No Nukes News: Calling all Youth!
Angela Bischoff-OCAA
angela at cleanairalliance.org
Mon Mar 14 18:29:50 EDT 2011
No Nukes News
Mar. 14, 2011
The question now is whether the industry can be trusted anywhere. If this
industry were a company, its shareholders would have deserted it years ago.
In just one generation it has killed, wounded or blighted the lives of many
millions of people and laid waste to millions of square miles of land. In
that time it has been subsidised to the tune of trillions of dollars and it
will cost hundreds of billions more to clean up and store the messes it has
caused and the waste it has created. It has had three catastrophic failures
now in 25 years and dozens more close shaves. Its workings have been marked
around the world by mendacity, cover-ups, secrecy and financial
incompetence. - John Vidal
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/14/fukushima-nuclear-indus
try>
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Today's Question - CTV News - Is nuclear power worth the risk?
As of now, 53% yes, 47% no. Vote now!
http://www.ctv.ca/news/
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Japan's Nuclear Crisis
For the best updates check out:
http://www.beyondnuclear.org/
http://www.nirs.org/reactorwatch/accidents/Fukushimafactsheet.pdf
http://www.nukefree.org/
http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/Japan_nuclear
Nuclear meltdown at Fukushima plant highly likely
Last night, Japan's chief government spokesman Yukio Edano said night that a
meltdown was "highly likely" at three of the plant's nuclear reactors on the
country's shattered northeastern coast, the Kyodo news agency reported.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/world/japan-earthquake-new-explosion-r
ocks-fukushima-nuclear-power-plant/story-e6frev00-1226021506205
Uranium shares fall as Japan battles meltdown
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/uranium-shares-fall-as-japan-battles-meltdo
wn-2011-03-14?reflink=MW_news_stmp
Behind the Hydrogen Explosion at the Fukushima Nuclear Plant
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/03/12-3
What will spark the next Fukushima? - An untrustworthy nuclear industry,
incompetently regulated, is leading the world into greater and greater
danger
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/mar/14/fukushima-nuclear-indust
ry
Gordon Edwards of the CCNR speaks about health implications - 5 min. video
http://www.cbc.ca/video/#/News/1221258968/ID=1840043716
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Youth Against New Darlington Nuclear Plant
Calling all youth (under 20)! Sign the petition against new nuclear reactors
proposed for Darlington - and send it to your friends on facebook! The
petition will be delivered to the Darlington Joint Panel by a delegation of
youth on Friday, April 8.
This spring, a panel of three adults will decide whether to approve the
construction of a new nuclear power plant at Darlington, Ontario, Canada (70
km east of Toronto).
AS YOUTH, WE OPPOSE THE NEW DARLINGTON NUCLEAR PLANT BECAUSE
. Nuclear power plants are dangerous - thousands died from the
1986 Chernobyl accident
. Nuclear plants emit harmful radiation into air and water
. Nuclear plants cost tens of billions of dollars
. Nuclear plants produce waste that is hazardous for thousands of
years
. Ontario can meet its electricity needs through renewable energy
and conservation.
Youth have not been consulted about this decision. Adults have no right to
put our future at risk!
Sign the petition: http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43683.html
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The true cost of nuclear in Ontario
The Ontario Liberal Government has committed up to $35 billion to expand the
aging fleet of nuclear reactors at the Darlington Nuclear Station. A
loose-knit group of Trent students and Peterborough residents is attempting
to intervene in the expansion plan by making oral presentations to a Joint
Review Panel, which has been charged with conducting a public consultation.
Former Peterborough resident Paul McKay's new and strategically released
book, Atomic Accomplice: How Canada Deals in Deadly Deceit, documents how
federal and provincial governments have secretly and not so secretly
manipulated the energy marketplace by price-fixing, subsidies, and
cost-overruns.
If the cost of rebuilding the aged reactors at the Darlington Nuclear
Station is factored in, the Ontario Clean Air Alliance has suggested the
actual cost of the energy will be from 19 to 37 cents per kilowatt-hour.
They have aggressively mounted a "Stop a $35 Billion Nuclear Handout"
campaign, claiming "every nuclear project in Ontario's history has gone
massively over budget." In what may amount to a massive transfer of wealth
from tax payers to the industries and corporations that use the energy at a
greater rate, taxpayers will be on the hook to potentially cover 2.5 times
Ontario Power Generation's (OPG) estimates, not including the $1.8 billion
per year on the taxpayers in debt retirement charges for previous cost
overruns.
http://www.trentarthur.ca/index.php?option=com_content
<http://www.trentarthur.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2406
:the-true-cost-of-nuclear-in-ontario&catid=14&Itemid=33>
&view=article&id=2406:the-true-cost-of-nuclear-in-ontario&catid=14&Itemid=33
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Nuclear "Spin" at OPG
At what point does corporate "spin" become unethical?
As part of its PR efforts, OPG last week took out ads in major Ontario
newspapers.
The OCAA denounced OPG's advertisement with a press release
<http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/950> of their own, branding the OPG
ad as "false advertising" and an early "April Fool's prank".
http://ethical-politics.blogspot.com/2011/03/nuclear-spin-at-opg.html
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Legal action taken over radioactive waste being shipped through Great Lakes
<http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/Legal+action+taken+over+radioactive+w
aste+being+shipped+through+Great+Lakes/4403611/story.html#ixzz1G8X6egrA>
http://www.windsorstar.com/technology/Legal+action+taken+over+radioactive+wa
ste+being+shipped+through+Great+Lakes/4403611/story.html#ixzz1G8X6egrA
Groups urge feds to stall 'nuclear garbage' shipment - Eighty-three MPs sign
petition
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Groups+urge+feds+stall+nuclear+gar
bage+shipment/4407434/story.html#ixzz1G8H0ixjo
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Darlington Nuclear new build discussed in Legislature
NDP MPP Peter Tabuns: OPG is trying to convince Ontarians that it can build,
or rebuild, a nuclear reactor on budget by trying to rewrite Ontario's
history of nuclear delays and cost overruns. The Minister of Energy is
responsible for advising and directing this government-owned corporation.
Will the minister demand that OPG pull these ads and promise Ontarians that
they-Ontarians-won't pay for the inevitable cost overruns of the Darlington
rebuild?
http://www.waterkeeper.ca/2011/03/10/darlington-nuclear-new-build-discussed-
in-legislature/
Please contact <mailto:bduguid.mpp at liberal.ola.org> Energy Minister Duguid
(and <mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org> cc me) and tell him that you
don't want OPG to use our money to pay for false advertising. Enough is
enough. It is time to respect Ontario's taxpayers. For more info:
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/950
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Ontario's Green Energy Debate: Three Points to Consider
The Ontario government's surprise decision to place a moratorium on offshore
wind power development has again put the spotlight on the province's Green
Energy Act and the McGuinty government's overall approach to electricity
issues. While the 2009 legislation is not without its flaws, the debate
about the role of renewable energy in the province's future seems to have
lost track of three essential points.
http://marksw.blog.yorku.ca/2011/03/10/ontario%E2%80%99s-green-energy-debate
-three-points-to-consider/
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Renewable Energy Training Courses
Offered by the Kortright Centre (just north of Toronto in the city of
Woodbridge)
http://kortright.org/groups-and-education/energy-workshop/
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More wind than science in turbine debate
If we're going to stop wind development until more research can be done,
then we should first stop nuclear until we know more about the health risks
from shipping radioactive waste up the St. Lawrence seaway. We know nukes
are dangerous. We have no hard evidence anywhere that wind actually causes
health problems, and 30-plus years of research that shows otherwise.
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/951453--more-wind-th
an-science-in-turbine-debate
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Carbon Reduction Policies Can be Good for the Economy
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2011/02/a-new-path-to-grow
th-with-renewables?cmpid=WNL-Wednesday-March2-2011
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Stand up for Solar
Send a letter to your MPP and more here:
www.standupforsolar.ca
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Facing Off for Social Justice in a Militarized World
Conflict Zones, Human Rights and Health Care
Mar. 25/26, Ottawa, ON
Sponsored by Physicians for Global Survival
Agenda and registration: http://pgs.ca/?page_id=725
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It's time to cut up the nuclear credit card and get a firm hold on nuclear
spending. It is time to stop taxpayer-financed nuclear bailouts. Please
contact Premier McGuinty and Opposition Leader Tim Hudak and tell them that
you don't want Ontario's taxpayers to guarantee the repayments of OPG's
borrowings for its proposed Darlington Re-Build Project.
<http://ocaa.createsend1.com/t/y/l/fikdul/nuhhkudyk/r> Click here to send
them your letter now.
And order FREE leaflets/postcards opposing the Darlington Nuclear Newbuild:
http://www.cleanairalliance.org/get_involved_order_pamphlets
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Angela Bischoff
Outreach Director
Ontario Clean Air Alliance
Tel: 416 926 1907 x 246
625 Church Street, #402
Toronto, ON M4Y 2G1
angela at cleanairalliance.org
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