“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.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.
https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/18165381.cumbria-highest-cancer-rates-region/
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
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
Chatham House declares nuclear power’s swansong – welcomes era of sun and wind
Nuclear Futures, Oil Price 18th Jan 2020unequivocally entering the era of wind and solar power. https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Is-This-The-Death-Knell-For-Nuclear.html
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/
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
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
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,
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.
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
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)
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.
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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.
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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.
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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 |
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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.
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