Stop BHP’s expansion of Olympic Dam Uranium Mine
Zane Alcorn, said their purpose was to highlight the catastrophic effects the mine and its planned expansion would have on traditional owners, their land and future generations…..tens of thousands of gigalitres of water per day
is being sucked out of the Artesian Basin on Arabunna land to service the mine,”
Protesters gather at mine site, Sydney Morning Herald, July 16, 2010 –An anti-nuclear protester has chained himself to a four-wheel-drive blocking the road to BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine in South Australia’s far north. Continue reading
Deregulation of nuclear reactors increases risk of catastrophe
Federal lawmakers are weighing a BP-type deregulation of new nuclear reactors — the one energy source in which damage from a major accident could dwarf harm done by a ruptured offshore oil well.
Lessons from the Gulf for nuclear reactors – The Hill, By Dr. Jeffery Patterson, 07/16/10 One crucial lesson from the BP oil spill is that measures to speed licensing, cut corners on safety and undermine regulation can lead to tragic consequences. Yet Congress appears on the verge of repeating mistakes that led to the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf. Continue reading
What Australia’s nuclear company Silex Systems doesn’t tell you
Silex Systems jumps on the Climate Change bandwagon – presumably to draw in investors. In fact, solar energy is but a small fraction of their basically nuclear business. But – as the nuclear power industry languishes – well – a bit of solar can make you look good, for the moment.
What they don’t tell you is that while their nuclear laser technology awaits licensing, there are serious safety concerns about this technology. It will make the uranium enrichment process a lot faster and easier, but also easier to convert, without detection into nuclear weapons material. hence the Silex Systems laser uranium enrichment process is seen a s a nuclear weapons proliferation danger.
Pro nuclear propaganda from Silex Systems
any investor who survived the tech boom and bust of the late 1990s would be wary of grandiose technology claims.
It is therefore mollifying that Silex’s local solar operations are also on a growth path, albeit with only a fraction of the nuclear side’s dazzling (?) potential…….
RBS Morgans analyst Scott Power says solar accounts for less than 10 per cent of the firm’s Silex valuation.
Silex Systems opts for solar exposure Tim Boreham : The Australian * July 17, 2010 WITH the climate-change debate winding its way back on the political agenda, the Lucas Heights-based Silex Systems is hedging its bets. Continue reading
Australian champion surfer joins African anti nuclear protest
“The out-of-sight, out-of-mind attitude must stop now,” said Australia’s Mick Fanning, a former world surfing champion and a top contender this year on the ASP World Tour.
Surfers in South Africa to march against nuclear project, Outdoors, action and adventure, Pete Thomas Jul 16, 2010 Some of the world’s top pro surfers will participate in a protest march Saturday against the proposed construction in South Africa of a nuclear power station that threatens to jeopardize some of the region’s premier surf spots. Continue reading
Free DVD on uranium mining danger to Australia’s workers
“When the dust settles” – a David Bradbury film If anyone wants a free copy of the dvd, all they have to do is send $5 bucks (postage costs) in an envelope to
PO Box 1250 Mullumbimby
NSW 2482 for a copy.
Or they they can go online and check it out for free (less quality) on youtube
at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSScncD3Ark
Climate Report Card – Australian politics
The Pollute-o-meter awarded the Greens four stars out of five, and found their policies could cut emissions by 26 per cent by 2020. The Greens want to put a price on carbon pollution.
Fails all round on climate report card, Herald Sun, 16/07/2010 With climate change shaping as a key election issue, both major parties have scored a fail from experts. Continue reading
A solar investment success story
A 50% reduction in gas costs and 70% reduction in energy costs. Better yet, he was then able to begin selling the extra power back to the electricity grid, as well as renewable energy credits to investors, who lend money to renewable energy projects.
(USA) Solar Power Success Story: Yearly Return & Low Energy Costs, CalFinder, 16 july 2010, Source: Portland Press Herald, When Jim Camasto had money to spare a few years back, he made a wise decision to invest in something other than the stock market: solar power. Today, this decision yields him a 3 to 4% yearly return and security that other investments just don’t offer. Continue reading
Northern Territory’s increased rainfall pattern hampering uranium mining
unstable pit wall conditions and the high rainfall level are considered to be the major factors affecting the decline of production volumes by the ERA.
Rainfalls hamper Uranium mine efficiency in Australia | Seer Press, 16 July 2010, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) admits the high rainfall levels coupled with a slip of a pit wall have significantly hampered their production capacity Continue reading
Germany to get euro billions from nuclear fuel tax
Revenue from the tax would help Germany cut its budget deficit and finance the clean-up of its repositories for nuclear waste.
German nuclear tax to raise 2.3 bln eur-draft law BERLIN, July 15 (Reuters) – The proposed German tax on nuclear power station operators would likely raise 2.3 billion euros annually between 2011 and 2014, a finance ministry draft law obtained by Reuters said.Nuclear power station operators will face a levy of 220 euros per gramme of nuclear fuel (uranium or plutonium)…… Continue reading
Australia dithers, missing the tide on renewable energy investment
PriceWaterhouseCoopers’s Andrew Peterson says the delay in setting a carbon price has created wide uncertainty about the investment opportunities in the renewable energy sector.
Finding the funds for clean, green energy – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Andrew O’Connor, 16 July 2010, Carnegie Wave Energy believes its undersea wave power technology is one of the keys to Australia’s clean, green energy future. But lingering uncertainty over the nation’s climate change policy means the WA-based company is increasingly reliant on financial support from foreign investors. Continue reading
Iranian nuclear scientist might have been double agent
Was Iranian Nuclear Scientist a Double Agent? | The Atlantic Wire, By Max Fisher July 15, 2010, Alleged Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri has returned to Iran after 13 months in the U.S. It’s still unclear what happened during his stay and why he returned home. We may never know the full truth, but several new reports point to the possibility that he was an Iranian double agent all along. Under this theory, Amiri would have faked his defection to the U.S. (or allowed himself to be abducted, depending on whose story you believe), where he either fed the U.S. false information or acquired information to send back to Iran or both. Here’s what we know……. Was Iranian Nuclear Scientist a Double Agent? | The Atlantic Wire
Despite Abbott, Liberal Coalition plans for nuclear power
“We believe people should be given facts, not hysteria”….So you’ll see
Australia under an Abbott government working with other countries as other countries develop their nuclear industries..”
Nuclear debate still open, Stock & Land, 14 July, 2010, “………… many in Australia’s uranium industry and the Coalition itself expect a debate about clean (?) energy supplies that will point towards developing a local nuclear capacity.
Opposition resources spokesman Ian Macfarlane has been open about the Coalition’s longer-term position. Continue reading
Anti-nuclear Aboriginal is Greens Senate candidate
He says he wants to represent Territorians in the fight against the proposed nuclear waste dump at Muckaty station and the federal intervention.
Greens choose entertainer as Senate candidate, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), By Kirsty Nancarrow Jul 14, 2010 The Greens have chosen the award-winning Central Australian entertainer Warren H. Williams as its Northern Territory Senate candidate for the upcoming federal election. Continue reading
Anerican Indian tribes resist nuclear waste storage
Tribes: Nuclear waste can’t be stored at Hanford, Google hosted news, (AP) – 15 July 2010, RICHLAND, Wash. — Northwest American Indian tribes say highly radioactive waste cannot be permanently stored at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site. Members of the Yakama, Nez Perce, Umatilla and Wanapum tribes on Wednesday addressed a commission appointed by President Barack Obama to examine U.S. disposal of radioactive waste. It was prompted by his decision not to proceed with the Yucca Mountain waste repository in Nevada…..
The Associated Press: Tribes: Nuclear waste can’t be stored at Hanford
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