Big money in denying climate change
Dr Karl: ‘Something fishy about climate sceptics’ Adelaide Now CLARE PEDDIE December 17, 2009 CLIMATE change is a fact, sceptics are fishy, says Australia’s favourite scientist, Dr Karl Kruszelnicki.
Dr Karl is in town to promote his first game, Fact or Fishy?, and 28th book, Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s the Science. Continue reading
Nuclear to cure climate change – it’s a joke
Nuclear power as a cure for climate change is a sick joke. As climate changes, extreme weather events endanger uranium mines and nuclear facilities – as mentioned in today’s items on tropical cyclones, and France’s extreme cold.
Cyclone flood danger to uranium mines
Australia Issues Red Alert as Tropical Cyclone Approaches Coast By Jason ScottDec. 16 (Bloomberg) — Australia issued its highest storm alert as Tropical Cyclone Laurence’s winds strengthened to as high as 285 kilometers (177 miles) per hour as it approached the northwestern coast, where offshore oil and gas rigs were evacuated earlier………..
Cyclone George in March 2007 caused flooding at Energy Resources of Australia Ltd.’s Ranger uranium mine in the Northern Territory.
Australia Issues Red Alert as Tropical Cyclone Approaches Coast – Bloomberg.com
France’s nukes vulnerable to extreme weather
French Nuclear Power Struggles in a Cold Snap Business Week by: Carol Matlack on December 16 “…… the system also has shortcomings, as became evident this week when a cold snap sent electricity demand soaring. Continue reading
South Australia: incentives for renewable energy
Tax break boost for solar, wind projects ABC News Dec 16, 2009
A new renewable energy tax rebate has been announced and the South Australian Government hopes it will boost investment in the industry.
From next July, investors will get payroll tax rebates of up to $5 million for large solar energy projects and up to $1 million for wind power projects.
SA Premier Mike Rann says the rebates will help create jobs.
“We’re aiming to get 33 per cent of our power from renewables by 2020, but I also want to establish South Australia as the renewable energy hub for the eastern seaboard,” he said.
Tax break boost for solar, wind projects – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Switch to renewables, says Australian Academy of Science
Green power feasible Cheryl Jones The Australian December 16, 2009 THE federal government has the opportunity to switch the nation’s power to renewable energy but favours attempts to make “dirty coal clean”, Continue reading
Kyoto Protocol Excluded Nuclear Power
At Copenhagen, the rich countries have pushed for a new agreement, and an end to the legally binding Kyoto Protocol. The KyotoProtocol had stated that the industrialised nations had responsibility for the rise in atmospheric greenhouse gases. This point was now to be omitted.
Also with the KyotoProtocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, nuclear power was excluded – how inconvenient for the nuclear lobby, in its desperation to resuscitate the industry. You can bet that in any proposed new agreement, nuclear might just find its way in!
Review: Nuke weapons, BHPB govt influence, Copenhagen
Review of past week
Australia: Embarassment for Rudd (disarmament hero) with new defense call to revive Australian nuclear weapons plan, and with Gareth Evans including ‘peaceful’ nuke power, just as Rudd launches the report of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament. BHP Billiton adviser Hamish Douglass is appointed to the Foreign Investment Review Board. Tony Abbott dancing around the Coalition’s enthusiasm for nuclear power. Australian company Paladin now mining uranium in earthquake prone area in Malawi.
International: Uranium price continues to fall, but don’t worry, in Copenhagen the industry is pushing for nuclear as the solution to climate change. Meanwhile huge world-wide poll shows growing popularity of renewable energy, majority of people prefer it.Parliament of World’s Religions opposing nuclear. Problems and delays in India’s nuke program, while Young Indian movement gathers opposition to nuclear.
Uranium industry piggy-backs on Copenhagen
Oil, uranium to ride global warming policy wave * Robin Bromby, The Australian * December 14, 2009 “………….the thing that sticks in the mind about the chatfest in Denmark is a report from nearby Brussels that predicts the climate meeting will lead to oil hitting more than $US160 a barrel next year and uranium heading for a new high………..The bank also says uranium will benefit from Copenhagen. More nuclear plants will be built in the fight to reduce carbon emissions
Oil, uranium to ride global warming policy wave | The Australian
Promoting nuclear in the name of Climate Change
The farce in the name of climate change Promoting business interest by other means! Organiser By MD Nalapat -Dec 2009 “…………..All too many Climate Warriors are smiling all the way to the bank, as companies they have invested in get the benefit of the measures they propose……………What is the actual agenda of key delegations to the Copenhagen Conference? The first is the sale of expensive technologies to developing countries, primarily nuclear energy…… Continue reading
Global poll shows people want renewable energy
Investments in renewable energy seen as method to address climate change Renewable Energy Focus 13 December 2009 A global survey of 24,071 adults around the world shows majority support for government investments in renewable energy to address climate change. Continue reading
AREVA’s false nuclear case for Copenhagen
For Copenhagen, AREVA makes the false nuclear case Beyond Nuclear 12 Dec 09 In anticipation of the Copenhagen climate conference which began this week, Areva CEO, Anne Lauvergeon, stated during a French radio interview that nuclear power “does not release CO2” and that it “produces very little waste.”
These remarks were immediately condemned by the leading independent French radiological laboratory -CRIIRAD -who demanded that Lauvergeon take immediate steps to clean up the company’s contaminated African uranium mine sites in Gabon and Niger.
CRIIRAD also reminded Lauvergeon that (1) nuclear releases significant amounts of greenhouse gases, (2) that every stage of the nuclear fuel chain produces large quantities of radioactive wastes for which no safe storage solution has been found and (3) Areva has left populations to live on land or in dwellings contaminated by its activities.
Any decisions made at Copenhagen should not be based on erroneous information emanating from the nuclear industry, CRIIRAD said. From uranium extraction to enrichment, reprocessing and contamination of water supplies, Areva’s nuclear activities leave a virtually permanent trail of highly radioactive waste. The CRIIRAD press release is available in French and contains details of the radioactive contamination caused by Areva’s activities in France and overseas. And see also an article in English from Agence France Presse about Areva’s radioactive contamination in Gabon.
Tim Flannery: – ‘Australia will never need nuclear power
Tim Flannery on ABC Radio National Breakfast 3 Dec 09
Fran Kelly: Does Australia need nuclear power in your view?
Flannery: No it doesn’t and it never will. There’s no way we’ll ever need nuclear power in this country. That’s just another delaying tactic I’m afraid……
Aboriginal delegation to Copenhagen
Indigenous delegates head to Copenhagen ABC Indigenous Dec 9, 2009 Representatives of Australia’s northern Aboriginal land councils will fly to the United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen today. Continue reading
Review: Climate confusion, AREVA, UK nuke wastes ..
Review: Australia:Tony Abbott waffles, Liberals in Climate Change Denial, but want nuclear power in order to combat climate change – but no carbon price or tax – Work all that out if you can! Government still won’t re-instate Racial Discrimination Act -( because it still plans nuke waste dump on aboriginal land ?). The terrorist who planned attack on Lucas Heights nuke reactor now out of gaol, (but banned from Australia). Small starts on solar energy in WA and ACT.
International. French nuclear company AREVA in financial trouble – pinning its hopes on international sales of reactors. UK govt ignores its own experts’ advice on nuclear wastes.Pro-nukers try to overturn Wisconsin law. French reactors with cooling problems. Anti-nuclear movement in Armenia. Depleted uranium. Iraqi govt officials suspect depleted uranium as cause of rising child cancers. – the week that has been
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