No Nukes News: Standing Strong

[Angela Bischoff]

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Feb. 13, 2018☢ Why have none of the parties at Queen’s Park embraced the real solution to lowering bills – buying power from Quebec? Please tell the ON leaders and leadership candidates that it’s time to say YES to Quebec’s offer for low-cost, renewable water power.
Premier Kathleen Wynne: premier at ontario.ca  
NDP Leader Andrea Horwath: ahorwath-qp at ndp.on.ca
PC Leadership candidate Christine Elliott: christine at christine2018.ca
PC Leadership candidate Doug Ford: info at fordforleader.ca
PC Leadership candidate Caroline Mulroney: caroline at carolinemulroney.ca
And thank Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Green Party of Ontario, for calling for a deal with QC ages ago: leader at gpo.ca
 The World ☢ Standing Strong – How South Austrailians won the campaign against an international high-level nuclear waste dump Aboriginal opposition was key to winning this battle.

☢ Chernobyl Children International 6000 children are born every year in the Ukraine with congenital heart defects such as ‘Chernobyl Heart’. Chernobyl is not something from the past, Chernobyl “is forever”.

☢ Fukushima Exposed 2 min. Greenpeace video of the radioactive waste piling up around Fukushima in 146,000 locations

☢ Where Are The People In The Nuclear Age? 29 minute audio presentation with Arnie Gundersen about his trips to Fukushima.

☢ New German Gov’t Phasing out Nukes AND Coal while Increasing Renewables to 65% by 2030

☢ France to close five nuclear reactors? Without any official announcement having been made, French nuclear reactor operator EDF seems poised to close up to five reactors next year.

☢ US Nuclear Reactors, Bankrupting Their Owners, Are Closing Early More than a dozen US nuke stations have recently closed or are set to close soon due to age, high expense and lower cost alternatives. Pickering, ON should too. It’s license expires in August 2018 and should be replaced with lower cost water power from QC.

☢ South Carolina Spent $9 Billion on Nuclear Reactors That Will Never Run The legislature must decide whether residents will keep being charged, possibly for decades, for the failed project.

☢ Plagued by disease, ridiculed for their explanation: A TMI 'survivors' group is growing

☢ US's new nuclear policy 'a blueprint for war', Nobel peace laureate says International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons founder describes weapons review as ‘a chilling document’ that echoes cold war era

☢ How a Saudi nuclear reactor could accelerate an arms race A nuclear program is a way to keep pace with Iran. It is also a step towards nuclear proliferation in the world’s most volatile region.Ontario

☢ Nuclear Emergency Plans in Ontario Update Lots of links and info about nuclear emergency plans (or lack thereof) in Ontario by DNA (Durham Nuclear Awareness)

☢ Nine quick facts about the crazy plan to “entomb” a nuclear reactor beside the Ottawa River A multinational consortium plans to “entomb” a defunct nuclear reactor beside the Ottawa River at Rolphton, Ontario, 200 kms upstream of Ottawa. Long-lived radionuclides and other hazardous substances including lead, mercury, asbestos, and PCB’s will leak into the Ottawa River. Comments from the public are invited, but deadline is Feb. 13.Renewables and Conservation

☼ New Hampshire regulators reject Mass. proposal to import power from Hydro-Quebec Massachusetts regulators are considering whether to re-open the all-renewables call for power bids. What is Ontario waiting for?

☼ Why a Big Utility Is Embracing Wind and Solar Xcel Energy is replacing coal and gas stations with lower cost wind and solar. Great idea! Ontario should #ClosePickering and #BuyQuebecPower

☼ 100% renewable electricity worldwide is a new cost-effective reality The study shows that there is no reason to invest any single dollar in fossil fuel or nuclear power production. It also proves that energy transition is no longer a question of technical feasibility or economic viability, but of political will.

☼ Three Canadian solar panel companies sue U.S. over tariffs The companies state that the International Trade Commission made no recommendation of tariffs on Canadian solar cells, and that the imposition of them goes against rules in NAFTA.

☼ Trump Declares Solar War, Syria Installs SolarTake Action!

☢ Westinghouse - Quit India Please sign and circulate this international statement against the Kovvada nuclear plant launched as Westinghouse officials visit India next week.

☢ Protect Kyoto -- prevent another nuclear disaster in Japan. Stop the dangerous Ohi plant. Please sign the petition.

☢ Sign our petitions to Close Pickering and to Buy Quebec Power. And share them with your friends. Watch our 2 min. video here. 

☢ Stop OPG's  Nuclear Waste Dump Before It's Too Late Learn more about OPG’s nuke waste dump proposal in Kincardine, ON, and write Minister McKenna, Premier Wynne and PM Trudeau here.

☢ Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean!

☢ Can you spare a few hours to leaflet blitz your neighbourhood mailboxes? Help us make the closure of the Pickering nuclear station a public issue. Contact: angela at cleanairalliance.org

☢ Order your free KI (anti-thyroid-cancer) pills here if you live within 50 km of an ON nuclear facility - that includes all of Toronto and beyond. Download your anti-thyroid cancer posters hereto post in your office, school, or local cafe.

☢ Canada – Sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Last year 122 member states of the United Nations voted to approve the text of a Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, but the Nuclear Weapons States voted against it as did most NATO countries including Canada. This petition asks Canada to sign the Treaty.Events

☼ Good Investment Fair Wed. Feb, 21, Centre for Social Innovation, 720 Bathurst St. Toronto. Want to earn good financial returns while supporting green energy? Participating organizations include: Community Energy Development Co-operative, CoPower, SolarShare and more.
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