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Green Energy Investors Flock to China – TheStreet.com

Green Energy Investors Flock to China
TheStreet.com Jeff St. John 23 Oct 08 In the midst of a worldwide financial crisis, China’s growing demand for energy continues to be an attractive draw for investors. (Don’t miss ”

Several greentech companies this week have announced plans to put money into satisfying fast-growing appetite for renewable energy……………………. The deals were announced a day after Google pledged to give $250,000 to the U.S. National Academies to find ways to link the United States and China — the world’s two largest energy consumers and greenhouse gas emitters — in developing renewable energy policies and technologies………………………China already leads the world in making solar-water heaters, and its list of solar-photovoltaic manufacturers has grown to include heavy hitters such as Suntech Power Holdings (STP Quote – Cramer on STP – Stock Picks), China Sunergy (CSUN Quote – Cramer on CSUN – Stock Picks) and Yingli Green Energy Holding Co……………………..Despite the ongoing global financial crisis, Pernick sees permanence in China’s current renewable energy push, given its people’s increasing concern about environmental problems within the country’s borders and global concerns about the country’s role in curbing greenhouse gas emissions.


Green Energy Investors Flock to China – TheStreet.com

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October 24, 2008 Posted by | ENERGY | Leave a comment

LocalNews8.com Idaho Falls, Pocatello – Weather, News, Sports – Western states want foreign waste loophole shut

Western states want foreign waste loophole shutAssociated Press – October 23, 2008  ETSALT LAKE CITY (AP) – Utah and seven other western states want a radioactive waste compact in the southeast to help change a regulation that allows foreign nuclear waste to be disposed in Utah.The Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-level Radioactive Waste is asking 1 of its southeastern counterparts to join forces so EnergySolutions Inc. can’t relabel foreign waste as domestic waste once it undergoes processing in Tennessee.The compact has banned the Salt Lake City-based company from accepting foreign waste at its dump in the western Utah desert.

EnergySolutions contends the compact has no authority over the dump.

A federal court is expected to rule next fall on the matter.

LocalNews8.com Idaho Falls, Pocatello – Weather, News, Sports – Western states want foreign waste loophole shut

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October 24, 2008 Posted by | politics | Leave a comment

MP accuses Government of nuclear cover-up – WalesOnline

MP accuses Government of nuclear cover-up
WalesOnline Oct 24 2008 by Martin Shipton, Western MailA WELSH Labour MP has accused the UK Government of covering up a deal that will land taxpayers with a multi-billion- pound liability in the event of a nuclear accident while a private consortium will reap the profits………………………………The MP said: “Here is a clear example of how the Government’s own policy that all forms of energy should be treated on an equal basis is being broken. Nuclear energy has always been very expensive, largely because of the cost of dealing with the waste. The latest estimate is that it will cost £93bn to clean up the waste from existing nuclear power stations.”

The Government has decided to privatise the future management of the waste, and a consortium called Nuclear Management Partners consisting of an American company (URS Washington), a French company (Areva) and a British company (Amec) has been awarded the contract at Sellafield.

Yet it has now emerged that the liability in the event of a nuclear accident is to remain with taxpayers. ……………….Mr Flynn said ” It is completely unacceptable that a contract of this kind should be entered into by the Government without any kind of parliamentary scrutiny.”

MP accuses Government of nuclear cover-up – WalesOnline

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October 24, 2008 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment

Moscow News – World – Nuclear Threat Warning

Nuclear Threat Warning
MOSCOW NEWS SYDNEY, Australia (AP) 24/10/2008 |– The world has not paid enough attention to the spread of nuclear weapons since the Cold War and could face devastation dwarfing the 9/11 attacks if the threat is not quickly curbed, the co-chair of a nuclear commission said Tuesday.Former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans said that while nuclear proliferation took a back seat to climate change and financial crises, countries such as India and Pakistan tested nuclear missiles, leaving the world vulnerable to an “avalanche” of new weapons.

“The last decade or so, the international community has been sleepwalking when it comes to this potentially catastrophic problem,” Evans told reporters during a break from the first meeting of the International Com­mission on Nuclear Non­pro­liferation and Disarmament.

“The scale of the havoc and the devastation that can be wreaked by one major nuclear weapons incident alone puts 9/11 – almost everything else – into the category of the insignificant,” said Evans, who is co-chair of the commission.

Moscow News – World – Nuclear Threat Warning

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October 24, 2008 Posted by | weapons and war | Leave a comment

The Biggest Breast Cancer Risk Factor That No One Is Talking About | Reproductive Justice and Gender | AlterNet

The Biggest Breast Cancer Risk Factor That No One Is Talking About
By Lucinda Marshall, AlterNet.  October 23, 2008. While the media sound alarms about breast cancer’s links to lifestyle choices and genetics, a much more likely risk factor is going undiscussed……………………………there is very little mention of environmental factors such as auto exhaust, and chemicals like parabens and phthalates that we are exposed to every day.

The most deafening silence, however, is about radiation, which is a 100 percent known cause of cancer. We are exposed to radiation in a variety of ways, through X-rays, CT scans and mammograms, but also by living near a nuclear power plant or having been exposed to weaponry that uses depleted uranium……………………- it is obvious that ionizing radiation is a major cause of cancer globally,……………………………breast cancer map from Centers for Disease Control data identifies that within a 100-mile radius of nuclear reactors is where two-thirds of all U.S. breast cancer deaths occurred between 1985 and 1989. The map  of nuclear power plants in the U.S. identifies them as the major cause of breast cancer in the U.S., as well as nuclear weapons labs in New Mexico, Idaho, Washington and California. This is further confirmed by the breast cancer clusters identified in Japan and California, which occurred where it rained the day the Chernobyl radiation cloud passed over and the rain deposited the fission products in the environment.

The Biggest Breast Cancer Risk Factor That No One Is Talking About | Reproductive Justice and Gender | AlterNet

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October 24, 2008 Posted by | environment | Leave a comment

The Associated Press: Feds reject protest to nuclear waste storage plan

Feds reject protest to nuclear waste storage planBy ERICA WERNER – WASHINGTON (AP) 24 Oct 08  — Federal regulators ruled Thursday that a radioactive waste storage plan can go forward at a California nuclear power plant without further study of whether it’s safe from terror attacks……………………….Mothers for Peace had contended there wasn’t sufficient study of whether the casks planned for Diablo Canyon could withstand potential terror attacks while protecting human health and the environment, but the NRC said no more study was needed………………….

Following Mothers for Peace’s win in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2006, the attorneys general of New York, New Jersey and Massachusetts challenged NRC decisions on similar grounds, and those are pending.

The ultimate outcome of the Diablo Canyon case could have broader ramifications for the nuclear power industry,……………………….Meanwhile, more than 50,000 tons of spent fuel is piling up at nuclear reactors nationwide. Spent nuclear fuel is in dry storage at 47 power plant sites, a number that’s expected to increase to 70 by 2020, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry group.

The Associated Press: Feds reject protest to nuclear waste storage plan

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October 24, 2008 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Schwarzenegger opens Aussie solar plant – Breaking News – World – Breaking News

Schwarzenegger opens Aussie solar plant
Sydney Morning Herald 24 Oct 08

Australian solar company Ausra and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger have joined forces Thursday to make history.

The former Hollywood action star flicked the “on” switch at Ausra’s new Kimberlina solar energy facility located in the desert about 160km north of Los Angeles……………………………”This next generation solar power plant is further evidence that reliable, renewable and pollution-free technology is here to stay, and it will lead to more California homes and businesses powered by sunshine,” Schwarzenegger said…………………..

Ausra was founded by Australian researcher Dr David Mills who developed the solar technology at a University of Sydney lab.

The company, now headquartered in Palo Alto near San Francisco,

Schwarzenegger opens Aussie solar plant – Breaking News – World – Breaking News

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October 24, 2008 Posted by | ENERGY | Leave a comment

John Pilger: Under cover of racist myth, a new land grab in Australia | Comment is free | The Guardian

Under cover of racist myth, a new land grab in Australia
Claims of child abuse are proving a fertile pretext to menace the Aboriginal communities lying in the way of uranium mining
The Guardian John Pilger 24 Oct 08 – “……………….An epic scandal of racism, injustice and brutality is being covered up in the manner of apartheid South Africa. Many Australians conspire in this silence, wishing never to reflect upon the truth about their society’s Untermenschen, the Aboriginal people…………………………….A pervasive white myth, that Aborigines leech off the state, serves to conceal the disgrace that money the federal government says it spends on indigenous affairs actually goes towards opposing native land rights. In 2006, some A$3bn was underspent “or the result of creative accounting”, reported the Sydney Morning Herald……………………..Having let a few crumbs fall, Rudd is picking up where Howard left off. His indigenous affairs minister, Jenny Macklin, has threatened to withdraw government support from remote communities that are “economically unviable”. The Northern Territory is the only region where Aborigines have comprehensive land rights, granted almost by accident 30 years ago. Here lie some of the world’s biggest uranium deposits. Canberra wants to mine and sell it…………………………..Foreign governments, especially the US, want the Northern Territory as a toxic dump. The Adelaide to Darwin railway that runs adjacent to Olympic Dam, the world’s largest uranium mine, was built with the help of Kellogg, Brown & Root – a subsidiary of American giant Halliburton, the alma mater of Dick Cheney, Howard’s “mate”. “The land grab of Aboriginal tribal land has nothing to do with child sexual abuse,” says the Australian scientist Helen Caldicott, “but all to do with open slather uranium mining and converting the Northern Territory to a global nuclear dump.”

John Pilger: Under cover of racist myth, a new land grab in Australia | Comment is free | The Guardian

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October 24, 2008 Posted by | indigenous issues | Leave a comment