Antinuclear

To 26 August – Nuclear and Climate News

The thing about climate change is –  it’s all happening faster than we expected!  Only a few days ago, MEDIA MATTERS was highlighting the way that mainstream media was practically ignoring the Amazon forest fires. That is changing. World leaders are now alert to this international tragedy.The Amazon fires bring to the fore the awful dilemma facing climate scientists in telling the public the truth about the world’s climate crisis.

The recent Russian nuclear accident cast a bit of gloom over Russia’s launching of its floating nuclear reactor for the Arctic region. Questions are still flying around about the radioactive illnesses and deaths involved in that accident. Also – a general recognition of the Russian government’s record of secrecy about nuclear accidents.

I suspect that the USA and UK nuclear industries are getting pretty desperate about their commercial future, and the necessity to export new nuclear technology.   There’s a hasty push going on in Australia to buy Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. In a rater undignified rush, there are no less than 4 separate Parliamentary Nuclear Inquiries going on, with abnormally short times permitted for Submissions.

AUSTRALIA

NUCLEAR    Queensland Labor and Liberal Coalition say NO to nuclear power.

Nuclear weapons – the underlying aim in the new push for nuclear power?

Brief notes/summaries on pro nuclear submissions to Federal govt.  Early submissions to Australian govt Inquiry slightly favour nuclear power.Economist John Quiggin on Submissions to Parliamentary Nuclear Inquiries. One gem from the pro nuclear Submissions to FEDERAL. Inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia.  EcoEnviro’s great submission to ‘Inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia’. 17 submissions now published to Federal Nuclear Inquiry. Nuclear submissions: people are “doubling up”? Sending the same submissions to 2 different Inquiries. About the CURRENT NUCLEAR SUBMISSIONS.

Reaction against Robert Parker’s nuclear reactor plan for Ipswich, Queensland.

Council announces dates for Kimba radioactive waste ballot. Flinders Ranges Council delays nuclear waste dump ballot.  Secrecy in Sinister Matt Canavan’s meeting with nuclear waste dump organisations in Hawker, South Australia.   Resources Minister Matt Canavan in Kimba : pressing for a ‘Yes” vote in nuclear waste dump ballot?  South Australian law – No public money towards nuclear waste dumping facility.

Lynas’ radioactive waste – still a toxic issue in Malaysia.

Wiki cables show Australia thinks Iran is not the aggressor.

CLIMATE

• Labor urges Morrison govt to pressure Brazil to protect Amazon forests.
• One year on, how good is Morrison’s climate and energy denial?  Australia losing credibility with Pacific nations, as Morrison supports coal, not climate action.
• Scott Morrison’s failure in diplomacy: the Pacific Forum and climate change.  Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack is an international embarrassment.
• Bass Coast Shire Council declares Climate Emergency.
•   Ageing coal plants put Australia on map of global air pollution hotspots.

RENEWABLE ENERGY  Solar sends Queensland wholesale day-time prices to zero six days in a row.  5B plans solar “speed record” for 10GW plant in north Australia. Prices hit zero again across the grid as renewables output tops 10GW.  Coalition MP Keith Pitt wants Queensland to leave main grid!  Schwarzenegger-backed start-up helps Australia wind farms duck negative prices.  Landmark deal to power Coles underpins three NSW solar farms.  Global industrial giant Molycop turns to wind and solar for half its electricity needs.

INTERNATIONAL

Distinguished scientist Martin Rees – world must fight climate change, don’t waste tax-payers’ money on space travel.

Massive wildfires are burning across the world- July was hottest month ever.  New fires – hundreds – in Amazon rainforests. Life on Earth threatened by climate change – loss of Amazon Forests.

Sea level rise only half the story – climate change is altering ocean waves.

Chinese Academy of Sciences warns on the safety hazards of new nuclear .

August 26, 2019 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews