Dennis Kucinich Lays Out Why He Voted Against Clean Energy Act

Dennis Kucinich Lays Out Why He Voted Against Clean Energy Act THE CLEVELAND LEADER June 27, 2009 -Cleveland area Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) laid out the reasons he opposed and voted against H.R. 2454, The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The vast majority of fellow Democrats voted in favor of the measure which passed the House and is on the way to the Senate for a vote. Kucinich stated in a press release:

“I oppose H.R. 2454, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. The reason is simple. It won’t address the problem. In fact, it might make the problem worse.

“It sets targets that are too weak, especially in the short term, and sets about meeting those targets through Enron-style accounting methods. It gives new life to one of the primary sources of the problem that should be on its way out– coal – by giving it record subsidies…………………….Nuclear power is given a lifeline instead of phasing it out. Nuclear power is far more expensive, has major safety issues including a near release in my own home state in 2002, and there is still no resolution to the waste problem. A recent study by Dr. Mark Cooper showed that it would cost $1.9 trillion to $4.1 trillion more over the life of 100 new nuclear reactors than to generate the same amount of electricity from energy efficiency and renewables.

Dennis Kucinich Lays Out Why He Voted Against Clean Energy Act | Cleveland Leader

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As Al Qaeda Says it Would Use Pak Nukes, GAO Reports Problems With Radiation Detectors

As Al Qaeda Says it Would Use Pak Nukes, GAO Reports Problems With Radiation Detectors HS Today by Anthony L. Kimery    Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Coinciding with a new Government Accountability Office  (GAO) audit  report on border and port radiological detectors that concluded the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) development and testing of advanced spectroscopic portals (ASP), a senior Al Qaeda leader declared the terrorist group would use Pakistani nuclear weapons against the US if it ever got its hands on these weapons.

“By God’s will, the Americans will not seize the Muslims’ nuclear weapons and we pray that the Muslims will have these weapons and they will be used against the Americans,” Mustafa Abul Yazeed, Al Qaeda’s leader in Afghanistan, said in an interview with Al Jazeera broadcast Sunday.

Al Qaeda continues to plan “large-scale operations against the enemy” Abul Yazeed said.

Homeland Security Today – preparedness and security news – As Al Qaeda Says it Would Use Pak Nukes, GAO Reports Problems With Radiation Detectors

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Navajo homes razed – uranium contamination

Navajo homes razed – uranium contaminationFelicia Fonseca, Associated PressS San Francisco Chronicle  June 21, 2009 The federal government plans to spend as much as $3 million a year to demolish and rebuild uranium-contaminated structures across the Navajo Nation, where Cold War-era mining of the radioactive substance left a legacy of disease and death………………………….The effort is part of a five-year plan that expires in 2012 in which a number of federal agencies joined together to address uranium contamination and its effects on the Navajo people. Navajos who toiled in the mines and their dependents have suffered or died from cancer, lung and kidney disease, and other health problems caused by exposure to low levels of radiation over time…………………………..With more than 500 abandoned uranium mines across the vast reservation, EPA officials acknowledge that the issue of uranium contamination is bigger than assessing and rebuilding structures.

Navajo homes razed – uranium contamination

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A global nuclear disorder

A global nuclear disorder The Jakarta Post Gita Wirjawan , Jakarta

June 29, 2009

OpinionThe world is edging precariously toward nuclear anarchy. The warning signs of the collapse of the global nuclear order are clear. The emergence of a dangerous axis of nations with nuclear ambitions – North Korea, Iran and Pakistan – is a very real threat…………………….The brute facts emanating from these three states suggest an irreversible bottom line: trends toward nuclear powers in the world are worsening…………………….. Pyongyang might well attempt to sell nuclear technology to Tehran.

Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is unlikely to cave in to international pressure to stop Tehran from achieving this objective. Surrounded by powers with nuclear weapons – Pakistan to their east, the Russians to the north, the Israelis to the west, and the US in the Persian Gulf – it is Iran’s attempt at securing a deterrent that could ultimately be the single most destabilizing factor in the Middle East…………………

In 1963, US President John F. Kennedy predicted that, if left unchecked, 15 to 20 states could join the nuclear club within a decade. His warning saw several initiatives to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, culminating in the 1968 Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT).

Today, 189 countries, many of which have the technical capability to build nuclear arsenals, have denounced nuclear weapons. Only three additional countries – Israel, India and Pakistan – have acquired such weapons in the last 40 years.

But the NPT architecture is now shaking at the core, and could well open the floodgates for others like North Korea and Iran to enter.

Nuclear weapons pose a clear and present danger……………………..n the end, North Korea, Iran and Pakistan might not even fire a single nuke. But they might well allow these weapons to slip into the hands of al-Qaeda, who would not hesitate pressing the button on New York, London or Tokyo. The global nuclear regime is weakening dramatically. The major powers – the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France – need to fashion a strategy that will stem further proliferation.

A global nuclear disorder | The Jakarta Post

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German-RP chamber to focus on renewable-energy projects in RP

German- RP chamber to focus on reneweable energy projects in  RP

Business Mirror 28 June 2009 THE one-year-old German-Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GPCCI) expects a lot of joint ventures happening between companies of the two countries in the development of renewable energy here, particularly geothermal, wind and solar.Klaus Schroeder, president of the GPCCI, said this “green partnerships” will now be the trend because Germany is the leader in renewable-energy technology, while the Philippines has just passed its Renewable Energy Act.The Philippines is the first to put that into law in Asia, so it’s a great opportunity, and that is why going green is our focus. It [partnership] has already started, and more are coming,” he told the BusinessMirror.

German-RP chamber to focus on renewable-energy projects in RP

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Greener borders

Greener Borders 
The Morung Express 29 June 09 Last month, the World Customs Organisation — a relatively unknown inter-governmental body seeking to harmonise rules and regulations across countries — launched the Protect the Environment global campaign and organised a five-day Green Customs workshop at the National Academy of Customs, Excise and Narcotics (NACEN) at its sprawling campus in Faridabad……………….the Basel Ban (under the UN Environment Programme, or UNEP) that regulates the generation, trade and disposal of hazardous waste. Under the Basel Ban, implemented into legally-binding EU law, exports of hazardous waste from the EU to non-OECD countries are prohibited…………………For reasons best known to the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, radioactive waste has been exempted from the Basel Convention, providing a loophole for unscrupulous exporters. Again, if the receiving country’s laws permit the disposal of such waste, it becomes difficult for any international intervention to implement laws to the contrary. The complexity of this trade is apparent in the fact that secondary products like recycled steel imported into Germany and Sweden have been found to contain traces of radioactivity.Under the Basel Convention, however, the secretariat can inform all countries about shipments of hazwaste so that it can at least alert everyone concerned about the potential dangers of accepting and handling such waste. But the secretariat has rules governing private and naval ships, not those belonging to the government. One has only to remember the fate of several Soviet nuclear submarines that were dumped in the oceans and lakes by former Soviet bloc countries after the break-up of the Union simply because they couldn’t maintain them any longer.

Current News | Latest News | Breaking News | Nagaland News – MorungExpress.com – Greener borders

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Saying one thing and doing another

Saying one thing and doing another. Steve Blizard’s Blog 29 June 09 It is not widely known that deep within the bowels of the Federal Labor Government, an investigation has commenced for using uranium as a domestic future energy source…………………… The Uranium Systems Project is one of the national projects within the Onshore Energy Security Program.
The primary purpose of the Uranium Systems Project is to provide advice to the Australian Government on Australia’s uranium resource potential as well as deliver new pre-competitive datasets and concepts to the minerals industry which will promote new search areas and reduce risk in the discovery of Australia’s uranium resources.”

Putting it simply, the Federal bureaucrats are ‘assessing the potential of uranium as one of Australia’s future energy sources’………………The Federal Labor government is seriously looking at nuclear energy as a possible means of ensuring Australia’s energy security over the long term……………………….

Most are well aware of their political campaigns against nuclear energy, attacking those that say we have to keep an open mind; yet quietly behind the scenes are doing all the home work required to prepare for a nuclear energy future in Australia!

Will this be the new “three more uranium mines” policy?

Saying one thing and doing another « Steve Blizard’s Blog

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