No Nukes News: nuclear power unpopular w/ Cdns.

Wed Apr 6 11:23:24 EDT 2011

No Nukes News

April 6, 2011

For the best updates on Japan's nuclear crisis see
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/

After last year's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and now the Fukushima
Daiichi ''gempatsu shinsai,'' people must realize that business as usual is
not an option. To claim that nuclear energy has a future represents a
colossal failure of our collective imagination-a failure to imagine the
risks involved and a failure to imagine how we could do things differently.
If future generations are to say that there was a silver lining to the cloud
of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, it will be because human beings now
looked beyond their recent history and chose to build a society that was not
subject to catastrophic risks of human making. - Philip White
<http://www.japantoday.com/category/commentary/view/can-there-be-a-silver-li
ning-to-japans-nuclear-crisis> , Tokyo-based Citizens' Nuclear Information
Center

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Germany Abandons Nuclear Power

Germany will shut down all its nuclear power stations by 2020, according to
the government's Secretary of State for the Environment and Nuclear Safety.

http://planetsave.com/2011/04/04/germany-abandons-nuclear-power/

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Sign the  <http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition2.php> Petition Calling
for a Moratorium on New Nuclear Projects in ON

http://www.ontariosgreenfuture.ca/petition2.php

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New poll finds nuclear power is very unpopular with Canadians

In April 2011, Abacus Data released polling results describing Canadians'
opinions about nuclear power. The results directly contradict industry
statements that nuclear power is popular. Some of the highlights:

*	Only 34% of Canadians support nuclear power:
*	Nearly 1/2 of Canadians have less confidence in the safety of
nuclear power following the Fukushima crisis
*	Only 22% of Canadians believe nuclear power is safe and that we
should build more plants
*	58% of Canadians think nuclear power is unsafe and that Canada
should stop building new plants (43%) and also shut down existing plants
(15%)
*	Men (32%) are almost 3 times as likely as women (13%) to believe
#nuclear power is safe:

http://abacusdata.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Nuclear-Power-April-1.pdf

(Thanks to Lake Ontario Waterkeeper for the summary)

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Radiation from Japan reactor detected in B.C. seaweed, rainwater

But don't worry - no risk to humans

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Radiation+detected+seaweed+rainwater+risk+h
umans/4516888/story.html 

Fukushima Fallout Reaches U.S.A.
Trace levels of radiation found in rainwater from California to
Massachusetts

 <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27802.htm>
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27802.htm

San Francisco Rainwater: Radiation 181 Times Above US Drinking Water
Standard

http://www.mi2g.com/cgi/mi2g/frameset.php?pageid=http%3A//www.mi2g.com/cgi/m
i2g/press/040411.php 

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Radiation Exposure Debate Rages Inside 

Plan to Radically Hike Post-Accident Radiation in Food & Water Sparks Hot
Dissent

http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1325 

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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 is scheduled to run
through April 8. They are open to the public - come one, come all! 

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

Find out more here, including the schedule, transcripts, audio and video
recordings:
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/commission/joint_review_panel/darlington/
index.cfm#RelatedJRPInfo 

Access the live Webcast here: http://jrpcnsc.canadacast.ca/  (use explorer,
not firefox) 

Toll-free dial-in telephone numbers for English audio here: 613-960-7527 or
1-877-413-4815. The identification number is 5760957.

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Law association argues nuclear approval process flawed

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/968875--law-association-argues-nucle
ar-approval-process-flawed 

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Catch these brilliant videos from the Darlington hearings last week:

Greenpeace's Shawn-Patrick asks the review Panel to reject Ontario's request
to build new reactors at Darlington: http://vimeo.com/21737610

Dr. Helen Caldicott's discusses the potential health effects of building new
reactors at Darlington: http://www.vimeo.com/21714771

Theresa McClenaghan, Executive Director of the Canadian Environmental Law
Association discusses the risks of accidents from new reactors at
Darlington. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oBTOD7IgQI

Northwatch's Brennain Lloyd talks the threats of radioactive waste on
Northern communities:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAP0hwCM0HQ

Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps discusses the hazards of long-term hazards of
radioactive waste production.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ROO_lit3i0

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Proposed Darlington Nuclear plant enviro damage not addressed, critics say

http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/article/962937--nuclear-plant-dama
ge-not-addressed-critics-say

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Nuclear issue dormant in election campaign

http://www.thestar.com/business/article/967214--nuclear-issue-dormant-in-ele
ction-campaign

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Port Hope's nuclear past pits economic interests against health

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/968112--port-hope-s-nuclear-past-pits-ec
onomic-interests-against-health?bn=1

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Deconstructing Nuclear Experts

 <http://www.counterpunch.org/busby03282011.html>
http://www.counterpunch.org/busby03282011.html

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3.5-magnitude quake near Ontario nuclear facility

http://www.ottawasun.com/news/canada/2011/03/29/17794676.html

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A Debate on the Future of Nuclear Energy Between Anti-Coal Advocate George
Monbiot and Anti-Nuclear Activist Dr. Helen Caldicott

Helen Caldicott gives George Monbiot, newest fan of nuclear power, a lesson
in radio-biology that he sorely lacked. 

27 min. video

http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/30/prescription_for_survival_a_debate_on 

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Atomic Snowflakes

Only two (of 65) U.S. nuclear sites are in compliance with federal fire
regulations. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/04/atomic-snowflakes/73227/

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'No safe levels' of radiation in Japan 

Experts warn that any detectable level of radiation is "too much".

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/04/20114219250664111.html

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Fukushima 50 'expect to die'

The so-called Fukushima 50, the group of around 300 technicians, soldiers
and firemen who work in shifts of 50, have been exposed repeatedly to
dangerously high radioactive levels as they attempt to avert a nuclear
disaster.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8419808/Japan-nuclear-c
risis-Fukushima-50-expect-to-die.html?sms_ss=email
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8419808/Japan-nuclear-
crisis-Fukushima-50-expect-to-die.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d96257428898c9f%2
C0> &at_xt=4d96257428898c9f%2C0

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Fukushima Forces Europe to Rethink Nuclear Energy

http://ipsnews.net/newsTVE.asp?idnews=55101

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Sign the petition from concerned Japanese citizens, who would appreciate an
international show of support.

http://fukushima.greenaction-japan.org/petition/ 

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Energy conservation is win-win-win

It's unconscionable that the OEB would put the interests of Alberta gas
producers ahead of Ontario's consumers and businesses.  

Please click here <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/oeb_gas>  to send a
letter to Ontario's Energy Minister Brad Duguid asking him to direct the OEB
to increase the gas utilities' energy efficiency budgets by $89 million as
per the recommendation of the Board's own professional staff, thereby saving
consumers like you and me and Ontario's businesses $870 million.

For more info read these Toronto Star articles:

http://www.thestar.com/business/companies/article/969442--union-gas-urges-mo
re-conservation

http://www.moneyville.ca/article/967788--energy-board-caps-gas-conservation-
spending 

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Order FREE anti-nuclear and anti-coal leaflets here: 

http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets 

They contain postcards to politicians.

Courtesy of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance.

Thanks.

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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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