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¶ Delhi Metro Rail Corporation has bagged the top spot for highest capacity installation of solar power plants in stations and depots across its vast network. Union Minister of State for Power Piyush Goyal made the award. The solar PV plants DMRC has so far installed generate a total of around 2,794 kW (peak) currently. [YourStory.com]

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¶ The cost of producing electricity from renewable sources like wind and solar has been falling. Now, a report details the contrasting costs for different power generation technologies and shows that renewable sources can produce electricity at close to or even below the cost of new fossil fuel-based power stations. [The Maritime Executive]

¶ The Climate Change (Scotland) Act demands a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of at least 80% 2050, across sectors ranging from electricity generation to the food sector, building efficiency, and transportation. The…

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Call-up to Clean-up Nuclear Sites
These images or something similar will probably stay on top until a) pro-nuclear people volunteer to work at nuclear waste sites (WIPP, Fukushima, Hanford, etc.) in droves, and b) the nuclear industry is shut down. Then, after b), there will still be the problem of a) the nuclear waste to be secured. We live on borrowed time. Let’s shut the nuclear industry down now!
Let’s hurry up people! There’s 4 months to the end of the year.

Comment period for US NRC-2015-005 proposal to expose the general American Public to 100 mSv of radiation PER YEAR, falsely named “Linear No-Threshold…

The River Ribble and Radioactive Landfill

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Make Room for Radioactive Landfill!

Radioactive Landfill  “Safegrounds” SITA ppt

A while back the brilliant anti fracking campaigner Tina Louise Rothery posted on the Radiation Free Lakeland facebook page requesting help to stop the huge expansion of Whitemoss landfill. We looked at Whitemoss, near Skelmersdale and what goes into the landfill is very, very  nasty ….even without radioactive wastes.

What we found though was that Whitemoss was indeed designated for receipt of low level radioactive wastes. According to the Cheshire West and Chester Local Plan for 2015: “Currently low level radioactive waste is exported to Whitemoss Landfill site in Lancashire”. So we asked Questions under Freedom of Information.   What happened next is incredible. The reply came back within 6 days not from the Department of the Environment (who we addressed the FOI to) but from Whitemoss Landfill:

“Whitemoss Landfill (25…

A disconcerting report released last week revealed that New York City could see a 6-foot rise in sea levels by the end of this century. It would make nearly half a million New Yorkers vulnerable to flooding, and waterfront properties would be virtually uninhabitable.
But what if climate change continues unabated for even longer? What will New York City look like if, say, both the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets melt completely, raising sea levels an estimated 260 feet?
Urban planner and cartographer Jeffrey Linn used computerized mapping to make a GIF demonstrating just that. Watch the city’s five boroughs disappear, with only the lofty heights of New Jersey’s Pallisades left as an island:

Linn, who posted the GIF on his blog Spatialities, told The Huffington Post he wanted to show people what the city would look like after “the terminal point for ice caps melting,” which some scientists estimate…

Very Real Nuclear Dilemma

There are several lists with a total of 89 different topics scolding PM Stephen Harper.  I am certain the list has grown since last week. As the Prime Minister of Canada he could admit that he made some serious errors during the last four years. I would never suggest Canadians hold their breath waiting for him to say anything honest.

A major story, not on any of the lists, nor mentioned by our glorious news readers has to do with nuclear waste. Thousands of Canadians have tried everything possible to bring the issue to any political parties who will listen. Listen is a key word rarely found in the political realm. It is easier to toss billions of dollars at people than pay attention to what the people have to say. Links to Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party and Thomas Mulcair of the…