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One of the sneak through provisions that some members of Congress – both Dim-witted Dems and Republicans – want to tack onto must pass spending legislation would allow the US government to lend $9 Billion to Toshiba subsidiary Westinghouse to build nuclear reactors in India. NINE BILLION US DOLLARS GUARANTEED BY THE US TAXPAYER FOR TOSHIBA TO BUILD NUCLEAR REACTORS IN INDIA! Not millions but billions. Toshiba has both admitted to and is being investigated by the US SEC-DOJ for accounting fraud!

Kamikaze suicide dive against the USS Essex, 1944

“Toshiba confirms SEC investigation as accounting woes spread to US
Securities commission and justice department examining ‘accounting problem’ at US units, says Japanese corporation, amid profit-padding crisis” https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/mar/18/toshiba-confirms-sec-investigation-as-accounting-woes-spread-to-us

And, the US goverment wants to give them a loan to build nuclear reactors in India! A loan guaranteed by the US taxpayer. Their AP 1000s have had defects. This…

Dear Jeremy Corbyn MP, Labour Leader,

I am writing to you on behalf of Radiation Free Lakeland, a volunteer group based in Cumbria[1] to thank you whole heartedly for pledging to ban fracking which

“locks us into an energy infrastructure that is based on fossil fuels long after our country needs to have moved to clean energy”.[2]

We agree entirely with the case against fracking, as well as being fossil fuel based there are also radiation risks from unleashing large amounts of radon deep underground[3]. The nuclear industry is, like fracking, extractive and extreme. But nuclear is in a league all of its own[4].

The Electrical Trades Union in Australia (ETU) has banned its members from working in uranium mines, nuclear power stations or any other part of the nuclear fuel cycle: “We are sending a clear message to the industry and the wider…

World:

¶ Statkraft has officially opened the 73-MW Banja hydropower plant in Albania, the first of two projects that will make up the 256-MW Devoll hydro scheme. The plant, which is located 65 kilometers southeast of the capital Tirana and is Statkraft’s first in the country, will generate about 255 GWh of electricity a year. [reNews]

Hydro dam (Statkraft image)

¶ The Moroccan Press Agency reported that King Mohammed VI presided over a working session on the energy sector, focussing mainly on the national program for development of renewable energy. The country is rather unusual among Arab nations. It is one of the few countries in the region without its own oil or gas resources. [Eurasia Review]

¶ A sugar miller in far north Queensland plans to build a $75 million green power station near Mareeba. The power station will use bagasse, a 100% renewable sugarcane…