No Nukes News: Market offers verdict on nuclear option
Angela Bischoff-OCAA
angela at cleanairalliance.org
Thu Jul 14 15:56:19 EDT 2011
No Nukes News
July 14, 2011
"By reducing its reliance on nuclear power gradually, we will aim to become
a society which can exist without nuclear power. Considering the grave risk
of nuclear accidents, we strongly feel that we cannot just carry on based on
the belief that we must only try to ensure (nuclear) safety." -
<http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/07/201171395417817629.h
tml> Naoto Kan, Japan's Prime Minister
"The strange, strange dream of nuclear power. We will pay and do almost
anything to keep this illusion going, but the reverse myth is that the
alternatives - the ones that don't poison and pollute the world forever -
won't work because they are too expensive or impractical." -
<http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Market+offers+verdict+nuclear+option/508
7138/story.html> Paul Hanley
"But think about it: if Lake Ontario became undrinkable, if we had a
Fukushima disaster at one of Ontario's 21 reactors, there would be no
alternative potable drinking water. We'd have to build a pipeline to Lake
Huron or James Bay or something." -
<http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/1022104--lake-of-shame-ontario-
s-pollution-problem> Mark Mattson
"Our objective is to rebalance the energy mix in favour of renewables." -
<http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2011/7/11/even-france-to-prioritize-renew
able-over-nuclear-energy.html> Kosciusko-Morizet, France's Ecology Minister
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Ontario's power priorities
The sale of AECL should prompt Ontario to drop its plan for more Candus
Rather than continuing to make an increasingly hopeless case to the federal
government for support for its nuclear-based plans, Ontario should be
seeking federal investments for the creation of a truly national electricity
grid. Such an undertaking is far more likely to win backing from other
provinces and would enable Ontario to connect its enormous, but
intermittent, wind energy potential with those provinces that have
large-scale hydroelectric storage capacity.
<http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1024567--ontario-s-
power-priorities>
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/1024567--ontario-s-p
ower-priorities
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45 per cent of Fukushima children had thyroid exposure to radiation
<http://www.thehindu.com/news/article2161471.ece>
http://www.thehindu.com/news/article2161471.ece
'Scandalous collusion': Gov't, nuclear industry planned Fukushima cover-up
<http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/scandalous-collusion-gov-t
-nuclear-industry-planned-fukushima-cover-up?CID=examiner_alerts_article&fb_
comment=34963581>
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/scandalous-collusion-gov-t-
nuclear-industry-planned-fukushima-cover-up?CID=examiner_alerts_article&fb_c
omment=34963581
Japan PM says country should aim to be nuclear-free
<http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Japan+should+nuclear+free/5094681/story
.html>
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Japan+should+nuclear+free/5094681/story.
html
Social Fallout: Marginalization After the Fukushima Nuclear Meltdown
<http://japanfocus.org/site/view/3562> http://japanfocus.org/site/view/3562
Radioactive beef already sold, eaten
Fukushima meat sent to nine prefectures
<http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110712x1.html>
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110712x1.html
Radioactive Sewage Sludge Accumulates in Tokyo
3 minute video:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhQepqpFQck&feature=player_embedded>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhQepqpFQck&feature=player_embedded
Japan's Kan says nuclear clean-up could take decades
<http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/09/us-japan-nuclear-hosono-idUSTRE76
80Z520110709>
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/09/us-japan-nuclear-hosono-idUSTRE768
0Z520110709
Radiation found in Japan whales
<http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Radiation-found-in-Japan-whales-20110614
>
http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Radiation-found-in-Japan-whales-20110614
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Market offers verdict on nuclear option
Canadian taxpayers have put more than $20 billion into AECL since 1952, when
it was incorporated, and lost money on that investment in each of the
subsequent 59 years. More than a billion has been poured in over the last
four years alone. Canadians have paid though the nose to support the nuclear
option, and most Canadians don't even use nuclear power.
The fact that the government had to pay someone to take the company off
their hands proves the argument, made most forcefully by Amory Lovins of the
Rocky Mountain Institute, that nuclear power does not work in a market
economy because it cannot make a profit; nuclear power only works when the
public shoulders the costs and long-term risks.
Jack Gibbons, chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, reports that all
costs in, nuclear power from CANDU plants costs 21 cents per kilowatt hour,
whereas it is possible to buy hydro power for six cents a kWh and to produce
negawatts for four cents a kWh. (Negawatts is a term for making more power
available by reducing energy waste.) Gibbons points out it would be possible
to build a virtual nuclear power plant using the negawatts approach for
one-fifth the cost of the real thing, but with no longterm waste to contend
with. Nor do we risk disaster, the possibility that the impossible might
happen, as it did when the Fukushima reactors melted down, with anticipated
clean up costs of $100 billion over the next 100 years.
<http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Market+offers+verdict+nuclear+option/508
7138/story.html>
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Market+offers+verdict+nuclear+option/5087
138/story.html
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Will Tim Hudak stand up for taxpayers?
PC Leader Tim Hudak is not saying how he will protect electricity consumers
from the inevitable cost overruns on the nuclear power projects his party
favours. Mr. Hudak refused to respond to a Clean Air Alliance survey asking
what parties would do to protect Ontario consumers and taxpayers from
massive nuclear cost overruns.
Meanwhile, the three other major party leaders - Premier Dalton McGuinty,
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner - all agree
that nuclear companies should be prevented from passing cost overruns onto
electricity users or taxpayers. Such a measure would force nuclear projects
to compete on a more level playing field with renewable and natural gas
generation projects, which are not allowed to pass along capital cost
overruns.
Every nuclear project in Ontario's history has gone massively over budget
and it's us - the province's electricity consumers and taxpayers - who end
up paying the bills. In fact, the real costs of Ontario's nuclear projects
have been, on average, <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/881> 2.5 times
greater than their original cost estimates. Ontario is still paying down a
<http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/nukedebt.pdf> $19 billion debt left
behind by nuclear projects built decades ago.
Please contact <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/hudak_nukecost> Tim Hudak
and ask him if he'll allow nuclear power companies to pass their cost
overruns on to Ontario's hard working families if he becomes Premier of
Ontario.
Click <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/998> here to see the full party
responses to our survey.
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Germany's Phase-Out of Nuclear Power Will Speed Up the Low-Carbon Economy
<http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/11/264873/germany-phase-out-of-nuclea
r-power-low-carbon-economy/>
http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/07/11/264873/germany-phase-out-of-nuclear
-power-low-carbon-economy/
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Small Modular Reactors
No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power
<http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/newreactors/smractsheet.pdf>
http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/newreactors/smractsheet.pdf
Thorium Reactors: Back to the Dream Factory
Thorium reactors do not eliminate problems. The bottom line is this.
Thorium reactors still produce high-level radioactive waste, they still pose
problems and opportunities for the proliferation of nuclear weapons, they
still pose catastrophic accident scenarios as potential targets for
terrorist or military attack, for example.
<http://www.ccnr.org/Thorium_Reactors.html>
http://www.ccnr.org/Thorium_Reactors.html
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Nuclear Power's Other Tragedy: Communities Living With Uranium Mining
Modern-day uranium exploration and mining are far from being as safe as they
claim to be.
<http://earthworksaction.org/pubs/Nuclear-Power-Other-Tragedy-low.pdf>
http://earthworksaction.org/pubs/Nuclear-Power-Other-Tragedy-low.pdf
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Green Energy Act
Windsor Star Editorial
<http://www.windsorstar.com/opinion/Green+Energy/5093439/story.html>
http://www.windsorstar.com/opinion/Green+Energy/5093439/story.html
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Big Oil sponsors Energy Ministers' meeting
<http://www.660news.com/news/local/article/253333--big-oil-sponsors-energy-m
eeting>
http://www.660news.com/news/local/article/253333--big-oil-sponsors-energy-me
eting
<http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/13/pol-energy-ministers-corpo
rate-sponsors.html>
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/13/pol-energy-ministers-corpor
ate-sponsors.html
High-powered lobby calls on Canada to wean itself off oil
<http://www.vancouversun.com/business/High+powered+lobby+calls+Canada+wean+i
tself/5091629/story.html>
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/High+powered+lobby+calls+Canada+wean+it
self/5091629/story.html
Energy ministers: Canadians, not dirty energy companies, are your biggest
sponsors
<http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/climate-blog/2011/07/energy-ministers-cana
dians-not-dirty-energy-companies-are-your-biggest-sponsors/>
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/climate-blog/2011/07/energy-ministers-canad
ians-not-dirty-energy-companies-are-your-biggest-sponsors/
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Europe's nuclear retreat good news for Canadian Solar
<https://secure.globeadvisor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/gam/20110714/RBBW
BSOLARATL>
https://secure.globeadvisor.com/servlet/ArticleNews/story/gam/20110714/RBBWB
SOLARATL
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Waterfront power station sweet deal for sugar firm; Small gas-fired plant
would supply steam to Redpath
<http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1022769--sand-sun-and-smokestacks>
http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1022769--sand-sun-and-smokestacks
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The myth of baseload
What is needed is not additional baseload capacity, but simply the
willingness of utilities to look at meeting customer load with different
resources, and the development of forecasting tools and dispatch
methodologies that easily and reliably integrate clean power sources into
their systems.
<http://www.kentucky.com/2011/07/12/1809690/the-myth-of-baseload.html#ixzz1R
zhoO4xy>
http://www.kentucky.com/2011/07/12/1809690/the-myth-of-baseload.html#ixzz1Rz
hoO4xy
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New York Becoming a Model for How to Effectively Create Green Jobs
A new law will help generate 1 million energy efficiency retrofits on homes
and businesses and create over 14,000 full time permanent jobs.
<http://www.alternet.org/story/151612/new_york_becoming_a_model_for_how_to_e
ffectively_create_green_jobs?page=1>
http://www.alternet.org/story/151612/new_york_becoming_a_model_for_how_to_ef
fectively_create_green_jobs?page=1
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Lethal Fallout from Mining Spurs a Mountaintop Removal Moratorium Campaign
to End to the Humanitarian Crisis in Appalachia
Advocacy groups are calling for an immediate moratorium on all mountaintop
removal mining operations until the federal government can mitigate the
spiraling humanitarian crisis.
<http://www.alternet.org/story/151609/lethal_fallout_from_mining_spurs_a_mou
ntaintop_removal_moratorium_campaign_to_end_to_the_humanitarian_crisis_in_ap
palachia?page=1>
http://www.alternet.org/story/151609/lethal_fallout_from_mining_spurs_a_moun
taintop_removal_moratorium_campaign_to_end_to_the_humanitarian_crisis_in_app
alachia?page=1
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The Last Mountain
July 22 - 28, 7 p.m.
Royal Theatre, 608 College St., Toronto
Toronto Premiere Fri. July 22 - guest speaker Jack Gibbons, OCAA
The mining and burning of coal is at the epicenter of America's struggle to
balance its energy needs with environmental concerns. Nowhere is that
concern greater than in Coal River Valley, West Virginia, where a small but
passionate group of ordinary citizens are trying to stop Big Coal
corporations, like Massey Energy, from continuing the devastating practice
of Mountain Top Removal.
<http://www.theroyal.to/films/last-mountain/>
http://www.theroyal.to/films/last-mountain/
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Say NO to Nuclear Cost Overruns
Send a letter now to Premier Dalton McGuinty and Conservative Leader Tim
Hudak and ask them for assurances that SNC Lavalin - or any other nuclear
provider - not be allowed to pass its cost overruns onto taxpayers and
ratepayers. It's your money - make your voice heard now before new nuclear
contracts are signed. <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/aecl>
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/aecl
Let's Stop Burning Coal Now
Send a letter now to Environment Minister John Wilkinson and provincial
party leaders calling for a ban on coal-fired electricity exports.
<http://www.cleanairalliance.org/wilkinson_letter>
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/wilkinson_letter
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
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