!

We are only weeks away from the 2011 federal budget and the federal
government continues to give billions of dollars in tax breaks to the
companies producing oil and gas in Canada. Analysis
<http://www.globalsubsidies.org/files/assets/synthesis_ffs.pdf>  shows a
total of $1.4 billion per year in federal tax breaks alone, with a
disproportionate share going to dirty fuels such as the Alberta Tar Sands.

Read more here:
http://www.climateactionnetwork.ca/e/news/2010/release/index.php?WEBYEP_DI=8
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Surplus power costly for Ontario 

Ratepayers paid $52.8M in December to subsidize sales to Quebec, U.S.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Surplus+power+costly+Ontario/4089148
/story.html

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Ontario opposition would seek green energy changes 

Ontario's opposition Progressive Conservative Party would overhaul the
province's feed-in tariff program for producers of renewable energy if it
wins the October provincial election, a party leader said on Wednesday.
"Going forward, absolutely, we would not be signing these contracts,"
Yakabuski said. 

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE70B6PK20110112 

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Australian women hate nuclear power. Men don't mind it, but women would
rather use candles.

This is the startling finding of Auspoll's latest research, a poll of 1500
Australians' attitudes on energy generation. Australians were often divided
along gender lines. 

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/opinion/more-power-to-the-people-even-
if-they-cannot-agree/story-e6frezz0-1225974638299

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Africa Offers Easy Uranium

Wikileaks cables have revealed a disturbing development in the African
uranium mining industry: abysmal safety and security standards in the mines,
nuclear research centres, and border customs are enabling international
companies to exploit the mines and smuggle dangerous radioactive material
across continents.

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53962

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Wikileaks and Nuclear Weapons

Reaching Critical Will, a project of the Women’s International League for
Peace and Freedom, has compiled a list of nuclear weapon-related articles
that have been released by Wikileaks. Articles cover topics such as the
Non-Proliferation Treaty, nuclear disarmament, nuclear cooperation with
India, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, missile defense and more. To see
Reaching Critical Will’s list, click here
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=ms69xbcab&et=1104191875670&s=29518&e=001CBss7
lnfMJjAaj3YIWiIUE4Ry7Z3TqnaZQ0iFL8s_0GqoPhChaePkvYm8YptjxDdoqegpqTeMwhrtoI7T
VSaqRxEvc_JRW007fk7-9i_VQYYxUC_TONY0E155z_YC6G6Ohn03N9It7Tx-QNuksmvttRXJ-Gvo
P53mnU82GALl4A=> .

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Stuxnet virus attack: Russia warns of ‘Iranian Chernobyl'

Russian nuclear officials have warned of another Chernobyl-style nuclear
disaster at Iran's controversial Bushehr reactor because of the damage
caused by the Stuxnet virus, according to the latest Western intelligence
reports. 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/8262853/Stuxnet-viru
s-attack-Russia-warns-of-Iranian-Chernobyl.html

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Pfffft Goes Promise of Pumping C02 Underground

Farmers say high profile carbon sequestration experiment is a bubbling,
dangerous failure. - By  <http://thetyee.ca/Bios/Andrew_Nikiforuk/> Andrew
Nikiforuk

http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/01/12/PromiseOfPumpingCO2/ 

Reported Weyburn carbon capture project failure is bad news for the world
http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/innovation/archive/2011/01/
11/reported-weyburn-carbon-capture-project-failure-is-bad-news-for-the-world
.aspx

Sask. family claims carbon-capture-and-storage site captured, spewed dead
animals

http://www.vancouversun.comzhealth/Sask+family+claims+carbon+capture+storage
+site+captured+spewed+dead/4093755/story.html

Land fizzing like soda pop: farmer says CO2 injected underground is Leaking 
http://www.canadianbusiness.com/markets/headline_news/article.jsp?content=b5
620386 

Carbon capture leak forces Saskatchewan couple to leave farm
h
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/carbon-capture-leak-f
orces-saskatchewan-couple-to-leave-farm/article1866294/>
ttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/carbon-capture-leak-for
ces-saskatchewan-couple-to-leave-farm/article1866294/
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/prairies/carbon-capture-leak-f
orces-saskatchewan-couple-to-leave-farm/article1866294/> 

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Canadian parliament to ratify nuclear power agreement in February

Canadian Parliament is all set to ratify in February the civil nuclear deal
with India. Canadian High Commissioner Stewart G. Beck said the Nuclear
Power Agreement (NCA) signed with India in June last year ending a
36-year-old freeze in civil nuclear cooperation is likely to be ratified by
parliament in his country next month. Once in place, the agreement will
allow India access to Canadian nuclear technology, equipment and fuel.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article1078035.ece

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Report Back on Cancún: Eyewitness Report and Discussion

Thursday, January 20, 7 p.m.

Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil Street (East of Spadina, South of College),
Toronto

Over 190 countries, developed and developing, met late 2010 at COP16 in
Cancún to come up with an agreement to respond to the world climate crisis.
Come and listen to the reports of Canadian experts who went there to protest
or to witness the negotiations. Vigorous protests inside and outside the
conference spoke for the world's peoples in our struggle for climate
justice.

Co-organizers: Toronto Climate Campaign; Council of Canadians (Toronto
Chapter); Toronto Bolivia Solidarity

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Where is my Electricity Coming From at this Hour? (if I live in Ontario)

http://media.cns-snc.ca/ontarioelectricity/ontarioelectricity.html

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Anti-Nuke Postcards!

Stop a $35 Billion Nuclear Handout: No More Blank Cheques for Ontario Power
Generation and its Darlington Nuclear Station
<http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/NuclearHandout_v5.pdf> . 

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/active/0/NuclearHandout_v5.pdf> They
contain postcards addressed to Premier McGuinty and the Leader of the
Opposition Tim Hudak. Order FREE copies here.  Give them to your friends,
neighbours, local coffee shops, etc. Help get the word out that there are
lower cost and safer ways to meet all our electricity needs without
investing tens of billions of $$ in nuclear energy.  

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