Shock Jock Alan Jones takes time off insulting women, to praise thorium nuclear power
Thorium ‘more environmentally friendly and safer’ than nuclear https://www.news.com.au/video/id-5348771529001-6074698767001/thorium-more-environmentally-friendly-and-safer-than-nuclear August 20th 2019
Sky News host Alan Jones explains the element thorium, which is “seen by many as more environmentally friendly” than nuclear as an energy source. Mr Jones said thorium-based reactors are safer too because the reaction can easily be stopped and produce less waste that is radioactive. “It’s three times as abundant as uranium, we’re told, and there’s enough thorium in the United States alone to power America at its current energy level for a thousand years,” he said. The broadcaster noted that rolling blackouts for smelters and manufacturers has created a “crisis” for the energy market and suggested thorium as a possible answer.
South Korea concerned over food safety at Olympics with events slated for Fukushima
South Korea concerned over food safety at Olympics with events slated for Fukushima
Talks to take place over food provision at Tokyo Games
Fukushima to host baseball and softball games next year, Guardian Justin McCurry in Tokyo, Thu 22 Aug 2019 South Korea is considering making its own arrangements to feed its athletes at next year’s Tokyo Olympics, citing concerns over the safety of food from Fukushima, media reports said.
Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack is an international embarrassment
Key points:
- Pacific countries want Australia to do more about climate change as they face rising sea levels
- Nationals leader Michael McCormack said last week they would survive because they “pick our fruit”
- He has has offered an apology for the comment “if any insult was taken”
Mr McCormack made the comments last Friday as he sought to dismiss criticism levelled at Prime Minister Scott Morrison following the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), at which leaders claimed Australia was ignoring the threat climate change posed to the survival of vulnerable low-lying island nations.
[I] get a little bit annoyed when we have people in those sorts of countries pointing the finger at Australia and say we should be shutting down all our resources sector so that they will continue to survive,” he said.
“They will continue to survive, there’s no question they will continue to survive, and they will continue to survive with large aid assistance from Australia.
“They will continue to survive because many of their workers come here and pick our fruit.”
On Thursday he apologised…….
‘Appropriate from a drunk in a bar, not from a leader’
The PIF meeting in Tuvalu saw Mr Morrison pressure fellow leaders to water down the PIF’s final declaration, removing references to cutting carbon emissions by phasing out coal.
Former president of Kiribati Anote Tong said he could not understand how Mr McCormack thought it was a smart comment to make.
“If you’re drunk, and in a bar, it would be an appropriate place and time to make the comment. But if you’re speaking as a leader, really it is not appropriate,” he said.
Tuvalu Prime Minister Enele Sopoaga, who hosted the Pacific Islands Forum, said the comments made Pacific Islanders sound like “paupers” who were begging for Australian support. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-08-22/mccormack-apology-pick-our-fruit/11438312
Bass Coast Shire Council declares Climate Emergency
Climate change is an emergency, Mirage News, 23 Aug 19
Bass Coast Shire Councillors have resolved that climate change poses a serious threat and should be treated as an emergency.
A motion was carried at last Wednesday’s Ordinary Council Meeting and will see Council develop a Bass Coast Climate Change Action Plan 2020-30, to set out how Bass Coast Shire can more effectively contribute to climate change mitigation and be more resilient and well adapted to the effects of a changing climate.
It will also include a target of zero net emissions by 2030 across Council operations as well as the wider community.
Bass Coast Mayor, Cr Brett Tessari, said while Council’s Natural Environment Strategy, adopted in 2016, recognises climate change, this declaration goes one step further….. https://www.miragenews.com/climate-change-is-an-emergency/
August 23 Energy News — geoharvey
Opinion: ¶ “Bill Gates Is Throwing Away Money On Ill-Advised Non-Solutions To Global Warming” • Bill Gates is not attending to the reality of the success of renewable energy, the unknowns of solar geoengineering, and the global failure of nuclear energy as a solution to global warming. His solutions funding would be vastly better spent […]
One year on, how good is Morrison’s climate and energy denial? — RenewEconomy
One year after Scott Morrison took the reins as PM – and appointed Angus Taylor federal energy minister – the divide over the country’s energy and climate future is as deep and depressing as ever. How good is that? The post One year on, how good is Morrison’s climate and energy denial? appeared first on…
via One year on, how good is Morrison’s climate and energy denial? — RenewEconomy
Is Coalition trying to sell the CEFC they could not close? Apparently not — RenewEconomy
SMH report claiming the federal government’s $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation is up for sale has been hosed down by both the Coalition, and the green bank itself. The post Is Coalition trying to sell the CEFC they could not close? Apparently not appeared first on RenewEconomy.
via Is Coalition trying to sell the CEFC they could not close? Apparently not — RenewEconomy
Solar sends Queensland wholesale day-time prices to zero six days in a row — RenewEconomy
Queensland day-time prices hit zero or below for sixth day in a row, while prices go negative for 10th day in a row in South Australia. The post Solar sends Queensland wholesale day-time prices to zero six days in a row appeared first on RenewEconomy.
via Solar sends Queensland wholesale day-time prices to zero six days in a row — RenewEconomy
ARENA backs solar hydrogen plant in Brisbane as electrolyser costs tipped to plunge — RenewEconomy
A $3.1m pilot project to produce green hydrogen via electrolysis at existing BOC gas facility in Queensland wins $950,000 from Australian Renewable Energy Agency. The post ARENA backs solar hydrogen plant in Brisbane as electrolyser costs tipped to plunge appeared first on RenewEconomy.
via ARENA backs solar hydrogen plant in Brisbane as electrolyser costs tipped to plunge — RenewEconomy
5B plans solar “speed record” for 10GW plant in north Australia — RenewEconomy
5B plans to deploy “big field” Maverick models and set solar installation “speed record” for proposed 10GW mega-project in Northern Territory The post 5B plans solar “speed record” for 10GW plant in north Australia appeared first on RenewEconomy.
via 5B plans solar “speed record” for 10GW plant in north Australia — RenewEconomy
Sports bodies need to make own assessments of Fukushima: Greenpeace nuclear specialist — Fukushima 311 Watchdogs
“The first thing is … don’t trust the Japanese government, educate yourself. If you’re an organizing body, get independent verification and independent information about what the relative radiation levels are, what the risks are,” Burnie said.” Nuclear specialist warns of unknown long-term health, environmental risks from Japan’s radioactive water disposal plan Shaun Burnie, senior nuclear […]
Nuclear Inquiries in Australian Parliaments
1 FEDERAL Submissions about the proposed National Radioactive Waste Management Facility in Kimba or the Flinders Ranges. The Standing Committee on Environment and Energy are accepting submissions to the ‘Inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia’ until 16 September 2019. Please write your own submission or use FOE’s online proforma.
2. FEDERAL. Inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia (Submissions close 16 September 2019 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Environment_and_Energy/Nuclearenergy?fbclid=IwAR0Sw4LB2qdcxSI6U6l67lI7Mwz9IEWw7_0RIq3mtN-nfpkfBn4z2VkQGog
3, NEW SOUTH WALES. Uranium Mining and Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill 2019(Submissions close 18 October 2019)
Nuclear submissions: people are “doubling up”? Sending the same submissions to 2 different Inquiries
Well – I am not able to read any submissions to FEDERAL. Inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia . But I have read all the 11 submissions so far published to New South Wales Inquiry into Uranium Mining and Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill 2019. https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/committees/inquiries/Pages/inquiry-details.aspx?pk=2525&fbclid=IwAR2JjKI28uB4TZIJ38uZRlnQTmCQ3e7QyXk0 . They mostly pretty much read as if they were about setting up nuclear power in Austra ply using the same story to send to the Federal Inquiry. So there’s a hint – a way to save time?
Another hint – some writers are using some or all of their own previous submissions to the 2016 South Australian Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission.
In the next days and weeks Antinuclear. net will analyse submissions, as they appear on government websites.
About the CURRENT NUCLEAR SUBMISSIONS
It’s hard to grasp it all, with 4 nuclear Parliamentary submissions going on at the same time, and with short deadlines.
I am attempting to make sense of it all, starting with the Federal one FEDERAL. Inquiry into the prerequisites for nuclear energy in Australia (Submissions close 16 September 2019 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Environment_and_Energy/Nuclearenergy?fbclid=IwAR0Sw4LB2qdcxSI6U6l67lI7Mwz9IEWw7_0RIq3mtN-nfpkfBn4z2VkQGog
A submission can be sent in hard copy by post, or online. It’s quite a performance to send a submission online, but well worth doing. One can refer to any or all of the Terms of Reference.
a. waste management, transport and storage,
b. health and safety,
c. environmental impacts,
d. energy affordability and reliability,
e. economic feasibility,
f. community engagement,
g. workforce capability,
h. security implications,
i. national consensus, and
j. any other relevant matter
Best to write your own submission, but there is also the option of using Friends of the Earth’s pro forma submission.
The Committee of Inquiry may publish submissions, but people (and nuclear companies) can ask for their submissions to be confidential.
Reaction against Robert Parker’s nuclear reactor plan for Ipswich, Queensland
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Nuclear for Ipswich to combat growing carbon emissions, Navarone Farrell, Queensland Times, August 21, 2019 SWANBANK is one of 10 sites in Queensland touted for a nuclear power station after talks at a lobby group summit.
Ipswich Residents Against Toxic Environments president Jim Dodrill said moving towards nuclear energy based on the premise of carbon footprint reduction “was nonsense”. “We’re absolutely opposed to (nuclear). It doesn’t make any sense economically, it doesn’t make any sense environmentally and it certainly doesn’t make any sense in the long term in regards to the waste from that form of power generation,” he said. “People do try to confuse the issue in relation to (nuclear’s) carbon footprint. The carbon footprint of nuclear is very, very high – not in the direct generation of power, but in the indirect. “You’re talking about moving the fuel over great distances, you’re talking about a lot of storage and the logistics of the fuel and the waste and the set up of that kind of generator. “It would be, in the long-term, no better than burning coal.” Mr Dodrill said moving towards another form of non-renewable energy would be a step backwards and that the rest of the world has moved on from nuclear. “It would make no sense for somewhere like Ipswich – or any city anywhere in Australia – to move into a type of power generation that’s (becoming defunct),” he said. “It’s nonsense altogether… (this agenda) is obviously being pushed by a particular sector of the far right in Australian politics.” Bundamba Labor MP Jo-Ann Miller, a fierce opponent of any more “stinks and smells” energy in Ipswich, ridiculed the idea. “Australia cannot even work out what it needs to do in relation to the nuclear plant in Sydney,” she said. “It’s certainly is at no stage of looking at nuclear-based power. Our city for many, many years has been a nuclear-free zone and that’s the way it should stay. “We do not want incinerators and we do not want nuclear power plants in our back yards, it’s a no-go.”… “How dare they consider Swanbank and my electorate without even having a conversation with the local people, and I can assure them that our locals would be very much against it,” she said. https://www.weeklytimesnow.com.au/news/regional/nuclear-for-ipswich-to-combat-growing-carbon-emissions/news-story/61af3052d10672573bb761eed16af606 |
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