October 26 – Sunday – Melbourne – Film: Fight For Country: the story of the Jabiluka Blockade
Small scale solar power for economy and democracy – theme for October 18
Solar power is now cheaper than retail electricity for millions of households. In the developed world, it can save countless homeowners tens of thousands of dollars.
Meanwhile, all across the developing world, solar power is actually cheaper than power generated from fossil fuels. Just as many people in the developing world leapfrogged from no phones to cell phones, these populations will leapfrog from no electricity to electricity from solar panels.
Democratizing the Energy System One of the major implications of solar power growth, electric vehicle growth and wind power growth to some extent (wind turbines are great additions to farms and small communities) is that they are essentially democratizing our energy system. They decentralize ownership and provide more societal power and more money to common citizens and small businesses. They create more energy independence and security for families, cities and nations, which I believe will ultimately contribute to greater peace in the world.
Also, there has got to be some positive psychological effect from people realizing that they are no longer burning the bones of dinosaurs (amongst other fossils!) for their energy needs, but are instead using renewable sources of energy such as sunlight and wind. http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/27/communicating-renewable-energy-revolution/
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1.This month
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of the week
Gender and Radiation Impact Project
Radio Adelaide 15th October 2018 Start Thinking
Australian town goes off the grid ditching power companies
100% renewable by 2020. It will happen’ – Canberra | Renewables Roadshow
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The Senate Committee has now released its Report . It is a wishy washy support for the process– quotes extensively from the submissions, but has little idea of its own. Greens Dissenting Submission packs a punch, as does Senator Rex Patrick’s Additional Comments.
Read summaries of submissions to the Senate, re the Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia. Each summary has a link to the full submission. Obviously the Department of Industry Innovation and Science (DIIS) was not happy with the majority of submissions opposing the process, so now are trying to get a better (for them) result
NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP – Senate Committee of Inquiry
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The Senate Inquiry on Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia. has now 112 submissions published
Read the brief summaries of submissions – 55 anti-nuclear, 41 pro nuclear (13 confidential) , with links to each full submission published on this Antinuclear website.
See our page: Submissions on Radioactive Waste Code 2018/ Submissions published by ARPANSA are overwhelmingly critical, and in opposition to the Federal nuclear dump plan for rural South Australia. [not to be confused with the current SENATE INQUIRY Selection process for a national radioactive waste management facility in South Australia.]
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PETITIONS
Online Open letter requesting ACTION to enforce South Australia’s law against nuclear waste dumping. http://petition.dyndns.org/
Say no to the federal plan to dump and store nuclear waste in SA.
Don’t Let Frydenberg approve Yeelirrie uranium mine or extinction!
No Nuclear Bundabunda at Brewarrina – bad poison [SIGN THE PETITION]
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The privatised electricity industry is going to inflict higher costs on the public in the name of reducing peak demand (The Advertiser, 9/2/15), a noble and worthwhile aim.
There are two problems with believing that the electricity industry has turned over a new leaf. Firstly, there is no mention of household generators of electricity receiving comparable tariffs to those being asked by the industry. Secondly, there is no guarantee that those who do not have electricity guzzling air-conditioners will not be hit by the higher tariffs supposedly targeted at those who do.
The new scheme takes money from the public for “smart meters”, imposes “cost-reflective” pricing on household users but not household suppliers, and the new user’s tariff cuts in at a level that is likely to include a typical energy conservative user.
The energy conserver will be paying more, the household solar generator will be getting less, and every household will be paying for a new meter that is of no benefit to them.
Dennis Matthews