Mass Paris Protest Concluding Climate Summit
MASS PARIS PROTEST ON 12-12 TO CONCLUDE HISTORIC CLIMATE SUMMIT See more at: http://www.occupy.com/article/mass-paris-protest-12-12-conclude-historic-climate-summit#sthash.ZyIzAQ5c.dpuf , – BY NADIA PRUPIS THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON COMMON DREAMS N PARIS EARLIER THIS WEEK, A PANEL OF ACTIVISTS, INCLUDING AUTHOR NAOMI KLEIN AND U.K. LABOUR PARTY LEADER JEREMY CORBYN, SPOKE TO A PACKED CROWD ON THE ROLE OF THE GLOBAL LABOR SECTOR IN THE CLIMATE JUSTICE MOVEMENT AND CALLED FOR MASS CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE TO BREAK FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANÇOIS HOLLANDE’S BAN ON DEMONSTRATIONS DURING THE COP21 SUMMIT.
Klein spoke candidly about the global climate agreement being hammered out by world leaders this month, stating, “The deal that will be unveiled in less than a week will not be enough to keep us safe. In fact, it will be extraordinarily dangerous.”
Wealthy nations have set up inadequate climate targets that could allow average global temperatures to rise by 3 or 4 degrees Celsius, Klein said – far higher than the agreed-on threshold of 2°C, which scientists say would cause catastrophic extreme weather events. The deal is going to “steamroll over crucial scientific red lines… it is going to steamroll over equity red lines… it is going to steamroll over legal red lines.”
“Which is why on December the 12 at 12 o’clock – that’s 12-12-12 – many activists will be peacefully demonstrating against the violation of these red lines,” Klein said, prompting a round of applause from the audience of roughly 800 trade unionists and other workers and activists.
The march will protest the French government’s crackdown on activism following the November 13 attacks that killed 130 people – and sparked a cross-border manhunt that many said flouted Europeans’ civil liberties. Klein has been an outspoken critic of the ban.
“We will be mourning the lives already lost to climate disruption, in solidarity with the lives lost to the tragic attacks here in Paris and enlarging that circle of mourning,” Klein said. “By taking to the streets, we will be clearly and unequivocally rejecting the Hollande government’s draconian and opportunistic bans on marches, protests, and demonstrations.”
“We will be rejecting the shameful preemptive arrests of climate activists… the restrictions on free speech and movement,” she continued. “Liberté is not just a word, and it doesn’t just apply to Christmas markets and football matches.”
Corbyn added, “We’ve taken the responsibility on ourselves to do something here and now. To stop the destruction of the world’s environment, to bring people together to prevent that happening, and above all, to bring people together not through fear, but through hope, through imagination, through optimism. Unleash the optimism, unleash the imagination, unleash the hope. That is the way forward.”
The panel also discussed the importance of a “just transition” to a clean future, particularly by converting to a system of community-owned renewable resource infrastructures—a process also known as energy democratization.
“When communities have control over the production and distribution of clean energy, that’s environmental justice,” said Judy Gonzalez, president of the New York State Nurses Union, who also spoke on the panel.
Corbyn also hit back at criticisms that a focus on sustainable energy, in tandem with a fossil fuel phase-out, is financially nonviable. “A more sustainable energy policy… one that would help the issues we face on a global level, would actually be an economic generator, rather than a problem,” he said.
Clara Paillard, president of the Public & Commercial Services Union culture sector, added, “If we want a just transition, we will need jobs – many, many jobs. Climate is a trade union issue.”
“In 2008, the U.K. found 800 billion pounds to save the bank. And in the U.K., tax avoidance and evasion represent over 100 billion pounds every year,” Paillard continued. “Let’s be clear, if the planet was a bank they would have already saved it.”
We Are Unstoppable: A Reminder of What COP 21 Should Have Been
Climate justice advocates break through at COP 21: We are unstoppable! Another world is possible!
Civil society finally broke through with a loud voice yesterday at the COP 21 global climate summit. For a week-and-a-half, activists and independent energy and environmental groups had been relegated to the sidelines–literally. The only place where anyone could hold anything resembling a protest is on the side of a walkway between exhibit halls, and by application only, for no more than a half-hour. Size of gatherings limited to 35 people. Violate those terms and organizations risked being banned from the COP, and possible future conferences, as well.
Frustrations have been mounting over the insufficient, non-binding terms of the agreement and the inability to break through to the negotiators by applying pressure for more, for a real deal. Activists are here with such a sense of urgency and the knowledge that anything less than a…
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December 11 Energy News
COP21:
¶ France and nine other partners renewed commitment to mobilize a cumulative $10 billion between 2015 and 2020 to boost access to energy in Africa. The costs are to be offset by repealing all subsidies for fossil fuels and ending the tax breaks that encourage corporate inversions. [The Election Central]
Wind farm in Tunisia. Photo by Citizen59. CC BY-SA 3.0. Wikimedia Commons.
¶ With the deadline for a climate deal at COP21 closing fast, business leaders from around the world have called for a long-term emissions goal. Organized by The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group, members of the We Mean Business coalition sent a joint letter to governments. [CleanTechnica]
¶ British Columbia’s Environment Minister announced at COP21 it has become the 14th jurisdiction to sign on to the International Zero-Emission Vehicle Alliance. Members of the alliance will strive to make all new passenger…
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December 11 Climate and Nuclear News
PARIS CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT to miss Friday deadline. Climate deal due Saturday after more all-night talks.Some optimism . Many articles on climate change. Cities the key to action. Paris COP21 anti-nuclear activists arrested after daring climb on Arche de la Defense. Climate refugees will be needing help, whether or not COP21 talks produce a result.
Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, Breakthrough Institute etc – more like snake oil salesmen for nuclear. Breakthrough Energy Coalition and Mission Innovation – all for pie in the sky new nuclear, carbon capture, nuclear fusion etc. Seven top billionaires in Breakthrough Energy Coalition are big investors in the nuclear industry, and most members are nuclear enthusiasts. However, the good news so far is that nuclear is not even mentioned in the drafts of the climate agreement presented over the last several days. Organisers at COP21 dismiss nuclear, in favour of faster, cleaner, cheaper, renewable technologies.
NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT. 166 nations vote to abolish nuclear weapons, but not Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.
NUCLEAR FUSION. At least 50 years before nuclear fusion power might become a reality
UK. Britain’s nuclear power programme a cash cow for overseas companies. Toshiba having problems getting money to build UK nuclear power project. Floods in West Cumbria threaten nuclear installations.
USA Dr Ken Buesseler reports cesium-134 from Fukushima in ocean waters off North America shores. Nuclear Free US Presidential Candidates Sanders and Comley. 10 Control Rods accidentally dropped into nuclear reactor core – Indian Point. The nuclear industry’s plight – the COSTS OF RADIOACTIVE TRASH DISPOSAL. Still secret: where are the radioactive hot spots near Coldwater Creek, St Louis County?.
JAPAN. Time to Stop Nursing the Nuclear Power Industry. Japan’s nuclear regulatory body investigating spent nuclear fuel containers. Monju fast breeder reactor – a failure that’s damaging France’s and Japan’s nuclear industry.
CHINA China’s awful safety record does not augur well for its planned nuclear project. China’s nuclear programme isfraught with problems.
INDIA. India’s Bhopal gas victims call on PM Modi to shun nuclear power industry.
VIETNAM postpones construction of Russian -funded nuclear plant.
RUSSIA trying to sell to Egypt nuclear reactors with 80 year operation. Putin ‘didn’t rule out’ using nuclear weapons in Syria.
Bill Gates, Peter Thiel, Breakthrough Institute etc – more like snake oil salesmen for nuclear
Nuclear pitched as the new green, Charlotte Observer , 9 Dec 15 BY EVAN HALPER“……..Investors, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, have poured about $2 billion into a few dozen small outfits, many of which are concentrated in the West. The entrepreneurs behind them are racing to design nuclear power facilities engineered to seem no more imposing than a neighborhood arts center……
That may all be possible someday, say the nuclear experts at the Union of Concerned Scientists, but that day is probably several decades and many tens of billions of dollars away. The sudden excitement around nuclear makes them nervous. They say they have seen this before.
“The people who deny or downplay the risks involved are doing a disservice to the future of nuclear power that leads to complacency, and complacency leads to Fukushima,” said Edwin Lyman, a senior scientist at the organization. “This is very complex. It is hard. It costs a lot. It is slow, especially to develop advanced systems. … It seems nuclear will at most be a minor contribution over the next few decades to dealing with the climate crisis.”……
The Sierra Club says it has all the makings of a snake-oil sale.
“There is always such a rosy picture coming from the industry of what it can deliver with these technologies, yet it has such a terrible history with over-promising and under-delivering,” said John Coequyt, the Sierra Club’s director of international climate programs. The organization would prefer the Obama administration abandon the extremely costly pursuit of advanced nuclear power in favor of greater investment in renewable energy such as solar and wind power.
But that’s not the direction the White House is headed. It hosted a nuclear power summit last month during which John Holdren, the president’s senior adviser on science and technology, expressed hope of “making nuclear energy everything that it can be, and thus a major contributor in this country and worldwide to minimizing the risks from climate change.”…….
The administration announced its budget plan, including $900 million in new funding for development of advanced nuclear technologies, as well as plans to allow firms like UPower and Transatomic access to testing facilities in federally funded national research labs, which the firms had been lobbying for. This year, the House passed a resolution nudging regulators to nurture the industry.
Such moves have come at the urging of some muscular neoliberal think tanks in California and Washington, D.C.
The Breakthrough Institute in Oakland, where philanthropist Rachel Pritzker and Whole Earth Catalog founder Stewart Brand sit on the board, has been a major proponent of the technologies as a solution to climate change, most famously in the 2013 documentary “Pandora’s Promise,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Pritzker is also on the board of Third Way, an influential advocacy group best known for helping centrist Democrats find bipartisan approaches to policy disputes. The group, which receives some nuclear industry funding, is leading the push in Washington…….http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/science-technology/article48767550.html
Monju fast breeder reactor – a failure that’s damaging France’s and Japan’s nuclear industry
| French and Japanese nuclear fuel cycle may be affected by failures at Monju Enformable ,08 Dec 2015 Residents of Fukui Prefecture in Japan have announced that they will file a lawsuit with the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) to permanently shutdown the Monju fast breeder reactor.
A breeder reactor generates more fuel than it consumes. The Monju reactor was not only supposed to process the nuclear waste generated at the operating nuclear reactors, but was also supposed to provide fuel for future reactors. The facility has never lived up to its lofty expectations. Japan has spent nearly 10 trillion Yen on the facility, and in return the Monju reactor has been kept offline for most of the past 19 years due to a massive leak, repeated failures, safety problems and organizational issues. The resident lawsuit claims that the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA), operator of the Monju facility, is not qualified to handle operating the facility…… The lawsuit by the citizens could also impact France’s Advanced Sodium Technological Reactor for Industrial Demonstration (ASTRID) fast-breeder reactor project. Japan and France have agreed to work together to research, develop, and promote fast breeder reactors. France was supposed to use the Monju reactor to test fuel for the ASTRID project, which uses the same concepts – but since the facility is banned from operations and testing with no established date for coming back online and the volatility around whether or not the facility should operate at all and who should operate it continues unabated – France may be forced to scrap its plans to incorporate the Monju facility. Monju Fast Breeder Reactor Timeline…. http://enformable.com/2015/12/french-and-japanese-nuclear-fuel-cycle-may-be-affected-by-failures-at-monju/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Enformable+%28Enformable%29 |
Climate Change Denialism – money buys opinion
Follow the money to climate science denial https://independentaustralia.net/environment/environment-display/follow-the-money-to-climate-science-denial,8472 Graham Readfearn 10 December 2015, A Greenpeace investigation uncovers a complex climate science denial machine involving cash from big business in exchange for “peer review” studies.Graham Readfearn from DeSmogBlogreports.
AN UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION by environment group Greenpeace has found some of the world’s most vocal climate science denial groups were willing to accept cash from fossil fuel interests in return for writing articles and reports that reject the impacts of greenhouses gases. Continue reading
Climate Change – some optimism about Paris Summit
Clive Hamilton: Kant at Le Bourget
It is natural to adopt a cynical view of the global climate change conference now taking place outside Paris. Behind the noble public declarations self-interest is ruthlessly asserted in the private negotiating rooms. Rules are bent, scrutiny is resisted and numbers are manipulated to hide emissions.
Yet from another standpoint, there is something magnificent taking place at Le Bourget. For here we have, under the auspices of the United Nations, the leaders of all of the countries of the world coming together to attempt to agree on a collective solution to a common threat. …
The unwelcome truth is that, taken together, their visions of how they will pursue their sovereignty are incompatible with the common goal. So the magnificence of the event takes on a different hue when, as Bruno Latour commented, the nations of the world are saying: “This is impossible; we cannot live together on this Earth.”http://theconversation.com/kant-at-le-bourget-52015
Heather Zichal: In Paris climate summit, a beginning not an end.
No single agreement should be expected to be the final solution to the climate crisis, writes Heather Zichal, a former climate adviser to President Obama. http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2015/1207/In-Paris-climate-summit-a-beginning-not-an-end &http://www.dailyclimate.org/t/6288917841504677619
With a 1.5 degrees celsius target, the climate-justice movement is poised to score a surprise win.
Pressure from activists and vulnerable countries has shifted the discussion away from a 2 degrees C target—a virtual death sentence for millions of people.
http://www.thenation.com/article/with-1-5-degrees-celsius-target-climate-justice-movement-poised-to-score-surprise-win/ &http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/-8082012703502401428
Erwin Jackson: Memo to Paris climate delegates: compromise now or world is fukt
Trying to follow what happens at a climate summit is a bit like trying to swim up a waterfall.
http://www.crikey.com.au/2015/12/08/memo-to-paris-climate-delegates-compromise- now-or-world-is-fukt/
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Matt McDonald: Saleemul Huq – if climate talks were democratic, vulnerable countries ‘would have won already’ With many “climate-vulnerable” nations calling on the Paris climate summit (COP21) to adopt a global warming limit of 1.5℃rather than 2℃, will these concerns be acted upon? And if not, how much help will they get to cope with the consequences? …
Saleemul Huq: I’m absolutely certain there will be an agreement – how strong it is, we will see. I think at the moment we are actually moving towards the better end of the spectrum – we’re not at the lowest end, it’s at the more ambitious end. And I think that 1.5°C goal is a very good test of the strength of this agreement. It tests whether we’re concerned with pragmatism or idealism. This isn’t the place to be pragmatic. This is the place to have a vision, and the vision should be to save everybody on the planet.http://theconversation.com/saleemul-huq-if-climate-talks-were-democratic-vulnerable-countries-would-have-won-already-52034
Paris climate summit: ‘sacrifice rights for deal on carbon’
Rich countries have restated that a $100bn-a-year climate fund would depend on immunity from compensation claims.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/climate/paris-climate-summit-sacrifice-rights-for-deal-on-carbon/news-story/fad624312574c08c57c040045ab8ea94
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10 facts that show why cities are the key to climate change and global health
To mark cities day at the UN Climate Conference in Paris, here’s why urbanisation should be at the heart of any conversation about the planet’s future http://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/dec/08/statistics-show-cities-key-future-planet-un-climate-change
Feted by Hollywood, city mayors take starring role in Paris climate talksWhen Leonardo di Caprio and Robert Redford arrived at the UN Climate Conference, their first priority was to talk to city leaders. It’s one indication of where the power to reduce climate emissions now lies, writes John Vidalhttp://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/dec/07/hollywood-city-mayors-paris-climate-talks-di-caprio-redford
ExxonMobil is OK with a carbon tax Even Big Oil is ahead of the Republican Party when it comes to climate changeDecember 8, 2015. Even ExxonMobil says climate change is real. So why won’t the GOP?To understand how dangerously extreme the Republican Party has become on climate change, compare its stance to that of ExxonMobil.http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/2015/12/08/ExxonMobil-is-OK-with-a-carbon-tax/stories/201512080009
Toshiba having problems getting money to build UK nuclear power project
Toshiba seeks financial help with £8bn UK nuclear project http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/dec/10/toshiba-seeks-financial-help-with-8bn-uk-nuclear-project, Terry Macalister
Japanese technology firm in talks with financial institutions to support atomic construction programme after share price tumbles Toshiba, the technology company at the centre of plans to build more nuclear reactors in Britain, is looking for outside help to fund its £8bn programme after a collapse in its share price.
The Japanese group is in talks with local financial institutions to support the construction of an atomic plant near the Sellafield facility in Cumbria, after running up losses following an accounting scandal.
The emergence of Toshiba’s problems will add to worries over Britain’s nuclear plans after the French energy group EDF, which plans to build the Hinkley Point C station in Somerset, dropped out of France’s CAC 40 index of leading shares.
There is widening concern in the City about the escalating costs of huge nuclear projects, which are damaging company share valuations and undermining the government’s commitment to new nuclear at a time when it has promised to phase out coal-fired power stations.
It has become difficult for Toshiba to do this (fund the NuGen programme in the north-west of England) on its own,” one source told Reuters, which reported that Toshiba had hired HSBC bank to help find new funds.
On Monday, the Japanese financial regulatorrecommended that Toshiba be fined 7.37bn yen (£40m) for overstating profits and the share price of the company is down 40% since the start of the year.
Toshiba is a 60% shareholder in the NuGen project to build 3.4 gigawatts (GW) of electricity generating capacity close to the Sellafield plant, where spent fuel is reprocessed.
Neither Toshiba nor NuGen, a partnership with Engie (formerly GDF Suez) of France, was available for comment. The cost of building three reactors designed by a Toshiba subsidiary, Westinghouse, was estimated two years ago at £8bn but experts believe that figure could have at least doubled. That is in line with the price tag for Hinkley, which EDF puts at £18bn.
The 3.2GW Somerset reactors, to be built by EDF with the help of Chinese state companies, have been given the go-ahead by the UK government but the project is awaiting the final investment decision from France.
This week EDF blamed the 85% holding by the French state and lack of free float shares for its removal from the CAC index. But many analysts in the City of London have released gloomy equity forecasts on EDF, fearing Hinkley might go over budget like the company’s Flamanville reactor project in Normandy.
Jaitapur activists write to Japan’s PM to cease promoting the nuclear industry
Jaitapur nuclear power project: Protesters write to Japan PM, warn of stepping up pressure . http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/jaitapur-nuclear-power-project-protesters-write-to-japan-pm-warn-of-stepping-up-pressure 10 Dec 15
Recently, a top officer of the Fukushima plant Akira Ono as well as Naohiro Masuda, president of Tepco’s Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Company, have both admitted that there is no existing technology to remove the melted cores; that such technology may not be available for hundreds of years, and it may be impossible to decommission the stricken reactors. Thus the radioactive contamination may continue indefinitely for hundreds of years. Further, there is increasing evidence that rates of incidence of thyroid cancers among children near Fukushima have increased sharply,” the letter claimed.
The letter added that councils of all the 27 villages surrounding the proposed Jaitapur project have passed unanimous resolutions to oppose it.
“We, therefore, once again reiterate strongly our request that in the light of its own experience with radioactive contamination, Japan should shun any agreement for the promotion of the use of nuclear power. If our request goes unheeded, then be cautioned that we will be forced to step up national and international pressure against this policy of your government and build public opinion in both our countries, as well as all over the world against the double
standards it represents,” the letter warned.
Say in light of its own experience, Japan should not put profits of its nuclear industry before the environment. Written by Mihika Basu | Mumbai | Published:December 11, 2015 CLAIMING that in the wake of opposition to nuclear power in Japan, the nuclear industry there was protecting its profits by getting into a civil nuclear agreement with India, the Maharashtra-based outfit ‘Jaitapur Anuveej Prakalpvirodhi Abhiyan’ (JAPVA) or ‘campaign against Jaitapur nuclear power project’ has written letters to the Prime Minister of Japan and the National Diet of Japan and stated that “it is highly unethical and immoral on your part to put profits of nuclear industry before lives of millions of Indian citizens and environment”. Continue reading
California Governor Jerry Brown in Paris warns of nuclear terrorism and climate change
Jerry Brown warns of climate change, terrorists using nuclear weapons and other ‘horrors that might unfold’ SACRAMENTO BEE ,BY DAVID SIDERS dsiders@sacbee.com PARIS, 10 Dec 15
As he prepared to return home from the United Nations climate summit, Gov. Jerry Brown appeared in a Paris lecture hall on Wednesday night, warning of nuclear threats and terrorism and suggesting similarities between the test of climate change and other “horrors that might unfold.”
In a sprawling speech and onstage discussion lasting more than two hours, Brown said work among states and countries on measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions was forming a habit that could be used to address terrorism and nuclear proliferation.
His remarks, at Paris’ elite Ecole Normale Superieure university, came a month after the terrorist attacks in Paris and a week after the rampage at a social services center in San Bernardino that left 14 people dead.
“We have to be able to imagine the horrors that might unfold, and then be able to take steps to prevent it, delay it, minimize it,” Brown said. “Through this Paris conference, my hope is that these conversations about a horror, which is the radical disruption of the climate, that can pass over into a confrontation, a focusing, a facing of this other great threat, the nuclear danger.”…….
The meeting outside Paris at which world leaders are negotiating a new climate pact remains unsettled. But the mood around the summit is generally positive, and Brown predicted it would result in a “real commitment.”
He called climate change an “existential” threat, as he has before, but said “the reality of that threat is eliciting … responses that were unimaginable even a year ago.”
He said, “I’m optimistic, with some reservation.” http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article48887080.html
Still secret: where are the radioactive hot spots near Coldwater Creek, st Louis County?
New nuclear hot spots near Coldwater Creek still a secret , St Louis Post Dispatch, 10 Dec 15 By Blythe Bernhard It’s too early to name the seven new radioactive hot spots found near Coldwater Creek in north St. Louis County, federal officials said Wednesday. “We have contacted the owners (of the properties) but are not yet ready to release the locations until we are sure what we’ve found,” Bruce Munholand, a manager for the Army Corps of Engineers nuclear cleanup program, said at a community meeting at the Florissant civic center.
About 300 people attended the meeting, many with cancers and other health issues they believe could be linked to the creek. Earlier this year, corps officials announced that radiological contamination had been discovered at St. Cin Park, St. Louis Archdiocese’s St. Ferdinand Cemetery and five residential backyards along Palm Drive in Hazelwood and in Duchesne Park in Florissant.
Close to 10,000 soil samples have been collected and tested from the creek, its banks and the surrounding flood plain. Recent testing turned up additional radiological contamination at three residential and four commercial properties, Munholand said earlier this week. Businesses in the area currently being tested between Frost Avenue to the St. Denis Street bridge include Schnucks, Walgreens and Dierbergs on North Lindbergh…..
Samantha Meyer of Lake Saint Louis came to the meeting because she believes the leukemia she developed as an infant could be linked to living near the creek at the time.
“With a room full of sick people, it’s not a coincidence,” said Meyer, 17.
The federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry will start a study next year of a potential link between the creek’s contamination and cancer cases in the area. Missouri health officials had asked for federal assistance after a state report in 2014 showed high rates of leukemia, breast, colon and other cancers in the areas surrounding the creek. Current and former residents have taken their own surveys and found unusual numbers and types of diseases, including 48 cases of rare appendix cancers in the area.
Late next year the testing of the creek is expected to move to the area between the St. Denis Street bridge and Old Halls Ferry Road, and then onto the Missouri River. It could be another decade before the entire creek is cleared, officials said.
Jacob Barker of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report. http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/new-nuclear-hot-spots-near-coldwater-creek-still-a-secret/article_f215445d-ebc4-51ec-8f99-bd13f4f31bd2.html
Putin ‘didn’t rule out’ using nuclear weapons in Syria
Putin casually mentioned using nuclear bombs in Syria http://metro.co.uk/2015/12/10/putin-casually-mentioned-using-nuclear-bombs-in-syria-5556168/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link Nicole Morley for Metro.co.uk 10 Dec 2015
Russia have carried out multiple air strikes in Syria, and Putin claims his TU-22 bombers have caused ‘significant damage’ to an Islamic State munitions depot, an oil facility and other key targets.
Talking about Russia’s military campaign in Syria, Putin mentioned the weapons currently being used could ‘be equipped with special nuclear warheads.’
‘Both the Calibre missiles and the Kh-101 rockets are generally showing very good results. We now see that these are new, modern and highly effective high-precision weapons that can be equipped either with conventional or special nuclear warheads,’ Putin said during a meeting with Russia’s Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu.
He did not reveal concrete plans to use nuclear weapons – but he didn’t exactly rule it out either.
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