No Nukes News: Anti-Nuke Slam Poetry

Thu May 10 19:21:58 EDT 2012

No Nukes News

May 10, 2012 – Please pass this onto a friend! 

“We do not know what to do hazardous nuclear waste. A nuclear power plant is
like a mansion without toilet. Nuclear does not allow an error. But there is
no such an operation with no error. Regardless whether we have sufficient
electric power or not, we should not use nuclear power. But we actually have
enough other sources of power and does not need nuclear power.” -
<http://bit.ly/IF4UMG> Koide Hiroaki, Kyoto University, Japan

 <http://bit.ly/KRl0hj> Adam Smith, Anti-Nuclear Slam Poetry – 2 min. video,
Regina – Youthspeak!

We got tons of sun we don’t need fission or fusion. 

Scientists are talkin’ like it’s the only solution

But I disagree with barrels of nuclear pollution

Callin’ that green energy? Merely an illusion

Money is the only green it’ll be producin’

So put your hands up if you’re feeling me now 

And you don’t want that nuclear waste in the ground

If you won’t let them poison all the rivers and ponds

You gotta put up your anti-nuclear arms

If you won’t them let them turn our land into bombs

Put up your anti-nuclear arms

Canada

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1097> End nuclear subsidies, alliance
urges The Ontario Clean Air Alliance wants the government to gradually
phase-out subsidies to the nuclear industry while lowering electricity bills
through investments in hydro-power imports from Quebec and increased energy
efficiency. “Since 2006, 45 per cent of the increases in electricity prices
are due to nuclear subsidies, but this is not what you hear in the media,
where it’s reported that green energy is responsible for rising electricity
prices,” Ontario Clean Air Alliance Chair Jack Gibbons told QP Briefing.
“The Ontario Energy Board showed this isn’t true: They argued green energy
is pushing it up by six per cent but it’s dwarfed by nuclear. The public is
being misled.” Gibbons points to the Liberals’ proposed $33 billion nuclear
spending program as evidence that the government is not searching for
cost-effective measures to keep electricity prices down.

 <http://bit.ly/KqFssK> Urge Canadian government to cancel proposal to bury
radioactive wastes on the Great Lakes shoreline The Canadian nuclear
establishment in industry and government has proposed a radioactive waste
dump on the Lake Huron shoreline at the Bruce Nuclear Power Complex.
Consisting of a total of nine atomic reactors (one prototype permanently
shut, eight commercial reactors still operable), Bruce is the largest
operating nuclear power plant in the world (after its Japanese competition
at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa shut down, at least temporarily).

 <http://on.mktw.net/IBDNRx> Canada's Nuclear Industry in Jeopardy as
SNC-Lavalin Faces Potential Strike Scientists, engineers, technologists and
technicians vote overwhelmingly to strike - action could commence May 7th 

 <http://bit.ly/JZCIAn> Victory Against the Canadian Nuclear Safely
Commission (CNSC) - Shield Source Inc. (SSI), a Peterborough company that
uses radioactive tritium, a waste product from the nuclear power industry,
to illuminate exit signs, had requested a 10-year licence extension. Due to
citizen pressure, and new data showing SSI more than doubled its annual
release limits, the CNSC has cancelled a public hearing into the SSI license
and has prohibited SSI tritium operations pending CNSC approval.

 <http://bit.ly/LhQouD> Rising electricity prices have little to do with
renewable energy New data helps to clarify how prices are linked more to
nuclear power than clean energy programs.

 <http://bit.ly/IOW8cm> Minister Bentley Should Answer Questions on Bill 75
Bill 75 eliminates the few legal checks and balances that existed to protect
Ontario electricity consumers. Under the Bill, the government’s electricity
plans are no longer required to be reviewed for their cost-effectiveness or
their contribution to environmental sustainability by the Ontario Energy
Board (OEB). Otherwise put, the government could just say build new reactors
no matter the cost. This is bad news for electricity consumers and the
future of green energy.

 <http://bit.ly/IImezd> Highly-regarded anti-nuke organization becomes first
Harper charity victim Physicians for Global Survival (PGS), a highly
regarded Canadian NGO that has been campaigning to abolish nuclear weapons
for 32 years, is losing its charitable tax status.

<http://makitanunavut.wordpress.com/http:/makitanunavut.wordpress.com/2012/0
5/08/may-8-2012-nu/> Nunavummiut Makitagunarningit (Makita) Website Launch
Makita was formed in November 2009 to encourage public debate on the wisdom
of opening Nunavut to uranium mining 

 <http://bit.ly/IDBlKb> Anti-coal protesters arrested in White Rock, BC.
About a dozen protesters, including one of Canada's leading
energy-environment economists, were arrested Saturday after setting up a
blockade on train tracks in White Rock, B.C., aimed at stopping U.S. coal
trains from reaching local ports.

The World

 <http://tinyurl.com/cydnlgg> Japan to Nationalize Fukushima Utility (TEPCO)
TOKYO —
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/ja
pan/index.html?inline=nyt-geo> Japan is set to nationalize Tokyo Electric
Power, the operator of the ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant,
under a ¥1 trillion ($12.6 billion) bailout plan approved Wednesday. The
government has separately committed ¥2.4 trillion in taxpayer money to meet
compensation payments arising from the accident. But estimates of the
payments that Tepco might have to pay out have reached many tens of billions
of dollars, making further government support likely.

 <http://bit.ly/ICXzZ8> The Worst Yet to Come? Why Nuclear Experts Are
Calling Fukushima a Ticking Time-Bomb The spent fuel in the hobbled unit 4
at Fukushima Daiichi not only sits in an elevated pool outside the reactor
core's reinforced containment, in a high-consequence earthquake zone
adjacent to the ocean -- just as nearly all the spent fuel at the nuclear
site is stored -- but it's also open to the elements because a hydrogen
explosion blew off the roof during the early days of the accident and sent
the building into a list.

 <http://bit.ly/Kr8E5H> Should Japan's nuclear reactors stay offline?  CBC
poll. Vote!

 <http://bit.ly/KqvjeH> Japan shuts down last working nuclear reactor All 50
reactors now closed for maintenance after 2011 tsunami but government faces
major public opposition to reactivation

 <http://cjky.it/IOoh3D> Thousands march as Japan switches off last nuclear
reactor

 <http://bit.ly/ICkatJ> NYC Press Conference May 4th Japanese Nuclear
Scientist and Japanese and US medical doctors to discuss current
radiological health conditions and concerns in Japan after the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear reactor catastrophe.

<http://nukefree.org/editorsblog/nuclear-power-industry-has-melted-japan-and
-france> The Nuclear Power Industry has Melted in Japan and France There are
zero commercial reactors operating in Japan today. And France has replaced a
vehemently pro-nuclear premier with the Socialist Francois Hollande, who
will almost certainly build no new reactors

 <http://bit.ly/ITBDIG> After The Media Has Gone: Fukushima, Suicide and the
Legacy of 3.11

<http://bit.ly/IKNtHihttp:/thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/04/27/472713/germa
ny-fighting-climate-change-and-phasing-out-nuclear-power-are-two-sides-of-th
e-same-coin/> Germany: Fighting Climate Change And Phasing Out Nuclear Power
Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin

 <http://bit.ly/Lui6V3> Italian nuclear power firm boss wounded in Genoa
shooting Roberto Adinolfi, chief executive of Ansaldo Nucleare, was shot in
the leg outside his house by gunmen on a motorcycle

 <http://bit.ly/IjOymO> Anti-nuke activists resume hunger strike in India
Update: Nearly 500 women from the coastal hamlets around KKNPP joined the
fast with 24 activists who were observing the fast-unto-death stir since May
1. 

Renewables

 <http://bit.ly/IECIHw> Amory Lovins: A 50-year plan for energy  Wow... How
to move into the future without nuclear or fossil fuels.

 <http://bit.ly/LsSHsh> Conservative Think tanks Launch Campaign to Turn
Americans Against Wind Energy Documents show for the first time that local
anti-wind groups are co-ordinating and working with national fossil-fuel
funded advocacy groups to wreck the wind industry. 

 <http://bit.ly/Lrpqyp> Global Clean Energy Within Reach 2 min. video with
Mark Jacobson 

Act Now!

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets> Order our
new leaflet calling on the ON gov’t to halt their massive nuclear expansion
plans – they’re free and contain
<http://www.cleanairalliance.org/files/OCAA_CutSomeWaste-web.pdf> postcards
to Energy Minister Bentley asking him to favour lower-cost, safer and
greener options. Distribute them to your friends and neighbours.

 <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. 

Please  <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/duncan_budget> email Ontario’s
Finance Minister Dwight Duncan and tell him that the electricity sector
review must include a “value for money” analysis of future supply options

Events

 <http://bit.ly/JoUQpN> Powerful Investing – Renewable Energy Trade Show and
Workshops Free. Saturday May 12, 1 - 5 p.m. Kitchener - Brought to you by
CREW, Greening Sacred Spaces & REEP Green Solutions

 <http://bit.ly/KMoSjL> Great Lakes Need Great Friends Tour The Great Lakes
provide life and livelihood to more than 40 million people and are the
economic centre at the heart of the continent. Yet the Great Lakes of North
America are in serious trouble. Nuclear production, waste and transport,
multipoint pollution, climate change, over-extraction, invasive species, and
wetland loss are all taking their toll on the watershed. With Maude Barlow
and more.  Description: Description: Description: Description: Description:
https://mail.google.com/mail/images/cleardot.gif <x-msg://70/> May 15 – 30 –
Toronto, Hamilton, Thunder Bay, Kingston, Sarnia, Township  of Tiny, Owen
Sound and London.

 <https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/meeting_view/list_meeting/12257> Lower
Energy Bills and a Strong Economy: A Six Point Plan to Move to a 100%
Renewable Electricity Grid Jack Gibbons, Chair of the Ontario Clean Air
Alliance, will talk about the organization's 6 point plan to Move towards a
100% Renewable Electricity Grid. Tues. May 22, 6 p.m. Sarnia, ON

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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