From angela at cleanairalliance.org Tue Jul 25 13:39:21 2017 From: angela at cleanairalliance.org (Angela Bischoff) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 13:39:21 -0400 Subject: No Nukes News: Nuclear waste never dies References: <9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2.45743fde61.20170725172036.d067f6c073.5d643528@mail133.atl81.rsgsv.net> Message-ID: <00b901d3056c$f3afade0$db0f09a0$@cleanairalliance.org> View this message online _____ July 25, 2017 3 min. video on why we need to Close Pickering in 2018 The World ? Nuclear War Without a War The truth is that most politicians, businessmen, engineers and nuclear physicists have no innate understanding of radiobiology and the way radiations induce cancer, congenital malformations and genetic diseases which are passed generation to generation. ? Why Nuclear Waste Never Dies, But Kills 16 min. podcast focussing on the dangers of plutonium ? 31 years after Chernobyl Half of all wild boars in southwest Czech Republic are still radioactive and considered unsafe for consumption. Meanwhile, Radioactive Wild Boar Roam Fukushima ? Russian state corporation suspends $1.2 billion uranium project in Tanzania due to depressed uranium market. Losing hope in international nuclear builds, the energy corporation eyes renewables. ? A Treaty Is Reached to Ban Nuclear Weapons. Now Comes the Hard Part For the first time in the seven-decade effort to avert a nuclear war, a global treaty has been negotiated that would lead to the destruction of all nuclear weapons and forever prohibit their use. Learn more about the treaty to ban nuclear weapons here. ? Japanese Man on global pilgrimage for 'world with no nuclear power' He is walking 11,000 km in 26 countries in 2 years to draw attention to Fukushima and the dangers of nuclear power. ? Australian groups takes Canadian uranium company Cameco to court over giant uranium open pit mine. _____ Ontario ? How Ontario is getting back into the coal-power business Ontario taxpayers will soon be part-owners of one of the biggest coal plants in America, making money off pollution in the U.S. that would be illegal to emit at home. ? You're closer than you think: Nuclear threats on the Great Lakes Radioactivity could contaminate the drinking water of forty million Canadians and Americans. Despite this, Ontario hasn?t even considered how to protect our drinking water in the event of a nuclear accident. Nuclear evergency planning is no fairtale . Greenpeace blogs. _____ Renewables and Conservation ? Siemens Closes Tillsonburg, Ontario Wind Plant, Lays Off 340 Workers With the province now walking away from its commitments to clean power purchases, the market is shifting to western Canada. ? Here's Why There Are Twice as Many Solar Jobs as Coal Jobs 5 min. video _____ Take Action! ? Coal is back Hydro One?s decision to buy into a giant coal plant in Montana is a huge step backward for this province?s climate leadership. Please send a message to Premier Wynne at premier at ontario.ca telling her to order the Ontario Energy Board to make the promotion of energy conservation and efficiency Hydro One?s most profitable course of action. ? Tell the gov?t we need a new Provincial Emergency Response Plan Deadline Fri. July 28. Read civil society?s Call for Public Safety here. ? Oppose the proposed Chalk River mega-dump Please submit written comments to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) here. Deadline August 16. ? Sign our petition to close the old and dangerous Pickering Nuclear Station when its license expires in 2018. And then share it with your friends. Watch my video here. ? Can you spare a few hours to leaflet blitz your neighbourhood mailboxes? Help us make the closure of the Pickering nuclear station a public issue. Contact: angela at cleana iralliance.org ? Stop The Great Lakes Nuclear Dump Sign the petition calling on Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna to reject OPG's nuclear waste dump on the shore of Lake Huron. ? O rder 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 ? Ontario Unprepared for a Nuclear Emergency Webinar Wed. July 26, 7 p.m. EDT with Greenpeace. The Ontario government is seeking input on how it should revise its nuclear emergency plans. ? What is Generation Energy? Webinar Thur. July 27, 2 p.m. EDT Generation Energy is an opportunity for you to shape Canada's energy future. ? Humanity First ? Ban the Bomb Sun. Aug. 6, 6:30 pm. Toronto City Hall Peace Garden ? Power in the Climate Era Sat. Sept. 9, 10 a.m. ? 4 p.m. Wintergreen Studios, Yarker ON. A community electricity workshop with OCAA?s Angela Bischoff, and green energy gurus Paul McKay and Steve Lapp. ? 3rd Antinuclear World Social Forum Nov. 2 ? 4, 2017 at Paris, France follow on Twitter | friend on Facebook | forward to a friend You are subscribed to the No Nuke News list published by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. Our mailing address is: Ontario Clean Air Alliance 160 John St, #300 Toronto, On M5V 2E5 Canada Add us to your address book -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: