No Nukes News: Lessons learned from Fukushima, one year later

Sat Mar 10 18:39:08 EST 2012

No Nukes News

March 10, 2012 - Please pass this onto a friend! 

Nobel Award-winning biologist Dr. George Wald once said of nuclear power
<http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/05/nuclear-power-and-the-big-lie/> :
"If you were to read in the newspapers tomorrow that astronomers had a
shocking piece of information for us, they had just found another star is
going to collide with the sun and that would be curtains, we'd have eight
months more to go and, finished-why-heavens above! You would put on your
best clothes and go dancing in the streets-that's cosmic, that's fate. You
could go out with dignity." But to die as a result of nuclear power, he
said, "is so trivial, it's so ghastly ignoble as to be, I think,
intolerable, altogether unacceptable." And he called for "the closing down
of all nuclear power plants tomorrow." 

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1072> Fukushima - what have we
learned, and where do we go from here? Nuclear accidents happen - OCAA.

 <http://bit.ly/z5Y3TW> Fukushima, One Year Later - Nuclear Power and the
Big Lie

 <http://bit.ly/zEfhMf> Editorial: Time to say goodbye to nuclear power -
The illusion of nuclear power safety has been torn out by the root. The
Fukushima crisis has also exposed the dangers of spent nuclear fuel pools.

 <http://huff.to/AgSxGY> Fukushima Residents Live With Fear Of Radiation
"The government spokesman keeps saying there are no IMMEDIATE health
effects," the 48-year-old nursery school worker says. "He's not talking
about 10 years or 20 years later. He must think the people of Fukushima are
fools. It's not really OK to live here," she says. "But we live here."

 <http://bit.ly/wO3zwl> Japan cleans up radiation zone, unsure of success

 <http://bit.ly/wMpjZh> Mothers of Fukushima against nuclear power CBC radio
documentary. Japanese mothers are rising up against nuclear power because
they don't trust the government to keep their children safe.

 <http://aje.me/ws9V5n> Fukushima residents report various illnesses 3
minute news clip

 <http://bit.ly/wPUVTT> Cancer Fears and Depression Plague Japanese Refugees

 <http://www.nowtoronto.com/news/story.cfm?content=185613> Greenpeace on the
lessons learned from Fukushima disaster

<http://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episode/journey-to-the-disaster-zone-japan
-311.html> Journey to the Disaster Zone: Japan 311 Fantastic documentary
with David Suzuki and the Nature of Things on the Fukushima nuclear
disaster, one year later

 <http://bit.ly/zHQhnE> Dramatic fall in new nuclear power stations after
Fukushima

 <http://www.theworld.org/2012/03/fukushima-cleanup-japan/> Fukushima's Hot
Zone Cleanup: A Journey Into Uncharted Territory - 8 min. audio documentary
with transcript

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1070> And the winner is... SNC, which
leaves Ontario consumers and taxpayers the losers  The McGuinty Government
just threw away $600 million to begin planning to rebuild Darlington, at a
time when it's also cutting back on funding for health and education. Please
send Ontario's Energy Minister a letter just by clicking here
<http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1068/> . He needs to hear from you
that you support lower cost, safer and less risky electricity sources.
Together we can stop this project from moving forward. 

 <http://bit.ly/yWxuUz> SNC-Lavalin probes $35 million in undocumented
payments

 <http://bit.ly/yde9yd> Proposed class action suit filed against SNC 

 <http://bit.ly/w7D07O> Ontario nuclear project's multi-billion dollar
question goes unanswered By carving the job into slices, the province risks
spending billions before the final cost becomes clear. At that stage, it may
have spent too much to back out.

 <http://tinyurl.com/6npptuo> Bid adieu to Gentilly - Refitting the QC
nuclear plant would at best be a make-work project so it makes sense to talk
about getting this white elephant out of the room... Decommissioning the
Gentilly 2 nuclear plant would provide years of work, at a cost $1.6
billion, and would end any danger of a deadly accident at the 30-year-old
reactor.

 <http://bit.ly/zmtt0i> Activists occupy the office of QC Premier Jean
Charest for the closure of Gentilly-2 - Following the results of a new poll
showing that a majority of Quebecers want the closure of the only nuclear
power plant in Quebec, Greenpeace activists occupy the office of Premier
Jean Charest to ask him to listen to its people and close Gentilly-2.

 <http://aptn.ca/pages/news/2012/01/09/nimby-nukes-in-my-back-yard-part-1/>
NIMBY: Nukes in my back yard Fantastic film documentary produced by APTN
(Aboriginal Peoples Television Network) about the lure of $$ to bribe small
communities across Canada to take Canada's most toxic waste - forever

 <http://www.morandlaw.com/> Poll: Do you think Port Hope suffers a stigma
because of its radioactive waste cleanup? Please take 15 seconds to cast
your vote. The Canadian government refuses to compensate Port Hope residents
for their loss of property value during the largest cleanup of radioactive
waste in Canadian history. The government claims Port Hope suffers no
stigma. A few seconds of your time can help us out.

 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbrNZjRqfmQ> TV ads featuring asthmatic
kids - very powerful ads opposing coal plant construction

 <http://aceee.org/press/2012/03/efficiency-standards-save-consumers->
Efficiency Standards Save More Than $1.1 Trillion Study Finds Typical
Household Will Save $10,000 from 2010-25; Enormous National Energy and Water
Savings Gained

Events

 <http://greenpeace.ca/shadowlands> Shadowlands: From Chernobyl to Fukushima
- photo exhibit, Mar. 7 - 18, 918 Bathurst, Toronto - Opening night Mar. 7,
7 - 10 p.m.

 <http://www.facebook.com/events/339929072703557/> Solidarity walk for
Fukushima victims - Ottawa, March 11. Gather at 11 am in front of the Museum
of Nature, to City Hall, Parliament Hill and finally the Canadian Nuclear
Safety Commission

 <https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/244896588932733/> Nuke Night - Double
Feature To commemorate the 1-year anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear
catastrophe, join us for a double-feature film night:
<http://vimeo.com/30753243> From Chernobyl to Fukushima: A Campaigners
Journey and  <http://bit.ly/ymCXRV> The 4th Revolution: Energy Autonomy
plus speakers. Fri. March 16, 7 p.m.

Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave. (St. George subway) 

 <https://www.facebook.com/events/172177626228128/> From Fukushima to
Toronto: A Town Hall Sun. Mar. 18, 1 - 5 p.m., Toronto - Workshops, panels,
discussions on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, why it matters in Ontario,
and how Torontonians can stop nuclear expansion and build a 100% renewable
Ontario. Speakers from Ontario Clean Air Alliance, Greenpeace, Lake ON
Waterkeepers, Canadian Environmental Law Assoc., Ontario Sustainable Energy
Assoc.

Act Now!

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1059> Send an email to ON Energy
Minister Bentley and ask him to finish the coal phase-out in 2012 and invest
in energy conservation rather than build or rebuild new nukes. 

Climate Change Cards for sale. 2 different sets of 8 cards/envelopes. $10
per set. Printed on FSC paper. Produced by Shirley Farlinger. Positive
climate images/sayings on the front, blank inside. Order them from me
<mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org>  while they last. 

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1067> Drummond Drops the Ball
Drummond misses the two biggest and easiest opportunities to lower our
electricity bills and save taxpayers billions: cancel the coal subsidies,
and cancel the high-cost nuclear re-investment plan. Send an email to
Premier McGuinty  <http://bit.ly/wOOENX> here. 

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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

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