No Nukes News: Cleaning up Japan's Nuclear Mess

Thu Nov 10 17:30:51 EST 2011

No Nukes News

Nov. 10, 2011 - Please pass this onto a friend!

R.I.P.  <http://bit.ly/w2eXod> Dale Roberts - peace and justice activist,
OCAA volunteer extraordinaire 

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1044> Bruce Nuclear $2 billion over
budget - and laughing all the way to the bank

 <http://bit.ly/uXpmTn> Dalton has a secret plan to build reactors - By
Shawn Patrick-Stensil, Greenpeace. Less well-known is there's a new
electricity plan sitting on (new Energy Minister Chris) Bentley's desk.
Contrary to what you might believe, this plan would put the bulk of the
money into nuclear power and limit green investments to leave space for new
reactors.

 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rKVz1OwgJc&feature=youtu.be> Occupy the
Japanese Consulate! - the Occupy Movement goes anti-nuke!

 <http://www.economist.com/node/21536625> Cleaning up Japan's nuclear mess -
Its owner fears not just radiation leaking out of the Fukushima plant, but
also bad news - The Economist

<http://www.canada.com/life/Feds+hook+million+sold+AECL+reactor+division/565
4186/story.html> Feds on the hook for $360 million for sold-off AECL reactor
division

 <http://wapo.st/tCLQZy> Experts say it will take at least 30 years and $19
bill. to close Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear power plant

 <http://wapo.st/v0s7wI> IAEA says foreign expertise has brought Iran to
threshold of nuclear capability - This story from the Washington Post shows
clearly how the existence of a civilian nuclear power industry makes it easy
for nations to develop nuclear weapons expertise under a peaceful
camouflage.  

 <http://bit.ly/q1wHcL> Jeremy Rifkin - a brighter perspective on nuclear
industry - 6 min. video

 <http://bit.ly/uXsygF> Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy - panel discussion with
Greg Pallast, Harvey Wasserman, Vandana Shiva, Aileen Mioko Smith, Karl
Grossman 

 <http://bit.ly/sowXNM> If You Love This Planet: Nuclear disarmament and
energy policies - 57 min. audio interview. Dr. Helen Caldicott talks with
Bob Alvarez, a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in the US.
He and Caldicott discuss nuclear disarmament and energy policies.

 <http://daerangall.ca/the-sask-partys-nuclear-agenda/> The Sask Party's
Nuclear Agenda - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall gives $30 million in funding
for a nuclear science research centre at the University of Saskatchewan. The
provincial gov't is using the university to circumvent the expressed wishes
of the people of Sask. 

 <http://bit.ly/r1EvAu> Atomic Radiation is More Harmful to Women 

 <http://bit.ly/sOjHzK> Toronto Wind Power Research Will Continue - In Fall
2010, Toronto Hydro put a wind measuring device in Lake Ontario to see
whether enough wind exists to one day put wind turbines in Lake Ontario.
Last week, Scarborough Councillor Paul Ainslie tried to convince his fellow
Executive Committee Councillors to remove the wind measuring device a year
early. Thankfully, the Executive Committee rejected his proposal. Toronto
Hydro will now complete its research to see whether wind power from Lake
Ontario is a viable source of green power. 

Events:

<http://oen.ca/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=1324&cn
tnt01dateformat=%25b%20%25d%2C%20%25Y&cntnt01returnid=75> Under Control - An
Archaeology of Nuclear Energy - Film screening and discussion with director
Volker Sattel
Friday, November 11, 6 pm, Innis Town Hall (2 Sussex Avenue), U of T,
Toronto. Filmed in several German nuclear power plants over a three-year
period, director Volker Sattel set out to show what goes on inside the walls
of such facilities. 

 <http://thelastmountainmovie.com/> The Last Mountain - film and discussion
and coal burning and Ontario's electricity future with OCAA's Angela
Bischoff 

Friday November 11, 7:30 pm, Bruce <http://www.bpeg.ca/>  Peninsula District
School

 <http://occupyto.org/> Occupy Toronto - March for a more just world, Sat.
Nov. 12, 2 p.m., St. James Park (Church and King), Toronto

 <http://cpconference.ca/> Community Energy - More than Power - 3rd Annual
Community Power Conference and Power Networking Centre - Nov. 14-15, Toronto
Metro Convention Centre. Ontario's green energy future is the focus: how
will the Feed-in-Tariff review shape Green Energy 2.0 in Ontario?

 <http://robertbatemannight.blogspot.com/> Evening With Robert Bateman -
Join OCAA on Tues. Nov. 15, at the Palais Royale, Toronto 

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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