No Nukes News: Nuclear Power and the Climate

Fri May 1 15:39:47 EDT 2015

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May 1, 2015

 <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d52645322e&e=45743fde61> Ontario's Coal Phase out: Lessons from a massive climate achievement  This report looks back at how this remarkable success was achieved by a small organization and the lessons learned from one of the biggest environmental success stories in recent times.

The World

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ded2b2379d&e=45743fde61> Nuclear Power: Totally Unqualified to Combat Climate Change An Open Letter from the World Business Academy to leading climatologist Dr. James Hansen regarding his advocacy of nuclear power as a solution to global warming.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=179e3f95b9&e=45743fde61> Canada-India uranium deal will spur proliferation Arms control experts say Canada's uranium will end up fuelling the Indo-Pakistani arms race, directly or indirectly. CBC's The Current also profiled this issue in this 25 min.  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c79a869fad&e=45743fde61> interview.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7d7d4e455d&e=45743fde61> Renewables and nuclear power: Report from the World Uranium Symposium Premier Wynne is under intense pressure to rebuild the old reactors at Darlington and Bruce. Doing so would make absolutely no economic sense, would send customers' hydro bills through the roof, and likely bankrupt the province. Instead, she should make a deal with Quebec to buy their excess water power, and build wind projects in the north. Also from the symposium, an audio report from  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=1fba4434f2&e=45743fde61> Nuclear Hotseat containing interviews with more than 20 activists, world experts, and filmmakers. Almost as good as being there.

☢ Chernobyl: 29 years later April 26 marked the 29th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Fairwinds lists superb resources about  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=44439654ce&e=45743fde61> Chernobyl – A human perspective. Greenpeace released a  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=669a1da009&e=45743fde61> new report detailing clean up efforts; nearly three decades after the start of the Chernobyl disaster, its atomic legacy is a stark and ominous reminder that nuclear power can never be a safe energy source. CBS News  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d4ce587343&e=45743fde61> 60 Minutes aired an episode on Chernobyl – video, audio and transcript, 13 min. And finally,  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fb8f26aefa&e=45743fde61> this blog lists a dozen of the best links related to the major nuclear accident in the Ukraine.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b90b2554b0&e=45743fde61> Forest fire threatens Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear zone Ukraine’s largest forest fire since 1992 is just 20 miles away from the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant. Wildfires pose a high risk of redistributing radioactivity. More on this from  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=48e95274fe&e=45743fde61> Greenpeace International, and  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=5f82f08f6c&e=45743fde61> Beyond Nuclear. 

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=3b519d4c9a&e=45743fde61> Man arrested for landing drone on Japanese PM’s office in nuclear protest The drone had a radiation symbol and some radioactive sand from the beach of Fukushima

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0872c58037&e=45743fde61> Austria, backed by 159 nations, calls for ban on nuclear weapons

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ef38bb4334&e=45743fde61> Sweden to cut jobs, close nuclear reactors Hurt by decreased electricity demand, Vattenfall will slash 1,000 jobs and close its two oldest nuclear reactors earlier than intended. ON should follow suit. Our electricity demand has decreased 10% in the past decade -- no need to rebuild Darlington and Bruce.

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Ontario

☢ The real Hydro One sell-off shocker <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=85cecbe2e2&e=45743fde61>  Money from the utility that's supposed to fund the building of schools and hospitals is actually going to cover debt racked up by nukes. Op Ed by Jack Gibbons, OCAA

☢ The Black Hole of Canada’s National Sacrifice Zone – Port Hope, ON <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=4c8ed44a7a&e=45743fde61>  The federal gov’t mined uranium and radium for decades in Port Hope, on the shores of Lake Ontario. Here’s the history of Port Hope’s radioactive waste that you never learned in school.

☢ Joint Statement on Climate Change from the Premiers of Ontario and Québec <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7e3116dd3a&e=45743fde61>   Recently 11 premiers, representing over 85 per cent of the Canadian population, made a joint declaration stating that carbon pricing… and investing in the fight against climate change, especially in areas such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, and cleaner energy production, holds great promise for sustainable economic development and long-term job creation.

☢ Does the Wynne Government Get It? <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fbc6637e74&e=45743fde61>  If we are to tackle climate change, we need all hands on deck. Subsidizing imported natural gas and its associated emissions is going the wrong direction.

☢ Decision on Darlington nuclear rebuild work could come in late 2015 <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=3fe4afd600&e=45743fde61>  OPG wants to rebuild four units at Darlington nuclear station at very high cost and high risk. But we want gov’t to purchase lower-cost and lower-risk water power from Quebec instead.

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Renewables and Conservation

☼   <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=4ed08dfeda&e=45743fde61> Canada’s Solar Success Overshadowed During Indian PM Visit You wouldn’t know it from the media coverage, but the biggest energy story coming out of last week’s visit to Canada by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi wasn’t Cdn uranium, but Cdn. solar.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9896b09456&e=45743fde61> Solar Costing a Third of Retail Power Emerges in Germany Germany’s cost of producing solar energy has shrunk to about a third of the price households pay for power after the nation made developers compete for subsidies.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=df9d1f8ceb&e=45743fde61> China Solar Power Surges: Leaves Entire World Behind

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Take Action!

☢ Open Letter to Premiers Couillard and Wynne  Please  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d7ed97ba39&e=45743fde61> click here to send a letter to Premiers Wynne and Couillard asking them to sign a long-term electricity cooperation agreement to save both provinces $14 billion while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=81b335c388&e=45743fde61> Sign the Declaration of the World Uranium Symposium 2015  Individuals and groups encouraged to sign

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=91a4229395&e=45743fde61> Time for Ontario to come clean on Bruce Nuclear costs This massive proposed deal would cost $60 - $111 billion, the largest private sector contract ever signed by the Gov’t of ON. We demand public oversight of this deal.  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=26f29d47ab&e=45743fde61> Order free copies of our new leaflet today to distribute to your neighbours, family and friends.

☢ Please  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7757a3847a&e=45743fde61> send a letter to Premier Wynne here calling for a transparent review of any proposed Bruce deal, especially in light of a potential  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=71e70157e2&e=45743fde61> conflict of interest.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=4da7a80315&e=45743fde61> Ontario Energy Board Grinches out on energy conservation  Please contact  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8cbf98613b&e=45743fde61> Energy Minister Chiarelli here and ask him to direct the OEB to make conservation a real priority.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=25a7a82262&e=45743fde61> Please send a letter to the Premier right now urging her to strike a deal with Quebec. Water power imports from Quebec can replace the Darlington nuclear rebuild at a fraction of the cost.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7c3c3b3ce7&e=45743fde61> Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump Please sign the petition to oppose OPG’s plans to bury their nuclear waste on the shore of Lake Huron. And urge your elected officials to pass a resolution to oppose the nuclear dump on the Great Lake Huron. There are already  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=5ff41daa16&e=45743fde61> 152 jurisdictions representing over 18 million people that have done so.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=1f4bfd8149&e=45743fde61> Stop the Nuclear Restarts in Japan A Greenpeace petition

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Events

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c0296c5307&e=45743fde61> Indian Point Hot Docs film, Toronto, May 2. Enter the reactor core of nuclear power plant Indian Point, where a battleground of politicians, big business and activists has heated up.  

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=2fc24ebc33&e=45743fde61> Ontario’s Future – Nuclear or Renewable? Thur. May 7, 7 – 9 p.m., Friends House, 60 Lowther, Toronto. With speakers Ian Fairlie, UK radiation specialist, and Jack Gibbons, Economist, Ontario Clean Air Alliance

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=22667ebfff&e=45743fde61> Mr. Burns – a Post-Electric Play with the Simpsons Theatre May 9 – 31, Toronto

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