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Wed Sep 28 15:29:32 EDT 2011

No Nukes News

Sept. 28, 2011

Email Tim Hudak <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/hudak_nukecost>  and ask
him to sign the
<http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/nuke%20pledge%20letter.pdf>
Electricity Consumer Protection Pledge - Voters need to know where he stands
on nuclear power cost overruns: with consumers and taxpayers OR with the
nuclear special interest groups? 

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/jack_speak> Jack Gibbons speaking notes on
the 2011 Ontario election - Where do the parties stand on energy issues -
nuclear, coal, conservation and renewables?

 <http://www.greenprosperity.ca/> ON Election - Where do the parties stand
on the Environment?

<http://stopdarlington.org/campaign-update/message-to-the-next-ontario-gover
nment-stop-darlington-choose-green-energy/> Message to the Next Ontario
government: Stop Darlington: Choose Green Energy - Over 200 organizations
are calling on the next government of Ontario to abandon its plan to build
expensive new reactors at the Darlington nuclear station so green energy can
continue to expand and reduce the risk of a nuclear accident and the
production of radioactive waste.

<http://michiganmessenger.com/52729/electrical-problems-trigger-radioactive-
steam-release-at-palisades> Electrical problems trigger radioactive steam
release at Palisades - Entergy's Palisades nuclear plant near South Haven is
venting radioactive
<http://michiganmessenger.com/26580/barrow-gaining-steam-in-challenge-to-bin
g?lc=int_mb_1001> steam into the environment as part of an unplanned
shutdown triggered by an electrical accident. This shutdown, which began
Sunday evening, came just five days after the plant restarted from a
shutdown that was caused by a
<http://michiganmessenger.com/52588/cooling-system-leak-forces-shutdown-at-e
ntergy-nuke-plant> leak in the plant's cooling system.

<http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/end-the-nuclear-threat/Resour
ces/Background-documents/Economic-impacts-of-a-nuclear-accident-in-Ontario/>
Economic impacts of a nuclear accident in Ontario - New Greenpeace report 

<http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/fuku
shima-nuclear-crisis-update-for-september/blog/36858/> Fukushima Nuclear
Crisis Update - great synopsis by Greenpeace International

CNIC Sept/Oct issue <http://cnic.jp/english/newsletter/nit144/index.html>  -
Based in Tokyo, we are the Citizen`s Nuclear Information Center (CNIC). With
a network of scientists, activists, and common citizens, we work to create a
nuclear free world. Latest updates on Fukushima.

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/21/scottish-nuclear-leak-cle
an-up> Scottish nuclear leak 'will never be completely cleaned up' - At
least they're honest about it!

Knocking on the Devil's Door: Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy
<http://www.culturechange.org/cms/content/view/779/1/>  - a documentary of
the greatest urgency

 <http://occcae.org/index.php> Ontario Citizens' Coalition for Clean
Affordable Energy - Let your candidates know that you support Ontario's
continued leadership with programs like the Green Energy Act.

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/19/fukushima-protesters-japan-nucl
ear-power> Fukushima protesters urge Japan to abandon nuclear power - 60,000
thousand join Fukushima protest march in Tokyo amid continuing fears over
radiation

Check out this anti-nuke
<https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=249517375090706&set=a.1610883539336
09.31338.154293134613131&type=1&theater> billboard in Oshawa - Go
Greenpeace!

Ottawa Action against the tar sands
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiJJ1nygwi8&feature=youtu.be>  - 10 min.
video

 <http://solarbonds.ca/solar-bonds/community-solar-bonds> Solar Share -
Community Solar Bonds - Invest in solar power!

Events:

Provincial Election Issues - Council of Canadians monthly meeting 
Angela speaking on energy, others speaking on trade, health care,
transportation and more.
Wednesday, September 28, 7 - 9 p.m., Toronto City Hall, Room 3
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Biochar and Food Security in Post-Fukushima Japan 

With Lloyd Helferty, Engineering Technologist, Biochar Ontario (Canadian
Biochar Initiative)

Thur. Sept. 29, 4-6 pm, University College, Rm. 179, U of T, Toronto

Co-Sponsored  by University College Health Studies Programme, Canadian
Pugwash Group, Science for Peace, and Voice of Women for Peace

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Three Mile Island to Bhopal - A talk on enviro activist Rosalie Bertell

Thur. Sept. 29, 7 p.m.

Parkdale Library, 1303 Queen St. (at Brock), Toronto

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 <http://thelastmountainmovie.com/> The Last Mountain - 95 minutes, 2011,
film documentary about coal mining and mountain top removal

Friday, September 30 - 7 p.m., OISE 252 Bloor St. Toronto
Guest speaker is Angela Bischoff, Ontario Clean Air Alliance. Co-sponsored
by the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.

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 <https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154569154635197&view=wall> Pro
Green / Anti Nuclear Energy - Flocking Event

Sat. Oct. 1, 4 p.m.,Yonge and Bloor, Toronto. Raise awareness of the Liberal
and Conservative's plans to build up to 4 new nuclear reactors AND refurbish
4 reactors all at Darlington. Tell them what you think! Bring signs, noise
makers, paint yourself. 
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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

 <mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org> angela at cleanairalliance.org

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

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