No Nukes News: Nuclear Damage Control

Fri Feb 17 16:28:21 EST 2012

No Nukes News

Feb. 17, 2012 - Please pass this onto a friend!

 <http://bit.ly/wi2UxA> Collapsing Cooling Towers - 1 minute hilarious video
signaling an end to the nuclear and coal eras. Notice the 4 Sisters going
down, the towers at the ON Lakeview coal-fired station that was demolished
in 2006.

 <http://huff.to/xaQtCO> Atomic Energy Of Canada Labs Sale: Tories Testing
The Waters For Selling Research Facilities - AECL has cost Canadian
taxpayers billions of dollars and faced major cost overruns at key projects
in recent years while struggling to find a buyer.

 <http://nyti.ms/w5psPz> Fukushima: A Confused Nuclear Cleanup - "Nobody
really knows how to clean up radiation."

 <http://www.actfortheearth.org/184> Japanese Government Investigation
Committee Releases Interim Report on Fukushima - In a nutshell, it became
clear that a group of people who believed that human beings could control
and use this immensely powerful energy turned out to be almost powerless
when it came to the crunch.

With New US Plants Approved, Anti-Nuke Coalition Readies for Fight
<http://bit.ly/zG9znh> 

 <http://bit.ly/rW3YmT> Occupy the Nuclear Regulatory bodies - Mic check!
Anti-nuclear activists stormed a US nuclear regulatory meeting with their
own mic check. "We will do everything in our power to stop this plant from
being built. We are the 99 percent."

 <http://bit.ly/xMAIkZ> Harper relaxes accountability rules for China's use
of uranium 

 <http://bit.ly/z1gelY> Nuclear Damage Control - a long piece but very
comprehensive 

 <http://bit.ly/eDBiZn> Why Nuclear Reactor Loan Guarantees are Now More
Imprudent than Ever  - Four marketplace developments ended the nuclear
renaissance before it began. Those factors are: 

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Skyrocketing cost of building new nuclear reactors, with no end in sight to
the upward spiral; 

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Falling natural gas prices that could stay low for decades, as new
technologies have dramatically increased the amount of natural gas that is
recoverable;

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Lower cost alternatives that are widely available and afford utilities much
more flexibility in meeting the need for electricity in an uncertain
economic and policy environment. 

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Declining demand growth for electricity, with growing evidence that there
has been a permanent shift in the pattern of growth; and 

 <http://www.cbc.ca/passionateeye/episode/cape-spin.html> Cape Spin: An
American Power Struggle - This fantastic film is only available online until
Feb. 21, so watch it now. It's a 2-hour documentary, a tragicomic tale of
the battle over what would be the largest clean energy project in the United
States on Cape Cod. 

 <http://bit.ly/we39vA> U.K . opens world's largest off-shore wind farm -
This 102 turbine wind farm was set up on 5 months, and will supply 320,000
households with renewable power. 

 <http://bit.ly/xbYDNM> We will turn to renewable energy - Aiming for
one-fifth of electricity to come from renewable energy may have seemed
impossible only a decade ago - it is now becoming the norm as North America
undertakes the renewable energy revolution.

 <http://bit.ly/zWB1lm> Tell Duke Energy to Quit Coal 

Events:

Meet Polly Higgins, Earth's Lawyer who founded
<http://www.thisisecocide.com/> the campaign to make Ecocide a crime.
Saturday, February 18, 4 p.m. (followed by a potluck at 6 p.m.), Friends'
House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto. Free.

Mad Like Tesla - with Tyler Hamilton - Wed. Feb. 22, 7 p.m., 200 College
St., Rm. 116, Toronto. If you're looking for a little break from hearing
about the problems, and itching for a night dedicated to some solutions,
this is the night for you! 

Blue-Green Province: The Environment and the Political Economy of Ontario -
with Mark Winfield, Wed. Feb. 29, 4:10 p.m. Rm. 1190 Bahen Centre, 40 St.
George St, U of Toronto

 <https://www.facebook.com/events/172177626228128/> From Fukushima to
Toronto: A Town Hall, Sun. Mar. 18, 1 - 5 p.m., Toronto - Workshops, panels,
discussions on the Fukushima nuclear disaster, why it matters in Ontario,
and how Torontonians can stop nuclear expansion and build a 100% renewable
Ontario. Speakers from Ontario Clean Air Alliance, Greenpeace, Lake ON
Waterkeepers, Canadian Environmental Law Assoc., Ontario Sustainable Energy
Assoc.

Act Now!

 <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/node/1056> Guess the nuclear cost! - Bruce
A Nuclear rebuild is now $2 billion over-budget. We are offering a $100 cash
prize to the person with the closest estimate of the final cost of the Bruce
A refurbishment project.

 <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. 

Order FREE copies of  <http://bit.ly/yi5jhb> Don't Let Nuclear Projects Blow
Our Electricity Bills through the Roof!  They contain postcards to Energy
Minister Bentley. Distribute to your friends and neighbours.

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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

www.cleanairalliance.org <http://www.cleanairalliance.org/>  

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