No Nukes News: What are officials hiding?

Fri Nov 4 10:49:40 EDT 2011

No Nukes News

Nov. 4, 2011 – Please pass this onto a friend!

"We do support Time of Use pricing, but we think the differential between
peak and off-peak should be increased," he said. "The cost of generating
power during on-peak is much, much higher than off -peak," he said. "We
believe we should have prices that tell the truth, and reflect that costs
are much higher at peak than at off-peak." He added that Time of Use pricing
doesn't increase the average price of electricity in Ontario, or lead to an
increase in rates on an annual basis.  - Jack Gibbons
<http://www.saultthisweek.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3346952> , Ontario Clean
Air Alliance

 <https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=160250577400993&context=create> A
Celebration of Life - Dave Martin - Fri. Nov. 4, 9 p.m., Victory Café, 581
Markham, Toronto. Join us for a celebration of the life and work of Dave
Martin <http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/recent/Dave-Martin-/> . For more
than thirty years, Dave fought for global peace and against the nuclear
juggernaut in Ontario. Let’s celebrate his successes, and scheme how to
build the movement.

 <http://bit.ly/uLkNKH>  <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1043> 6 point
Energy Plan -  Instead of blowing the budget on expensive new nuclear units,
Ontario’s new Energy Minister should follow OCAA’s simple six point plan for
efficiently and economically meeting the province’s energy needs.

 <http://nyti.ms/vJx6mG> Fears of Fission Rise at Stricken Japanese Plant -
NYTimes

 <http://bit.ly/rPN6TF> Fukushima released 'twice as much' radioactive
material as first thought - The study casts doubt on other official accounts
of the accident.

 <http://bit.ly/mV1ln9> What are officials hiding about Fukushima? - The
Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan has exposed troubling weaknesses with
radiation monitoring here in Canada. Now evidence has emerged that the
radiation in Canada was worse than Canadian officials ever let on.

<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/belgium-latest-to-shutter-nuke-plants-2011
-10-31?link=MW_latest_news> Belgium latest to shutter nuke plants - Belgium
joins Germany, which plans to have all its reactors offline by 2022, and
Italy and Switzerland, which have abandoned expansion plans, in repudiating
nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima catastrophe in Japan.

<http://www.care2.com/causes/how-much-does-it-cost-to-insure-a-nuclear-power
-plant.html#ixzz1cB6JgtZa> How Much Does It Cost To Insure a Nuclear Power
Plant? - Asked to calculate the damage resulting from a major “total
meltdown” accident at a nuclear reactor, researchers estimated it could cost
upwards of 6 trillion euros (or 9 trillion dollars), which is why no
insurance industry will touch the nuclear industry, and why the public is
left holding the bag. 

 <http://www.ccnr.org/refurbishing.pdf> Refurbishing Gentilly-2 Will Not
Make It Safe. Shutting it down will. - by Gordon Edwards. The most useful
thing that we can do, as citizens, is to see that this dreadful problem of
radioactive wastes is not made any worse than it already is. Quebec can
close the door on nuclear power once and for all by not refurbishing the
Gentilly-2 reactor. Instead, it can concentrate on dealing in a responsible
way with the long term management of all the existing nuclear wastes, while
fostering a sustainable society based on energy efficiency and renewable
energy sources.

 <http://tinyurl.com/62sjvy8> Radiation doses of 1,769 Canadian health care
workers under-reported for four years - The errors led to potential
under-reporting of radiation doses by 25 to 40 per cent

 <http://bit.ly/tICatf> Nuclear Disaster in the US: How Bechtel Is Botching
the World's Costliest Environmental Cleanup - Department of Energy
scientists are alleging catastrophic mismanagement of massive cleanup
efforts at Hanford, the former nuclear weapons outpost. Clean up expected to
cost $120 billion.

 <http://vimeo.com/30753243> From Chernobyl to Fukushima: A Campaigner's
Journey – 20 min. video with Greenpeace Canada’s Shawn-Patrick Stensil

 <http://bit.ly/uzg9JE> Dr. Helen Caldicott on Fukushima and the Perils of
Nuclear Power – superb 13 min. video interview 

 <http://bit.ly/tnB1aD> Fossil Fuels as the Whale Oil of the Future - Amory
B. Lovins, the longtime efficiency guru
<http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/16/business/finding-oil-in-doors-and-lights.
html?scp=1&sq=wald%20snowmass%20lovins&st=cse> , has a new book out that
analyzes the possibility of converting the nation to almost total reliance
on renewable sources of energy.

<http://www.thestar.com/iphone/business/cleanbreak/article/1077559--hamilton
-liberal-win-doesn-t-mean-all-s-fine-with-green-energy-strategy> Liberal win
doesn’t mean all’s fine with green energy strategy

Events:

<http://oen.ca/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1324&cn
tnt01dateformat=%25b%20%25d%2C%20%25Y&cntnt01returnid=75> Under Control - An
Archaeology of Nuclear Energy - Film screening and discussion with director
Volker Sattel
Friday, November 11, 6 pm, Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue), U of T,
Toronto
Filmed in several German nuclear power plants over a three-year period,
director Volker Sattel set out to show what goes on inside the walls of such
facilities. After a well-received debut at the Berlin Film Festival in
February 2011, the film had its theatrical release in Germany a matter of
weeks after the Fukushima disaster and played an important role in the
debates around Germany’s decision to scrap nuclear power by 2022. 

 <http://thelastmountainmovie.com/> The Last Mountain – film and discussion
and coal burning and Ontario’s electricity future with OCAA’s Angela
Bischoff 

Friday November 11, 7:30 pm, Bruce <http://www.bpeg.ca/>  Peninsula District
School

 <http://bit.ly/vEkPDl> Prosecutor – screening of new film which follows
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo.
Moreno-Ocampo, Stephen Lewis, and director Barry Stevens will speak
following the screening.

Monday, Nov. 14th at 6:30pm at the Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St W,
Toronto. 

 <http://cpconference.ca/> Community Energy – More than Power

3rd Annual Community Power Conference and Power Networking Centre - Nov.
14-15, Toronto Metro Convention Centre

Ontario's green energy future to be focus of third annual Community Power
Conference. How will the Feed-in-Tariff review shape Green Energy 2.0 in
Ontario?

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

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

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