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Arandis Cancer Cases: A Link to Rössing’s Mining Activities?
New Era By Catherine Sasman 27th of October 2008 – “……………………….a recent study by LaRRi, Uranium Mining: The Mystery Behind ‘Low Level Radiation’ … considers environmental and health concerns linked to uranium mining.It also reports on interviews conducted with over 50 former and current employees of the Rössing Uranium Mine that now suffer from cancer and although it does not find a direct causal link to these cancer cases reported mostly in Arandis, the coincidences said LaRRi are uncanny and worrying.
“These illnesses are not coincidental,” said LaRRi Director, Hilma Shindondola-Mote…………………………………….Earthlife Namibia is also concerned that more mining in especially the environmentally fragile Erongo Region could place bird species and plant life – including the Welwitschia plant – at risk of extinction, that there could be a drop of water levels as more mining would mean more water consumption, that desalination plans could affect marine life, and that more traffic in the area could mean the production of more dust.
Another concern is that increased mining could affect the tourism industry as well……………………….Feedback from the former and current workers interviewed in the LaRRi study are that Rössing Uranium – considered in the study as the oldest uranium mine in the country – did not provide “satisfactory” information about the link between exposure to radiation and possible health problems…………………..workers reported exposure to dust and radon gas “on a daily basis”, which has been ascribed to cases of tuberculosis and lung cancer cases that have emerged years later.“The majority of those with cancer have worked at the mine in the 1970s and early 1980s,” said Shindondola-Mote.
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Government should stay firm on climate change
Government should stay firm on climate change
LOGISTICS 28 October 2008The government may not continue with the $8000 solar rebate for rooftop PV panels for the Australian community, due to the unexpected popularity of this program – 30 times more applications for solar rebates than expected are being received.
The Australia New Zealand Solar Energy Society – ANZSES – has been arguing for the development of solar energy, energy efficiency and other sources of renewable energy since 1957 in Australia.
“The Federal Government must remain strong and courageous on its promises, and therefore guarantee the solar rebates to the Australian community,” says ANZSES Projects Manager Mr. Julien Lacave.
Government should stay firm on climate change
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Calls to check atom test veterans’ children – Sunderland Echo
Calls to check atom test veterans’ children
Sunderland Echo 27 October 2008Calls have been made for relations of Britain’s nuclear test veterans to be checked for potential genetic damage.North Durham MP Kevan Jones will consider researching the possible damage caused to children and grandchildren of those exposed to radiation 50 years ago.
His pledge comes after a House of Commons debate that revealed similar research in New Zealand found that effects had been passed down generations. ………………………………Up to 20,000 British troops and thousands of their Commonwealth comrades took part in a series of atomic and nuclear tests in the 50s and 60s on Christmas Island in the Pacific and Montebello Islands, Maralinga and Emu in and around Australia.
The British Nuclear Test Veterans are bringing a class legal action against the MoD in January over claims its members suffered rare cancers and other illnesses from radiation exposure.
Calls to check atom test veterans’ children – Sunderland Echo
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Now is the perfect time to save the planet | Business | The Guardian
Now is the perfect time to save the planetA green new deal will help us out of recession and stave off a climate crisis
The Guardian Ashley Seager 27 Oct 08 “…………..There were three important events in the past few weeks that went largely unnoticed during the financial maelstrom but whose significance cannot be overstated.Two concern renewable energy and the other a change of government structure. In Britain, the government unexpectedly announced on October 16 that it intended introducing a “feed-in tariff” guaranteeing rates for renewably produced electricity. And the United States said part of its $700bn banking system bail-out would include $16bn (£10bn) of new green tax breaks for renewable energy, cleaner fuels and energy efficiency………………………………..Friends of the Earth says Britain must start to play its part in this revolution. “The government must … introduce a comprehensive feed-in tariff that encourages farmers, communities and businesses to invest in renewable energy technologies – not just households,” says FoE campaigner Robin Webster. “If the government gets it right, the UK could become a world leader in the development of small-scale green energy – creating new green-collar jobs and a booming new industry.”
Now is the perfect time to save the planet | Business | The Guardian
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The Biggest Breast Cancer Risk Factor That No One Is Talking About | Reproductive Justice and Gender | AlterNet
The Biggest Breast Cancer Risk Factor That No One Is Talking About
By Lucinda Marshall, AlterNet. October 23, 2008. While the media sound alarms about breast cancer’s links to lifestyle choices and genetics, a much more likely risk factor is going undiscussed……………………………there is very little mention of environmental factors such as auto exhaust, and chemicals like parabens and phthalates that we are exposed to every day.The most deafening silence, however, is about radiation, which is a 100 percent known cause of cancer. We are exposed to radiation in a variety of ways, through X-rays, CT scans and mammograms, but also by living near a nuclear power plant or having been exposed to weaponry that uses depleted uranium……………………- it is obvious that ionizing radiation is a major cause of cancer globally,……………………………breast cancer map from Centers for Disease Control data identifies that within a 100-mile radius of nuclear reactors is where two-thirds of all U.S. breast cancer deaths occurred between 1985 and 1989. The map of nuclear power plants in the U.S. identifies them as the major cause of breast cancer in the U.S., as well as nuclear weapons labs in New Mexico, Idaho, Washington and California. This is further confirmed by the breast cancer clusters identified in Japan and California, which occurred where it rained the day the Chernobyl radiation cloud passed over and the rain deposited the fission products in the environment.
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The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia’s leading newspaper.
Groundwater use unacceptable, says report
Sydney Morning Herald Marian Wilkinson Environment Editor
October 23, 2008AUSTRALIA’S peak water body has raised the alarm over the overuse and pollution of the nation’s groundwater supply, which now supplies up to 30 per cent of the country’s water consumption.
As river systems face drought and climate change, the increasing use of water from underground aquifers has become “an unacceptable risk”, the National Water Commission said yesterday in its annual report.
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Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Europe/World
‘Nuclear incident would make 9/11 insignificant’SYDNEY: The world is on the brink of an avalanche in the spread of devastating weaponry, a new global non-proliferation group warned yesterday, saying that a nuclear incident would dwarf the September 11 attacks.The Middle East, particularly Iran, is a potential tipping point, according to Gareth Evans, co-chair of the newly formed International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament.Evans, a former Australia foreign minister, said the world had been “sleepwalking” on the issue of atomic weapons for a decade.“The devastation that could be wreaked by one major nuclear weapons incident alone puts 9/11 and almost everything else (in) to the category of the insignificant,” he said, referring to the attacks inflicted on the US in 2001.Evans was speaking as the commission, which was first proposed by Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after a visit to the Japanese city of Hiroshima in June, entered the second and final day of its inaugural meeting in Sydney…………………………International affairs analyst Michael McKinley said there was an urgent need to rekindle debate about nuclear proliferation, but he doubted the new commission would make much headway.
“The nuclear weapons establishments are so well entrenched now that I’m concerned only a disaster will make them reconsider,” said McKinley, from the Australian National University.
Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper – Europe/World
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UK nuclear tests left ‘disease timebomb’ – politics.co.uk
UK nuclear tests left ‘disease timebomb’
politics.co.uk 23, Oct 2008 12:01
UK nuclear tests conducted in the 1950s have left veterans and their children with a variety of congenital diseases, according to a backbench Tory MP.
John Baron conducted an adjournment debate in the Commons yesterday afternoon, where he voiced concerns the government was “backsliding” on its commitment to investigate the issue.
A recent report conducted by Dr Chris Busby for the British Nuclear Tests Veterans Association (BNTVA) found higher levels of miscarriage, still birth and infant mortality among the families of those who helped conduct the tests……………………………….
The government carried out several nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean and at Maralinga, Australia between 1952 and 1967, involving over 20,000 servicemen.
Among these were the ‘Grapple Y’ and Grapple Z’ detonations on Christmas island, involving weapons far more powerful than those used to on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Of 2,500 men surveyed in 1999, 30 per cent had died, mostly in their 50s. More than 100 veterans children reported reproductive difficulties.
Many children and grandchildren of servicemen have experienced a range of problems including holes in the heart, deafness, reproductive difficulties, missing or excess teeth, deformity and early death.
UK nuclear tests left ‘disease timebomb’ – politics.co.uk
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Don’t let crisis slow carbon preparations, leaders told | theage.com.au
Don’t let crisis slow carbon preparations, leaders told
The AgeTom Arup October 23, 2008 BUSINESS leaders have been warned to speed up preparation for the incoming emissions trading scheme despite the credit crisis.
Speaking on a panel at an Australian Institute of Company Directors function yesterday, Adam Kirkman, director of risk consulting group Protiviti, urged businesses to look beyond the current financial troubles and to push on with plans to cut carbon emissions.
“There is no indication that the Rudd Government is looking to push back the start of the emissions trading scheme (despite the credit crisis),” Mr Kirkman said.
“And it’s interesting that in the same week the UK Government was nationalising banks left, right and centre, they were going to change their emissions reduction emission to 80%.”
Mr Kirkman said the benefit of the incoming ETS was that it echoed a wider shift in the community for an increasingly regulated market in the face of collapsing investor confidence.
“An ETS is essentially a regulated market — the Government will have a lot of control over it,” he said……………………..However, speaking to BusinessDay, another panelist, Dr Ziggy Switkowski, chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, said the credit crisis was a dangerous time to be framing an emissions trading scheme.
Don’t let crisis slow carbon preparations, leaders told | theage.com.au
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KRDO.com Colorado Springs, Pueblo – Weather, News, Sports – Health Concerns At Uranium Mill
Health Concerns At Uranium Mill
krdo News Channel 13 By Sean Hauser Oct 21, 2008
CANON CITY – Twenty-four years ago it was closed because of radioactive contamination. Now, a study is looking into renewed concerns at the Cotter Uranium Mill in Canon City……………………
It’s no secret that the uranium mill in Canon City has had its problems in the past.
“We do have some contamination extending off to the North and West of our property that’s a subject of a notice of violation between Cotter and the state that has been identified out there for a number of years,”…………………….state documents show a new plume of uranium-contaminated groundwater is spreading from the mill under a nearby golf course.
KRDO.com Colorado Springs, Pueblo – Weather, News, Sports – Health Concerns At Uranium Mill
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Green Left – Garnaut final report met with protest
Garnaut final report met with protest
Green Left Kamala Emanuel10 October 2008Professor Ross Garnaut delivered his final report on impacts of — and responses to — climate change to Australian federal and state governments on September 30.In the previous week, a series of protest actions was held around the country to highlight the need for emergency action on climate change………………………………… The report explains that failure to act could be catastrophic — but recommends soft targets………………………….. The report explains that failure to act could be catastrophic — but recommends soft targets.
Doctor sounds alarm on risks of nuclear energy – Press-Telegram
Doctor sounds alarm on risks of nuclear energy Press-Telegram
10/08/2008“……………………..In 1971, she played a major role in opposing French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific. A decade later, she left Harvard University, where she had been an instructor in pediatrics, to work full time on the prevention of nuclear horror, whether by war or accident.Co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility and the recipient of 19 honorary degrees, Dr. Caldicott was named by the Smithsonian Institution as one of the most influential women of the 20th century.In an appearance sponsored by more than 20 Southern California groups, Dr. Caldicott will deliver a lecture, “The Presidential Campaign and the Fate of the Earth,” from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the First Congregational Church, 241 Cedar Ave., in downtown Long Beach.
The free event is open to the public…………………
Q. You have said the United States is the most dangerous country in the world in terms of nuclear policy. How did you arrive at that conclusion?
A. Because the U.S. processes more hydrogen bombs than any other country and because it has an official policy to fight and “win” a nuclear war against Russia. Its weapons are on hair-trigger alert and presidents (George) Bush and (Vladimir) Putin (now prime minister) have only a three-minute decision time to launch.
Of the 30,000 nuclear weapons in the world, the U.S. and Russia own 97 percent………………
Nuclear power is a grave public health danger, far worse than tobacco. Over time, it will induce epidemics of cancer, leukemia and genetic disease in all future generations from the massive quantities of radioactive waste currently being generated.
Therefore, it is dangerous in any country that possesses it. Reactors also manufacture 500 pounds of plutonium per year, fuel for potentially 100 nuclear weapons. Any country possessing a reactor owns a bomb factory. Plutonium remains radioactive for 500,000 years………….
Nuclear power is not emission free. This is a mendacious statement. The nuclear fuel chain from uranium mining, reparation of land, fuel enrichment and fabrication, reactor construction and decommissioning, and transport and storage of massive amounts of radioactive fuel over 500,000 years involves much fossil fuel.
With one or two decades, as the available uranium ore declines in usable concentrations, a nuclear reactor will collectively, therefore, produce as much CO2 as a similar sized natural gas electricity generator. Also, reactors continually emit radioactive gases and elements into the air and water as they operate.
Hence, it is medically dangerous to live near a nuclear power plant because you or your children are at risk of inhaling or ingesting radioactive elements which are carcinogenic. Locally grown fruit and vegetables also bio-concentrate these elements…………………………
Q. Why do some European countries seem unafraid to use nuclear power.
A. Because they are governed by scientifically and medically ignorant politicians who are manipulated by the powerful nuclear industry. They forget Chernobyl even though 40 percent of European land mass is still radioactive and will remain so for 600 years. Hence, some European food is radioactive…………………………………
Under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran is entitled to enrich uranium for nuclear power. In fact, it is encouraged to do so by the world nuclear establishment. Israel has 200 to 400 nuclear weapons and as such is setting a very dangerous example for the Middle East.
Only if the major nuclear nations move rapidly towards bilateral, multilateral nuclear disarmament will they, by example, have the moral authority to discipline and cajole other small countries not to build nuclear weapons.
Doctor sounds alarm on risks of nuclear energy – Press-Telegram
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We don’t need coal or nuclear power stations to save planet|11Oct08|Socialist Worker
We don’t need coal or nuclear power stations to save planet
Socialist Worker online Sadie Robinson October 2008 Supporters of coal and nuclear power say they are the only energy sources that can tackle climate change, but there are better alternatives, writes …………………………over the longer term there is a need to develop new forms of energy production.A number of nuclear and coal plants are to close down over the next 20 years. This will reduce Britain’s electricity generation by around 30 percent. But there is no reason why nuclear or coal plants should fill the gap.
Greenpeace published a report on Britain’s energy requirements last month. It concluded that “there is no need to build new fossil-fuelled power generation to keep the lights on”.
Efficiency
It argues that if the government meets its targets on improving energy efficiency and developing renewable energy, there will be no need for new electricity generation until after 2020………………….Nuclear is being promoted as clean, cheap and efficient, but it is the opposite of all three.
Carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere in every stage in the production of nuclear power. It has taken massive government subsidies to build nuclear power stations in the past, and new ones will require that again.
Nuclear energy requires the building of large plants far from the places where the energy will be used.
This wastes a massive amount of energy as it is lost in transmission from the plants to towns and cities………………………
Investing in clean energy and making changes to the way society is organised are the real way to meet our energy needs.
Renewable energy could end our dependence on fossil fuels and massively reduce carbon emissions.
We don’t need coal or nuclear power stations to save planet|11Oct08|Socialist Worker
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DIY Geiger Counters Help Us Face Our Dismal, Irradiated Futures – Gizmodo Australia
Help us face our dismal irradiated futures
Gizmodo US Edition October 3, 2008
What with the financial crisis and recent nuclear (dis)agreements and the possibility of having an insane (but like-able! Teehee!) person becoming the country’s VP, we could be headed for a The Road by Cormac McCarthy-esque situation in the near future. And when that day comes, I’ll be the person on the block with a DIY Geiger counter
Hack-n-Mod has compiled a list of the three best Geiger counter tutorials on the net. Use this one to learn everything about schematics, PCB and shielding; this one for a nifty USB interface, and–if you’re feeling particularly technical–this one for a much more detailed build. Remember: in the apocalyptic future, friends don’t let friends eat friends without testing them for radiation first. [Hack-n-Mod]
DIY Geiger Counters Help Us Face Our Dismal, Irradiated Futures – Gizmodo Australia
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Russia Profile – A Waste of a Land
A Waste of a Land
By Dmitry Babich Russia Profile October 1, 2008The Fate of Former Soviet Nuclear Test Sites in the Far North Is Uncertain
To this day, the Russian state denies that any radiation-related problems plague the Novaya Zemlya archipelago, while research in the area is virtually nonexistent……………….
The king of all bombs
The news came around noon. At 11:32 p.m. the so-called “Tsar Bomb,” whose yield was equivalent to 50 megatons of trotyl, was exploded at a height of 4,000 meters over Novaya Zemlya. This hydrogen bomb, the biggest nuclear weapon in the world, named the Big Ivan by its developers, was eight meters long and 2.1 meters wide–it did not even fit into the biggest Soviet TU-95 bomber that carried it. The bomb stuck out of the plane’s hull until it was dropped on a parachute from a height of 10,500 meters………….The flash of light produced by the Big Ivan was seen at a distance of 1,000 kilometers. The smoke over the explosion’s epicenter grew to a height of 67 kilometers. The log cabins in an abandoned village 400 kilometers away from the explosion site were swept from the face of the Earth. The seismic wave produced by the explosion was reported to have crossed the Earth three times………………………………even though new nuclear tests are no longer conducted on Novaya Zemlya, the old ones are more than enough to complicate matters.
“Even military people acknowledge that traces of contamination can be detected in the southern part of the archipelago,” said Yelena Kvasnikova from the Institute of Global Climate and Ecology. “Tests in the atmosphere were conducted there before the Soviet Union joined the Partial Test Ban Treaty in 1963. This treaty banned all nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater and in space.”…………………….. Novaya Zemlya remains closed to radiation specialists…………………..Novaya Zemlya has remained a closed area.
Russia Profile – A Waste of a Land
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26 April – Chernobyl: Inside the Meltdown airs on National Geographic on Sunday 26th April from 4pm
29 April – Nuclear Expert Webinar #1 – Radiation Impacts on Families with Mary Olson and Cindy Folkers
- 12:15 PM MT – 1:45 PM MT
- Location: Virtual – REGISTER TODAY
4 May -West Suburban Peace Coalition to discuss Iran war at May Educational Forum
Monday, May 4, 7:00 – 8:00 PM Central Standard Time
Title: : How Trump’s Narrative Tries to Shape the Reality of the War on Iran.
Contact Walt Zlotow, zlotow@hotmail.com 630 442 3045 for further information
14 May – online event From Bombs to Data Centres: the Face of Nuclear Colonialism
Pine Ridge Uranium is the real threat, not Tehran- Tell Burgum: Stop the Extraction.
Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes – A good documentary on Chernobyl on SBS available On Demand for the next 3 weeks– https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-program/chernobyl-the-lost-tapes/2352741955560
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