At Paris talks – a megaphone for corporations a muzzle for social movements
Naomi Klein criticises protest restrictions at Paris climate talks Activist says authorities have ‘handed a megaphone to the corporations and taken the megaphone away from the social movements’, Guardian, Emma Howard , 6 Dec 15 French authorities are enforcing “unprecedented restrictions on civil society” at the UN climate change talks in Paris, the author and activist Naomi Klein has said.
Klein said the ongoing talks were a victim of austerity as the French government had failed to provide adequate state funding, leading to heavy sponsorship by corporations. Meanwhile authorities have imposed a ban on mass protests around COP21, as the conference is known, in the wake of last month’s terror attacks in Paris.
“We have got unprecedented restrictions on civil society – they’ve handed a megaphone to the corporations and taken the megaphone away from the social movements,” Klein said. “It’s a combination of the role of corporations inside the COP and the banning of protests outside.
“We always knew that this was going to be the most corporate-sponsored COP, it’s a victim of austerity … You should at least be able to have a dialogue between the corporate solutions and the popular solutions, but only one side of the debate is being given a megaphone and the other side is being hauled out or banned.”
Activists have found creative ways around the ban on mass gatherings, with 10,000 pairs of shoes laid out where a climate march should have started and a human chain running past the Bataclan concert venue where 90 people died. But police have arrested protesters who they suspect will flout the ban, and hundreds of anti-capitalist protesters were kettled by police last Sunday.
On Friday police were seen carrying protesters from the opening of Solutions 21, an exhibition for businesses to showcase their proposals for tackling climate change, according to reports by New Internationalist and Climate Hom…… http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/06/naomi-klein-criticises-protest-restrictions-at-paris-climate-talks
Climate-saving draft – UN at Paris
Paris climate talks: UN adopts climate-saving draft as stars add voices to call for change, ABC News 6 Dec 15 Negotiators from 195 nations have delivered a blueprint for a pact to save mankind from disastrous global warming, raising hopes that decades of arguments will finally end with a historic agreement in Paris.
Key points:
A blueprint has been been reached to curb effects of global warming
Actors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sean Penn, Chinese tycoon Jack Ma lobbied for climate change targets
Final agreement not guaranteed despite draft deal confirmation
The planned deal would aim to break the world’s dependence on fossil fuels for energy, slashing the greenhouse gas emissions from burning oil, coal and gas that are causing temperatures to rise dangerously.
Tortuous UN negotiations dating back to the early 1990s have failed to forge unity between rich and poor nations, and the Paris talks are being described as the “last, best chance” to save mankind……….http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-06/hopes-rise-as-un-adopts-climate-saving-blueprint/7004920
Paris Climate News
A lesson from Kyoto’s failure – don’t let Congress touch a climate deal.
In 1997, more than 150 countries came together in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiat e a deal to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions driving global warming. Eighteen years later, the world is still trying to agree on how to tackle climate change. But this time around, the U.S. pledge does not require congressional approval. That approach echoes an important lesson from Kyoto: A treaty’s worth is directly tied to the president’s ability to enact it.
The lesson of Kyoto was stark. “We learned the limits of what the U.S. can agree to,” said Rafe Pomerance, who went to Kyoto as deputy assistant secretary of state for environment and development. “Climate change policy is not fully dictated by negotiations,” he said. “They’re dictated by domestic political opportunities and constraints.” President Obama can pledge only wha t he can achieve through executive action, and that means that the agreement has to be a non-binding commitment that does not require congressional approval. “If the U.S. Congress won’t move, the U.S. is heavily constrained and therefore the world is constrained,” Pomerance said. Whether or not the U.S. is the largest emitter (China overtook the U.S. as the world’s biggest emitter in 2007), it’s still a major actor.
So the Paris negotiations have taken an alternative tactic. …
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-lesson-from-kyotos-fai lure-dont-let-congress-touch-a-climate-deal/ & http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/2960402875661446914
Paris summit by night, day and behind the scenes
Those observing the hustle and bustle of world leaders may miss the minutiae of deals being hammered out late into t he night.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/un-climate-conference/climate-summit-paris-by-night-day-and-behind-the-scenes-20151203-glf865.html
Paris climate change talks yield first draft amid air of optimism
Country representatives and green groups say French summit is more cordial and efficient than Copenhagen five years ago
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/05/paris-climate-change-talks-dr aft-french-summit
China’s awful safety record does not augur well for its planned nuclear project
The idea of nuclear power in China makes many people, including many in the country, quite nervous.
One of the most compelling critics is He Zuoxiu, a physicist who worked on China’s nuclear program and is a member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences
China has an awful safety record — and wants to run 110 nuclear reactors by 2030 WP, By Emily Rauhala December 4 It had been about a month since chemical explosions blasted and burned through the port of Tianjin, killing 173. Pictures of rescue workers in hazmat suits became some of the signature images of the disaster. And despiteincredible censorship, it was clear to most that unsafe chemical storage — thanks to bribery by local big shots — was to blame.
Still, on Sept. 15, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection announced post-Tianjin nuclear safety checks to “make sure nuclear facilities and equipment are safe and under control.” Given the timing, it felt less like an assurance than an afterthought: “We definitely did not forget to check those nukes.”
Now, almost four months after the Tianjin blasts, with world leaders gathered in Paris for climate talks, a top Chinese energy firm reminded us, again, of China’s nuclear future—a future that a prominent Chinese physicist recently called “insane.”
Power Construction Corp of China, a state-owned enterprise, on Thursday said that the draft of China’s 13th five-year-plan, an important government blueprint, says the country will have 110 working nuclear reactors by 2030. The plan calls for about $78 billion to be set aside to build plants using “homegrown nuclear technologies,” and would see the addition of six to eight reactors a year for five years.
The figures have circulated before and are roughly in line with the number of proposed plants — 150 — that the World Nuclear Association estimates are under consideration ……..
the idea of nuclear power in China makes many people, including many in the country, quite nervous.
China opened its first reactor in the early 1990s. After some growth, development slowed following a nuclear sector corruption scandal in 2009 and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis. After watching Japan struggle with the aftermath of that disaster many here wondered if China ought to pursue an industry that so roiled the relatively wealthy, rule-abiding and safety-conscious Japanese.
The blasts in Tianjin were another reminder that the country has a long way to go in terms of industrial and workplace safety. If local authorities regularly fail to keep mines, factories and warehouses safe, should they be trusted with overseeing nuclear plants?
One of the most compelling critics is He Zuoxiu, a physicist who worked on China’s nuclear program and is a member of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences. ……https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/12/04/china-has-an-awful-safety-record-and-wants-to-run-110-nuclear-reactors-by-2030/
Organisers at COP21 dismiss nuclear, in favour of faster, cleaner, cheaper, renewable technologies
The general call from the organisers and French presidency of the climate-change conference in Paris is for faster solutions [than nuclear] to the expanding GHG problem, based on sustainable energies, which as well as being low in C02 emissions, require less investment in money, technology and therefore, time.
Nuclear is not so much a dirty word at Cop21, it can barely be heard, RFI, 5 Dec 15 Nuclear is keeping a low profile at the Cop21 Climate Change conference at Le Bourget just outside Paris, where political goodwill, financing and energy solutions are key issues. ….
“……..Cyrille Cormier of NGO Greenpeace France disagrees. He says that compared to renewables, nuclear is far more costly.
“Every megawatt-hour produced by nuclear energy from an EPR reactor costs about 100 euros. The cost of producing the same amount of renewable energy with wind turbines and solar is already less almost everywhere in the world. For example in France, it’s already 70 euros per MW-hour for big solar farms and wind turbines.”
Cormier remarks on Youth Day at the Cop21, that nuclear is a waste burden and financial drain on future generations.
Price is not the only drawback, especially for developing countries. The raw material for nuclear energy, uranium, is in limited supply. Scientists reckon the uranium supply will run out before the end of the next century
While not GHG producing, nuclear waste is highly polluting and radioactive. Disposal is problematic. The nuclear power plant disasters in Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986 and in Fukushima in Japan four years ago are shocking examples of the devastating results of nuclear accidents, either human or due to natural catastrophe.
The general call from the organisers and French presidency of the climate-change conference in Paris is for faster solutions to the expanding GHG problem, based on sustainable energies, which as well as being low in C02 emissions, require less investment in money, technology and therefore, time. http://www.english.rfi.fr/general/20151203-Nuclear-not-so-much-dirty-word-Cop21-it-can-barely-be-heard
India is not at all prepared for a nuclear Bhopal type disaster
India unprepared: what happens in case of a nuclear Bhopal?, Catch News, KUMAR SUNDARAM@pksundaram |4 December 2015
The inaction
- Among the first things the Modi govt did was to disband the National Disaster Management Authority
- It is yet to set up a replacement body to respond to calamities
Disaster awaits
- India is unprepared to cope if there’s a nuclear accident at one of its power plants
- Five years after Fukushima and 30 years after Chernobyl, there doesn’t seem to be much thought about it either
More in the story
- How does one check if a country is prepared for a nuclear disaster?
- How badly does India fare on these criteria?
It has been 31 years since the horrendous man-made tragedy in Bhopal. The victims/survivors continue to struggle for justice and reparation, for basic decontamination and cleaning, and expanding medical care beyond the arbitrarily-identified ‘victims’. The genetic impact of the Union Carbide gas leak has been revealed in many scientific studies, but these haven’t led to any serious efforts by the Central or state governments.It has also been five years since the nuclear accident in Japan’s Fukushima and 30 since the Chernobyl disaster in the erstwhile USSR. It’s high time India stopped and thought – are we ready to deal with a serious nuclear accident?
Also read: 2 years on, Kudankulam isn’t working. Where are its cheerleaders now?
Among the first things the Narendra Modi government did after coming to power was to scrap the National Disaster Management Authority. However, it is yet to come up with a better way to respond to calamities and their human consequences.
Preventing and responding to a nuclear accident goes far beyond setting up a new bureaucratic behemoth. Contrary to reassurances given by nuclear engineers and industry insiders, nuclear safety is about much more than just design safety…….
Regulatory nightmare
The Indian nuclear industry is completely non-transparent and unaccountable. Operating directly under the Prime Minister’s Office, it enjoys complete insulation from public and democratic scrutiny.
Serious RTI queries are routinely rejected by deploying the vintage 1962 Atomic Energy Act, evoking a ‘national security’ clause. This is despite the fact that the civilian sector was separated after the watershed moment, the Indo-US Nuclear Deal……..
Liability and compensation……. http://www.catchnews.com/india-news/india-unprepared-what-happens-in-case-of-a-nuclear-bhopal-1449243696.html
All is not rosy in the scramble to market nuclear power to India
Abe visit unlikely to lead to nuclear deal with India’s Modi, Japan Times, BY RAJESH KUMAR SINGH BLOOMBERG, 5 Dec 15 “……Modi will use Abe’s visit next week to lobby Japan to join the list of countries India can rely on for nuclear technology or fuel to help bring reliable and clean power to its 1.3 billion people. Japan, the only country to suffer nuclear attacks, has refrained from sealing a deal because India has not yet joined the global Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
“Prime Minister Abe’s visit will speed up the talks and I hope the deal can be signed when the two heads of state meet the next time,” Sekhar Basu, secretary at the Department of Atomic Energy, said in an interview in New Delhi. “We’re making very good progress, but I don’t think we are in a position to sign a deal during this meeting,” which starts Dec. 11……
A deal with Japan would strengthen ties to U.S. reactor suppliers Westinghouse Electric Co., controlled by Toshiba Corp., and General Electric Co., which has a venture with Hitachi Ltd. It’ll also help India access cheaper financing and specialized steel from Japan used for nuclear projects, Basu said.
“The two governments are currently negotiating a nuclear treaty,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters in Tokyo on Tuesday. “India has not signed the NPT and the government is aware of various arguments concerning nuclear cooperation with India.”
Even if it signs a deal with Japan, India’s efforts to raise nuclear capacity are challenged by laws that leave equipment makers, in addition to the plant operators, liable for accidents. Foreign and local suppliers including General Electric Co. have opposed the rules……http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/04/business/abe-visit-unlikely-lead-nuclear-deal-indias-modi/#.VmNKF9J97Gj
Warning on India’s nuclear safety and on the excessive nuclear costs
Nuclear power is unsafe and too costly for India, ex-Power Secretary EAS Sarma tells Modi, Japan’s Abe, Scroll In, EAS Sarma 5 Dec 15 Ahead of the Japanese leader’s visit to India, former top bureaucrat urges New Delhi and Tokyo to be cautious about striking a deal. With Japan and India expected to sign an agreement on nuclear supply when the East Asian country’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, visits India later this month, former power secretary EAS Sarma has written an open letter to the leaders of the two countries laying out his concerns about nuclear energy.
To begin with, he contended that there were intense anxieties about the safety of nuclear energy. “While the protogonists of nuclear technology persistently try to justify proliferation of nuclear power on the ground that the probability of occurrence of a Fukushima-like accident in a nuclear power plant is low, none of them can ever deny that such accidents can take place one time or the other, either as a result of a natural disaster on which we have no control or as a result of a human failure that we cannot wish away,” he wrote.
He also claimed that nuclear power is unaffordable for a country like India. “When the global climate negotiations have their focus on replacing new megawatts with “negawatts” (saved megawatts) and green megawatts, it is anachronistic for the world to cling to expensive energy sources like nuclear power,” he said.
Here is the full text of his letter……. http://scroll.in/article/773920/nuclear-power-is-unsafe-and-too-costly-for-india-ex-power-secretary-eas-sarma-tells-modi-japans-abe
Is Nuclear Energy the Solution?
BREAKING NEWS: PARIS CLIMATE SUMMIT UNDERWAY, Franciscan Associates, THE CREATION CARE NEWSLETTER December, 2015 December 1, 2015
…….Is Nuclear Energy the Solution?
{The short piece below was a reply by Brian Williams to an article in the New York Times (Nov. 28) that nuclear energy is the key to bridge the gap between fossil fuels and renewables.}
Flawed arguments in every possible way! First off, it’s impossible to build (and fuel!) enough nuclear plants (400 or so at a bare minimum) to replace fossil fuel generated power in the time frame needed to avert catastrophic global warming. This alone rules out nuclear energy as a viable climate solution.
The argument that nuclear power is somehow carbon free is bogus too: mining uranium is certainly not “carbon free” and enriching it is the most energy intensive industrial process around. The energy expended in both these steps is generally fossil fuel energy. Manufacturing the concrete and steel for nuclear plants also generates large amounts of CO2.
Then we have to safely store the high level wastes for far longer than any human civilization has existed thus far, cooling it in the bargain for the first few centuries. How can the author blithely assure us we’ll be able to do this without a hitch, and without using vast amounts of energy? To top it off, the richest uranium ores have pretty much been found already and mined out. We are left with lower concentration ores that require even more energy and environmental degradation to mine and refine. Nuclear power is most definitely not “carbon free”!….https://franciscanassociates.wordpress.com/
India’s misguided aim to be a great nuclear power nation
INDIA: Lured into playing the “Great Power” Nuclear Game, Scarry Thoughts, 1 Dec 15 The Paris Climate Conference is on, and India is being recognized as central to the whole thing.
What I learned at the World Nuclear Victims Forum in Hiroshima is that India is on the cusp of a massive nuclear power generation expansion . . .
and that Japan, which is in the midst of a nuclear power disaster (Fukushima), is doing everything it can to export nuclear power plants to India. A “Great Power” Game
As explained by Kumar Sundaram at the forum in Hiroshima, in the post-Fukushima era, the rest of the world is re-thinking nuclear power; India, however, is acting on a very old aspiration that it is just now able to bring to fruition………
Indian hibakusha include the uranium workers of Jadugoda — as documented by the photographer Ashish Birulee, of the Jadugoda Uranium Mine Anti-Radiation Alliance. Moreover, the system of avoiding worker protections at nuclear power plants by using sub-contractors of sub-contractors of sub-contractors mean that all nuclear workers in India are at high risk.
The enormous irony is that now one country — India — is responding to its past subjugation by the Western imperial program with this hugely self-damaging program, and another country that has struggled with its relationship to the Western imperial program — Japan — is doing everything it can to aid and abet. http://joescarry.blogspot.com.au/
Belgium extending life of nuclear reactors – meets with criticism on this, as nuclear no solution to climate change
Belgium extends two nuclear reactors despite criticisms on climate, Global Post, Xinhua News Agency Dec 2, 2015 BRUSSELS, — The Belgian government and the energy company Electrabel agreed to extend nuclear reactors Doel 1 and 2 until 2025, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said Tuesday…..
Belgium received the shameful “Fossil of the Day Award” on the very first day of the Paris climate conference from the Climate Action Network (CAN) because of the lack of agreement among different regions of the country, negotiations on the extension of nuclear power plants, etc.
For the international coalition of climate campaign groups, “it is clear, the atom is not a credible solution against global warming,” said the Belgian daily Le Soir……http://www.globalpost.com/article/6697466/2015/12/01/belgium-extends-two-nuclear-reactors-despite-criticisms-climate
Insurance companies watching as USA Nuclear company seeks to extend life of reactors to 80 years
Aging U.S. Nuclear Plants Pushing Limits of Life Expectancy, Insurance Journal By Jonathan N. Crawford | November 29, 2015 The U.S. is set to become the first nation to decide whether it’s safe to operate nuclear power plants for 80 years, twice as long as initially allowed.
The majority of the nation’s 99 reactors have already received 20-year extensions to their original 40-year operating licenses. Now, operators led by Dominion Resources Inc. want to expand the time frame further, potentially creating a precedent for an aging global fleet at a time when the economics of the industry are undergoing dramatic change.
Dominion said earlier this month it will request an extension from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which oversees the industry. The plan has already raised the ire of anti-nuclear campaigners who cite decades of wear and tear on the nation’s reactors, as well as the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan.
The NRC will release a draft report next month outlining safety measures needed to extend the time line.
“The reality of life is the risks go up” as plants age, said Dave Lochbaum, director of the nuclear safety project at the Union of Concerned Scientists, a Cambridge, Massachusetts- based advocacy group. “If you don’t respond with more aggressive risk management, then you’re inviting disaster.”
An approval may determine the fate of the world’s oldest nuclear fleet, one that’s being battered by high operating costs, expensive safety upgrades and an abundance of cheap natural gas that’s squeezing profits. If allowed, Dominion’s Surry plant in Virginia would be the first to outlive the average human being in the U.S. with a lifespan of 78.8 years. A final decision won’t come before the early part of the next decade.
Nuclear Retirements
“We are at the forefront,” Tina Taylor, a director at the Electric Power Research Institute Inc., said Nov. 19. “As we demonstrate extending the licenses of plants and continue operating them, it sets a model for how people will do that around the world.”
Corrosion, Leaks
“There are a number of safety issues with pushing these technologies twice beyond their original projected life span,” Tyson Slocum, Washington-based director of energy at Public Citizen, said by phone on Nov. 18. “You’ve seen a number of issues from Davis-Besse to Vermont Yankee where aging components triggered a variety of leaks.”…….http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2015/11/29/390222.htm
Questions on nuclear waste storage: salt more permeable than previously thought?
Oil research on salt permeability raises questions about nuclear waste storage, The Daily Texan, BY CLAIRE ALLBRIGHT, 1 Dec 15 Salt may be more permeable than previously thought, raising questions about whether salt isolates nuclear waste effectively, according to a new study released by researchers at UT.
Soheil Ghanbarzadeh, doctoral candidate in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, was the lead researcher and author of a thesis sponsored by Statoil, which set out to analyze if salt serves as a good seal for petroleum. The thesis findings have implications for the nuclear waste industry as well.
Currently, Germany and the United States use salt to trap nuclear waste since it was thought to be impermeable. However, if waste can flow through the brine, there is a possibility the waste can contaminate ground water, spurring a renewed interest in research about salt use. Proposals such as storing nuclear waste under Nevada’s Yucca Mountains, which do not rely on the use of salt as a barrier, have faced political and regulatory hurdles, according to a UT press release. …..
Masa Prodanovic, assistant professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering and Ghanbarzadeh’s co-advisor, said the rock salt permeability may be caused by high pressure and temperatures but also by deformation or stretching of the rock.
“The implications of the findings is that rock salt, for instance, in potential nuclear waste storage repositories, might be more permeable to water than just based on the depth,” Prodanovic said. “So, this new piece of information needs to be considered when assessing the site.”
Marc Hesse, assistant professor in the Jackson School of Geosciences and Ghanbarzadeh’s co-advisor, said more research is needed to determine whether salt should be used in nuclear waste management……http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2015/12/01/oil-research-on-salt-permeability-raises-questions-about-nuclear-waste-storage
Paris Conference: be aware of the greenwashing events, and of the genuine climate activism
Interesting Events You Won’t Want to Miss At The Paris COP21 Climate Conference By Kyla Mandel • , November 28, 2015 The time has finally arrived. We’re on the Eurostar heading to Paris for the COP21 climate conference kick-off. On Monday, the world is meeting in Paris to (hopefully) agree a deal that will curb our carbon emissions and avert catastrophic climate change.
The stakes are high. Over the course of just two weeks, we’ll see leaders doing backroom negotiations, and countries from every corner of our planet will be working hard to have their voice heard. Meanwhile, others – be it green NGOs or climate deniers – will be doing their best to influence the decisions.
This is why DeSmog UK has put together a quick guide highlighting some on-the-ground events we’re hoping to cover. You won’t want to miss it.
The Official Conference
It all kicks off on Monday 30 November when some 130 world leaders gather outside Paris at Le Bourget conference centre.
Starting at noon, each leader will give his or her address. Some of the most highly anticipated speeches will come from USPresident Obama, China’s Xi Jinping, and India’s Narendra Modi.
Eyes and ears will also be on two new leaders: Canada’s Justin Trudeau and Australia’s Malcolm Turnbull. It is an understatement to say that hopes are high that these two will turn their countries’ poor climate track records around.
And, of course, don’t forget the many, many developing countries that are at the forefront of climate impacts. Curious when your country is up? Here’s the UN’s full list.
The COP21 conference is also going to be full – and we mean FULL – of side events taking place alongside the negotiations. From agriculture and forestry to women’s and indigenous peoples’ rights, these events provide a chance to discuss the variety of issues affected by climate change.
This is just a sample of what’s going on. You can find the full calendar here.
In the first week, there will be events on: “The phase out of fossil fuel subsidies and a Paris Climate deal” and “Climate change and children’s rights: Children as vulnerable group and agents of change”.
Things really pick up in the second week, as it’s when most of the negotiators and press turn up. Big names such as Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben are expected to talk, with Klein discussing “Loss and damage – who should pay?” and McKibben speaking on “Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground: the International Movement to Ban Fracking”.
Other interesting events include “Climate Justice: Coal and Human Rights in the South, Community Choice Energy, Global Carbon Pricing”, along with the “Role of Oil & Gas Technology to address Climate Change Challenges”.
There will also be discussions involving the US, China, India on “Global Climate Action: Perspectives on Major Energy Initiatives” and “Human Mobility and climate change”.
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Nuclear isn’t green.
County carbon footprint of uranium mining, storage, Wendy Harris,Syracuse, 29 Nov 15 In the debate over Entergy’s decision to close Fitzpatrick most people, including our governor, miss the breadth of nuclear’s dirty carbon footprint… mining, milling, manufacturing yellowcake, transportation, and then the wildcard carbon cost of storage of the hot waste for eons must all be part of the carbon profile of nuclear.The recent filing by the group Environmental Advocates of New York outlines the benefits of closure of this brittle, poorly designed plant and the value of moving to true sustainable energy sources with the jobs and economic benefits outlined for the region and state.
Its time to close Fitzpatrick and move decisively to renewables as the globe faces the consequences of a hotter planet. The future well-being of us all depends on it.
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