No Nukes News: Powering the Future

Thu May 19 11:25:03 EDT 2011

No Nukes News

May 19, 2011

We urge the panel to recommend that the government of Canada launch a
pan-Canadian Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Nuclear Power in
Canada.  - Dr. Gordon Edwards <http://janetsplanet.ca/?p=5614>  

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Bruce Power pulls U.S. shipping application

Bruce Power has withdrawn its application to the United States Department of
Transportation for approval to ship 16 radioactive steam generators through
the Great Lakes.

Spokesman John Peevers says the company's shipment plan has been put on hold
— it is not cancelled — and Bruce Power's goal remains to ship the
decommissioned, school bus-sized vessels to a recycling plant in Sweden.

http://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3128202

No radioactive waste plans for Great Lakes 

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2011/05/16/No-radioactive-
waste-plans-for-Great-Lakes/UPI-87531305549532/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2011/05/17/wdr-bruce-power-appli
cation-withdrawn.html 

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Germany’s Unlikely Champion Of a Radical Green Energy Path

The disaster at the Fukushima plant in Japan convinced German Chancellor
Angela Merkel that nuclear power would never again be a viable option for
her country. Now Merkel has embarked on the world’s most ambitious plan to
power an industrial economy on renewable sources of energy. And she is
anything but a left-wing greenie. The party she leads, the Christian
Democratic Union, is the political equivalent of the Republicans in the U.S.

http://e360.yale.edu/feature/germanys_unlikely_champion_of_a_radical_green_e
nergy_path/2401/ 

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Fukushima fuel melt confirmed

http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-Fukushima_fuel_melt_confirmed-1605115.h
tml

More-than-expected damage found at Japan reactor - a serious setback for
efforts to stabilize the radiation-leaking complex

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_EARTHQUAKE?SITE=AP
<http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_JAPAN_EARTHQUAKE?SITE=AP&SECTION=
HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-05-12-08-28-30#6afa1237-2cd4-4ffa-a318-916b
b2b13b13>
&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-05-12-08-28-30#6afa1237-2cd4-4ffa-
a318-916bb2b13b13 

Rethinking nuclear energy in Japan – Japan unplugged

Naoto Kan seeks to tap into the nation’s energy-saving mood 

http://www.economist.com/node/18682821?story_id=18682821
<http://www.economist.com/node/18682821?story_id=18682821&fsrc=rss>
&fsrc=rss 

Fukushima: Village on way to becoming ghost town

 <http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110513f1.html>
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110513f1.html

Truth a Letter from a High School Girl Living in Fukushima 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXodi9X49pw
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXodi9X49pw&feature=share> &feature=share 

Fukushima Petition

Please sign this new EMERGENCY petition to roll back reckless radiation
limits and protect hundreds of thousands of Japanese children from a
lifetime of cancer fear.

http://fukushima.greenaction-japan.com/ 

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Fukushima’s fallout in Virginia

Virginia’s once-promising nuclear industry is feeling the impact of Japan’s
reactor disaster, which has dampened demand for goods and services related
to nuclear-powered generating plants.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs

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Chernobyl Forever

2 minute video film trailer: http://vimeo.com/17076224

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NRC Changes Tune On Plant Safety 

Critics of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission received fresh ammunition on
Thursday when the agency revealed that many of the nation's aging nuclear
power plants would be ill-equipped to withstand earthquakes and other
natural disasters.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/13/nrc-changes-tune-on-plant_n_861722.
html

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UK households offered £10,000 to improve energy efficiency

Up to 14 million families will be able to apply for up to £10,000 each to
pay for energy-efficiency improvements on their properties. The money –
which will be paid back in energy savings over 20 years – is almost double
the previous figure of £6,500 outlined when the scheme was launched.

Ministers claim it will be biggest home-improvement programme in Britain
since the Second World War. It is the cornerstone of the Government's
attempts to reduce household emissions by 30 per cent by 2020.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/households-offered-163
10000-to-improve-energy-efficiency-2281615.html

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Hudak in the dark on power

Toronto Star Editorial – Ontario’s Green Energy Act is one of those rare
government policies that promises to fundamentally shift how we do things
and produce benefits that go well beyond a four-year election term. If
implemented well, it will ensure that more of our energy needs are met from
renewable sources and create jobs in a burgeoning solar panel and wind
turbine manufacturing sector. Unfortunately, Progressive Conservative Leader
Tim Hudak wants to scrap it all before it’s had a chance to work.

http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/989907--hudak-in-the-dark-
on-power

Hudak urged to support green energy law – Program spurs job creation, say
local businesses

A group of Ottawa businesses specializing in renewable energy technology is
calling on Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak to reconsider his
opposition to the McGuinty government's green energy law.

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/sports/Hudak+urged+support+green+energy/4787642
/story.html 

Ontario’s green energy hub fears winds of political change 

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-r
esources/article2025715.ece 

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New Report Confirms that Switch to Renewables Is Feasible

It’s official: The world can easily make the switch to renewable energy if
it wants to. The Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change has just released a report
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/may/09/ipcc-renewable-energy-pow
er-world>  stating that energy from clean sources could account for
four-fifths of the global supply within a few decades—if governments show
the necessary will. 

http://www.progressive.org/ap051211.html 

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Fracking the Future: How Unconventional Gas Threatens Our Water, Health and
Climate - Report

http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-future-how-unconventional-gas-threatens-o
ur-water-health-and-climate-report

France to ban fracking of fossil fuels

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/907fd72c-7c06-11e0-9b16-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=r
ss#axzz1MA7Mmq2v 

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Powering The Future

Thur. May 19, 7–8:30pm

Evergreen Brick Works – 550 Bayview Ave, Toronto 

Powering The Future will explore our energy challenges, with a special focus
on how we can all best respond in our own communities and backyards.
Featuring Tom Rand, Judith Lipp, Mary Pickering, Emily Wood and Bob
McDonald. 

http://info.evergreen.ca/en/cal/event/powering-the-future/

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OPA Feed-in Tariff Review - Webinar

Thursday, May 26, 10:00 - 11:30 am (EST)
$40 for non-members. Free to OSEA Champion, Enabler and Supporter members.
OSEA friends pay $34.
Register at  <http://oseawebinars.eventbrite.com/>
http://oseawebinars.eventbrite.com/

The Ontario Power Authority is expected to begin its review of the Feed-in
Tariff programs this summer. To mark this occasion, the Ontario Sustainable
Energy Association has gathered a panel of experts on Ontario's Green Energy
Act and Feed-in Tariff programs as well as project developers and proponents
for a discussion on how the FIT programs should evolve. Join us for an
engaging conversation on what may be expected from the review, initial
recommendations from leading experts and an opportunity to make your own
suggestions.   

Panelists: 

Jose Etcheverry, York University

Paul Gipe, Author, Advocate and Renewable Energy Industry Analyst,
<http://www.wind-works.org/> Wind-Works.org

Brent Kopperson,  <http://www.pukwis.ca/> PUKWIS Energy Co-op &
<http://www.windfallcentre.ca/> Windfall Centre

Don McCabe,  <http://www.ofa.on.ca/> Ontario Federation of Agriculture

Kristopher Stevens,  <http://ontario-sea.org/undefined> Ontario Sustainable
Energy Association

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Help us put a SNAG in CANSEC!

SNAG is a quickly growing network of individuals and organisations from
across Canada that oppose war, is dedicated to nonviolence and committed to
upholding international law.

June 1-2, SNAG will engage in a peaceful, civil disobedience action at the
annual CANSEC weapons bazaar in Ottawa.  You’re invited. 

Find out more: http://www.nowar-paix.ca/snag/index.html

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

And order FREE anti-nuclear and anti-coal leaflets 

They contain postcards to politicians. Courtesy of the Ontario Clean Air
Alliance.

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

Thank you for helping get the word out!

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Angela Bischoff

Outreach Director

Ontario Clean Air Alliance

Tel: 416 260-2080 x 1

160 John St., #300

Toronto, ON  M5V 2E5

angela at cleanairalliance.org

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