2013 January 18 « Antinuclear

Australian Greens not all in agreement with Jonathan Moylan’s Whitehaven Coal stunt

Greens at odds over Whitehaven stunt, The Age, 17 Jan 13
The Australian Greens are split over a hoax that temporarily wiped $300 million off the value of Whitehaven Coal. The Greens leader, Christine Milne, has said the action was part of a long history of civil disobedience. Her colleague Lee Rhiannon congratulated the activist Jonathan Moylan, who issued a bogus press release purporting to be from ANZ Bank cancelling a loan facility. But another Greens senator, Sarah Hanson-Young, said the stunt was not something she would encourage. She told Sky News: ”I wouldn’t be encouraging people to go willy-nilly and taking this type of action. I understand why it was taken, I understand the frustrations but don’t encourage others to do it.” Another Greens senator, Peter Whish-Wilson, told The Australian Financial Review he would not have taken such action or congratulated Mr Moylan for it.
http://www.theage.com.au/national/greens-at-odds-over-whitehaven-stunt-20130117-2cw44.html

January 18, 2013 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics | 1 Comment

USA’s Department of Energy quietly puts a damper on nuclear reprocessing

Perhaps to the disappointment of the AREVA (who emphasized reprocessing as a viable fuel cycle strategy in their blog response), the report seems to go out of its way to minimize the potential role of reprocessing in a future U.S. fuel cycle strategy … should be explicitly constrained to explicitly exclude reprocessing

DOE’s Spent Fuel Strategy: Disappointing for Nuclear Advocates The Energy Collective by:
Steve Skutnik January 17, 2013

There is a hallowed tradition in Washington known as the “Friday Document Dump,” in which news and announcements the government wishes to bury are strategically timed for Friday afternoons, when such announcements tend to fall through the cracks of the typical news cycle (i.e., assuming reporters are even present to cover the event, the strategic timing tends to ensure it will miss the weekend papers, thus effectively “burying” the story by the time the new week rolls around).

In this storied tradition, the Department of Energy released the Obama administration’s response to the Blue Ribbon Commission report last Friday to relatively scarce media coverage. In fact, one would be hard-pressed to find any coverage in many of the major papers; what little coverage there was can be found in the Washington Times, Platts(an energy publication), and the Las Vegas Review-Journal. (Needless to say, the timing appears to have had its intended effect). Continue reading →

January 18, 2013 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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