No Nukes News: Nuclear faces "Deep Financial Crisis"

Fri Sep 29 08:34:29 EDT 2017

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Sept. 28, 2017
 <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=088c76de95&e=45743fde61> Residents in east GTA overwhelmingly oppose keeping Pickering running According to  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=44aa909771&e=45743fde61> new opinion polling conducted for the OCAA, a large majority of residents in Scarborough, Pickering and Ajax oppose OPG’s plan to keep the Pickering Nuclear Station running until 2024. Indeed, 82% of those polled thought it made more sense to import power from Quebec than to keep Pickering running. 
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The World

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b28d23229a&e=45743fde61> Nuclear Faces ‘Deep Financial Crisis’ as Construction Lags and Renewables Surge An overview of the  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bc5c6c5443&e=45743fde61> World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2017.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bb814440b9&e=45743fde61> Japan court shocks nuclear industry with liability ruling Japan’s atomic power establishment is in shock following the court  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a01242942c&e=45743fde61> ruling on Friday that found the state and the operator of the Fukushima nuclear plant liable for failing to take preventive measures against the tsunami that crippled the facility. 

☢ Human Rights, Future Generations and Crimes of the Nuclear Age This conference which took place last week in Basel, Switzerland brought together doctors, lawyers and law professors, scientists and activists from around the world.  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=084fa22df4&e=45743fde61> All presentations are available online. And a  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9b7743a524&e=45743fde61> Final Declaration was adopted.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b32a08f19b&e=45743fde61> Activists fight effort to import radioactive waste to US from Canada A proposal to import as much as 10,000 tons of radioactive material from Canada into the U.S. for processing has several environmental groups trying to reverse the decision. 

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=518d705aec&e=45743fde61> Nuclear power's death spiral and the demise of uranium miners Not only has sentiment turned against nuclear energy after Fukushima, but cleaner safer renewable forms of energy are increasingly becoming cheaper and more efficient. 

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=457c2c334e&e=45743fde61> Nuclear Plants Plus Hurricanes: Disasters Waiting to Happen Although the mainstream media said next to nothing about it, independent experts have made it clear that Hurricanes Harvey and Irma threatened six U.S. nuclear plants with major destruction, and therefore all of us with apocalyptic disaster. It is  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=efe981f325&e=45743fde61> a danger that remains for the inevitable hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters yet to come. 

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=cbeee01c56&e=45743fde61> Labour accuses nuclear unions of being 'voice for big business'  Corbyn ally says unions are failing to speak up for renewable energy because they do not have members in that sector 

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=896367a807&e=45743fde61> Managed Transition in German Coal Town Delivers Jobs, Holds Off Right-Wing Surge While NA grapples with job loss in sunset industries like coal and oil, leading to a grassroot stew of rage and hopelessness that fuels the rise of politicians like Donald Trump, it’s a very different story in Germany, where blue collar workers are a core constituency for newly-re-elected chancellor and noted climate hawk Angela Merkel.
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Ontario

☢ Help us Counter Fake Nuclear News <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0a51f61162&e=45743fde61>  The Ontario Clean Air Alliance needs your support to continue documenting what a terrible choice it is to spend billions of dollars on nuclear energy. And we need to make the case for importing Quebec power as a smarter, lower-cost solution. We need your help <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8217326eb1&e=45743fde61>  to do it.
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Renewables and Conservation

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b88152a551&e=45743fde61> There are over 341,000 wind turbines on the planet: Here's how much of a difference they're actually making In 2016 wind power helped the planet avoid more than 637 million tonnes of CO2 emissions.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=586829bb94&e=45743fde61> Why Solar Will Bring an End to Oil Elon Musk uses math to explain why solar will end fossil fuels.

☼  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=45587f5cff&e=45743fde61> Puerto Rico’s Heartbreak Also a Rare ‘Opportunity’ For Its Power Grid “We call for significantly greater investment in Puerto Rico’s abundant natural renewable energy resources. Greater reliance on microgrids and distributed solar systems (with backup storage) can make the island far less vulnerable to major storms than its current centralized generation model—or any new centralized model being contemplated in the wake of Maria.”
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Take Action!

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=6b67d8a679&e=45743fde61> Stop OPG's  Nuclear Waste Dump Before It's Too Late Learn more about OPG’s nuke waste dump proposal in Kincardine, ON, and write Minister McKenna, Premier Wynne and PM Trudeau here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=55fca4af67&e=45743fde61> Don’t Let #DirtyEnergy TRUMP the Climate – Stop the $100+ Billion Nuclear and Coal Bailout Petition against the Republican plan for a massive coal and nuclear bailout as part of a new policy for “Energy Dominance”.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=abe77d53e6&e=45743fde61> Our big chance to close Pickering Hydro Quebec is offering Ontario enough low-cost water power (6 cents) to replace the Pickering nuclear station (9 cents). More  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7f7c99cb55&e=45743fde61> here. Please send your support for a deal to Premier Wynne and PC Leader Patrick Brown.
Email Premier Wynne at  <mailto:premier at ontario.ca> premier at ontario.ca or leave a phone message at 416-325-1941.
Email Patrick Brown at  <mailto:patrick.brownco at pc.ola.org> patrick.brownco at pc.ola.org or leave a phone message at 416-325-0445.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b58852319c&e=45743fde61> Keep Ontarians Safe from Accidents like Fukushima With half of Ontarians living near a nuclear reactor, it’s time our government got nuclear emergency planning right. Please tell the Ministry of Community Safety that Ontario deserves world-class nuclear emergency plans that protect us, our loved ones, and our environment.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=23bc465a79&e=45743fde61> Suspend shipments of liquid nuclear waste from Chalk River, ON to the US & do an independent EA – Petition You can learn more about it  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=3e12235349&e=45743fde61> here &  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=e21de38bd6&e=45743fde61> here &  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=df3b89bb62&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8c1a009ed2&e=45743fde61> Please sign the petition to the Cdn. House of Commons to help us protect the Ottawa River from a giant radioactive megadump.  More info  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=4519a43217&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=45619bd90f&e=45743fde61> Send the Premier a message <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bae8526f88&e=45743fde61>  calling for Hydro One to stay out of the coal business

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=391aec1469&e=45743fde61> Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean!

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=bd748b80ff&e=45743fde61> 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  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=36b58be728&e=45743fde61> my video here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=5068242a7f&e=45743fde61> 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:  <mailto:angela at cleanairalliance.org> angela at cleanairalliance.org

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=9d76cdb2b8&e=45743fde61> Prime Minister Trudeau: Canada must help achieve a global ban on nuclear weapons Send your message here.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=98a3b62ce1&e=45743fde61> O <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b6fc0364c1&e=45743fde61> rder your free KI (anti-thyroid-cancer) pills  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=46c1269fdf&e=45743fde61> here if you live within 50 km of an ON nuclear facility - that includes all of Toronto and beyond.  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=efe536f832&e=45743fde61> Download your anti-thyroid cancer posters here to post in your office, school, or local cafe.
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Events

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=f6d18b4fe9&e=45743fde61> Webinar- Beyond Doom and Gloom: Essentials to Move the Needle for Green Energy Fri, Sep 29, 2017 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM EDT

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=24a9cd920a&e=45743fde61> Webinar with Paul Hawkin on Climate Solutions Wed. Oct. 4, 1:15 – 2:15 EDT

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=225888b5bb&e=45743fde61> The Day the Sun Fell Sun. Oct. 22, 4:30, Toronto. This poetic film shares intimate stories of the cultural, physical and mental health effects of radioactive waste, through archival footage, family photographs, and interviews from doctors, nurses, and survivors of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. The film parallels the effects of that world changing event with the infamous nuclear reactor meltdown in Fukushima in 2011.

☢  <http://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c95b67ee46&e=45743fde61> 3rd Antinuclear World Social Forum Nov. 2 – 4, 2017 at Paris, France

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