Wikileaks reveals a different view on Ahmadinejad and nuclear policy
Despite the opposition from all sides, Ahmadinajed, we have learned, continued to tout the nuclear deal as a positive and necessary step for Iran. In February 2010, he reiterated his support for the Geneva agreement saying, “If we allow them to take [Iran’s enriched uranium for processing], there is no problem.”
Do We Have Ahmadinejad All Wrong? – Reza Aslan – International – The Atlantic, 14 Jan 2011, ……….In October 2009, Ahamdinejad’s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, worked out a compromise with world power representatives in Geneva on Iran’s controversial nuclear program. But the deal, in which Iran agreed to ship nearly its entire stockpile of low enriched uranium to Russia and France for processing, collapsed when it failed to garner enough support in Iran’s parliament, the Majles. Continue reading
Shooting victim politician a renewable energy hero
a vocal supporter of renewable energy, and solar power in particular. Politico notes that Giffords’s first speech after she was initially elected in 2006 contained a call to repeal tax incentives for oil companies in favor of support for renewable energy…..She believed that sunny Arizona could become the “Silicon Valley of solar,” though she was aware of the political challenges.
Politics: Gabrielle Giffords Is a Green Patriot, TIME, by Bryan Walsh January 10, 2011 “……Giffords was still in a medically induced coma after being shot in the head Saturday morning in Tucson.)……… Giffords also took some heat from right-wing opponents over her support of carbon cap-and-trade legislation, which passed the House in June 2009 before dying in the Senate, Continue reading
UK Green Investment Bank money going more to bankers’ bonuses, than to renewables
“I was astonished when a UK Lib Dem minister admitted that money from the fossil fuel levy will set up a bank that could see some of the bankers’ bonuses that are a matter of some debate at the moment…Scotland has a real opportunity to lead the renewables revolution and releasing this money to create green jobs rather than bankers’ bonuses would help advance that cause.”
Green jobs not bankers’ bonuses | SNP – Scottish National Party, 13 jan 2011, An SNP MSP has expressed astonishment that money which could and should be invested in creating jobs in Scotland’s green energy industry could be paid out in bankers bonuses after an admission by the UK LibDem Energy Secretary Chris Huhne and his colleague Philip Wynn Owen that bankers’ bonuses and public bailouts could be a feature of a new Green Investment Bank set up with money from Scotland’s share of the fossil fuel levy. The SNP believes the £200 million should be released now to be invested in Scotland’s green energy industry creating new jobs and boosting the economy. Continue reading
UK government holding back Scotland’s renewable energy drive
Scotland calls on Westminster to release £200m for renewables ClickGreen , 12 Jan 2011 The Scottish government has slated the UK Treasury’s “intransigence” for stalling on the transfer of nearly £200 million it has earmarked to invest in the region’s renewable energy industry. Continue reading
Senator Amy Koch helping the nuclear industry in Minnesota
Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch said last month that the nuclear issue is about giving the business community what it wants.
New nukes for Minnesota? – Minneapolis / St. Paul News, By Nick Pinto, Jan. 10 2011 For a while there, Minnesota was vying to take the lead in pioneering the use of renewable energy. This week, the new Republican Legislature will try to push us in a different direction: building more nuclear plants……..With the GOP majority in the Legislature, the pro-more-nukes lobby is stronger than it’s ever been…… Continue reading
Vermont Yankee nuclear plant’s days are numbered
The Vermont Yankee nuclear plant’s initial 40-year license expires March 21, 2012, less than 15 months from now….Entergy “a company we can’t trust. The plant is old and leaking. There’s no place to store the (radioactive) waste”.
Vt. nuke fights for future but chances are dimming , Google hosted news,– 10 Jan 2011, MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s piece of the, nuclear age, launched four decades ago, seems to be coming to a close, even as advocates push for a renaissance of nuclear power in the United States. Continue reading
Democracy under threat with German govt’s nuclear policy
The government is discussing using the military inside the country. Will tanks soon be rolling against peaceful squat blockades?
GLS Bank, Triodos Bank, Umwelt- und Ethikbank. These four banks explicitly reject nuclear funding.
German anti-nuclear movement’s 2010 de.indymedia.org (translated by Diet Simon) 06.01.2011 2010 was the year of the anti-nuclear movement in Germany. Not since the catastrophic Chernobyl meltdown 25 years ago were there as many people on German streets protesting against nuclear power production as in 2010. Continue reading
USA renewable energy nearly equal with nuclear – so why keep funding the nuclear black hole?
“Members of the incoming Congress are proposing to slash cost-effective funding for rapidly expanding renewable energy technologies while foolishly plowing ever-more federal dollars into the nuclear power black hole,”
Renewable Energy Almost Equals Nuclear Energy in USA, December 28, 2010, Cleantech News, by John Addison, According to the most recent issue of the “Monthly Energy Review” by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “nuclear electric power accounted for 11% of primary energy production and renewable energy accounted for 11% of primary energy production” during the first nine months of 2010 (the most recent period for which data have been released). Continue reading
UK govt urged to GENUINELY promote renewable energy through Feed-In tariffs
The government proposals are inspired by e.on and EDF to benefit nuclear power, which will crowd out renewable energy. This flies in the face of all independent opinion polls which show that the public wants its electricity payments to be reserved for renewable energy, not nuclear power.
Wrong policy on renewable energy The Guardian, Monday 27 December 2010 We urge support for real feed-in tariffs for renewable energy and not nuclear power. British policymakers are poised yet again to ignore the dominant and most effective mechanism for promoting renewable energy across the world (feed-in tariffs) in favour of an auction system Continue reading
Malaysia clearly does not need nuclear energy
There is a strong consensus in the energy industry and among analysts that green technologies such as solar, wind, tidal and wave will become considerably cheaper in the near future as economies of scale of manufacturing is achieved and the technologies mature.
The case against nuclear energy, The Star (Malaysia) December 28, 2010The case against nuclear energyBEFORE the Malaysian government takes the country down the path towards nuclear energy, every citizen must decide if nuclear power is the right choice for the nation……..
Why the rush into nuclear now? Malaysia has more than 50% in reserve margin or excess power at the moment. Continue reading
Political demand for review of approval for AREVA’s Jaitapur nuclear plant
BJP seeks review of nod given to Jaitapur nuclear project – The Economic Times, 29 Dec 10, NEW DELHI: The BJP on Tuesday demanded a review of the conditional environmental clearance given to the Jaitapur nuclear power project in the Konkan area of Maharashtra. Continue reading
Serbia advised not to invest in nuclear power
Serbia Takes Step Backwards on Belene, Standart, Kristian Kosturkov , 27 Dec 10, The possible participation of Serbia as in Bulgaria’s NPP belene project as an investor has become quite uncertain.According to Serbia’s Minister of Environment and Urban Development Oliver Dulic, Belgrade’s participation in Bulgaria’s nuclear project is unreal. “Serbia’s participation in NPP belene has been discussed much less at governmental level than in the media,” Dulic said quoted by the Bulgarian news agency BTA.
To his words, Belgrade should focus on renewable energy projects, which to compensate Serbia’s energy deficit, rather than build nuclear plants in Serbia or abroad.
Mr. Dulic went on to say that Serbia’s environment ministry would oppose any possible participation of the government…Bulgaria – Serbia Takes Step Backwards on Belene – Standart
USA’s Tea Party targeting renewable energy
Today, with the price of solar panels dropping and demand increasing, the state grants are generally less than half of what they were. Federal grants for 30 percent of a solar project remain available………..For decades, businesses that have extracted, combusted and delivered traditional fuels have received subsidies, and their prices have excluded societal impacts like air pollution in their price
Tea party activists seeing red over Delaware’s green initiatives System discouraging waste and pollution criticized as meddling with subsidized fossil fuels By AARON NATHANS • The News Journal • December 26, 2010 DOVER — They’re not exactly money, and they’re not a direct government handout.
But they are seen as the state-backed boost that solar and wind energy need to compete with power generated from fossil fuels in the coming decade. Continue reading
Problems in AREVA nuclear company’s plans to ‘conquer the world’
a three-year delay and the doubling of the costs for the construction of the first EPR the group had to build in Finland,….Areva must be “in conquest mode” internationally……..
Areva Needs Clarity From France Over Nuclear Strategy – WSJ, by Geraldine Amiel 22 Dec 10, French state-controlled nuclear engineering firm Areva’s impending capital increase can’t hide the fact that the government’s strategy regarding what it considers one of its energy industry’s jewels is still confused… Continue reading
USA Republicans break ranks to support nuclear treaty
Underscoring the schism among Republicans, the party’s No. 3 leader, Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, announced his support for the treaty, saying it would make Americans safer and more secure. Other Republicans followed suit.
Senate poised to pass nuclear treaty, giving Obama a major victory, latimes.com, By Paul Richter and Lisa Mascaro,, 22 Dec 10, Republican senators break ranks to end debate on the New START nuclear pact with Russia. Adoption is expected Wednesday Washington — A new arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia seemed headed for certain Senate ratification after Republican opposition crumbled Tuesday beneath a torrid campaign of White House pressure. Continue reading
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