Petition to European Union opposing subsidies for nuclear power
Write to Commissioner Almunia (European Union)
No valid justification for subsidising nuclear power http://www.energyfair.org.uk/home/open-letter/writing-to-commissioner
Nuclear subsidies: Open letter to Commissioner Almunia http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2160503/nuclear_subsidies_open_letter_to_commissioner_almunia.html Gerry Wolff 15th November 2013 Following the UK Government’s announcement of huge public subsidies for the proposed Hinkley C nuclear power station in Somerset, England, Energy Fair has called on EU Commissioner Almunia to open a formal investigation for breaches of competition law.
Dear Commissioner Almunia,
No valid justification for subsidising nuclear power
In connection with the proposed new nuclear plant at Hinkley Point in south-west England (reut.rs/1fPaYlx), I’m writing to urge you to oppose the new subsidies for the project that are proposed by the UK government and also existing subsidies for nuclear operators (details below). Please open a formal investigation into this project and associated subsidies.
There is no valid justification for nuclear power subsdidies. They divert resources from other options that are altogether better and cheaper.
For reasons given below, they are bad for energy security, bad for the fight against climate change, bad financially for consumers and taxpayers in the UK, and bad for the development, throughout Europe, of the good alternatives which are ready to go, cheaper than nuclear power, and very much quicker to build.
Here are the main reasons: Continue reading
Nov 27 kicks off Uranium Film Festival in USA
International Uranium Film Festival coming to Navajo Nation http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/international-uranium-film-festival.html International Uranium Film Festival coming to Southwest: Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Window Rock By International Uranium Film Festival Censored News The International Uranium Film Festival is the world’s only traveling festival devoted to the entire Nuclear Fuel Chain, from uranium mining to nuclear power plants and the use of uranium bullets, from Hiroshima to Fukushima and Fallujah. Now the International Uranium Film Festival is coming to the birthplace of the nuclear age. Continue reading
Uranium Film Festival coming to the birthplace of the nuclear age.
ATOMIC FILMS TRAVELING FROM RIO DE JANEIRO TO THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATESInternational renewable energy conference in Karachi in November
Alternative energy gaining momentum http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/business/25-Sep-2013/alternative-energy-gaining-momentum September 25, 2013 KARACHI – Renewable and Alternative Energy Association of Pakistan (REAP) is hosting 3rd International Exhibition/ Conference on Renewable and Alternative Energy at Karachi Expo Centre from 1 to 3 November 2013.
While addressing a press conference chairman REAP Karachi, Abbas Sajid said that due to severe energy crisis in the country combined with rising costs of fuel and electricity and reduction in cost of Alternative Energy products like solar panels, the use of renewable and alternative energy is gaining momentum.
It is becoming feasible to invest in both off grid as well as on grid energy systems. This combined with Government support and good return on investment is attracting more and more domestic and international investors to this field. With abundant sunlight and wind available in the country there is no reason why we cannot gain energy security and provide cheap and sustainable energy to our masses, which in turn will help our industry and exports to earn much needed foreign exchange for the country.
The REAP Expo 2013 is the only truly representative RE and AE event of the country where visitors will be able to see, compare and discuss the most up-to-date products and technologies. Displays will include systems for commercial, industrial, residential and institutional applications including complete systems, individual components and latest products of RE and plumbing fields, he added.
He said a Conference will run concurrent to the Expo featuring reputed foreign as well as local speakers who are experts in their fields. Presentations will be made on RE and opportunities available for different RE and Plumbing Technologies. There will be discussions on Local as well as International Renewable Energy Initiatives and Technologies. Problems will be highlighted and solutions proposed specially related to the domestic energy crisis.
Abbas Sajid said that the 3rd International Exhibition on Renewable & Alternative Energy will provide a great opportunity and unique chance to meet top officials, professionals and key decision-makers from related industries. Senior executives from prominent national and multi-national organisations have already consented to visit and participate in the Expo.
This year the event is being organised in collaboration with the Pakistan Society of Plumbing Professionals. The Expo is being supported by International companies like GIZ from Germany and all concerned Government Departments like AEDB, Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies, Ministry of Water and Power, Enercon, Ashrae Pakistan Chapter and Pakistan Society of Plumbing Professionals.
No referendum, no nuclear plant – they’re saying, in Taiwan
Activists want no referendum and no nuclear plant Taipei Times, By Lee I-chia / Staff reporter 17 Sept 13 During the first day of the new legislative session yesterday, anti-nuclear power environmentalists again gathered in front of the Legislative Yuan in Taipei, calling on legislators to stop the construction of the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant in Gongliao (貢寮), New Taipei City (新北市), and withdraw the referendum proposal on the plant.
Taiwan Environmental Protection Union founding chairman Shih Hsin-min (施信民) said the referendum proposal suggested by Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Lee Ching-hua (李慶華) is aimed at exploiting the “problematic” Referendum Act (公民投票法), ignoring public opinion and supporting the Cabinet’s will of allowing the plant to go into operation…….. Pan said the public is invited to join in a “Fourth Nuclear Power Plant termination” relay walk around the nation, ending at the Presidential Office on Jan. 1.http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2013/09/18/2003572423
Call for volunteers to assist radiation Baby Tooth Survey
Volunteers Needed: Baby Tooth Survey to Assess the Effect of Nuclear Fallout From Above-Ground Nuclear Testing http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2013/09/volunteers-needed-baby-tooth-survey-to-assess-the-effect-of-nuclear-fallout-from-above-ground-nuclea.html
A group of genealogy volunteers is needed for a project of unique historical and medical significance. You can help! In the 1960’s thousands of school-age children sent their baby teeth to the Baby Tooth Survey to assess the effect of the nuclear fallout from above-ground nuclear testing. Over the 12-year life of the program, 320,000 teeth were collected. Examination of the teeth revealed higher than normal levels of Strontium 90 (Sr-90), leading to the Partial Test Ban Treaty of August 5, 1963.
- Volunteers in or near Ocean City, New Jersey, can help by scanning the information cards.
- Interested volunteers anywhere else in the world can help by transcribing the scanned images created by the Ocean City volunteers.
You can learn more in the graphic below as well as at http://goo.gl/mveltE. Information about the Radiation and Public Health Project Follow-up may be found at http://www.radiation.org.
October walk: No Drone Spying in Maine
Space For Peace ,http://space4peace.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/maine-drone-peace-walk-schedule.html 14 August 13 We invite you to consider joining the October 10-19 Preserve our Privacy: No Drone Spying in Maine peace walk. The walk is being organized by the Maine Campaign to Bring Our War $$ Home and Maine Veterans for Peace.
Preserve our Privacy: No Drone Spying in Maine peace walk
Space For Peace ,http://space4peace.blogspot.com.au/2013/08/maine-drone-peace-walk-schedule.html 14 August 13 We invite you to consider joining the October 10-19 Preserve our Privacy: No Drone Spying in Maine peace walk. The walk is being organized by the Maine Campaign to Bring Our War $$ Home and Maine Veterans for Peace.
PETITION: World Health Organisation called on for truth on Iraq birth defects
Petitioning Dr Margaret Chan , Director General of World Health Organisation, by Samira Alaani Fallujah, Iraq
“………….The research is now complete and we were promised that it would be published at the beginning of 2013, yet six months later the WHO has announced more delays. We worry that this is now politics, not science. We have already waited years for the truth and my patients cannot wait any longer. The WHO has another option. The data should be published in an 
open access journal for independent peer review. The process would be fast, rigorous and transparent.
My patients need to know the truth, they need to know why they miscarried, they need to know why their babies are so ill but, most importantly, they need to know that something is being done about it. The Iraqi Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation need to release this data and give us answers.
Please sign this petition and show that the rest of the world has not forgotten about the people of Iraq……..
August 19: Michigan’s state Rep. Sarah Roberts to speak on nuclear waste site plan
U.S. officials urging debate of Canadian nuclear waste site (includes video) http://www.macombdaily.com/article/20130810/NEWS01/130819996/u-s-officials-urging-debate-of-canadian-nuclear-waste-site By GINA JOSEPH gina.joseph@macombdaily.com; @ginaljoseph
While Michigan residents enjoy the benefits of the surrounding Great Lakes, Ontario waterfront residents ponder the idea of becoming the final resting spot for Canada’s nuclear waste, and it has local legislators and environmentalists concerned.
Ontario Power Generation wants the Canadian federal government to approve its plan to bury low and intermediate level radioactive nuclear waste under the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant, on the shore of Lake Huron in the municipality of Kincardine.
Kincardine is less than 3 hours from the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron and north of Grand Bend, Ont.
She will also co-host a public forum on the proposal on Monday, Aug. 19, at Wayne State University in Detroit. “This site is dangerously risky to the public’s health and the quality of our water. I just don’t understand their logic,” said Roberts, who in the past worked for the environmental group Clean Water Action.
Cheryl Grace, a member of the Ontario citizens’ group Save Our Saugeen Shores, said money is complicating the issue. By agreeing to be the host community for the deep geologic repository (DGR), Kincardine and nearby towns receive payments every year, including Grace’s community of Saugeen Shores.
Area exhibits will focus on nuclear issues by Aly Brown Iowa City Press-Citizen Iowa residents can learn more about America’s current nuclear proliferation and the hazards of nuclear weapons at several multimedia exhibits throughout Johnson County from August through September. Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility representatives sponsored “Nuclear Neighborhood, 11,000 Generations” — an exhibit combining art, history, and science — to start a conversation about our nuclear history and future.
The exhibit will combine paintings, watercolors, posters, and poetry with historical artifacts such as maps and letters from Iowa nuclear assembly workers and veterans dating to the 1940s.
Maureen McCue, Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility coordinator and university Global Health Studies professor, said “Nuclear Neighborhood, 11,000 Generations” is meant to spark a conversation.
“To begin to talk about it again, and begin to ask whether or not we’re going in a direction we need to go, for ourselves, our children, and future generations.”
McCue compared our current focus on expanding nuclear power and medicine while preventing weapons proliferation to the Sword of Damocles, a Greek myth emphasizing the balance between great power and extreme peril.
“We’re not going to get rid of nuclear power overnight,” she said. “But when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”
The project will include six displays at UI’s Hardin Medical Library, the Iowa City Public Library, Solon Public Library, and the Iowa Memorial Union. McCue said each exhibit will focus on different issues within nuclear proliferation.
McCue said the Hardin Medical Library will focus on nuclear power’s health implications and the history of nuclear plant workers in Iowa.
“It’ll show the kinds of illnesses and chronic morbidity that they suffered working in the nuclear assembly plant,” she said. “People forget you don’t get weapons without workers.”
McCue said in order to cater to the higher population of children visiting the Solon Public Library this time of year, the exhibit will feature children’s projects and art work. Children submitted posters reading “Bombs Stink Worse than Pigs” and “Make Ice Cream Not Bombs,” which will be shown alongside university associate art professor Susan White’s color washes of the Fukushima disaster aftermath.
The Iowa City Public Library will explore the community and environmental impacts of nuclear energy, featuring displays on the airborne and waterborne pollution resulting from the Hanford Site, a mostly defunct nuclear production complex and artifact of the Manhattan Project in Washington state.
During September, the Iowa Memorial Union will host artwork, poetry, and other materials produced by university faculty, students and staff.
John Rachow, assistant clinical professor at the university College of Medicine and Iowa Physicians for Social Responsibility member, said the exhibit combines art, history, and science to allow viewers to experience the message, rather than just reading facts and figures out of a textbook.
“We wanted to explain a little bit of a different human perspective on the very complex issue of radiation and health,” he said. “To go back 100 years when the knowledge of radiation and what it was and its effect on human health and living organisms was only in its early stages.”
The exhibit will begin in August to remember the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Rachow said he hopes the exhibit will bring awareness to what he sees as the lack of long-term nuclear waste storage worldwide, the dangers resulting from natural disasters as seen at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown, and the real threat of nuclear winter.
“How do you think about something that if it happens, it would be a kind of Armageddon, a kind of unnatural disaster we have never seen?” he asked. “It’s not happening today, but it’s such an existential threat to all of us. It’s very important.”
A celebratory opening reception will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Room A of the Iowa City Public Library. Rachow said the art exhibit will be joined by Thursday night film screenings and Tuesday night lectures throughout August at the Iowa City Public Library.
Rachow said the hazards of nuclear power are “broad, yet invisible,” and the public can help just as much as medical professionals.
“It begins with education and awareness,” he said. “It isn’t penicillin that is going to save civilization. It will be the people getting together in small groups and talking.”
To learn more about the exhibits or the lecture and film series, visit www.psriowa.org.
Reach Aly Brown at 887-5413 or abrown11@press-citizen.com
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Nuclear Disarmament Exhibition Dunedin August 5 – 9
Exhibition on Nuclear Disarmament to open in Dunedin Scoop, 29 July 2013, SGI Exhibition on Nuclear Disarmament to open in Dunedin as a part of 68th Hiroshima day commemorations August 5 (mon) – 9 (fri)
The National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) will host the opening of an antinuclear exhibition“Everything You Treasure: For a World Free from Nuclear Weapons” from August 5 (Mon) to 9 (Fri) at the Otago University Library LINK.
The exhibition, jointly created by Soka Gakkai International (SGI) and the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), was first launched at the 20th World Congress of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) in Hiroshima in 2012. The exhibition has since been shown in Bahrain and later at the UN Office at Geneva, during the Second Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the 2015 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference in April of this year.
The new exhibition consists of 40 panels covering nuclear weapons issues from 12 perspectives: humanitarian, environmental, medical, economic, human rights, energy, scientific, political, spiritual, gender, generational and security. Peter Mauer, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stated, “it is astounding that states had never come together to address the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons, including their long-term health and climate effects.”
Professor Kevin Clements, Director of NCPACS comments, “We urge as many people as possible to come and see this exhibition. New Zealand should not rest on its antinuclear laurels. It’s important that we understand the continuing threats from nuclear weapons and the need for their total abolition. In particular, we want to make sure that the current generation of young people and students know as much about these issues as did their parents.”
Students of NCPACS are also planning to visit the local schools to talk about nuclear issues.
The exhibition is just one part of the Hiroshima Day commemorations the Centre will organize in Dunedin together with other community groups. A peace vigil and a public debate “that New Zealand is safer out of ANZUS and Nuclear Free” will take place on the 6th of August (Peace Vigil at the Peace Pole from 11am, Public Debate in Archway 3 from 5:15pm).
Exhibition Venue: The Otago University Link (Between the university central library and the university food-court. Entrance across the road from the Otago Museum)
August 5 (mon) – 9 (fri)
Help save the Great Lakes from nuclear waste dumping nearby
A petition by the Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump citizens group is circulating via the internet that can be signed to stop the low and intermediate level dump. The following groups provide more information on how to actively participate in stopping these nuke dumps on the shores of Lake Huron:Save Our Saugeen Shores, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Northwatch andOntario’s Green Future.
Visit EcoWatch’s NUCLEAR page for more related news on this topic
Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Waste Dump Eco Watch, Michael Leonardi July 3, 2013 The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, which is an organization of mayors and other elected officials from more than 100 Great Lakes cities and representing over 16 million 
people, came out in opposition to the DGR 1 for low-level and intermediate level waste in May. Seventy seven percent of these mayors voted to oppose the dump at this time, stating that, “When dealing with a resource as valuable as the freshwater here, why take the risk of putting the site so close to the shore. Whatever the geology might be in the location, it just seems to make much more sense to have the site as far away as possible from such a major source of fresh water” and concluding “the limited time to review the record and prepare comments, the limited outreach to the broader Great Lakes and St. Lawrence community, and the consideration of only one site that is one kilometer from Lake Huron leads us to conclude that the project should not move forward at this time.”
The Michigan State Senate also recently passed a resolution opposing the low and intermediate level nuclear dump and calling for the U.S. congress to intervene to ensure that international agreements are upheld. The resolution also declared that elected officials in Michigan are more engaged in the process to site a dump and that Michigan standards must be adhered to, declaring no dump site of this nature is to be located within ten miles of “Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, the Saint Mary’s River, the Detroit River, the St. Clair River or Lake St. Clair.” Continue reading
Black Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship opposes uranium mining
FORUM: Join Unitarian Universalists in opposing uranium mining
http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/opinion/forum-join-unitarian-universalists-in-opposing-uranium-mining/article_75fed94c-fb63-594b-9126-4845ba186bfc.html June 22, 2013 Carol Merwin Member of the Black Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, who writes from Rapid City
The Black Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellowship has passed a resolution
opposing in-situ leach mining for uranium in the Black Hills. The
Canadian company, Powertech, wants 12.96 million gallons of water per
day from the Inyan Kara and Madison aquifers. We in Rapid City used
11.35 million gallons per day in 2012.
Our Unitarian Universalist principle that affirms and promotes the
inherent worth and dignity of every person includes those who are not
yet born. Clean water is essential for life; it would not be right to
deprive future generations of an irreplaceable resource. The demand
for clean water is growing; the supply is not.
Respecting the interdependent web of all existence is a principle that
requires us to regard all living beings as valuable. This value must
be upheld even when it is inconvenient or when it requires
thoughtfulness about unintended consequences. We consider caring for
the earth and everything on it a moral imperative.
A U.S. Geological Survey stated, “To date, no remediation of an ISR
(in-situ recovery) operation in the U.S. has successfully returned the
aquifer to baseline conditions. Often at the end of monitoring,
contaminants continue to increase.” Citizens in this area are well
aware of the arsenic from gold mining tailings leaching into Whitewood
Creek all the way to the Cheyenne River. The proposed Powertech
project includes ponds of polluted water, which will be detrimental to
all life.
Because of our belief in the right of conscience and the use of the
democratic process within our congregation and in society at large, we
encourage other religions and secular groups to join us in our
objection to in-situ mining for uranium in the Black Hills.
There is no safe waste disposal. Do we really want to risk so much for
an energy source that is an enormous gamble? Let us also contemplate
the fact that we have no say in how the yellowcake will be used when
it leaves here. Do we want to be responsible for the creation of more
nuclear weapons in the world? Let’s say, “No.”
Lake Huron Canada Day anti nuclear waste protest 3 – 4 July 2013
Southampton nuclear-waste dump opponents plan protest http://www.therecord.com/news-story/3852700-southampton-nuclear-waste-dump-opponents-plan-protest/ SOUTHAMPTON — A grassroots group opposed to having high-level nuclear waste buried along the shores of this Lake Huron community will stage its second annual protest walk on the Canada Day weekend.
The walk’s purpose “is to re-engage the community with this issue and to keep pressure on council,” said Pat Gibbons, a member of Save Our Saugeen Shores, a local citizens’ group.
Last year’s walk during the same weekend drew more than 500 residents as well as tourists who gravitate to this area during the summer.
It was the largest protest to be held in any of the 21 communities across Canada that are vying to host an underground repository that will store all of the country’s most radioactive waste.
The group hopes this year’s protest will be larger, Gibbons said. It will start at the flagpole in Southampton at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
So far, the group has about 2,500 signatures on their petition.
The group’s main fear is that a nuclear dump could contaminate the drinking water for 40 million people living in the Great Lakes basin, said Gibbons, a retired vice-principal from St. Mary’s High School in Kitchener who now lives in Southampton.
Of the 21 communities vying for this $16-million project, five are in Bruce County where Canada’s largest nuclear power plant is located.
The Bruce Nuclear power plant near Kincardine, which is the largest employer in Bruce County, has about 40 per cent of Canada’s used fuel already stored at its site.
All five Bruce County communities interested in the project are at Stage 3 of a nine-stage process which could take up to 10 years to complete. Stage 3 involves an in-depth feasibility study.
Mike Smith, mayor of Saugeen Shores — which consists of the towns of Southampton and Port Elgin — said the community is split on the issue. Some residents say it would create jobs and others say it would decrease property values.
Smith said even the town’s nine councillors are split on the issue, with some publicly saying if they had to vote today on the project, “they would vote no.”
Smith, a retired 34-year employee of the Bruce plant, said he’s undecided on the project.
“I want to learn more about it,” he said.
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