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UK Government and nuclear industry planned Fukushima cover-up from the beggining!

“Internal emails seen by the Guardian show how the business and energy departments worked closely behind the scenes with the multinational companies EDF Energy, Areva and Westinghouse to try to ensure the [Fukushima] accident did not derail their plans for a new generation of nuclear stations in the UK,” the Guardian reports in its article, “Revealed: British government’s plan to play down Fukushima.”

• July 1, 2011
• By: Deborah Dupre

The Examiner

Government, nuclear industry covert media blackout

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Human rights to health of children and pregnant women, the most vulnerable to radiation, have been violated in what Greenpeace called “scandalous collusion,” a planned Fukushima nuclear cover-up conducted by government and the multi-national nuclear industry according to leaked emails to the Guardian that it exposed Thursday. The emails show that the Fukushima “PR campaign” cover-up planning started hours after the catastrophe, specifically targeted nuclear disarmament human rights defenders, and aimed to protect industry’s plans for more nuclear facilities rather than protect human life.

For over three months, Japanese and American outrage about Fukushima disinformation and lack of aid for people at risk of Fukushima fall-out, has seemingly fallen on deaf ears. Gulf of Mexico coastal residents find the Fukushima scenario all too familiar, having experienced a similar intensive media blackout and protection of BP rather than humans suffering for over a year. (La emergency summit fisher wife slams media black-out (video), Examiner, June 20, 2010)

The Guardian‘s leaked emails indicate that British government and industry possibly have had a hand to play in both Fukushima and Gulf Coast survivors’ misery. One implication of media black-outs result is that survivors gain little or no support otherwise forthcoming from people of goodwill.

“Internal emails seen by the Guardian show how the business and energy departments worked closely behind the scenes with the multinational companies EDF Energy, Areva and Westinghouse to try to ensure the [Fukushima] accident did not derail their plans for a new generation of nuclear stations in the UK,” the Guardian reports in its article, “Revealed: British government’s plan to play down Fukushima.”

Major news networks are owned by energy corporations, as only days ago, investigative journalist Wayne Madsen explained during a June 24th Russia Today interview about headlines not reflecting what is really happening in Libya. Madsen said major newspaper reporters “are reporting what had nothing in common” with what he saw on the ground during his fact-finding tour with former Congressperson Cynthia McKinney.

“Washington Post and NYT reporters in Tripoli are in an alternative universe,” he said, explaining they are owned by Department of Defense contractor corporations that “do not want this information out.”

On June 20, Australia’s newspaper, Independent Australia (IA), reported, in an article, “Fukushima disaster, cover-up and fears of nuclear explosion,” that The Wall Street Journal has come up trumps in shattering any illusion that veteran anti-nuclear campaigners like Dr Caldicott are over-egging the disaster.”

Madsen’s brief summary of major media ownership interests, saying, “NBC is owned by General Electric, one of the big military contractors. FOX is owned by Murdock, and CNN is infotainment.”

The Guardian furthered onThursday why the media role is crucial to the nuclear industry.

“This has the potential to set the nuclear industry back globally,” wrote a Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) official according to the Guardian, reporting the official also said:

“We need to ensure the anti-nuclear chaps and chapesses do not gain ground on this. We need to occupy the territory and hold it. We really need to show the safety of nuclear.”

“We need to all be working from the same material to get the message through to the media and the public.

“Anti-nuclear people across Europe have wasted no time blurring this all into Chernobyl and the works.”

“We need to quash any stories trying to compare this to Chernobyl.”

The Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith, a Commons environmental audit committee member, condemned the extent of government and nuclear companies’ coordination that the emails indicate, saying, “The government has no business doing PR for the industry and it would be appalling if its departments have played down the impact of Fukushima.”

“The business department emailed the nuclear firms and their representative body, the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), on 13 March, two days after the disaster knocked out nuclear plants and their backup safety systems at Fukushima. The department argued it was not as bad as the “dramatic” TV pictures made it look, even though the consequences of the accident were still unfolding and two major explosions at reactors on the site were yet to happen.

“Radiation released has been controlled – the reactor has been protected,” said the BIS official, whose name has been blacked out. “It is all part of the safety systems to control and manage a situation like this.”

The leaked emails could cast further doubt about media reports on the four nuclear facilities in the United States presently on high alert. The Guardian also might gain subscribers to it and other less major news outlets such as the Independent Australia.

Independent Australia (IA) reports what Americans have been all but deprived from knowing, such as information it published on June 20th about Fukushima fall-out:

“Air contamination has now also reached Europe. CRIIRAD (the Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity in English) is the French research authority on radioactivity; whilst it declares that radioactive air contamination is 10 times worse in the USA, it is warning Europeans – particularly pregnant or nursing mothers and children – to: ‘avoid the regular consumption of rain water and excessive consumption of vulnerable foods such as leaf vegetables, fresh milk and ricotta /cream cheese).”

“Hawaiian farmers have started feeding goats and cows with sodium boron to reduce radiation in milk.”

IA also noted in the same report what astute nuclear expert and medical doctor, Dr. Helen Caldicott recently said about government controlled black-out about Fukushima and hindered aid for the people.

“Dr Caldicott says the Japanese actively hindered international assistance:

“Also they prevented and delayed foreign experts and organisations coming in to help and to monitor the situation. The IAEA and the World Health Organisation should have been there from the start. Not that there is much anyone can do.

“It’s like a surgeon accidently cutting the aorta and there’s nothing you can do except watch the patient bleed to death before your very eyes.”

“The Japanese Government has been negligent in not informing the Japanese people about the true state of affairs, continues Dr Caldicott:

“Then I read that government officials don’t want to tell people the truth because that’ll create panic. From a medical perspective, we are obliged to get informed consent from our patient; in other words, we must tell them the truth. If that makes them frightened, they have to deal with that — the truth.

“So, the Government is morally obliged to tell the people of Japan and the world the truth.”

The Guardian was founded in 1821 and is not owned by big energy corporations. It states it is owned by the Scott Trust, via the Guardian Media Group. The Guardian “identifies with centre-left liberalism and its readership is generally on the mainstream left of British political opinion” according to Wikipedia.

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