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Regional groups unite to oppose uranium mining
The Chadron Record 28 oct 08By GEORGE LEDBETTER, Record Editor October 28, 2008
Environmental activists from a four-state area met near Chadron last weekend to discuss their objections to the rapid expansion of uranium mining in the region, and to plan strategies to advance their cause.
The meeting, hosted by the Western Nebraska Resources Council (WNRC), was held in Chadron because of its proximity to the Crow Butte Resources in-situ leach (ISL) uranium mine, which is already in the process of permitting one major expansion and has two more in planning stages.
Participanting groups included the Powder River Basin Resource Council, from Wyoming, ACTion for the Environment from South Dakota’s Black Hills, the Black Hills chapter of the Sierra Club, Defenders of the Black Hills, Owe Aku/Bring Back the Way, a Lakota cultural group, and Coloradoans Against Resource Destruction.
“We want the uranium industry to know that we stand together on this issue. Whether in a rural setting or a populated area, uranium mining causes radioactive contamination,” said Tom Cook of WNRC, reading a jointly prepared statement. “Past uranium sites continue to contaminate the air, land and water:………………A regional approach to stopping further uranium mining makes sense because of the shared issues, said Shirley Fredrick of the Sierra Club. “Everyone at this event has similar concerns, starting with the need to keep our water clean and protect millions of gallons for future use. Our local economies, our health and our ways of life depend on this,” she said.
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Under the radar: Canada’s, Mexico’s radioactive waste comes into Utah – Salt Lake Tribune
Under the radar: Canada’s, Mexico’s radioactive waste comes into Utah State not told of feds’ decision By Judy FahysThe Salt Lake Tribune 28 oct 08 Federal regulators gave their blessing to low-level radioactive waste from Canada and Mexico that is now buried in Utah.
But Utah never got the memo. Nor did the regional radioactive waste oversight organization Utah belongs to.
That foreign waste could be imported into Utah without the knowledge of state and regional officials might seem hard to believe in such a highly regulated business as radioactive waste.
Under the radar: Canada’s, Mexico’s radioactive waste comes into Utah – Salt Lake Tribune
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Bush’s nuclear deal with India: bigger consequences to consider | The Japan Times Online
Bush’s nuclear deal with India: bigger consequences to considerThe Japan Times Oct. 29, 2008 By BRAD GLOSSERMAN and BATES GILL HONOLULU/STOCKHOLM —”…………………Is the deal a meaningful compromise that protects India’s national security interests and the integrity of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) or does it give Delhi too much and undermine the NPT?………………..Unfortunately, potentially far greater consequences garner far less attention. In particular, little has been said about how this deal is seen in other countries,………………….Washington’s decision to come to terms with Delhi offers hope to other governments considering nuclear weapons that they too may receive special status…………………Will a democratic and nuclear-armed (but U.S. friendly) Pakistan, Iran or (your favorite future strategic partner) also get a pass?………………Japanese officials and strategists also worry that the U.S.-India agreement could clear the way for a nuclear-armed Korean Peninsula.
Bush’s nuclear deal with India: bigger consequences to consider | The Japan Times Online
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The Associated Press: Gates: Long-term outlook for nuke safety is bleak
Gates: Long-term outlook for nuke safety is bleak By ROBERT BURNS –WASHINGTON (AP) — The long-term outlook for keeping U.S. nuclear weapons safe and reliable is “bleak,” Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday.
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Justine Reilly: A new TV show tells the colonial history of Australia from an indigenous point of view | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The tragedy of Australia’s past
A new TV show tells the colonial history of Australia from an indigenous point of view – a bravely ambitious undertaking
The Guardian Justine o’Reilly October 28 2008 – “……………………..I feel compelled to report back to the motherland, who colonised this continent of indigenous nations more than 200 years ago, about a recent development with the potential to shift the Australian consciousness. First Australians is a new television series commissioned by SBS, Australia’s multicultural broadcaster. It tells the colonial history of Australia from an indigenous point of view. This was a bravely ambitious undertaking……………The seven-part series, which can be viewed online, begins with the Dreamtime creation story, cuts to the landing of the First Fleet at Botany Bay in 1788 and follows through to prime minister Kevin Rudd’s apology to Australia’s “stolen generation” earlier this year………………….Australians are becoming more aware that while indigenous people were being denied the right to grow up with their biological families, the broader Australian community was being denied the right to know the whole truth about its past.
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AdelaideNow… Go green for jobs bonanza
Go green for jobs bonanza
October 28, 2008 11:01pm
EMPLOYMENT in the green energy sector is set to sky-rocket, confidential Treasury modelling to be released by the Federal Government shows.
The modelling, which sets out the Commonwealth Treasury’s best assessments of the impact on the economy of climate change, and a planned emissions trading scheme, suggests a virtual bonanza of jobs will occur in the renewable/clean energy sector.
That growth could be as high as 2900 per cent suggesting that as many as 300,000 green jobs could be created over the next 40 years.
The Advertiser has learned the spectacular growth of the alternative energy sector is predicted assuming continuation of the 20 per cent mandatory renewable energy target, and the economic incentives inherent in the emissions trading scheme.
It finds the alternative energy sector is expected to grow by 1735 per cent by 2050. That jumps out to a massive 2900 per cent growth in output once the emissions trading scheme and other green policies are factored in.
AdelaideNow… Go green for jobs bonanza
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African civil society hits back at uranium mining
African civil society hits back at uranium mining
www.namibian,com BRIGITTE WEIDLICHAFRICAN October 28, 2008 communities are gathering to take up the fight against international companies which are mining uranium on their land and their own governments, as they are driven off their land, suffer exposure to radiation and toxic waste at mining sites, a seminar on uranium mining was informed.
“We have formed a civil society organisation and took the Australian mining company Paladin to court,” Reinford Mwangobe of Citizens for Justice (CFJ) told the seminar, organised by Earthlife Namibia and the Labour Resource and Research Institute (LaRRi)……………………..Mwangobe said 12 Australian companies would start mining uranium in Malawi soon, with Paladin starting in January 2009.
Malawi had no laws in place for handling and transporting radioactive materials, Mwangobe added.
“Rural people who had lived for decades on their ancestral land were kicked off and only paid US$70 as compensation.
The locals have no benefits from mining, only some government officials and Paladin,” he stated.
“The best way to act against such companies was to take the case to their own countries and alert shareholders who did not want bad publicity and their share prices drop.”
A representative from Tanzania, Anthony Lyamunda, said 20 international companies were lined up for uranium mining in his country.
His people recently started the civil society Foundation for Environmental Management and Campaign Against Poverty (Femapo) to help 450 000 rural people living in 786 villages in the areas were uranium mining was taking place or planned.
African civil society hits back at uranium mining
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VOA News – Environmentalists Say Renewable Energy Brings Economic Benefit
Environmentalists Say Renewable Energy Brings Economic Benefit
Voice of America News 28 Oct 08 A new report said investing in renewable energy would not only help reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gasses, but create a booming industry and help the global financial crisis. From Paris, Lisa Bryant has more on the report.
The report from environmental group Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council offers ambitious proposals for switching to renewable energy and conserving power. The report outlined why the groups believe doing so could help fire up the world economy, which is facing its worse financial crisis in decades.
The study is being released before the international climate change meeting in December.
The two environmental groups argue that through energy efficiency and aggressive use of renewable energy such as wind, solar and geothermal, the world can cut trillions of dollars in energy spending. The study claimed that before this century ends all the world’s energy needs could come from renewable sources – if the political will exists to make that switch.
VOA News – Environmentalists Say Renewable Energy Brings Economic Benefit
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Arandis Cancer Cases: A Link to Rössing’s Mining Activities?
New Era By Catherine Sasman 27th of October 2008 – “……………………….a recent study by LaRRi, Uranium Mining: The Mystery Behind ‘Low Level Radiation’ … considers environmental and health concerns linked to uranium mining.It also reports on interviews conducted with over 50 former and current employees of the Rössing Uranium Mine that now suffer from cancer and although it does not find a direct causal link to these cancer cases reported mostly in Arandis, the coincidences said LaRRi are uncanny and worrying.
“These illnesses are not coincidental,” said LaRRi Director, Hilma Shindondola-Mote…………………………………….Earthlife Namibia is also concerned that more mining in especially the environmentally fragile Erongo Region could place bird species and plant life – including the Welwitschia plant – at risk of extinction, that there could be a drop of water levels as more mining would mean more water consumption, that desalination plans could affect marine life, and that more traffic in the area could mean the production of more dust.
Another concern is that increased mining could affect the tourism industry as well……………………….Feedback from the former and current workers interviewed in the LaRRi study are that Rössing Uranium – considered in the study as the oldest uranium mine in the country – did not provide “satisfactory” information about the link between exposure to radiation and possible health problems…………………..workers reported exposure to dust and radon gas “on a daily basis”, which has been ascribed to cases of tuberculosis and lung cancer cases that have emerged years later.“The majority of those with cancer have worked at the mine in the 1970s and early 1980s,” said Shindondola-Mote.
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The Hindu Business Line : Nuclear power uneconomical: Lester Brown
Nuclear power uneconomical:
THE HINDU Business Line 28 oct 08 Lester Brown WASHINGTON: At a time when India is focusing on developing sources of nuclear energy, a leading scholar has said nuclear power is uneconomical and little private capital is going into this sector while investors are pouring tens of billions of dollars in to wind farms each year.“Despite all the industry hype about a nuclear future, private investors are openly sceptical and while the world’s nuclear generating capacity is estimated to expand by only 1,000 MW this year, wind generating capacity will likely grow by 30,000 MW,” no ted environmentalist and scholar Mr Lester Brown said in a media article ‘The Flawed Economics of Nuclear Power’.Drawing attention to the book ‘The Nuclear Illusion’ by Amory B Lovins and Imran Sheikh, Mr Brown said the cost of electricity from a new nuclear power plant is around 14 cents per kilowatt hour while it costs only 7 cents per kilowatt hour at a wind farm
The founder of Earth Policy Institute, Brown, argued that given this huge gap, the so-called nuclear revival can only be done by unloading costs onto taxpayers, including the costs of disposing of nuclear waste, insuring plants against an accident and de commissioning the plant when it wears out.
The Hindu Business Line : Nuclear power uneconomical: Lester Brown
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Power Engineering – Areva’s Flamanville nuclear reactor supply chain ‘needs oversight’
Areva’s Flamanville nuclear reactor supply chain ‘needs oversight’
Power Engineering 28 October 2008 – Areva has been told to monitor its subcontractors more closely after it was discovered that one had supplied a pressure system part without properly following testing procedures.World Nuclear News reported that the parts in question are to be used to form the pressurizer of the water-cooled reactor under construction at Flamanville. The pressurizer is a main component of the reactor’s primary coolant loop and as such has important safety role in addition to its function in the operation of the reactor…………………………The non-compliance should have been spotted by Areva, which is now required to implement a quality control system capable of ensuring ‘appropriate and effective supervision over the entire chain of subcontracting.’
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Power Engineering – Areva’s Flamanville nuclear reactor supply chain ‘needs oversight’
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Rate of Nuclear Thefts ‘Disturbingly High,’ Monitor Says – NYTimes.com
Rate of Nuclear Thefts ‘Disturbingly High,’ Monitoring Chief Says
The New York TimesPublished: October 27, 2008 the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said in a speech on Monday that the number of reports of nuclear or radioactive material stolen around the world last year was “disturbingly high.”
Dr. ElBaradei, in his annual report to the General Assembly, said nearly 250 such thefts were reported in the year ending in June.
“The possibility of terrorists obtaining nuclear or other radioactive material remains a grave threat,” he said. “Equally troubling is the fact that much of this material is not subsequently recovered.”
Rate of Nuclear Thefts ‘Disturbingly High,’ Monitor Says – NYTimes.com
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Government should stay firm on climate change
Government should stay firm on climate change
LOGISTICS 28 October 2008The government may not continue with the $8000 solar rebate for rooftop PV panels for the Australian community, due to the unexpected popularity of this program – 30 times more applications for solar rebates than expected are being received.
The Australia New Zealand Solar Energy Society – ANZSES - has been arguing for the development of solar energy, energy efficiency and other sources of renewable energy since 1957 in Australia.
“The Federal Government must remain strong and courageous on its promises, and therefore guarantee the solar rebates to the Australian community,” says ANZSES Projects Manager Mr. Julien Lacave.
Government should stay firm on climate change
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Green government on the way in Canberra: senator | theage.com.au
Green government on the way in Canberra: senator
The Age * Adam Morton * October 28, 2008AUSTRALIA is in sight of a major political realignment that will see the Greens form government in Australia, the party’s climate change spokeswoman says.In a speech to the Sydney Institute last night, Christine Milne said there was a “real prospect” the Greens could broaden its support base as the community embraced the need for a “green new deal”……………………….”No less than a change to the economic system is needed, and the current financial crisis is the opportunity to do it……………………………A large part of emissions trading revenue should be spent on improving energy efficiency, extending the electricity grid to renewable energy “hot spots” such as geothermal sites in the South Australian desert, and on public transport, she said.
Quoting the UN environment program and Deutsche Bank, she said a green new deal sought to rebuild the economy based on four pillars: renewable energy, energy efficiency, clean transport and ecosystem protection.
Green government on the way in Canberra: senator | theage.com.au
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Barbara Rose Johnston: The Clean, Green Nuclear Machine?
The Clean, Green Nuclear Machine?
counter punch 27 oct 08 By BARBARA ROSE JOHNSTON
“…………………………Because nuclear energy was been redefined by the Bush administration as a national security concern, social and environmental safeguards can be legally ignored. Thus, as one example of many recent rulings, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission under its enhanced authority to dismiss environmental and social safeguard legislation recently ruled that onsite above ground dry cask storage of PG&E’s radioactive waste at Diablo Canyon in California can go forward without further study of whether such storage is safe from terror attacks or adequately protects the health of nearby residents. The NRC’s ruling overturns a federal court order to consider these concerns………………………………………………s nuclear energy truly the clean, green machine that the Nuclear Energy Institute and its proponents make it out to be? Is it truly cost-effective? Will nuclear power finally prove to be a “safely-harnessed” source of sustaining energy? Or, will we once again, be lured into what many folks see to be a dance with the devil?…………………………………..
The average cost to build a nuclear power plant is reportedly some 2 billion dollars, though a 2007 estimate including costs to generate power by Lew Hay, chairman and CEO of Florida Power and Light, suggests that “the cost of a two-unit plant will be on the order of magnitude of $13 to $14 billion.” Actual flow of energy will not occur for years. Technological innovation has reduced the time it takes to build a nuclear reactor, it will still take some 7 – 12 years after plans are approved for energy to flow.
For those communities and workers that host the nuclear fuel chain — uranium mining, milling, enrichment, energy and military use, and storage of wastes — the label of “clean” and the notion of a “cost-effective” energy system is, simply and sadly, ludicrous. The no-emissions carbon footprint label assigned by the Nuclear Energy Institute ignores the significant environmental impact resulting from mining, transportation, processing fuel, using water as energy and coolant, and building nuclear power facilities. Cost-effective energy becomes an even more problematic label when you factor in the short-term and long-term health consequences of absorbing toxic heavy metals and the radioactive nature of these exposures, and the health care costs of treating such illness and disease.
And then there are the stewardship costs of protecting, storing, and (maybe some day) remediating nuclear waste. The cleanup for the 680-acre site of the Uravan uranium and vanadium mine and processing facility in Colorado completed in September 2008 reportedly cost $120 million. Cleanup costs from mining, milling, and the inevitable spills and releases associated with Manhattan Project research and Cold War militarism at 17 nuclear weapons plants have been projected in reports to Congress to reach between $100 billion to $200 billion dollars — and this estimate does not include the clean-up costs associated with nuclear weapons detonation, nor the cleanup of dumped waste from nuclear submarines. The eventual decommissioning of an aged nuclear power plant is currently priced at $300 million or more per plant. The costs to create, build, monitor and secure a safe storage facility for substances that pose a threat for tens of thousands of years to come are harder to estimate, given the many unknowns in the future.
Barbara Rose Johnston: The Clean, Green Nuclear Machine?
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The Nuclear Industry and WOMEN- theme for May 2012
Although women have rarely been part of decision-making about nuclear power, they have been at the forefront in opposing it.Women in organisations Strongly present in anti-nuclear activities in peace, environmental, religious and civil liberties, women have also formed their own anti-nuclear organisations . e.g. Women’s International League For Peace and Freedom, Women For Peace. Women Against Nuclear Power, Women Against Nuclear Energy,
“When it comes to opposing nuclear power in Finland, the toughest and most active and conspicuous resistance has been among women. A rather small group of women working as teachers, freelance editors, authors and in rather alternative professions. Women who perfectly well are aware of the fact that they are far too radical to be promoted for high posts within traditional parties or getting well-paying jobs in some big companies. Women who are not trying to reach equality on male values. These women have kept the resistance alive, have invited foreign speakers getting through in the mass media, have arranged post-card campaigns aiming at parliamentarians, have written inserts in daily newspapers, have collected signatures from organizations worldwide against nuclear power, etc.
If women had been asked if nuclear power should be used for energy production or if nuclear weapons should be produced there would hardly be any nuclear power stations in the world and no nuclear weapons. Women represent half of humanity. Our voice must be heard! “- Ulla Klötzer WISE – Nuclear issues information service service
Below, a note on some of the courageous women who have stood out against the nuclear forces and apologies for the thousands of such women who are not mentioned here
Dr Helen Caldicott. - Australia and The World. The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 38 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. Helen Caldicott – About
Jean McSorley. – UK. A prolific writer and activist, Jean McSorley has advised government and environmental organisations, in the UK and abroad, for many years revealing the facts about Sellafield, and other UK nuclear facilities.
Her MajestyQueen Noor ofJordan is an international humanitarian activist and an outspoken voice on issues of world peace and justice. Today Her Majesty Queen Noor plays a major role in promoting international exchange and understanding of Arab and Muslim culture and politics, Arab-Western relations, and conflict prevention. Queen Noor | Global Zero
Ulla Klötzer - Finland. A powerful speaker and writer, Ulla Klötzer continues to oppose uranium mining, nuclear proliferation, and to expose the construction of Finlands reactor, Olkiluto OL 3 – the biggest nuclear reactor in the world.
Satomi Oba –Japan. Another leading voice for non-proliferation and disarmament was Japan’s Satomi Oba, former president of Plutonium Action Hiroshima and chair member of the international non-proliferation movement Abolition 2000. For decades before her untimely death in February 2005, Oba organized grassroots events, spoke to international groups and broke ground for other activists
Dianne Stokes – Australia An Aboriginal elder of the Yapa Yapa clan, which owns land at Muckaty in the Northern Territory, has for years continued the fight against the Australian government’s plan to put a nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land, – resisting enormous pressure from powerful interests and politicians Toxic feelings at proposed nuclear dump – National – smh.com.au
Jean Grossholtz – (USA) Professor emeritus at the Dept. of Women’s Studies, Mt. Holyoke College, Jean helped organize the Women’s Pentagon Action (1980-82) and has long been active in peace and social justice work.
Ellen Diederich –Germany A peace activist for more than three decades, Ellen Diederich is Director of the German-based International Fasia Jansen Women’s Peace Archive, an extensive collection of books, print, audio-visual and artistic resources on women and militarism and women’s action for peace, world-wide, collected over 25 years.
Corazon Valdez Fabros - Philippines A lawyer by profession, Corazon Fabros is Chairperson of the Pacific Concerns Resource Centre (the Secretariat of the Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Movement) and Secretary General of the Nuclear Free Philippines Coalition, which led the successful campaign to stop the nuclear power plant projects in the Philippines . Currently Philippine Coordinator of the No Nukes Asia Forum and the International Network on Military Activities and Environmental Justice.
Karen Silkwood remembered In 1974, US anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood was killed in a car crash many suspect was deliberately caused by the Kerr McGee nuclear company.Karen Silkwood will be remembered as someone who fought an uphill and often unpopular battle against the ruthless nuclear industry. She is an inspiration to all who believe in environmental justice and workers’ rights BY SHARYN JENKINS. Karen Silkwood remembered | Green Left Weekly
Much of the material here was obtained from Women and Life on Earth: English by Anna Gyorgy, Women & Life on Earth Network coordinator, English website editor. Contact: info(at)wloe.org
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