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Nuclear waste dump near Great Lakes – a threat to 40 million people’s drinking water

“If this has to exist, it would make more sense away from the Great Lakes” where 40 million people get their drinking water”

Flood of concern over nuclear dump 3, By Paul Morden, Sarnia Observer, November 14, 2012 Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley is asking his fellow Great Lakes mayors to join him in raising concerns about plans to bury nuclear waste near Lake Huron. Continue reading →

November 15, 2012 Posted by | Canada, opposition to nuclear, wastes | Leave a comment

Bonnie Raitt and thousands of others against Florida’s Nuclear Tax scam

“It’s a complete scam that Florida’s big power companies, FPL and Progress Energy, are allowed to charge their customers in advance for extremely costly nuclear reactors that may never even be built — with no refund if they abandon the projects. While their shareholders are guaranteed a nice rate of return, Florida’s families and businesses are forced to shoulder the risk. It’s time the Florida legislature gets rid of that bad, anti-consumer law. What Florida and our country needs to pursue instead is truly safe, clean and affordable energy. I’d love to come back on tour and see a lot more solar power in the Sunshine State.”   Bonnie Raitt

Floridians Take Action Opposing Nuclear Tax Clean Energy Footprints November 9th, 2012   Mandy Hancock  From the Florida Supreme Court to Bonnie Raitt concerts, Florida’s controversial “nuclear tax ” is getting a lot of attention. Continue reading →

November 10, 2012 Posted by | opposition to nuclear, USA | Leave a comment

Despite repression, 1000 anti nuclear protestors rally again at Kudankulam

Protest erupts in Tamil Nadu over Kudankulam nuclear power plant, India Express, : Chennai,  Oct 29 2012,   Thousands of anti-nuclear activists thronged to the streets in Chennai on Monday in an attempt to lay siege to the state assembly as mark of protest against the Kudankulam nuclear power plant.

Protest against the power plant has only intensified over the past year, while nuclear fuel has already been loaded in the plant that is awaiting approval from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) for commissioning. Activists from various political groups and anti-nuclear bodies shouted slogans against the federal and state government, urging them to shutdown the plant permanently.

“Throughout Tamil Nadu, the state government has arrested hundreds and thousands of people to prevent them to come to Chennai to stage thisprogramme. In spite of that thousands of people have gathered here. We want that the Kudankulam nuclear plant should be closed, once and for all……

November 1, 2012 Posted by | India, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

Meeting in UK’s House of Commons supports Kudamkulam anti nuclear movement

Anti-nuke activists in UK express concern over Kudankulam nuclear power plants  http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/anti-nuke-activists-in-uk-express-concern-over-kudankulam-nuclear-power-plants/articleshow/16883612.cms     20 OCT, 2012,  LONDON: Voicing their opposition to atomic power as a source of energy, anti-nuclear activists in Britain have expressed their solidarity with the protests against the nuclear power plants at Kudankulam in India and Hinkley Point in the UK.

The activists, including doctors and academics, held a meeting at the House of Commons here last night and expressed their concern about the present situation in Kudankulam.

The meeting was hosted by MP Caroline Lucas and organised jointly by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and South Asia Solidarity Group.

Lucas told the meeting that she was “deeply worried about the situation in Kudankulam – both in terms of the nuclear plant and the treatment of local opponents”.

She also condemned British Prime Minister David Cameron’s policy of exporting civil nuclear technology to India.

Kate Hudson, the General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said nuclear power was neither safe nor did it make economic sense.

“Protests against nuclear power in the UK, India, Japan and Germany – and many other countries – show the scale of global public opinion against this dangerous and expensive form of energy,” she said.

“The mass non-violent protests in Kudankulam in India and the repeated demonstrations at Hinkley Point in the UK are powerful expressions of the widespread rejection of nuclear power that governments around the world would do well to heed.”

Amrit Wilson of South Asia Solidarity Group said, “Nuclear energy is on the run in Europe with multinationals like GEC increasingly reluctant to invest in it. Unfortunately as part of the fall out of the notorious US-India Nuclear Deal of 2008, these companies have been running to India with their sub-standard and dangerous reactors. We stand in solidarity with the protesters there.”

Indian government, however, maintains that the Kudankulam nuclear power plant is completely safe and designed to withstand all kinds of natural disasters, and various apprehensions over its safety are baseless.

October 20, 2012 Posted by | opposition to nuclear, UK | Leave a comment

Extreme heat, police repression, nothing stops The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE)

Anti-nuclear protesters lay seige to Kudankulam plant http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/international/2012/October/international_October252.xml&section=international&col= 9 October 2012 The People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE) on Monday strengthened their 420-day agitation against Kudankulam atomic power plant in Tamil Nadu by laying siege of the plant.
Hundreds of fishermen and farmers from over 80 villages in Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari and Thoothukudi districts surrounded the sea 500 metres off the plant by placing their fibre boats and floating buoys. The protests passed off peacefully.

Defying the scorching heat, the protesters remained in the sea till evening demanding closure of the plant, 100kms from the Kerala capital of Trivandrum. The villagers also demanded withdrawal of police from the villages, release of those arrested and cancellation of false cases registered against them. Continue reading →

October 9, 2012 Posted by | India, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

Powerful opposition growing against nuclear waste in Saskatchewan

The Saskatchewan Aboriginal Women’s Circle Corporation of Saskatchewan also passed a resolution last year, opposing the transportation and storage of nuclear waste in Saskatchewan. The resolution was then adopted by the Native Women’s Association of Canada at its annual general assembly held in Saskatoon in August 2012.

Stopping Nuclear Waste in its Tracks Communities, Indigenous organizations pass resolutions against transportation and storage of nuclear waste in Saskatchewan The Dominion,  by SANDRA CUFFE, 8 Oct 12, Growing numbers of communities in Saskatchewan are vowing to block nuclear waste from being transported through their territory BEAUVAL, SK—Three places in northern Saskatchewan may be on the map in Canada’s search for a high-level radioactive waste dump site, but the spent nuclear fuel bundles may be stopped in their tracks.

 

Communities and Indigenous organizations along potential transport routes and
beyond have been passing resolutions against nuclear waste. Continue reading →

October 9, 2012 Posted by | Canada, opposition to nuclear, wastes | Leave a comment

Strong police presence and arrests at Hinkley anti nuclear action

Hinkley Point: Arrests over trespass BBC News 8 Oct 12 Seven people have been arrested as anti-nuclear protesters carried out a planned trespass at Hinkley Point. More than 50 police officers attended the site as a weekend of action against government plans to build a third nuclear reactor drew to a close.

…Camilla Berens, from the Stop New Nuclear Alliance, said: “We have successfully blockaded the main entrance to Hinkley Point on two occasions in the last year and now we have accomplished a mass trespass.

“Our message today is that we will continue to raise the game with peaceful protest until our voice is heard.” On Saturday, barrels made to look like nuclear waste were rolled
through Bridgwater as part of a procession…

..Hinkley Point C is one of eight potential sites in England and Wales identified by the
government for new nuclear power stations by 2025. The site’s current Hinkley Point B came into service in 1976 but its working life has been extended to 2016.

October 9, 2012 Posted by | opposition to nuclear, UK | Leave a comment

Halifax County Chamber opposes uranium mining in Southern Virginia

Chamber adopts anti-uranium resolution Halifax County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has gone on record adamantly opposing uranium mining in the commonwealth. Gazette Virginian 7 Oct 12, Continue reading →

October 8, 2012 Posted by | opposition to nuclear, Uranium, USA | Leave a comment

Fishing boats: protest against uranium fuel loading for Kudankulam

Fishermen protest against Indian nuclear plant The Nation By: AFP | September 23, 2012 CHENNAI  – Indian fishermen and anti-nuclear activists on Saturday mounted a sea protest against an atomic power plant following violent demonstrations earlier this month, police said.

Some 3,000 fishermen and anti-nuclear activists in 500 fishing boats sought to block a port in southern Tamil Nadu state to protest against the loading of uranium at the under-construction power plant, police said.

Tuticorin port spokesman V. Satyarajan described the protest as “peaceful” and said there was no disruption to traffic at the port from the attempted blockade off Tuticorin town, 100 kilometres (62 miles) from the project. Witnesses said the boat-borne protesters shouted anti-nuclear slogans and demanded an end to the loading of uranium at the Russian-backed project.
“We will continue to protest until the nuclear plant is shut down,” said Subash Fernando, one of the leaders of the sea protest. On land, demonstrators from villages near the plant formed a human chain in Tuticorin to protest against the loading of the fuel rods. Earlier this month, one fisherman was shot dead by police as hundreds of protesters clashed with armed officers.
Last week, India’s Supreme Court denied a request to suspend the loading of the rods at the plant which opponents say poses a danger to local people…..
http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/international/23-Sep-2012/fishermen-protest-against-indian-nuclear-plant

September 24, 2012 Posted by | India, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

250 arrested in Tuticorin as India’s govt cracks down on anti nuclear movement

Kudankulam protest: 250 anti-nuclear activists arrested Zee News, September 16, 2012, Kudankulam (TN): Around 250 people were arrested in Tuticorin when they attempted to set out on a march to express solidarity with anti-nuclear agitators here who on Sunday buried themselves upto waist in beach sand, in a new form of protest against loading of fuel in Kudankuklam plant.

A ‘solidarity march’ by cultural leaders from Kerala to Kudankulam to express support with the anti-nuclear activists here was also stopped on the state’s border with Tamil Nadu.

Leader of Peoples Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), which is spearheading the protest here, meanwhile, offered unconditional talks with the central and state governments and said they were ready to give up the agitation if the government assured that fuel would not be loaded for now. ….. Continue reading →

September 17, 2012 Posted by | civil liberties, India, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

India: opposition to nuclear power despite government repression of protestors

India’s Judiciary creates scam over Kudankulam The Canadian,  17 SEPTEMBER 2012  There is no reason why the judiciary, the conscience of the nation, should willingly play pro-regime roles by opposing people’s and humanity concerns……
as national support for the five-year-long campaign against the Jaitapur plant snowballed. The National Committee in Solidarity with the Jaitapur Struggle – comprising leaders like Prakash Karat, AB Bardhan, Sitaram Yechury and Ram Vilas Paswan, independent experts and intellectuals – trenchantly criticised the project, based on French company Areva’s troubled European Pressurised Reactors (EPRs).

The grounds of protest against the 9,800 MW plant in Maharashtra are somewhat similar to those being echoed in Tamil Nadu. The protestors argue that the plant will damage local ecology, their consent for the plant wasn’t sought and also speak of the obvious fear of how a potential accident at the plant could affect them. While the issue is currently not in the headlines anymore, the agitators in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra are no doubt closely following the developments in Kudankulam……
Regime-Judiciary Nexus

When the Madras High court refused to stay the deadly fuelling operation in the nuclear terror plant, the people of Kudankulam and the humanity at large, besieged by nuclear terror operations of state, still had hopes of getting justice from Supreme court but when apex court also sided with the state terror operators and delivered an interim judgment in favour of  state nuclear terror intent against the people, humanity has become shaky, felt betrayed yet again, losing trust  in the judicial ability in justice delivery.  As suggested by the regime and nuclear mafias, the courts have protected the transnational nuclear mafias.
Declining to put on hold for now the loading of fuel rods in one of the two reactors of Kundankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu, the Supreme Court Thursday Sep 13 said it would hear Sep 20 the plea seeking to restrain the central government.

The apex court’s decision came as hundreds of people from Tamilnadu’s Idinthakarai village, the epicentre of the protests against the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP), stood in the sea water Thursday to protest moves to load uranium fuel in one of the two reactors.

Justice K. S. Radhakrishnan and Justice Dipak Misra declined to pass any immediate order on a petition seeking to restrain the government from going ahead with the loading of nuclear fuel rods in the reactor of the plant. The court said it would hear Sep 20 the plea seeking to restrain the central government from doing so.

Judiciary mischief is perhaps the worst kind of menace and brute evil. Madras High court seems have created the basis for the Supreme court to promote state nuclear terror agenda. Supreme Court has just said the regime must ensure security and safety of the people and the regime knows it has to just file another affidavit stating that people are safe. In other words, the judiciary has clearly offered the regime and nuclear mafias to ensure safety of the people by killing them so that they need not to live until the nuclear plant blasts.

The nuclear terror project was cleared in haste in violation of the recommendations of an official Task Force, and without even the fig leaf of an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report. The NPCIL has refused to furnish to the public the site evaluation and safety analysis reports, although so directed by the Central Information Commission………http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/intrnational/2012/09/17/4465.html

September 17, 2012 Posted by | India, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

Uranium- No Thanks, say Danville and Pittsylvania County residents

Poll: uranium mining ban should remain in place Go Dan River 14 Sept 12, The majority of Danville and Pittsylvania County residents do not want to see the state ban on uranium mining lifted.

That was the bottom-line result of a poll taken by Virginia Commonwealth University’s Survey and Evaluation Laboratory for the Alliance for Progress in Southern Virginia, which was released at a news conference in downtown Danville on Thursday.

More than 550 Danville and Pittsylvania County residents participated in the poll.

Jay Poole, a spokesperson for the alliance, said he was surprised by two things the survey revealed: the number of people who were aware of the issue, and the number of people who had already formed an opinionon the issue.

“The overwhelming margin of support in opposition to the proposed uranium mine in Pittsylvania County was striking,” Poole said.

Although 54 percent of respondents said they thought a mine might help the local economy, they clearly felt that was offset by potential risks, with 53 percent saying they do not want uranium mining in their backyards, compared to 29 percent who support the idea of a uranium mine at Coles Hill near Chatham.

When asked how they thought agriculture and the wood products industry would be affected, 63 percent said they felt it would be negatively impacted.

Sixty-three percent of respondents also said they are concerned about the affect such a mine could have on water quality, and 60 percent said they believe it would reduce property values in the region…. http://www2.godanriver.com/news/2012/sep/13/poll-uranium-mining-ban-should-remain-place-ar-2202990/

September 15, 2012 Posted by | opposition to nuclear, Uranium, USA | Leave a comment

India’s peaceful anti nuclear campaign now facing terror and repression

A regime that hates common masses and uses them only as vote bank can do anything to  make the rich and multinationals terribly happy

 Indian regime has already exhausted all techniques and tricks to malign, terrorize the people of Kudankulam.

India’s Kudankulam Nuclear Terror threatens Jal-Satyagraha http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/editorial/2012/09/14/4450.html 14 SEPTEMBER 2012 : BY DR. ABDUL RUFF  Gandhian method of struggle still has relevance for India which fought against the British occupation for centuries. In fact the Indian regime is not happy about protesters using non-violent protests against a government that employed as its prime tool of attack on Britain.

Defying security presence, Kudankulam protesters have entered sea for a  Sea water Protest , or Jal Satyagraha, signalling  that the not only the people of Kudankulam, especially the fishermen and families angry with central  India and Tamilnadu regimes, but even the Sea itself is annoyed with an nuclear extra terror fitting on its shores..

Upon state murder of one fisherman in Kudankulam vicinity, the protesting masses have decided to continue the movement through relaunching the struggle by getting into the sea.    Protesters have formed human chain in sea from Sep 13, 2012. Continue reading →

September 14, 2012 Posted by | civil liberties, India, opposition to nuclear | 1 Comment

Anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project protest goes national

KKNPP protest will be taken up at national level: Kejriwal THE HINDU 12 Sept 12, The ongoing anti-Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project protest will be taken up at the national level with more vigour, former member of ‘Team Anna’ Arvind Kejriwal, said on Wednesday.

Mr. Kejriwal, who came to Idinthakarai on Tuesday night to express solidarity with the ongoing protest, told reporters here that he was fully supporting the protest being led by anti-KKNPP struggle committee convener S.P. Udayakumar, who should not surrender to the police.

‘India Against Corruption’ would wholeheartedly endorse his stance in this agitation and take it to the national level. He warned that there would be disastrous consequences if the KKNPP reactor was allowed to attain criticality without ensuring adequate water source. There should be an open debate on the KKNPP by involving experts from the government and protestors’ side so that the public understood the facts pertaining to nuclear power programmes.

The United Progressive Alliance government was trying to hastily take the KKNPP reactor to criticality even as several safety concerns remained unanswered, he said.

He visited a few houses at Tsunami Colony which were allegedly damaged by the police after the Monday clash. Mr. Kejriwal claimed he wanted to file a police complaint in this connection, and came to the Kudankulam police station in the afternoon, but could not do so as there was no senior police official present.

Speaking to reporters in front of the police station, Mr. Kejriwal alleged that the police had ransacked a few houses and arrested even a 16-year-old boy from Vairaavikinaru village after the protest. “We’re not against development as we need power and other better infrastructure. But you cannot bulldoze the people in the name of development. The police should show their loyalty only to the nation and not to the government,” said Mr. Kejriwal.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3888410.ece

September 13, 2012 Posted by | India, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

Tense situtaion in Kudankulam, as 3,000 protest fuel loading at nuclear reactor

Tension mounts as protesters stay put near Kudankulam plant THE HINDU, P. SUDHAKAR , 9 sept 12, Tension prevailed here for about five hours on Sunday as the police thwarted a bid by about 3,000 agitators to lay siege to the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) site to protest fuel-loading in the reactor. Continue reading →

September 10, 2012 Posted by | India, opposition to nuclear | Leave a comment

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