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 / […]
2010-10-26 Letter: Ban nuclear dump, new Bruce Power web site, Hanley on unconventional fossil fuels
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 […]
Local leaders in Pinehouse, SK are exploring the idea of hosting a nuclear waste storage site. Please pass to folkswho might have connections to Pinehouse Lake. Northern Saskatchewan is the second poorest area in Canada. This is after 30 years of the uranium/nuclear industry. Tax-payers subsidize these operations while the water supplies of local people are […]
Has Ignace, Ontario been confirmed as the site for high-level radioactive waste disposal (for North America)? (scroll down to IGNACE ONTARIO AS SITE FOR HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL? Which includes the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal article, 11/27/2009) Or is it someplace else, not at Ignace? Or, can you believe what the nuclear/uranium/electricity corporations say? CLICK HERE […]
There is good information in this posting if you have time to scroll through. The Nuclear Waste Management Organization (NWMO) is holding public meetings on very short notice. Please help get people to the meetings. See items #2 and #3. Thanks! UPDATE, thanks to Herman: Expert panel recommends new isotope reactor http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/12/03/medical-isotopes-reactor003.html Good grief! We […]
CHRONOLOGY (CONTEXT) FOR UNDERSTANDING HOW MORE MONEY WILL BE TRANSFERRED FROM THE GOVERNMENT TO THE NUCLEAR/URANIUM INDUSTRY. THE UNIVERSITY IS THE MIDDLE MAN. The following chronology is an aid to understanding the November 30th decision of the “Expert Review Panel”. It creates CONTEXT. It is just a sampling of evidence from the public record. Some […]
We have the power: – we are connected – we arm each other with knowledge. We can be defeated only if we are kept ignorant, and disconnected from each other. So far, we have been able to thwart Bruce Power from getting its hands on land to build reactors on. SO Dig in again! Metis […]
Note: (1) NWMO = Nuclear Waste Management Organization, their website: http://www.nwmo.ca/ (2) (below) Gordon refers to fact that Quebec Legislature prohibited import of radioactive waste for storage in Quebec. Not everyone will know that THE HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE ACT for Manitoba was assented to in 1987. It makes it illegal to import radioactive waste into […]