No Nukes News: pushing back

Tue Apr 10 11:02:56 EDT 2012

No Nukes News

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

"What about the huge, free nuclear power plant in the sky? What if we just
used that?" - Vote Solar founder Adam Browning <http://bit.ly/HDz1O7> 

Ontario

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1086> New postcard calls for a
fiscally responsible energy plan Order them today - they're free and contain
postcards to ON Energy Minister Bentley asking him to halt planned nuclear
projects in favour of lower-cost, safer and greener options

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1081> We can influence the provincial
budget and save billions Send an email to NDP leader Andrea Horwath here.
Insist that the Government develop a new long-term electricity plan that
will reduce investments in high-cost nuclear power, relying instead on
low-cost energy efficiency, water power imports from Quebec and natural
gas-fired combined heat and power plants.

 <http://bit.ly/HhB542> Energy solutions needed "These huge cost savings
from cancelling our wasteful nuclear spending program, can be used to reduce
your electricity bills and to protect health care and public education."
Jack Gibbons, Ontario Clean Air Alliance

 <http://rabble.ca/news/2012/03/pushing-back-nuclear-path-part-1> Pushing
back on the nuclear path: Part 1 - Ontario after Fukushima: aging reactors,
the Green Energy Act, and nuclear waste

 <http://rabble.ca/news/2012/03/pushing-back-nuclear-path-part-2> Pushing
back on the nuclear path: Part 2 - Point Lepreau (Nova Scotia), Earthquake
risks, and Gentilly 2 (Quebec)

Fukushima

 <http://www.ccnr.org/comments_CNSC.pdf> CNSC (Canadian Nuclear Safety
Commissions) Refuses to Face Reality on Fukushima The CCNR (Canadian
Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility) believes that CNSC is refusing to face
reality when it comes to the potential for catastrophic accidents in CANDU
reactors.

 <http://bit.ly/H9mFn5> Fukushima...radiation so high - even robots not safe
7 min. video interview with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear. More than a year
into the nuclear crisis at Fukushima - radiation levels have now reached
their highest point yet.

 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-oER6IMJNA> Fukushima nuclear waste headed
to California Coast by 2013 5 min. video interview with Kevin Kamps of
Beyond Nuclear. 

 <http://on.wsj.com/Ha8VCU> Japan Tallies Upheaval's Toll A Japanese
government panel estimates Tepco will have to pay $60 billion in
compensation to compensate the 1.7 million people whose lives and
livelihoods were disrupted by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident more
than a year ago. In Canada where nuclear industry liability is capped at $75
million, that will leave the rest of us holding the bag in the event of an
accident. That's quite the subsidy. 

 <http://on.wsj.com/Ho3d43> New Leak at Japan Reactor Threatens Ocean 

 <http://tinyurl.com/7ka734n> Inside the Meltdown - an excellent BBC video
on Fukushima - 59 min.

 <http://aje.me/Ivd3AK> Calls for nuclear compensation grow in Japan

 <http://bit.ly/HhtFeh> Dr. Helen Caldicott: What We Learned From Fukushima
58 min. presentation

Canada 

 <http://bit.ly/HnjJm3> Uranium production in Sask. for the tar sands 18
min. audio interview 

 <http://bit.ly/H9jkjW> Chalk River site eyed to bury low- and medium-grade
radioactive waste Enough nuclear waste to fill more than a hundred
Olympic-sized swimming pools could be buried in an underground chamber near
the Ottawa River, upstream from Parliament Hill and about a million
residents of the nation's capital.

The World

 <http://bit.ly/HoeJur> Why Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer to Global
Warming There is no "nuclear renaissance" and there won't be: it just
doesn't make sense economically. 

 <http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201204070001> Korean
residents living near troubled nuclear plant want out Besides this article,
there are several others on this page about Fukushima

<http://straight.com/article-648381/vancouver/gwynne-dyer-nuclear-weapons-an
d-global-zero-project> Gwynne Dyer: Nuclear weapons and the "Global Zero"
project

Green Energy 

 <http://bit.ly/Ho4SVn> Los Angeles Set To Launch a Feed-in Tariff Program
Feed-in tariffs are responsible for igniting a solar energy boom in European
countries such as Germany and Italy, as well as Canada's Ontario province.
China started its own last year and Japan, scarred by the nuclear disaster
from last year, is set to start a feed-in tariff program this July.

 <http://bit.ly/IbRvtj> How to Start Your Own Power Company, Stop Coal and
Nukes, and Transform Your City 2011 Goldman Prize winner Ursula Sladek
discusses how she became an unwitting energy mogul -- and a global
environmental hero. 

 <http://bit.ly/HsCx1Z> It's Here! Solar, Renewable Grid Parity, or Better,
in California's Latest Renewable Power Auction 

 <http://smrt.io/I0i6uv> Solving the next energy crisis, a million houses at
a time Did you know that U.S. energy security is as easy as weatherstripping
your house?

Events

 <http://bit.ly/I6UMrt> International Experts To Speak On Relicensing of
Tritium-Based Industry in Peterborough  Wed. April 11, 7 p.m., George St.
United Church. Free. Dr. Gordon Edwards and Dr. Linda Harvey, international
experts on the risks of nuclear energy and health effects of radiation, will
be presenting their perspective on the hazards of radioactive tritium,
specifically in regard to the current federal relicensing process for Shield
Source Incorporated (SSI), located at the Peterborough airport. Organized by
Safe And Green Energy (SAGE).
<http://www.facebook.com/events/318666408198941/>  

 <http://bit.ly/d3ZYFp> The 4th Revolution: Energy Autonomy Tues. April 17,
7 pm, Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia Ave, Toronto. Need a dose of hope? This
fantastic German documentary envisions a world powered by 100% renewable
energy, and profiles existing pioneer projects in 10 countries. 

www.green13toronto.org 

 <http://www.hiroshimadaycoalition.ca/events.html> Chernobyl, Fukushima,
Darlington and Beyond Tues. April 24, 10:30 a.m., St. Andrew's United
Church, 117 Bloor Street East (Yonge-Bloor subway stop), 3rd floor, Toronto.
Free, all welcome. Speaker Angela Bischoff from the Ontario Clean Air
Alliance will speak about the connection between nuclear power generation
and nuclear weapons proliferation, as well as the Ontario government's plans
to spend upwards of $80 billion on new nuclear power projects. Organized by
Veterans Against Nuclear Arms, co-sponsored by the Hiroshima Day Coalition

 <http://powerfulthemovie.com/> Powerful: Energy for Everyone plus info on
LIFE, a local wind co-operative, and other renewable energy opportunities -
Wed. Apr. 25, 6:30 p.m., Princess Twin Cinema - King St. N., Waterloo.
<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?llr=a4lurvcab&et=1107856636008&s=1305&e=001jtllOQ
AjaWZKLQWDYTOMrH5CWaKbd8Fwtobs2CUWFFstPohJDuGuQ18ShTN-1hHGzSsrXYutaMiMOpTb--
K8UxRBGP0rxfuuM2AHh0W0nIonrrMDBmvgBA==> www.crewzone.ca or e-mail
<mailto:info at crewzone.ca> info at crewzone.ca .

Act Now!

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1081> Please contact ON's Leader of
the Opposition Andrea Horwath and ask her support for the budget conditional
on phasing out dirty coal now and reducing investments in high-cost nuclear.

 <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. 

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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