Small scale renewable energy promoted by California’s Governor
Governor signs bill to ease small-scale renewable energy generation http://westernfarmpress.com/government/governor-signs-bill-ease-small-scale-renewable-energy-generation
Oct. 1, 2012 California farmers, school districts and commercial energy users got a boost with the Gov. Brown’s signing of Senate Bill 594, which removes barriers to on-site renewable energy production. The California Climate and Agriculture Network (CalCAN), a coalition of sustainable agriculture organizations, supported the bill. Senate Bill 594, authored by Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis), will allow Net Energy Metering (NEM) customers to aggregate the electrical load of their meters.
The new law will ease the production of small-scale distributed renewable energy production in the state. “California farmers produce more renewable energy on their farms and ranches than their counterparts in other states, but obstacles still exist,” said Jeanne Merrill, policy director with CalCAN. “The governor’s action today moves us closer to developing more on-farm renewable energy production throughout California.”
Farmers and ranchers typically have multiple meters on their property. Current California law prohibits the power generated from an on-site renewable facility to be counted against other meters. Consequently, farmers would have to install a separate facility for each meter, which is extremely inefficient and cost prohibitive; thus limiting their ability to cost-effectively generate renewable energy. Senate Bill 594 addresses this issue and eliminates the need for multiple facilities.
“The governor just made it easier and more affordable for growers like me to produce renewable energy,” said Russ Lester, owner of Dixon Ridge Farms in Winters, Calif. “California agriculture can help the state reduce greenhouse gas emissions and produce clean energy. Senate Bill 594 is an important step forward.”
Senate Bill 594 will move California closer to meeting the governor’s goal of 12,000 megawatts of distributed renewable energy generation in the state. For more information on Senate Bill 594, please see: http://bit.ly/oNr9fT .
Oil companies prepared to risk environmental disaster in Arctic
despite the risks, most of the world’s biggest oil companies are eyeing the Arctic. US giant ExxonMobil has signed an exploration deal for the Russian Arctic with Rosneft, as have Italy’s Eni and Norway’s Statoil. Statoil is also working in the Norwegian Arctic and is partnering Cairn Energy off Greenland
Risky business: oil giants chase Arctic bounty http://www.theage.com.au/world/risky-business-oil-giants-chase-arctic-bounty-20121001-26vew.html#ixzz28AfLRrIN October 2, 2012 Emily Gosden Energy companies are looking at the potential riches, but one is breaking ranks. DRILLING for oil and gas has always been a risky business; overcoming technical, political and environmental challenges is part of the job.
But last week, Christophe de Margerie, chief executive of French oil giant Total, declared that when it came to the Arctic Ocean, the risk of a spill was simply too high. Continue reading
North Korea: Spark could set off nuclear war Tulsa’s Channel Oct 01, 2012 By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) – A North Korean minister lashed out at the United States on Monday, saying its “hostile” policy has left the Korean peninsula a spark away from a nuclear war.
Vice Foreign Minister Pak Kil Yon told the U.N. General Assembly that
the Koreas have become “the world’s most dangerous hotspot” and blamed
the “hostile” policy of the United States toward North Korea.
Pak said “the vicious cycle of confrontation and aggravation of
tension is an ongoing phenomenon on the Korean peninsula, which has
become the world’s most dangerous hotspot where a spark of fire could
set off a thermonuclear war.”….
http://www.ktul.com/story/19688491/north-korea-spark-could-set-off-nuclear-war
Günter Grass poem praises nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu Germany’s Nobel laureate describes Vanunu, who spent 18 years in prison for leaking details of Israel’s nuclear programme, as a ‘role model and hero of our time’ Alison Flood guardian.co.uk, 1 October 2012 Germany‘s Nobel literature laureate Günter Grass, who earlier this year was barred from Israel for criticising its nuclear policy, has written a poem praising the nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu.
Vanunu, a former technician at Israel’s secret nuclear plant near Dimona, spent 18 years in prison – much of it in solitary confinement – after leaking details of the country’s nuclear programme to the Sunday Times in 1986. Grass’s new collection of poetry, Eintagsfliegen , published in Germany last week, describes Vanunu as a “role model and hero of our time” who “hoped to serve his country by helping to bring the truth to light”, and calls on Israelis to “recognise … as righteous” the man “who remained loyal to his country all those years”, according to German reports …… http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/oct/01/gunter-grass-poem-praises-mordechai-vanunu?newsfeed=true
Breaking! Korea Government body pressured to withhold info on Fukushima radiation
The inspector’s office examination took place in the immediate wake of March reports from the Hankyoreh and other news outlets alleging NIS involvement in the decision to suspend NIER research indicating that trace amounts of radiation were reaching the Korean Peninsula. The reports at the time were based on remarks made by Yoon during a dinner meeting.
During the examination, Yoon denied any pressure from the NIS, saying that the organization “never requested confidentiality” and that he ordered a halt to the research out of “concerns that it might cause confusion between organizations, since the Korea Meteorological Administration was reporting no effects on the Korean Peninsula.”
Posted on : Oct.3,2012
Research from Mar. 2011 showed radiation coming towards Korea, but was muzzled
By Lee Keun-young, senior staff writer
The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) abruptly halted its inquiry last year into the dispersion of radiation from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster after contacting the National Intelligence Service, it was belatedly revealed on Oct. 2.
The institute, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Environment, was predicting the course of radiation from the plant after an accident there following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Democratic United Party lawmaker Chang Ha-na, a member of the National Assembly’s Environment and Labor Committee, said on Oct. 2 that an examination by the Ministry of Environment inspector’s office at the showed NIER research to predict the spread of radiation from Fukushima, and its effects on South Korea, was halted immediately after a report to the NIS.
Bellona -USAID expulsion from Russia shows framework of long-planned Putin initiatives
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) ceased operations in Russia yesterday after being expelled last month in a move widely seen as part of the Kremlin’s effort to intimidate and discredit opposition.
Charles Digges, 02/10-2012
Meanwhile, Russian public opinion seems to be taking a sway against organizations receiving foreignfinancing, as evidenced by hostile viewer calls to independent Russia television programs that have examined the decision of the Kremlin to clamp down on Russian NGOs that receive funding from abroad.
[…]
Putin had accused USAID of meddling in the country’s internal affairs, and specifically its elections.
Fifty-seven nonprofits operating in Russia, from human rights watchdogs to HIV/AIDS prevention groups, are set to lose out on millions of dollars in US government grants following the Kremlin’s decision to kick out USAID
WikiLeaks’ web host raided by Swedish police after hacking of Swedish government servers
Published: 02 October, 2012,
“Several Swedish government agencies and businesses were the victims of cyber attacks in the days leading up to the raid.”
The Stockholm-based web host for WikiLeaks and The Pirate Bay has been raided by Swedish police.
Four of the firm’s servers were seized, though it remains unclear exactly who was being targeted.
The Stockholm-based web host PeRiQuito AB, or PRQ, was targeted by police on Monday, the company’s owner Mikael Viborg told local media.
“PRQ.se, one of a number of ISPs used by WikiLeaks has been raided by Swedish police; 4 servers seized. Police still in office,” WikiLeaks tweeted on Monday.
UK Jimmy Saville and the Jersey island abuse murder scandal -cover up
Op Ed by nuclear-news.net
Date 3/Oct/2012
From a jersey island blogger….
This is why governments, oppressive regimes, security forces and mafias around the world love child abuse. They simply love it. No other criminal activity, no matter how bad, is as foul, or gives such “leverage”, such “ownership” – such control – over those who commit it. And once a person has acted so despicably, or shown an unhealthy interest in the under-age or those on the borderline, or has failed to prevent the crimes, and instead helped to conceal them – then that person is “owned”. Forever more.
[…]
Whoever holds the “currency” of your despicable secrets, owns you.
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It’s easy to see, is it not, just how terribly, terribly – err – complicated things become. Especially when so much child abuse has been concealed by so many for so long. It is an inevitable consequence of permitting such system-failure – of allowing child protection failures to be heaped upon child abuses, to be heaped upon child abuse concealments, without corrective intervention – that your entire system of public administration becomes contaminated, and bound by a corporate, shared interest in concealing the truth.
http://stuartsyvret.blogspot.co.uk/
There has been a few stories about the British Channel Island tax haven Jersey recently. we had a story about a sex scandal concerning a well known media personality Jimmy Saville, this was brought to light by an investigative report from ITV a main stream UK television station
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In the ITV1 documentary, Exposure: The other Side of Jimmy Savile, the star, who died last year aged 84, is accused of allegedly:
Promising a victim he would not rape her but then did
Asking one girl to perform an indecent act on him in the back of his Rolls
Wearing a shell suit so that he could easily pull down the elastic trousers to assault his victims.
Giving a girl who said she lost her virginity to him, his autobiography with a message written inside which said: ‘No escape’ and signing it her ‘keeper’.
[…]
Cobalt 60 – “It is essentially a form of birth control,” IAEA head Yukiya Amano said.
Andy Garner, an IAEA programme coordinator, said he believed there was more demand to use nuclear applications for food production, though he acknowledged a potential “branding” issue.
If “you talk about irradiating food… I think you do think twice before you eat that apple……..”
SASA KAVIC AND FREDRIK DAHL
Last updated 13:33 03/10/2012
At the height of the tangerine season in Croatia’s Neretva river delta, two pickup trucks scour a maze of water channels carrying an odd-looking contraption: a mortar-like pipe spraying orchards with sterilised flies.
They have been bombarded with radioactive Cobalt-60 in an Israeli biotechnology plant to make them sterile in a bid to reduce the fly population and the damage they wreak on the crop.
“SILEX project” enrich uranium cheaper -Easier for “anyone” to make atomic bomb
Designed to get cheaper and more efficient fuel for nuclear power plants, many of the U.S. physics community believes that this new technology will become more accessible to the atomic bomb countries like Iran or North Korea.
OCT 03, 2012
Translated from this
http://fontem.com/novedades/ver/4613.html
While the U.S. shows its strength in the world to prevent nuclear proliferation, including the use of economic embargoes, bombing targeted and sophisticated computer viruses, the country has just authorized new uranium enrichment systems on home soil.
The current uranium centrifuge plants, like this one from Piketon (U.S.) need hundreds of centrifuges to make dificl hide. But SILEX require only 25% of its space and one-tenth of its energy. / DOE / Wikipedia
Duke Energy customers face $1 billion-plus – Crystal river USA -Arnold Gundersen
Some have nicknamed Crystal River the “Humpty Dumpty” plant. If Duke makes too many changes to the building, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission could require the utility to file an amendment to its operating license. That would require public hearings.”It opens the plant up to public participation, again,” said Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear engineer and consultant. “They’re terrified of letting this process open up.“
By Ivan Penn, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Duke Energy faces a potentially $3 billion decision on whether to fix its busted Crystal River nuclear plant. Regardless of their choice, however, customers will still get stuck paying for the billion-dollar-plus blunder.
If Duke shuts down the plant, customers will have to pay at least $1.6 billion to build another power source and buy alternate energy. If Duke fixes the plant, customers will be on the hook for buying more than $1 billion in alternate power even if they escape paying repair costs.
Poll: Half SCE’s Customers Would Keep San Onofre Nuke Shut -USA
Support for keeping the plant shut crossed county and demographic lines, according to Binder, and concern about possible nuclear accidents was expressed by 73% of respondents, including some who supported opening the plant.Perhaps most distressingly for the utility, nearly half the respondents — 47% — said they felt SCE put profits ahead of public safety. 41% said they felt SCE put safety first, and 12% weren’t sure.
A poll of 700 registered voters in the service district of Southern California Edison found half would support keeping the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant shut permanently and turning to renewable energy and conservation to make up any power shortfall. That number increased to 58% when pollsters read a short factual statement describing the current situation at San Onofre.
Success for “Stop Hinckley”! Areva and China’s CGNPC backtrack on UK’S Horizon-FT nuclear project.
Tue Oct 2, 2012 11:28pm GMT
LONDON Oct 3 (Reuters) – French nuclear group Areva and China’s Guangdong Nuclear Power Corporation Holding (CGNPC) have walked away from the UK’s 6-gigawatt Horizon project, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
A bid from the Franco-Chinese consortium for the Horizon nuclear joint venture did not materialise by last Friday’s deadline, the FT said, citing people familiar with the matter.
People close to the talks, cited by the FT, said China may still invest in Horizon at a later date along with other nuclear projects in Britain. It had been linked with at least three other sites in England.
The consortium’s reversal is a setback to the British government’s hopes of ushering in a revival of nuclear power.
UK – Activists warned to watch what they say! activism is a crime!
This article by the err independent is in the crime section?? activist = criminal?
MONDAY 01 OCTOBER 2012
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Exclusive: John Cooper QC said that police are monitoring key activists online and that officers and the courts are becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to social media
Political activists must watch what they say on the likes of Facebook and Twitter, sites which will become the “next big thing in law enforcement”, a leading human rights lawyer has warned.
John Cooper QC said that police are monitoring key activists online and that officers and the courts are becoming increasingly savvy when it comes to social media. But, speaking to The Independent, he added that he also expected that to drive an increase in the number of criminals being brought to justice in the coming months.
Japan’s nuclear disaster inspires artwork – Uranium Glasswork (Video)
02 October 2012
The environmental devastation caused by Japan’s nuclear disaster has inspired two artists to create artworks that are themselves radioactive.
Source: 7pm TV News NSW | Duration: 2min 7sec
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