Thank Goodness for these young people and for Greenpeace. Maybe sanity will prevail. The battle has been waging in Ontario: The Government is moving ahead with plans to build new reactors, in spite of what is happening in Japan. The issue of the transport of the radioactive generators from the nuclear plants through the Great […]
Saskatchewan moves ahead with nuclear agenda despite crisis in Japan Jennifer Graham, The Canadian Press Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:19:00 CST REGINA – Saskatchewan plans to pursue its nuclear agenda even as the crisis in Japan raises questions about the industry’s safety. There are concerns about possible meltdowns at some Japanese reactors after an earthquake […]
It will be game over for climate change. These reactors are for tar sands expansion. We are organizing the Green Party in Saskatchewan, federal and provincial, as fast as we can but it’s not fast enough. /Sandra http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/03/02/sk-nuclear-money-1102.html Sk. spending $30M on nuclear research centre CBC News Posted: Mar 2, 2011 11:50 AM ET […]
(1) Premier Brad Wall is moving ahead once again on the nuclear agenda, in spite of the public consultations in summer 2009 that said “no”. The following are now posted to the blog, in case anyone wants access to some of the past information we circulated. 2010-10-28 CORRECTION Polonium is not plutonium! 2010-10-26 […]
People from Ontario through Manitoba to Saskatchewan are uniting to stop the cross-country trucking of high-level radioactive waste. It places unnecessary risks on everyone who is travelling on our major highways. It is impossible to move the amount of accumulated radioactive waste with no accidents. And the trucking HAS TO go on the main highways: […]
(A continuation of 2010/10/13, Ban import of high-level radioactive waste. Stop producing radioactive waste – there isn’t a place to put it (International Radioactive Waste Day). “The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects are untenable…We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.” ~ James […]
An old friend who is unnerved by the work I do recently asked “How do you know you are right?” (when I challenge “authority”). Well, I don’t know that I am right. It is because I have faith in you to correct me when I get really off-base, as I did with the polonium / […]
There is good information in the following. It is from a community-based group of people who share information, organize to prevent bad things from happening, and do solid work on finding a new path forward, for us to follow. An important contribution is to expose manipulative language (propaganda). Find ways to re-state it, so the […]
Stop producing radioactive waste – there isn’t a place to put it. CONTENTS (1) COMMENTARY (2) LETTER FROM THE PEOPLE WHO STOPPED CALVERT CLIFFS REACTOR. CITIZEN ACTION TO STOP MORE GOVERNMENT SUBSIDIES OF NUKE INDUSTRY. (USA) (3) A QUICK LOOK AT THE BATTLE TO STOP THE PRODUCTION OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE, INTERNATIONAL RADIOACTIVE WASTE ACTION DAY […]
CONTENTS (1) 2008-01-27 NDP Opposition Leader Lingenfelter on nuke agenda in Saskatchewan (when he was a Vice-President of Nexen Oil and Gas)(excerpt). Nexen has tar sands holdings along the border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. The tar sands industry needs huge amounts of electricity to heat up the underground deposits to the point where they will […]