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Nuclear dispute with Iran must be resolved peacefully: IAEA chief

Fri Jan 25, 2013 4:45PM GMT
Director General of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Yukiya Amano has underlined the need for a peaceful resolution to the West’s standoff with Iran over Tehran’s nuclear energy program.

During a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland on Thursday, Amano said the Vienna-based UN body has intensified “dialogue” with Iran.

Iran and the IAEA wrapped up two days of talks in the Iranian capital Tehran on January 17-18. The IAEA has announced that the next round of talks with Tehran will be held in the Iranian capital on February 13.

According to a statement released by the IAEA on Friday, Amano “made clear the Agency’s commitment to dialogue, and the need to resolve issues with Iran through diplomatic means.”

The comments come after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again threatened Iran over its nuclear energy program in an election victory speech on January 23.

The United States, Israel and some of their allies have repeatedly accused Iran of pursuing non-civilian objectives in its nuclear energy program.

Iran has categorically rejected the allegation, arguing that as a committed signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and a member of the IAEA, it is entitled to develop and acquire nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

“Amano also stressed the importance of a successfulconference on a Middle East free of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction,” the IAEA statement added.

Israel, the only possessor of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, is widely known to have between 200 and 400 nuclear warheads.

The Israeli regime rejects all the regulatory international nuclear agreements — the NPT in particular — and refuses to allow its nuclear facilities to come under international regulatory inspections.

MP/HMV/SS

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/25/285515/iran-ncase-must-be-resolved-peacefully/

January 26, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Canada tribal chief ends hunger strike – In the footsteps of Gandhi?

A prominent tribal chief in Canada has ended her six-week-long hunger strike over aboriginal rights after indigenous groups and opposition parties signed a deal.

Attawapiskat First Nations Chief Theresa Spence ended a 44-day hunger strike after indigenous groups and opposition parties signed a deal on January 24, 2013.

Attawapiskat First Nations Chief Theresa Spence ended a 44-day hunger strike after indigenous groups and opposition parties signed a deal on January 24, 2013.

Attawapiskat First Nations Chief Theresa Spence had lived off fish broth and resided in a tent on Victoria Island in Ottawa since December 11 until Thursday, according to her spokesman Danny Metatawabin.


Metatawabin said the chief spent Wednesday night in hospital and that the 49-year-old was recovering from the aftereffects of starvation.

“She’s fine. But her body is tired and weak,” he said.

Spence made the decision to eat solid food after opposition parties and indigenous leaders signed a declaration spelling out a list of demands they will present to the government.

The declaration calls for the government to improve housing and schools as well as to acknowledge treaty rights for Canada’s 600 tribes.

Spence started the hunger strike to pressure the government into meeting the aborigines’ demands, which has led to protests across Canada.

On January 16, hundreds of demonstrators, many carrying flags and signs, called on the federal government to listen to aboriginal concerns.

The protests over the past two months had prompted the United Nations to urge Canadian Prime Minister StephenHarper’s government to set up talks in accordance with the standards expressed in the organization’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

Since December 14, 2012, indigenous peoples in Canada have held demonstrations against the government who, on that day, approved Bill C-45 through parliament to change the rules about aboriginal land.

GVN/HN

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/24/285381/canada-tribal-chief-ends-hunger-strike/

We here at nuclear-news.net hope for a swift recovery and a final victory for Chief Theresa Spence!

January 25, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Decontamination during recess Oyabe Shogakkou 大矢部 小学校 6・14・2012

Published on Jan 24, 2013

Yokosuka city cleans elementary school 0.67 microsieverts/hr radioactive dirt during recess. City acceptable limit is 0.59 mcSv/h


Yokosuka shi ga houshano wo sokutei suru no wa hontoni daijoubu???? Okaasan, Ootousan, Jiji,Baba, anshin dekimasuka? Kono yarikatta wa 0.65microsv/hr wa anzenjanai! Kotoushi, sokute suru toki mi ni itte kudasai. koe agate kudasai!!! Itsu iku no wo shiyakusho gakkokanrika ni kiku suru koto wa dekimasu yo. anata no kanri desu soshite anatano sekinin desu.

Is the way Yokosuka City decontaminates elementary schools really ok? Mommy, Daddy, Grandma, Grandpa, are you at ease with this? This year go watch when the city goes to check radiation at your child’s school. Raise your voices and take responsibility for your children’s safety. You CAN do it, it is your right!

Sorry, I can”t translate this, I am super tired right now. If anyone wants to remix and or translate, I give my permission. try please go ahead. After decontamination, the city officials did not want to label the bags of radioactive dirt before going to bury them on the school grounds, nor did they want me to check with my counter.

At that time, the city did not have any maps of where each school buried it’s contaminated dirt and we worried that if sometime in the future people were digging and found unmarked bags of radioactive dirt, they might use it in their garden like one school in Yokosuka did a few days before I recorded this. I realized that once the dirt is bagged, it can be concentrated and have a higher reading or it can be diluted with uncontaminated dirt so the readings will vary. In either case it is too high to be unmarked.
At the end of this video, the principal is trying to convince me that it is no big deal, radiation is natural and video games and TV are worse. I gave up reasoning with her and humored her to end the conversation.

See also part 2 http://youtu.be/UJp9RXZqPUI

h/t
Published: January 24th, 2013 at 10:07 pm ET
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http://enenews.com/watch-decontamination-during-recess-children-play-next-to-adults-shoveling-radioactive-dirt-video

January 25, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Ontario Government Throws Good Money After Bad On Nuclear Energy

“…The Conservatives have vowed to kill it and McKay says some Liberals are weary of attaching themselves to a bill opposed by some of the richest companies in the country. “The mining industry in Canada is too powerful a lobby,” McKay says.

But he won’t say much else.

“I have to be extremely careful because the mining companies have made it very plain to me that, `We will sue your ass off if, in fact, you make any allegation of our companies and cause reputational damage.’

“But I will say, if they think they can treat a Canadian MP this way, you can imagine what they say about Third World countries where they can walk in and say, `How much to buy you?'”…”

(Quote from second article below..)

Posted on January 25, 2013

Submission to Niagara At Large from the Ontario Clean Air Alliance

(A Brief Foreword from Niagara At Large – Say what you want about the cost of starting up alternative sources of energy like solar and wind in this province and other regions across North America. The public cost of nuclear power has been huge and Ontario energy consumers are still paying for multi-billion-dollar cost over-runs at nuclear power plants like Darlington. We trust that those who are so opposed to wind turbines for reasons that include the cost to consumers will speak out just as strongly against moving forward with any more nuclear power projects in the province.)

It’s bad enough that the Liberal Government is determined to spend billions of dollars rebuilding a nuclear plant we don’t really need, but now it is layering on expensive consultants as a “cost control” measure.

Ontario's Pickering Nuclear Energy plant is consideredy, by the Ontario Energy Board, to be one of the most expensive plants of its kind in the world to operate.

Ontario’s Pickering Nuclear Energy plant is considered, by the Ontario Energy Board, to be one of the most expensive and least reliable plants of its kind in the world to operate.

The government will spend upwards of $650,000 to pay an ex-Ontario Hydro employee to tell it if the project is running behind schedule and over budget, as has every nuclear project in Ontario’s history.  Ontario Power Generation (OPG) itself will spend an undisclosed amount on a similar consultant to keep track of the project for a company with thousands of employees who are apparently too busy to do this.

Frankly, we don’t know whether to laugh or cry.  A corporation whose CEO is paid more than $1 million a year will hire a consultant to tell the government’s consultant if its project is on track.

We have a far better solution and we’re not going to charge the government a single dollar: If you must proceed with the Darlington ReBuild Project despite all rational arguments to the contrary, at least do so only with a fixed price, all-in contract for repairs from an independent private sector company (e.g., SNC-Lavalin, General Electric).  Having a bunch of consultants circling the project is not going to do anything to keep costs under control.  Only a fixed price contract with a private sector corporation can ensure that the inevitable cost overruns are not passed on to Ontario’s consumers and taxpayers.

We need Opposition Leader Tim Hudak and NDP Leader Andrea Horwath to demand that the government come to its senses, drop the consultants and proceed with a no loopholes, fixed price contract.  Ontario electricity ratepayers, still paying down the $20 billion debt run up on previous nuclear fiascos, deserve nothing less.

Please send a letter to the opposition leaders now! by clicking on this link.

Thank you for making the time – it’s important that citizens speak up.

The Ontario Clean Air Alliance OCAA) is a coalition of individuals and approximately 90 organizations (health and environmental organizations, faith communities, municipalities, utilities, unions and corporations) that represent over six million Ontarians. You can find out more about this organization by visiting its website at www.cleanairalliance.org .

http://niagaraatlarge.com/2013/01/25/ontario-government-throws-good-money-after-bad-on-nuclear-energy/

A sordid history of Canadian uranium and gold mining here

Canadian mining firms face abuse allegations

Published on Sunday November 22, 2009

Brett Popplewell
Staff Reporter
The Star

Canadian mining companies are facing allegations of abuse and assault on local citizens in dozens of developing nations.

The companies say they have done nothing wrong – mining copper, gold and other metals brings only prosperity to these poor regions.

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January 25, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Japanese nuclear plant operators charge customers over 90 million dollars per year to pay local authorities

WEDNESDAY, 23 JANUARY 2013

Japanese nuclear plant operators charge over 90 million dollars per year to pay local authorities

(Source) http://enformable.com/2013/01/japanese-nuclear-plant-operators-charge-over-90-million-dollars-per-year-to-pay-local-authorities/
A report by NHK has shown that operators of nuclear power plants in Japan charge the public users over 90 million dollars per year, in order to cover payments made to local authorities in the areas which host the nuclear sites. Last year, the central government announced that it did not consider these charges as an expense, and that it would no longer allow utilities to charge users to cover them.
Osaka University Professor Tatsuo Hatta says utilities may be able to find other ways to compensate themselves for the payments, and is calling for further transparency.
Kansai Electric has been charging their users around 40 million dollars per year, TEPCO charges around 22 million, Kyushu charges around 10 million, Chugoku charges about 8 million, and Chubu charges about 4 million.
Government authorities are beginning to see the attempt to buy support, or silent acquiescence of communities, by hooking them on generous subsidies and pay outs, as a detriment to the sustained growth and development of these areas, as it promotes a false market and leaves local communities dependent on the additional sources of income.
“This structure of dependency makes it impossible for communities to speak out against the plants or nuclear power,” said Shuji Shimizu, a professor of public finance at Fukushima University told the New York Times after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
One Japanese resident, who ran for the office of May of Kashima spoke out against the effect that these payments have on local authorities. “They call it a nuclear power plant, but it should actually be called a political power plant,” he said. He explained how local communities and leaders use the jobs and money they receive to secure the support of key voters and industries and make them more reliant on the local leaders and the compensation from nuclear sites.
h/t I check this blog regularly (arclight2011)

from the blog….
“We are Japanese people living in the UK. We are not activists or scientists, just normal citizens who want peace in the world and to protect our environment in a way that serves everybody. We are aware that there isn’t enough information in the main stream media in the UK about what’s going on in Fukushima, and we would like to share with you what we’ve found from Japanese web sites: information and news from scientists and doctors who are extremely worried about the safety of citizens, and from concerned freelance journalists and ordinary people. Since the magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami, followed by the Fukushima nuclear disaster, we have been feeling a huge sense of loss… and have learned that nothing stays the same. Also we think that the Fukushima disaster was actually the result of many years of global political and economic corruption going on behind the scenes, and that the Japanese government was taken in by the worldwide drive for nuclear power, without learning the lessons of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings. (NB: English is not our native language, so please take this into account when reading this blog.)”

http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/japanese-nuclear-plant-operators-charge.html

January 25, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Local Fukushima NGO -URGENT APPEAL TO SUPPORT GREEN ACTION JAPAN! They need your help!!

January 24, 2013

Source Beyond Nuclear

During the critical first days and months of the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe in Japan, many of us turned immediately to Aileen Mioko Smith (pictured far left with Sachiko Sato and Kaori Izumi) and her organization, Green Action-Japan. Through her depth of knowledge on the nuclear issue, organizing skills, and essential translations between English and Japanese, Aileen played a crucial role in globally networking the U.S. and Japanese anti-nuclear movements.

Today, Green Action-Japan needs your financial help to keep its important work ongoing. 

Without Aileen’s relentless efforts for more than a decade to delay the use of plutonium (MOX) fuel, the three reactors that melted down at Fukushima could have been loaded with 33% plutonium cores, significantly worsening the radiological catastrophe that has unfolded. (Only Unit 3 had loaded MOX fuel, at a 6% level.) Aileen has also helped oppose the Rokkasho reprocessing facility and the Monju breeder reactor.

Please make a generous donation via Green Action’s Paypal button today. Green Action-Japan and Aileen Mioko Smith play an essential role in connecting our campaigns and sharing knowledge, information that will help us end the Nuclear Age.

Please donate here: http://www.greenaction-japan.org/modules/entop2/

Contamination Fears Linger For Japanese Children, Workers One Year After Fukushima Meltdown

Published on Mar 12, 2012

democracynow.org

We go to Japan to speak with Aileen Mioko Smith, executive director of the Kyoto-based group Green Action, as Japan marks the first anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that left approximately 20,000 dead or missing and triggered a meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. It was the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. About 326,000 Japanese residents remain homeless, including 80,000 evacuated from the vicinity of the Fukushima facility. Residents evacuated from the zone set up in a 12-mile radius around the nuclear plant are especially struggling to rebuild their lives. We also speak with Saburo Kitajima, a contract laborer and union organizer from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. “The workers at the Fukushima plant are currently working under extreme circumstances,” Kitajima says. “In spite of being exposed to radiation, the level of wages run to about $100 a day.”

January 25, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Action Alert: Uranium Mining Vote Too Close To Call! – call and email all VA GA

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013
The vote to open Virginia to uranium mining may well come down to your Delegate’s or Senator’s vote!

After millions of study and uranium industry lobby dollars have been spent, we are finally approaching the day when your Delegate and Senator will cast a vote to keep Virginia’s uranium mining ban in place or open up our state to the many unknown consequences of such an action.

In announcing their opposition, the Danville-Pittsylvania Chamber of Commerce said, “While considering possible economic benefits of such an industry, the board still has significant concerns surrounding the potential impact of uranium mining and milling on existing businesses and the region’s ability to attract, retain and grow jobs.”

The Chamber joined the Virginia Municipal League, the Virginia Association of Counties, the Virginia Farm Bureau, the Fairfax and Fauquier Water Authorities and individual Counties and Cities from Norfolk and Virginia Beach to Patrick and Floyd to Roanoke and Rappahannock in strongly encouraging our representatives to keep Virginia’s ban on uranium mining.

Please join all of these individuals and groups, rural and urban, Democrat and Republican in asking your Delegate and Senator to vote “No” to opening up our state to uranium mining.

The unanswered questions are too numerous and the consequences of such an experiment in our weather-prone state far outweigh the potential benefits.

Please email your representatives today! Click here to send to rep: http://valcv.e-actionmax.com/takeaction.asp?aaid=6771

More info on this Petition here, please visit site..

http://nuclearfreeva.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/action-alert-uranium-mining-vote-too.html

h/t  http://virginiaagainsturanium.blogspot.co.uk/2009_11_01_archive.html for image.. site is not updated but has some interesting on topic links for the curious.. Arclight2011

January 25, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Japan Faces Nuclear Shutdown For Second Time Since Fukushima

“…The only two of Japan’s 50 nuclear plants operating are both at Kansai Electric Power’s Ohi plant in western Japan, and must be for shut for maintenance 13 months after resuming commercial operations, according to Japanese law…”

Thursday, 24 January 2013 16:33

TOKYO: Japan may face a total nuclear shutdown in the summer for the second time since the March 2011 Fukushima disaster as the country’s two operating reactors close for maintenance and tough new safety checks keep the rest of the fleet offline.

image courtesy of the Guardian UK

That could force Japan to import even more fossil fuels for power generation, adding to an onerous energy bill that helped push the country into a record trade deficit in 2012.

“It is unlikely that any of the idled reactors will re-start prior to September due to ongoing investigations of seismic issues at certain plants and due to the fact that safety standards have still not been finalised by the Nuclear Regulation Authority,” said Tom O’Sullivan, a Tokyo-based energy consultant.

“Local approvals will also be necessary for re-starts, adding a further layer of complication,” he said.

The previous Democratic Party of Japan government’s decision last June to restart two reactors weeks after the last full shutdown galvanized the country’s previously dormant anti-nuclear movement, sparking the biggest demonstrations in decades and contributing to its downfall in elections in December.

Media surveys have shown a majority of Japanese want to abandon atomic energy by 2030, if not sooner, making the decision to restart even reactors deemed safe a risky proposition for the new Liberal Democratic Party government.

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January 25, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Vietnam partners with Japan to build nuclear plants

25 January 2013

AP

Japan to provide Vietnam with US$500 million to finance the projects.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung have agreed that their countries will cooperate closely to build nuclear power plants in Vietnam. Japan won an order for the building of a nuclear power plant scheduled for completion in 2020.

Under Abe, Japan is again on the road to utilizing nuclear power. Abe has hinted that the previous administration’s policy of phasing out nuclear power will be reviewed.

Abe and Dung confirmed bilateral cooperation on the mining of rare earth minerals and the development of expressways and ports, also agreeing that Japan will promote its acceptance of Vietnamese nurses and care workers.

http://asian-power.com/environment/news/vietnam-partners-japan-build-nuclear-plants

January 25, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Japan embassy london – anti nuclear demonstration every friday morning

Japanese activists and UK campaigners from ‘kick nuclear’ have organised a series of Friday morning protests outside the Japanese embassy in Piccadilly, London.

the demonstrations are in solidarity with Japanese people, who are protesting in ever-increasing numbers on friday evenings at the prime minister’s residence in japan.

the Japanese government has begun switching on nuclear reactors around the country, despite the fact that Fukushima is far from under control, still spewing contaminated water into the ground and the pacific, and releasing toxic steam into the atmosphere.

http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/groups/kicknuclear

Video of recent demonstration

More details….

THIS FRIDAY WE WILL BE HOLDING A SOLIDARITY PROTEST OUTSIDE THE JAPANESE EMBASSY IN LONDON, FOLLOWED BY A SHORT PROTEST OUTSIDE THE OFFICES OF TEPCO, THE OPERATOR OF THE STRICKEN FUKUSHIMA-1 NUCLEAR POWER PLANT.

9-11am, Kick Nuclear picket of Embassy of Japan, 101-104 Piccadilly W1. (Nearest tube Green Park. Walk west from there in the direction of Hyde Park Corner.)

11am-12.50pm, Japanese Against Nuclear UK and Kick Nuclear picket of Embassy of Japan

1-1.30pm, London Office of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Incorporated (TEPCO), Berkeley Square House, Berkeley Square W1J 6BR (5-10 minute walk from Japanese embassy)

***This Friday, at 25th January, at 12noon, we will also be reading out and handing in a letter about Fukushima addressed to the Japanese Government. For this, we will be joined by Kate Hudson, General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, who is a co-signatory to the letter (see text below).***

Text of letter to be delivered by hand to the Japanese Embassy on Friday 25 January 2013, at 12  noon

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January 25, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Fukushima 7th Grader: “The people in the government know we are suffering and they don’t do anything” (VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/fukushima-7th-grader-people-government-suffering-dont-anything-video/comment-page-1#comment-325927
Published: January 23rd, 2013 at 3:37 am ET
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Title: Never Repeat the Mistake- Letters from Fukushima Children Read at UN
Source: WorldNetworkChildren
Filmed by: Independent Web Journal
Edited by: Fukushima Evacuation Collective Trial team
Date Filmed: Oct 30, 2012
Date Published: Jan 22, 2013

Duration 7.01 mins

 

January 24, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Some links concerning harrassment of journalists and news related bloggers

Monday, 14 January 2013

Bombs explode outside Greek journalists’ homes

SEEMO expresses alarm at continuing incidents of violence

By: SEEMO Staff

Dogs stand at the burnt entrance of a building following a series of arson attacks against journalists in Athens on Jan. 11, 2013. Small makeshift bombs exploded early on Friday outside the Athens homes of five Greek journalists working for major media outlets, in an apparent protest over coverage of events linked to the country’s economic crisis, police said. REUTERS/John Kolesidis

VIENNA, Jan 14, 2013 – The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), said today that it was alarmed at reports of bombs being placed outside the homes of a number of journalists in Athens, Greece, last Friday.

Small homemade bombs, made with the use of gas canisters, exploded in the early morning hours in front of the homes of five Greek journalists in the Athens districts of Lykavittos, Agia Paraskevi, Alimos, Maroussi and Penteli.

According to the Greek authorities, the journalists targeted included Antonis Liaros, George Oikonomeas, Antonis Skyllakos, Petros Karsiotis and Chris Konstas. In each case, the explosion damaged the entrance of the building, but no one was injured. In the case of Oikonomeas, the attack was in front of his former residence.

The anarchist group “Lovers of Lawlessness” said the attacks were made to protest coverage of the country’s financial crisis seen as sympathetic to the government.

Simos Kedikoglou, a Greek government spokesman, said on Friday: “This is an attempt to openly terrorise the media, a vital part of our democracy.” He noted that the attacks came a day after protesters barged into a radio station.

Yesterday, the home of the spokesman’s brother, George Kedikoglou, was targeted by a group of unknown perpetrators who broke a window of the residence and threw in a Molotov cocktail, starting a small fire.

“This is a new, worrying escalation of violence against media and journalists in Greece,” SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic said. “SEEMO is alarmed at the number of violent cases and different forms of pressure directed at journalists in Greece over the past 12 months.”

According to SEEMO, there were 38 cases of press freedom violations or attacks on journalists in Greece in 2012. SEEMO today renewed calls on authorities in Athens to urgently investigate the attacks and to find the perpetrators and any masterminds.

http://www.freemedia.at/press-room/public-statements/press-releases/singleview/article/bombs-explode-outside-greek-journalists-homes.html

Ahmed Mansoor on blogging his way into a UAE prison

Published on: October 18, 2012

One of the United Arab Emirate’s most prominent human rights activists, Ahmed Mansoor was imprisoned in 2011 for criticising the country’s leadership. Here he discusses the death threats, defamation campaigns and physical attacks he continues to face for speaking his mind.

Video here

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January 23, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Shepperdine Against Nuclear Energy to go to Westminster

WEDNESDAY, 23 JANUARY 2013

Shepperdine Protest to go to Westminster 29 January 2013

Shepperdine Against Nuclear Energy , a key Non Governmental Organisation in the South Glos area will be represented by Reg Illingworth at the very important seminar detailed below.
Reg says “We want people to realise that the fuel poor in the UK will end up paying extortionate amounts of subsidy to Japanese companies”
“We are concerned about who Hitachi will partner as the operator in this venture at Oldbury? Will they be Chinese, Russian or from the Middle East, we really need to know this for safety locally and for Britains energy policy going forwards”
We will have a new banner in English and Japanese requesting that Hitcachi should not build another Fukushima in England
SEE BELOW,
We will be meeting at around 3pm to allow for photo opportunities with members of our group and others concerned about new nuclear.
If you want to contact us please email oldburynuclear@btinternet.com or phone Reg on 07979 569063 anytime
Invitation
An APPCCG and Nuclear Consulting Group Event
UK Energy Bill and New Nuclear
4:30 – 5:30 pm, Committee Room 8,
House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA
The future of the UK’s energy supply is very much in transition and the long awaited Energy Bill sets out the Government’s strategy, including a role for new nuclear. Will the impact of the Bill shift the economic risk of reactorconstruction from the nuclear corporations to the consumer? Will the Bill lead to issues of state aid and place the UK in contravention with the EU Electricity Directive? Or will this new market-based approach deliver certainty for energy investors and fairness for consumers?
The by invitation only seminar has cross-party sponsorship: from Alan Whitehead MP (Member, Energy and Climate Change Committee), Simon Hughes MP (Deputy Leader Lib-Dem Party), Dan Byles MP (Member, Energy and Climate Change Committee), Caroline Lucas MP (Member of Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee).
Co-hosted by The All Party Parliamentary Group on Climate Change (APPCCG) and the Nuclear Consulting Group (NCG), the event will hear expert opinion from:
• Hergen Haye, Head of New Nuclear & Strategy, DECC.
• Prof. Tom Burke CBE, Founding Director of E3G, Centre for Law and Environment, UCL.
• Dr. Nigel Knee, Head of Nuclear Policy, Nuclear New Build, EDF.
• Prof. Steve Thomas, Professor of Energy Policy,University of Greenwich.
Panel Chair: Joan Walley MP (Chair, Environmental Audit Select Committee)

January 23, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Japanese Journalist: “We must know that we are responsible for committing such a huge crime to contaminate the world” (VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/japanese-journalist-responsible-committing-huge-crime-contaminate-world-international-society-video

Published: January 22nd, 2013 at 11:28 pm ET
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Title: Tent Color :Journalist Satoshi Kamata
Uploaded by: tentcolor1
Date Filmed: Jan 11, 2013
Date Published: Jan 22, 2013

At 4:00 in

Journalist Satoshi Kamata: We must know that we are responsible for committing such a huge crime to contaminate the world and the international society.

And so this is our way to reflect our deeds and our actions that have made us believe all these big lies. We are going to make utmost effort to participate in the anti-nuclear movement.

This is our way to express our responsibility to the international society and the world.

We know that were responsible for contaminating any genetics to the small corners of the world

For committing such a crime, we have to make a commitment to eliminate all the nuclear plants in the world.

Video on link..

January 23, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Ukraine -DONATE: Help Save an ICHF Cardiac Catheterization Lab!

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January 14 · Posted to International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF)

The International Children’s Heart Foundation program in Kharkiv, Ukraine is in dire need of a piece of equipment that is on the verge of failing. This equipment is called an image intensifier, a tube that helps produce fuller, more complete images of children’s hearts. Without this device the ability of ICHF doctors is diminished to offer complete and thorough diagnostics for children.

“Basically, the program shuts down,” said ICHF Biomedical engineer, David Wieduwilt. “If this device goes out there will be no invasive, no exploratory, no interventional procedures of any kind.”

The loss of this device would be devastating to the Kharkiv Department of Cardiac Surgery. The next Babyheart mission is scheduled for January 26th – February 9th. We hope the image intensifier will last through this mission but we are unsure about the remainder of the year.

The cost of a new image intensifier is well beyond ICHF”s financial capabilities but through our medical device and hospital partners it is possible to purchase a used one for $7,400. If all of ICHF’s 16,000 Cause Followers chipped in less than $0.75 each we would easily reach our goal!

The Kharkiv program has come so far toward saving lives and almost being completely sustainable, fulfilling the ICHF mission, that we can’t stop now! Please read the blog below from Dr. Christian Gilbert, ICHF Associate Medical Director, about the Kharkiv program and it’s life-saving mission.

http://babyheartblog.org/2012/12/04/follow-the-travels-of-ichf-surgeon-dr-christian-gilbert-and-the-kharkiv-program-success-story/

There are 3 Babyheart Missions scheduled for 2013 which means 60 operations for children in desperate need. Please help us fulfill our commitment to these children and their families and give them new life.

Source :  http://www.causes.com/causes/61027-international-children-s-heart-foundation-ichf/actions/1724360

January 23, 2013 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a comment