No Nukes News: Darlington Hearing starts

Mon Mar 21 17:31:22 EDT 2011

No Nukes News

Mar. 21, 2011

So while news broadcasters notify the public of humanity's luck that the
winds are blowing the radiated air out to sea instead of over human
populated areas, instead of breathing a sigh of relief, or celebrating,
rather I cry for the sea. I cry for the air, the wind, the sea and all the
creations that exist because we are all related. - Krystalline Kraus
<http://www.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/krystalline-kraus/2011/03/activist-comm
unique-current-nuclear-crisis-japan-not-just-a>  

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Darlington Nuclear Hearing 

The federal hearing on the proposal by Ontario Power Generation to build up
to four new reactors of yet-to-be-specified design gets underway Mon. Mar.
21 and will run for 3 weeks. They are open to the public - come one, come
all!

The Hearing will be held at Hope Fellowship Church, 1685 Bloor Street,
Courtice (between Oshawa and Bowmanville, a few kilometres due north of the
Darlington Nuclear Generating Station)

The detailed schedule is posted at
<http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/details-eng.cfm?cear_id=29525>
http://www.ceaa-acee.gc.ca/050/details-eng.cfm?cear_id=29525

Find out more here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stop-Darlington/154293134613131 

You can watch the proceedings LIVE webcast online, or call in and listen
live. 

Toll-free dial-in telephone numbers for English audio for the  Darlington
Joint Review Panel proceedings: 613-960-7527 or 1-877-413-4815. The
identification number is 5760957.

To access the Webcast starting at 1:30 EDT on March 21, 2011, click here:
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/webcasts/index.cfm

Written transcripts and audio recordings of the proceedings will be
available the day after each session.

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Province Must Rethink Nuclear Plans: Greenpeace and Nurses

http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/Province-Must-Rethink-Nuclear-Pla
ns-Greenpeace-and-Nurses/

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Canadians can't afford Candu complacency - Japan or Canada, a nuke is a
nuke.

By Paul McKay, author of Atomic Accomplice <http://paulmckay.com/> 

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3030817

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Nuclear Energy Advocates Insist U.S. Reactors Completely Safe Unless
Something Bad Happens

Comedy - from The Onion

http://www.theonion.com/articles/nuclear-energy-advocates-insist-us-reactors
-comple,19740/ 

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Too Cheap to Meter: The Top 10 Myths of Nuclear Power

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-rose/too-cheap-to-meter-the-to_b_83573
0.html 

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Reconsidering Ontario's Nuclear Path

The unfolding nuclear catastrophe in Japan has reopened the debate out the
role of nuclear power around the world, including here in Ontario.

http://marksw.blog.yorku.ca/2011/03/15/reconsidering-ontario%E2%80%99s-nucle
ar-path/ 

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Canadian Nuclear Plant Leaks Radioactive Water Into Lake Ontario

http://planetsave.com/2011/03/18/canadian-nuclear-plant-leaks-radioactive-wa
ter-into-lake-ontario/

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Ask An Expert: Japan's Nuclear Crisis

With Dr. Gordon Edwards

9 minute video

http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20110317/japan-nuclear-crisis-ask-an-ex
pert-110317/

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Coal Ash Is More Radioactive than Nuclear Waste

By burning away all the pesky carbon and other impurities, coal power plants
produce heaps of radiation

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactiv
e-than-nuclear-waste 

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Nuclear power report: 14 'near misses' at US plants due to 'lax oversight'

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2011/0318/Nuclear-power-report-14-near-misses-a
t-US-plants-due-to-lax-oversight 

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Wind power surges forward around the globe

By Lester Brown  http://www.grist.org/article/2011-03-15-wind

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Wind power cheaper than nuclear, says EU climate chief

Connie Hedegaard says declining cost of offshore wind energy makes it
genuine alternative to crisis-hit nuclear industry

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/mar/17/wind-cheaper-nuclear-eu-cl
imate 

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Calling All Youth - Sign the petition opposing new reactors at Darlington

http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43683.html

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Protecting our Great Lakes and Ontario from Nuclear Waste

Wednesday, March 23 . 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Future's Bakery, 483 Bloor St. W, Toronto

This will be both and info and action planning meeting on the severity of
Ontario's Nuclear safety hazards, and how to we can get involved in upcoming
actions to shut down reactors! If you are not aware of the issues and want
more info first, check out the Democracy Now link with information here:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/14/japan_facing_biggest_catastrophe_since
_dawn

Sponsored by Code Pink Toronto

Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=171317609587707 

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Facing Off for Social Justice in a Militarized World

Conflict Zones, Human Rights and Health Care

Mar. 25/26, Ottawa, ON

Sponsored by Physicians for Global Survival

Agenda and registration: http://pgs.ca/?page_id=725

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Nuclear in the Spotlight - Wed. Mar. 30, Toronto

Wed. March 30th, 7:30 p.m.

Annex Live, 296 Brunswick (at Bloor)

With performers Mike Ford, Meghan Morrison, Richard Underhill, Michael Louis
Johnson, the Raging Grannies and more. Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear will
speak to the current situation in Japan.

Help OCAA turn Ontario away from nuclear and toward safer options.  

Until then, our thoughts and prayers extend to the Japanese people and all
those who will be affected by this disaster, now and into the future.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=192323914141758

http://nuclearspotlight.eventbrite.com/ 

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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.cleanairalliance.org <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/>  

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

 <http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/nonukesnews.php> No Nukes News

 <http://www.healthpower.ca/> Health Power

 <http://coalmustgo.ca/> Coal Must Go

  <http://cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_donate> 

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