No Nukes News: Pushing back on the nuclear path

Fri Mar 23 15:57:13 EDT 2012

No Nukes News

March 16, 2012 - Please pass this onto a friend! 

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1076> Energizing the Drummond Report
-  Ontario can reap multi-billion dollar electricity savings

 <http://bit.ly/GDg6UC> Nuclear power too costly, Ontario Clean Air Alliance
argues - Toronto Star - What's the alternative? The alliance says other
sources are much cheaper. The money saved could be spent on health,
education or other provincial programs, the alliance argues in a new report.

 <http://bit.ly/GH5Lby> No new nuclear power if it doesn't make fiscal
sense: Bentley - Toronto Sun - But the financial pressure that caused
Ontario to suspend the new build at Darlington has if anything, gotten worse
in the past three years and electrical demand has fallen, opening a window
for the province to dump its nuke plans and improve its ailing balance
sheet. The Ontario Clean Air Alliance seized on that point Tuesday when it
released a study showing Ontario could save billions by foregoing the
project and ditching the 50% nuclear standard.

 <http://bit.ly/GFLU0q> Green groups go to court to challenge Ontario's
plans for new reactors

<http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1148384--bruce-power-reactor-leaks-
halts-start-up> Bruce Power reactor leaks halts start up - 3 years late, $1
over budget, and now leaks 

 <http://bit.ly/zoDOW3> The end of baseload? It may come sooner than you
think - Wow - the Germans are really doing it, going 100% renewable

 <http://blogs.worldwatch.org/revolt/fukushima/> The End of the Atomic
Dream: One Year After Fukushima, the Shortfalls of Nuclear Energy Are
Clearer Than Ever - Worldwatch Institute

 <http://bit.ly/GBRmfG> Nuclear Risks at Bed, Bath & Beyond Show Dangers of
Scrap radioactive metal - Going shopping? Don't forget your Geiger counter.

<http://www.trentarthur.ca/index.php/local/2897-safe-and-green-energy-peterb
orough-issues-radioactive-health-alert> Safe and Green Energy Peterborough
Issues Radioactive Health Alert

 <http://www.chextv.com/News/LN/12-03-19/Tritium_levels_challenged.aspx>
Tritium levels challenged - A local lobby group is taking aim at a
Peterborough company regarding radioactive emission levels.

 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPc6mJBFMqY&feature=youtu.be> Tritium:
Radioactive Health Alert at ON plant - 4 min. video

 <http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/19-5> Germany Embarks on
Historic Alternative Energy Push - As it phases out nuclear power in wake of
public outcry, Germany to make largest investment since World War II

 <http://bit.ly/GCnXjq> Gorbachev: Chernobyl Nuclear Accident Caused the
Collapse of the USSR

 <http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/20-4> Thousands of
Anti-Nuclear Protesters Face Police in India, 200 Arrested

 <http://www.commonsnews.org/site/site05/story.php?articleno=5146&page=1>
1,500 attend anti-nuclear rally and march in Vermont - 130 arrested in civil
disobedience action at Entergy Vermont Yankee corporate headquarters

 <http://nyti.ms/GI8TB9> As Reactors Age, the Money to Close Them Lags The
operators of 20 of the nation's aging nuclear reactors, including some whose
licenses expire soon, have not saved nearly enough money for prompt and
proper dismantling. If it turns out that they must close, the owners intend
to let them sit like industrial relics for 20 to 60 years or even longer
while interest accrues in the reactors' retirement accounts.

 <http://bit.ly/GCTzeH> Pushing back on the nuclear path - Ontario after
Fukushima

Events

 <http://on.fb.me/GKdFiN> Finding an Energy Efficiency Strategy for Ontario
- Thur. March 29, 7 p.m., Wolf Performance Hall, London Central Library.
With Jack Gibbons, chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance 

 <http://bit.ly/oNG8DL> Knocking on Devil's Door: Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy
- documentary screening with Community Renewable Energy Waterloo - Thursday,
March 29, 7, Princess Twin Cinema - King St. N., Waterloo   For more info:
www.crewzone.ca
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=a4lurvcab&et=1107856636008&s=1305&e=001jtllOQ
AjaWZKLQWDYTOMrH5CWaKbd8Fwtobs2CUWFFstPohJDuGuQ18ShTN-1hHGzSsrXYutaMiMOpTb--
K8UxRBGP0rxfuuM2AHh0W0nIonrrMDBmvgBA==>  or e-mail info at crewzone.ca

 <http://www.elc.ab.ca/pages/WhatsNew/default.aspx?id=1108> Nuclear Power on
the Prairies - Webinar - Wed. April 4, noon EDT - a discussion of how
nuclear power facilities are regulated in Canada and how Alberta and
Saskatchewan laws may be applied to nuclear power proposals.

Getting Off Nuclear Power - Chili cook-off with speaker Paul McKay, Sat.
March 24, 6:30 p.m. Maberly Hall, County Road 36, Maberly ON

Act Now!

Please  <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/duncan_letter> contact Ontario's
Minister of Finance, Dwight Duncan  and ask him to protect health care and
education by cutting wasteful nuclear spending.

 <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. 

<http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Protect_the_children_of_Japan_against_radi
ation_exposure/?tta> Protect the children of Fukushima against radiation
exposure - Sign the AVAAZ petition 

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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