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“Hot” radioactive particles a special risk at Fukushima in 2020 Olympics

Nukewatch 10th Jan 2020, Hundreds of thousands of people—athletes, officials, media, and spectators—will flood into Japan for the 2020 Olympics.
But radiation exposure dangers from the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe have not ended since the meltdowns and explosions spread radioactive contamination over large areas reaching down to Tokyo and beyond.
Soon after the start of the meltdowns in 2011, experts began warning of exposure to radioactive micro-particles or “hot particles”—a type of particle that poses a danger unaccounted for by regulatory agencies.
In order to understand the special danger posed by these particles at the Olympics and beyond, we must first understand the current state of radiation exposure standards.

http://nukewatchinfo.org/fukushimas-hot-particles-in-japan-their-meaning-for-the-olympics-and-beyond/

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News | Leave a comment

Cumbria (UK’s nuclear waste area) has unusually high incidence of certain cancers


NW Evening Mail 16th Jan 2020,   A WORRYING new report has found that Cumbria has the highest incidence rates of certain kinds of cancer in the North West. According to data collated by charity North West Cancer Research, the county ranks 11 per cent higher on key cancers than the national average. As part of the study, analysts assessed the impact of 25 key cancers across the North West and 37 cancers across Wales.
Of the cancers included in the project, the North West over-indexed on 14 cancers, highlighting stark contrasts between the national and regional pictures and demonstrating how those living across the region were more at risk of developing the disease.

https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/18165381.cumbria-highest-cancer-rates-region/

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News | Leave a comment

Fire fighter’s anger at Scott Morrison, over climate change

cartoon – Reproduced with permission from Mark David and Independent Australia.

The Firefighter Whose Denunciation of Australia’s Prime Minister Made Him a Folk Hero New Yorker, By Amanda Schaffer, January 18, 2020 

Until a few days ago, Paul Parker was a volunteer firefighter in Nelligen, a small village on the coast of New South Wales, in Australia—an area that has been devastated by the bushfires currently sweeping the country. A week ago, Parker was defending homes in his community against a spreading inferno. The sky was red and burnt orange, he said. Embers were everywhere. Flames shot as high as forty feet. “I’ve fought a few bushfires in my time, but nothing like that,” Parker told me. “It’s the worst I’ve ever experienced.”
……In Parker’s community, and elsewhere, the crisis has provoked intense anger toward Morrison, who was on vacation in Hawaii when two firefighters died in December. Morrison returned to Australia, but his response to the wildfires has been widely condemned as slow and ineffective.

Since September, millions of acres of land have burned, thousands of people have lost their homes and businesses, and at least twenty-eight have perished.

Morrison’s history of skepticism toward climate change and the government’s record of inaction have infuriated Australians who understand that record-breaking heat and dryness, symptomatic of a warming planet, are fuelling the crisis. On Sunday, Morrison announced an inquiry into the country’s fire response, nodding to the role of climate change but failing to support policies to decrease fossil-fuel use or promote renewable energy……

“Then the wind changed, so the flames were fully involved across the road, and we had to drive the truck through the fire front to get ourselves out. We were driving to stop the fire from going into the village, and we saw a TV-news team down on one of the access roads. It just was a boiling point for me. I said, ‘Are you from the media? Tell the Prime Minister to go and get fucked, from Nelligen. . . . We really enjoy doing this shit.’ 

“A couple of weeks earlier, the Prime Minister commented that Rural Fire Service members enjoy going out and fighting fires. He’s just got no understanding of what it’s all about. We don’t enjoy fighting bushfires and saving people’s homes. We do it because we have to. He’s got no understanding of what real people in Australia go through. And he doesn’t care anyway. Any real man would never have left the country while his country was in turmoil…….

“Climate change is also a real thing. It’s not something that can be fixed overnight, and the government’s got to make a stand at some stage. Scott Morrison doesn’t even believe in climate change. I don’t think he even considers that we are going through climate change……. https://www.newyorker.com/news/as-told-to/the-firefighter-whose-denunciation-of-australias-prime-minister-made-him-a-folk-hero

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming, politics | Leave a comment

Chatham House declares nuclear power’s swansong – welcomes era of sun and wind

Nuclear Futures, Oil Price 18th Jan 2020
Nuclear energy has been on the decline in much of the world (with some notable exceptions in the nuclear-friendly administrations in China and Russia). This is not new news.
Now, however, Chatham House, the UK’s Royal Institution of International Affairs, has taken things a step further by taking the official stance that nuclear will never be a serious contender as a solution to catastrophic climate change.
As paraphrased by environmental news site EcoWatch, the energy experts at Chatham House “agreed that despite continued enthusiasm from the industry, and from some politicians, the number of nuclear power stations under construction worldwide would not be enough to replace those closing down.”
The consensus was that this is nuclear’s swan song, and we are now
unequivocally entering the era of wind and solar power. https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Is-This-The-Death-Knell-For-Nuclear.html

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News | Leave a comment

Australia reMade – a primer for our climate action future

  ReMAKERS’ MEMO #1, January 2020 An Australia reMADE primer to talking about the bushfires and where to from here *V2, updated 14th Jan 2020 

 …………..Conclusion    https://www.australiaremade.org/

  Our nation has been rudely awakened to the reality that we are one of the most climate vulnerable countries on the planet. And now we have a moment where people are ready to participate in reshaping the system; ready to participate in new ways to reflect the new world. How are we enabling this?
We need to make sure we don’t get stuck just responding to the government’s narrow frame of what ‘practical action’ looks like, or worse. We’re already seeing hints of an alternative agenda, which uses this ‘New Normal’ moment as a shock doctrine opportunity to justify a different kind of agenda (imagine dams and land clearing, lucrative service delivery contracts for private contractors, increase in police powers, decrease in nature protection laws, cracking down on activism, privatising essential services, etc). Here getting out early in the public debate is key.
We need to socialise our r thinking and not wait for perfectly formed ideas and solutions or we’ll get stuck on the back foot. Australians want a future where people and nature thrive. Where the values of a free, vibrant, democratic and caring society are strengthened, not sacrificed. We want to put these values front and centre, but so often they get pushed to the periphery of the debate – whether on our airwaves or in our parliaments.

We get told that now is not the time, or we have to be ever wealthier first, before we can decide to care for people and planet. We’ve already seen the hollowness of the ‘cost of action’ argument in light of the ‘cost of inaction’ reality. Business as usual is no longer an option. Let’s name what we want, and talk about the transformation required to get there.      https://antinuclear.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/578d2-remakersmemo_1_14jan2020.pdf

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming | Leave a comment

Liberal Party misinformation on climate change

Notorious climate denier Craig Kelly at it again,  Independent Australia, By Steve Bishop | 19 January 2020, Official figures reveal the Liberals’ foremost climate change denying MP, Craig Kelly, resorted to lies and misinformation to dispute factual evidence in his presentation to a Sky News program.Kelly and other MPs such as George Christensen, have helped sabotage the Federal Government’s climate change policy to a point where it is viewed as the worst in the world.

Just examine the absurd whoppers Kelly told in claiming most of the U.S.’s hottest years on record had occurred in the 1930s.

He used these lies to justify an even bigger lie:  Here’s a transcript of Kelly’s snake-oil claims:

……… The United States’ climate records are kept by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

I have searched the records, which go back to 1895, and can find no statistics to support Kelly’s claims.

The only set of figures which bear any resemblance to Kelly’s fake news are for one-off freak temperature extremes in each state……….

All Australians should be concerned by Kelly’s lies because he has the personal backing of Prime Minister Scott Morrison, who intervened before the last election to ensure the climate change denier was selected as the candidate for Hughes.

This gives Kelly credibility with the ridiculous right of the party when coal-loving Morrison, as PM, has to appeal to a broad church….. https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/notorious-climate-denier-craig-kelly-at-it-again,13501

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming, politics | Leave a comment

Australia led the world in climate action, in 2012 with the Gillard Labor government

Who to Blame for Australia’s Bullshit Approach to Climate Change  https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/dygvjy/who-to-blame-for-australia-coal-mining-lobbyists-fires-bushfires-bullshit-approach-to-climate-change  

Look these coal lobbyists in the eye. Remember their names. By Royce Kurmelovs, 16 January 2020, 

As the smoke begins to clear on 10.3 million hectares of charred earth, many Australians have started asking questions. The largest natural disaster in the country’s history has left over two dozen people dead; over a billion native animals dead or dying, along with tens of thousands of livestock; and some species pushed to the point of extinction.

Now people are asking: “why?”

The answer, for many, is that we’ve begun a long and unnerving slide into a world of supercharged weather. The CO2 humanity had been pumping into the atmosphere for decades is now affecting our seasons in precisely all the ways we were warned. For Australia, that means hotter summers with less rainfall, which is exactly what 2019 delivered.

Australia just sweltered through its hottest year on record with temperatures averaging 1.52C above the 1961—1990 average, according to data from the Bureau of Meteorology. This came after an unprecedented period of drought across much of the country’s east, which unsurprisingly led to widespread fires.

But even if the science is clear, the reality seems lost on those who hold the country’s highest political offices. When confronted with the suggestion his government was not acting in a meaningful way on climate change, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has simply said he “did not accept that” and insisted, like his Minister for Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor, that Australia has been “doing its part”.

he truth is that Australia is the fourth largest coal producer in the world, and has relied on tricky accounting practices to book progress toward reducing its carbon emissions while actually doing the bare minimum.

Because of this, Australia was recently rated 57th on a list of countries for its handling of climate change—placing it just slightly above Iran with its oil-dependent national economy.

And yet just eight years ago, Australia was leading the world on climate change action. In 2012 we’d achieved what many pundits believed was a political impossibility. Australia had levied a tax on carbon that forced an almost immediate drop in the country’s CO2 emissions. That was until a new conservative government took power and repealed the carbon tax a short two years later.

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, climate change - global warming, politics | Leave a comment

Experienced physicist doubts the value of small modular nuclear reactors for Australia

Despite a good safety record, nuclear power is not straight forward, THE AUSTRALIAN, Leslie Cook 20 Jan 2020

As a physicist with the British Atomic Energy Authority in the 1960s, I remember the scale and complexity of the task and the breadth of expertise required in science, engineering and regulation, even if an existing design is used.

This simply does not exist in Australia. Nor does the necessary construction capacity — and the thought of the CFMEU controlling concrete pours of 18,000 cubic metres is daunting. Small modular reactors exist only on paper at present and will also require infrastructure. , https://www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/letters/despite-a-good-safety-record-nuclear-power-is-not-straight-forward/news-story/eb791793ea9751dc3a905a7869687e01

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, technology | Leave a comment

PM under pressure as Coalition changes tune on climate change

PM under pressure as Coalition changes tune on climate change , Daily Telegraph , 19 Jan 2020

Prime Minister Scott Morrison could be facing a cabinet revolt on climate change with the horror bushfire season sparking new calls for action from his own top-ranking MPs…. (subscribers only)

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics | Leave a comment

MPower starts work on two more 5MW solar farms for South Australia — RenewEconomy

Renewable microgrid specialist begins early works on two new 5MW solar farms in South Australia, in continued focus on smaller grid-connected PV projects. The post MPower starts work on two more 5MW solar farms for South Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.

via MPower starts work on two more 5MW solar farms for South Australia — RenewEconomy

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Know your NEM: Rooftop solar catches wind in slow, but low priced start to 2020 — RenewEconomy

Rooftop solar nearly caught wind energy at start of 2020, as low futures prices mark debut of the New Year. The post Know your NEM: Rooftop solar catches wind in slow, but low priced start to 2020 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

via Know your NEM: Rooftop solar catches wind in slow, but low priced start to 2020 — RenewEconomy

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

German government, mining states, and utilities fix path for coal exit — RenewEconomy

German government, utilities and key mining states agree on coal phase out, although environmental groups say the plan is too slow. The post German government, mining states, and utilities fix path for coal exit appeared first on RenewEconomy.

via German government, mining states, and utilities fix path for coal exit — RenewEconomy

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Criminal case against Adani over a coal transaction

“Undue favour” given to “disqualified” Adani Enterprises in award of coal supply contract: CBI, The agency has registered the FIR under charges of criminal conspiracy, cheating under IPC and PPCA after a preliminary enquiry, Energy World ET Bureau  |  January 16, 2020, NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a criminal case against Adani Enterprises and top brass of the National Cooperative Consumer Federation (NCCF) for “giving undue favour” to M/s Adani Enterprises Ltd in award of work for supply of imported coal to Andhra Pradesh Power General Corporation (APGENCO) despite its (Adani) “disqualification”.
Besides Adani Enterprises, those named in CBI’s FIR include Virender Singh, the then Chairman; G P Gupta, the then Managing Director (MD); S C Singhal, the then senior advisor of NCCF, New Delhi. Also, unknown public servants and others have been named in CBI’s FIR……..

NEW DELHI: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a criminal case against Adani Enterprises and top brass of the National Cooperative Consumer Federation (NCCF) for “giving undue favour” to M/s Adani Enterprises Ltd in award of work for supply of imported coal to Andhra Pradesh Power General Corporation (APGENCO) despite its (Adani) “disqualification”.

Besides Adani Enterprises, those named in CBI’s FIR include Virender Singh, the then Chairman; G P Gupta, the then Managing Director (MD); S C Singhal, the then senior advisor of NCCF, New Delhi. Also, unknown public servants and others have been named in CBI’s FIR. https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/coal/undue-favour-given-to-disqualified-adani-enterprises-in-award-of-coal-supply-contract-cbi/73304926

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News | Leave a comment

Federation makes big offer to acquire wind farm developer Windlab — RenewEconomy

Federation Asset Management makes bid to acquire all remaining shares in Windlab, which has experienced delays in two of its key renewable energy projects, The post Federation makes big offer to acquire wind farm developer Windlab appeared first on RenewEconomy.

via Federation makes big offer to acquire wind farm developer Windlab — RenewEconomy

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Our apocalypse now — Beyond Nuclear International

Martin Sheen decries climate denial

via Our apocalypse now — Beyond Nuclear International

January 20, 2020 Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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