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CHOGM initiative to limit Australian uranium miners from exploiting African peoples

We have long needed greater assurances that Australian mining companies are adequately meeting their responsibilities in the developing countries in which many of them operate….

 a focus on revenue transparency is long overdue…..Relying on companies to do the right thing is not enough. These initiatives will send a positive international signal, 

Timely move to make miners more responsible for damage they cause, The Age Andrew Hewett October 28, 2011 Poor countries can expect greater control of mining companies.  With two-thirds of the world’s poorest people living in resource-rich countries, too often the extraction of those resources contributes to poverty, corruption and conflict. Australian mining companies have become embroiled in damaging behaviour far from our shores and attention.

This week at CHOGM, the federal government announced initiatives aimed at ensuring the mining sector is better able to contribute to community Read more »

October 30, 2011 Posted by | politics | Leave a Comment

The global movement for clean, non nuclear energy – theme for November 2011

There is a global zeitgeist, or widespread feeling  of enthusiasm for clean energy, and of rejection of the  dirty, dangerous, nuclear industry.  This can’t be measured, but it does exist.  In country after country, while governments are beholden to the nuclear lobby, the people are not fooled.

People are appreciating the value of renewable energy systems, centralised ones, coming through the grid, and decentralised, local,  ones, with solar or wind energy coming straight to the user.. Households, businesses, farms benefit also in selling energy back to the grid, through their small local solar or wind technologies. Such small decentralised technologies are being taken up in developing countries, where there is no grid, bringing energy with the FREE fuel of sun and wind.

Even more importantly, energy efficiency and energy conservation are being taken up, as people find that this saves money, too. The culture of endless consumption is now questioned.

World-wide, the public becomes more distrustful of the nuclear industry. Private investment shuns it. People are waking up to the lies of the nuclear lobby: the lie that nuclear power is “clean”, that it’s “safe”, that it’s “renewable”, that it has “no connection” with nuclear weapons.

People are increasingly waking up to nuclear cover-ups, nuclear corruption, and nuclear bribery of politicians. Governments that are beholden to the nuclear lobby are increasingly distrusted.  The current wave of opposition to the big corporations includes opposition to the power of nuclear corporations over governments.

The Fukushima nuclear catastrophe continues to influence people away from nuclear power. This , and the global economic problems make the nuclear industry look more and more like a colossal waste of tax-payers’ money. And, underlying this, the continued work of anti- nuclear groups, over decades has pushed on this groundswell of public feeling.

October 30, 2011 Posted by | Christina's themes | 2 Comments

Success of the anti nuclear, clean energy movement – theme for November 2011

The worldwide nuclear mafia now faces the rising economic success of 21st Century renewable energy technologies, alongside the plummeting economic failure of nuclear energy.

The corporate power system that dominates the world economy, and world politics still promotes nuclear power and nuclear weapons – but they know they are up against the unaffordable financial costs. Money is what matters to them.

But money is not the whole story. The nuclear lobby consists of relatively few individuals – middle aged (mainly white) men,  in business suits, in love with their own careers and monetary gain.

They don’t know who they’re up against – people in their millions who oppose the nuclear industry-   people who “don’t matter” –  women, young people, poor indigenous people

These millions include the poorly educated, and the highly educated, people of all colours, languages and religions -but all having respect for their precious land and water, and for the future of the world’s children.   They matter, and they will prevail.

October 30, 2011 Posted by | Christina's themes | 4 Comments

   

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