Review- Australia:nuke waste dump, USA states’ opposition to nuclear industry
Australia: Nuke waste dump for aboriginal land, but opposition is growing.. S.A. govt to subsidise BHP’s Olympic Dam uranium mine, Rudd govt improves (we hope) Renewable Energy legislation.
International: While Obama rewards his corporate backers with $8 billion in nuclear loan guarantees, legislatures in 3 states knock back nuclear power- Vermont to close nuke reactor, West Virginia to retain no new nukes policy, Arizona refuses to include nuclear as “renewable”. Bloody political coup in Niger welcomed by uranium industry.
Uranium conference perpetuating lies about radiation
Losses don’t take shine off silver lining, Sydney Morning Herald, SCOTT ROCHFORT March 2, 2010‘GOOD’ RADIATION Scientific findings were aired at a conference yesterday confirming that radiation can actually be good for you. Continue reading
Ionising radiation: cancer risk much greater for women and children
the differences in susceptibility to radiation-induced cancer, with women facing a risk about 50 percent higher than men while the risk for children is several times higher.
People Power Trumps Corporate Power:R.I.P Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Counter Currents, Kathleen Krevetski Interviewed By Carolyn Baker01 March, 2010 ” ….. Kathleen Krevetski : – The ionizing radiation to which people are exposed as a result of Vermont Yankee’s operations is a known human carcinogen. No dose is without risk, and the best science today tells us that even very low doses of radiation pose a risk over a person’s lifetime. Continue reading
“Gen 3” nuclear reactors are duds, but unproven Gen 4 a “public good”!
Intriguing that even the uranium industry is now being told that the Olkiluoto-3 ‘Generation III+’ nuke reactor is a dud. But never mind, the Australian government should support (?fund) the as yet undeveloped and untested Generation IV nuclear reactors! Continue reading
Nuclear industry decides on Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Radiation Safety Standards
-policing their own industry just like the banking and financial industry did before their massive taxpayer bailout
People Power Trumps Corporate Power:R.I.P Vermont
Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Counter Currents, Kathleen Krevetski Interviewed By Carolyn Baker01 March, 2010 “………Kathleen Krevetski – “In the United States, the NRC’s technical and safety regulations governing nuclear power plants are developed by the private nuclear industry using voluntary consensus standards. Continue reading
Nuclear waste dump siting shows Australian govt’s contempt for Aboriginal rights
“Article 29 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Labor says they support, clearly prohibits the imposition of toxic waste onto Indigenous land without consent. I know my family and many others from that country are fighting hard against this. We as Aboriginal people intend to enforce our rights.”
Stop Dumping on Aboriginal Rights Aboriginal News Group 26 Feb 2010, Continue reading
Cancer in U.S. soldiers related to depleted uranium
“I believe in my heart that the cancer is a by-product of when my daughter was exposed to depleted Uranium in Iraq.”
Iraq: An Environmental Cesspool, THE HUFFINGTON POST, R. B. Stuart, 1 March 2010, While the war in Iraq winds down, the cases of soldiers being diagnosed with rare, aggressive forms of cancer post deployment heats up. Not only do soldiers have to contend with side stepping roadside bombs during their tour, but radiological dust from depleted Uranium, Continue reading
South Australian tax-payers will help BHP’s uranium mine to be “viable”
for the Olympic Dam Task Force to assist owner BHP Billiton in proving the viability of this project.
State funding to support Olympic Dam expansion – URANIUM, Mineweb , Ross Louthean, 01 Mar 2010 Continue reading
Local community Defeats Corporation over Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
People Power Trumps Corporate Power:R.I.P Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Counter Currents, Kathleen Krevetski Interviewed By Carolyn Baker01 March, 2010 “…..Kathleen Krevetski “Last week’s vote against the relicensing of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant near Brattleboro is considered historic because it has allowed the voices of Vermont people to be heard through their elected leaders who voted against allowing Vermont Yankee to continue past its expected lifetime of 2012. Continue reading
Liberals will support nuclear waste dump on aboriginal land
Vote closer on Australia’s first nuclear waste dump: minister, ABC News, Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, 2 March 2010
Australia’s Resources and Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson, says parliament is set to pass laws that could see Australia’s first nuclear waste dump built in the Northern Territory…”I have had discussions with the coalition and all being well there is now a maturity in the debate which means we will now pass legislation supported by the major political parties in Australia,” he said.
ABC Radio Australia News:Stories:Vote closer on Australia’s first nuclear waste dump: minister
Wind farm revival depends Federal Govt’s renewables policy
Wind farm revived after change of rules , Ricks Wallace, The Australian, March 02, 2010 CONSTRUCTION of Australia’s largest wind farm has moved a step closer, with AGL announcing it has entered into contractual agreements with its joint-venture partner on the project.The decision by AGL and New Zealand’s Meridian Energy to forge ahead with the $800 million project comes after the Rudd government’s move last week to revamp its failing renewable energy target scheme. Continue reading
Some hope for renewal of Australia’s renewable energy industries
Environmental markets spring back to life as energy target rules change, Giles Parkinson, The Australian March 01, 2010 AUSTRALIA’S environmental markets have sprung into life after the government announced proposed amendments to the Renewable Energy Target, creating hope that Australia may finally be able to rid itself of an unwanted reputation as a dead-end for the renewable energy industry.
Environmental markets spring back to life as energy target rules change | The Australian
Uranium mining’s damage to Native Americans
Throughout the Diné Nation, Diné families have been subject to decades of radioactive contamination
Uranium Mining Begins Near Grand Canyon: Thousands of Claims Threaten Public Health & Sacred Lands :: Peace, Earth & Justice News Feb 24, 2010 Grand Canyon, AZ — In defiance of legal challenges and a U.S. Government moratorium, Canadian company Denison Mines has started mining uranium on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. Continue reading
Rudd Govt can over-ride Northern Territory
it is too useful to the commonwealth as a zone for decision-making.
Dreams of statehood are buried in a sparsely populated area * NORTHERN TERRITORY: Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian, February 27, 2010 THIS week’s announcement by federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson that the commonwealth’s preferred site for a national radioactive waste depository is Muckaty station in the heart of the central desert foregrounds a bitter truth about Northern Territory politics. Continue reading
Canada’s history of suppressing indigenous rights
Olympics can’t mask country’s human rights record on indigenous peoples rabble.ca, By Martin Lukacs| February 24, 2010 “.… aboriginal gilding can blind Canadians and the world to the country’s secret shame: the true state of its indigenous peoples………….. Billions have indeed been spent — not on paving roads or developing infrastructure and healthcare in dilapidated and diseased communities, but on a legal war opposing aboriginal rights.
Olympics can’t mask country’s human rights record on indigenous peoples | rabble.ca
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