No Nukes News: Darlington rebuild hundreds of millions over budget

Fri Oct 13 15:17:39 EDT 2017

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Fri. the 13th of Oct, 2017
☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=672c0e0375&e=45743fde61> OPG trying to disguise true costs of Darlington project With the Darlington rebuild already hundreds of millions of dollars over budget, it’s you and I that’ll be left holding the bag. On top of that, OPG encouraged contractors to ignore the high likelihood that there might be contaminated soil on the building site (there was) so that they could low ball bids. Please contact Premier Wynne Premier ( <mailto:premier at ontario.ca> premier at ontario.ca) and PC Leader Patrick Brown ( <mailto:patrick.brown at pc.ola.org> patrick.brown at pc.ola.org) and ask them to negotiate a long-term electricity supply contract with Hydro Quebec which will allow us to cancel the Darlington Re-Build Project and lower our electricity bills. 
The World

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ae9a639126&e=45743fde61> Nuclear security: power plants are poorly protected against malicious acts A new report by independent experts questions security at French and Belgian nuclear facilities and points at their vulnerability to outside attacks. These experts are particularly concerned about the spent fuel storage pools, which Canadian reactors also have      .  

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=faf8409ebe&e=45743fde61> Activists break into French nuclear site to highlight risks Greenpeace activists broke through two security barriers and launched fireworks inside the grounds of a French nuclear plant on Thursday to highlight the vulnerability of the plants to attacks.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0708f302ae&e=45743fde61> Spent fuel fire on North American soil could dwarf impact of Fukushima  “We’re talking about trillion-dollar consequences”

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=aae8b1fd81&e=45743fde61> DOE Proposes Outrageous, Massive Coal and Nuclear Bailout If adopted, the proposal would essentially ensure that coal and nuclear plants continue to run even where they are too expensive to compete in the energy market. It would saddle utility customers with higher costs, while posing obstacles to the electricity system integration of cleaner and less risky energy sources such as solar and wind. More  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=7c4794ab6e&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=2a406861d4&e=45743fde61> Nuclear Subsidies Are Bad Energy Policy Simply put, political intervention in the U.S. electric power system distorts the market. Nuclear power has been doomed by cost escalation, while efficiency and renewables continue their downward price spiral.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=98ac65d790&e=45743fde61> Anti-nuclear weapons group wins Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a group of mostly young activists pushing for a global treaty to ban the cataclysmic bombs. The prize committee wanted "to send a signal to North Korea and the U.S. that they need to go into negotiations. The prize is also coded support to the Iran nuclear deal.”  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=f035446d3f&e=45743fde61> Dr. Gordon Edwards responds: “We call them nuclear weapons, but in fact they’re not really weapons, they’re mechanisms for annihilating most higher forms of life on earth… We’re talking about a global suicide machine.”
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Ontario

☢ Key project at Darlington nuclear facility hundreds of millions over budget, delayed <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=001bff3a09&e=45743fde61>  The auditor claims inappropriate oversight and failures in management at OPG are predominantly to blame.

☢ Contractors told to ignore risks, lower cost estimates at Darlington nuclear plant, auditors say <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fa5d3d05d1&e=45743fde61>  According to the auditors report, contractors were told to remove potential risks from their bids despite OPG knowing some of these risks would likely occur.
☢ Liberals Should Cancel Darlington Rebuild After 400% Cost Overrun <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=144a0c50f6&e=45743fde61>  The Green Party of Ontario is calling on the Liberals to cancel rebuilding the outdated Darlington nuclear station.

☢ Why does the government ignore the nuclear threat to Toronto? <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=b075bdb41d&e=45743fde61>  One in six Canadians live near the Pickering and Darlington nuclear stations. While 150,000 people were evacuated in a 20 km area around Fukushima, a similar evacuation around Pickering would displace over a million people. While other countries are strengthening public safety, it took Ontario six years to write a Discussion Paper that effectively recommends we ignore Fukushima and change nothing. <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=fa3310b20a&e=45743fde61>  The Wynne government’s willful blindness has left millions of Torontonians at risk. 
☢ Opposition mounts to radioactive waste dump near Ottawa River  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=2e1845c800&e=45743fde61> A recent letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by 35 scientists, doctors, elected officials, and leaders of public interest groups and First Nations, urges him to “stand up for the health and safety of Canadians” by suspending the proposed giant surface radioactive mound just upstream from Ottawa.
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Renewables and Conservation

☼  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=8dde1244ce&e=45743fde61> Time for Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands to Go 100% Renewable Hurricanes Irma and Maria have stripped these American territories of their centralized, fossil-fueled electric grids. Rather than rebuilding them, they should be replaced with decentralized, community-owned micro-grids, powered by solar panels, wind turbines and locally grown biofuels.
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Take Action!

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c65492d59a&e=45743fde61> I’m an Ontarian, and I deserve world-class nuclear emergency plans Before the end of the year, the government will make a decision on whether to prioritize public safety and strengthen nuclear emergency response plans, or side with industry and leave us vulnerable in the event of a major nuclear accident. Please send a message to your MPP now, and ask them to prepare for large scale nuclear emergencies.
☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=0127106757&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.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d4db8eca7d&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”.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ff29bb6edb&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  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=19343326cb&e=45743fde61> here. Please send your support for a deal with QC to:
Premier Wynne:  <mailto:premier at ontario.ca> premier at ontario.ca or leave a phone message at 416-325-1941.
Patrick Brown:  <mailto:patrick.brownco at pc.ola.org> patrick.brownco at pc.ola.org or leave a phone message at 416-325-0445.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=3320e97255&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  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=87bbd3b2cd&e=45743fde61> here &  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=a7f1aedb49&e=45743fde61> here &  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=32ecc46017&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=c8be9d847f&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  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=721c0c8dc0&e=45743fde61> here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=49ce3596f6&e=45743fde61> Send the Premier a message <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=61b42ac540&e=45743fde61>  calling for Hydro One to stay out of the coal business

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=1d30969262&e=45743fde61> Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean!

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=ccf9eadea0&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  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=d7b66c7ba4&e=45743fde61> my video here.

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=14924c3ad7&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

☢  <https://cleanairalliance.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=9e0d2b5aacdacc8f6d679bba2&id=da3675d453&e=45743fde61> Prime Minister Trudeau: Canada must help achieve a global ban on nuclear weapons Send your message here.

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