No Nukes News: Focussing on Ford

[Angela Bischoff]

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March 22, 2019☢ We put up this billboard in Doug Ford’s riding of Etobicoke North.

☢ And we’re leaflet blitzing mailboxes around the province. Can you help? Contact me at angela at cleanairalliance.org. 

☢ Please sign the petition to Doug Ford to do a deal with Quebec to import low-cost water power rather than rebuild our aging nukes. Thanks. -a
 The World

☢ Nuclear Power Can’t Survive, Much Less Slow Climate Disruption Jeremy Rifkin weighs in on the five reasons why nuclear power’s days are done.

☢ Climate change’s threat to nuclear plants Because nuclear reactors require access to water for cooling, many sit in locations vulnerable to severe coastal storms or rising rivers. A Nebraska nuke is under flood risk now.

☢ Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator - A Review Gregory Jaczko, former chair of the NRC, makes it crystal clear: there will be future nuclear disasters. It is the nature of the business, especially when the regulator is unduly influenced by politicians and the industry.

☢ Radiation is good for you? The fringe viewpoint gains ground in the Trump administration The NRC is actively considering claims that low-dose radiation protections should be lifted. But scientific consensus claims that even low doses of radiation cause cell damage that years later can promote uncontrolled cell growth and replication, and that children and fetuses are particularly susceptible to harm.

☢ The uranium map in our bodies Where uranium and its decay products go and how they harm us.

☢ SNC-Lavalin, Radioactive Waste, and Corruption SNC-Lavalin is the proud owner of the entire commercial CANDU reactor division of AECL (Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd) as well as a partner managing over $8 billion in federally-owned nuclear waste liabilities. True to form they’re cutting corners on radioactive waste management. By Dr. Gordon Edwards. You can also hear interviews with Dr. Edwards here and here. Media collection here. 

☢ Brazil gunmen shoot at convoy carrying nuclear fuel in Angra dos Reis Gunmen attacked a convoy of trucks carrying uranium fuel to a nuclear power plant near the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, police say.

☢ An obituary for small modular reactors Small modular nuclear reactors are being heavily promoted but the economics don't stack up. And then there’s the military connection, no market, and no funding.

☢ Small Modular Nuclear Reactors A compendium. SMR’s history, economics, sales, military connections, Canada, waste and safety issues.

☢ Think tank puts cost to address Fukushima nuke disaster up to 81 trillion yen ($728 billion)

☢ Giving The Nuclear Bomb To Saudi Arabia’s Dr. Strangelove The most dangerous foreign policy decision of the Trump administration is its decision to share sensitive nuclear technology with Saudi Arabia and authorize U.S. companies to build nuclear reactors in that country. Nuclear weapons can be made from uranium or plutonium. By Chris Hedges. More on this topic here.
  Ontario

☢ Ford Government gets it backwards on energy cost savings The Ford Government is ending a number of valuable energy conservation programs. But Ontario’s conservation programs have the lowest costs of any option for meeting our energy needs - a fraction of the cost of nuclear. No surprise the nuke industry support's Ford's plan to roll back conservation programs.
  Renewables and Conservation

☼ Fort Chipewyan hopes to have Canada’s largest off-grid solar project operating by 2020 The Alberta gov't will contribute $3.3 million towards Three Nations Energy LP – a company founded by the Athabasca Chipewyan and Mikisew Cree First Nations, as well as Métis Local 125 – to help build 7,500 solar panels in the community.

☼ Trudeau government promises electric car subsidies, public transit support, wind and tidal power

☼ Wind power generated more than one-third of British electricity last week while solar power met 59% of demand in CaliforniaTake Action!

☢ Please contact Premier Ford and ask him to buy low-cost Quebec water power and cancel the high-cost Darlington Re-Build Project. Text his cell phone # is 416-805-2156 or email him at Doug.Ford at pc.ola.org. Click here to email him now. And please sign and share the petition here.

☢ Volunteers needed: We're leafletting in Doug Ford's hood of Etobicoke. Can you join the group blitzes -- or go out on your own in Etobicoke or in your own hood anywhere in ON? If so, please contact angela at cleanairalliance.org

☢ Petition to Premier Ford for the production of EVs Premier Ford must develop a strategy to ensure that Ontario rapidly becomes a world leader in the production and use of EVs (electric vehicles) and other low-carbon technologies.

☢ Canadian Government must protect our rivers from radioactive waste Please sign the petition to protect the Ottawa and Winnipeg Rivers currently threatened by three Canadian Nuclear Laboratories’ (CNL’s) nuclear waste dump proposals.

☢ Calling Citizen Scientists for Radiation Collection Project We’re looking for citizen radiation monitors interested in contributing to citizen science, and for funders whose support can help make the technology possible for those who can't afford it. For more info see here. If interested (either as a participant or as a funder), please contact mcneill.janet at gmail.com

☢ 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 here to post in your office, school, or local cafe.Events

☢ Power Struggle Documentary follows the unfolding drama as citizen activists and elected officials take on one of the biggest nuclear power companies in America to call for closure of the reactor when its original 40-year license expires. March 28 - April 14: 8 online screenings on Free Speech TV.

☢ Antinuclear World Social Forum Madrid, Spain May 31 – June 2, 2019 
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