Greens urge govt to block Pilbara uranium. The Greens have vowed to fight a Canadian company's bid to mine uranium in Western Australia but hope the federal government will reject the proposal on environmental grounds. Canadian uranium mining company Cameco is seeking federal environmental approval to mine its Kintyre uranium deposit near Telfer in WA's Pilbara. If given approval, it plans to truck as much as 3600 tonnes of uranium oxide annually from Kintyre, near Telfer, in the Pilbara, to a planned hub near Kalgoorlie. From there it would be shipped by rail to Adelaide or Darwin for export. Advertisement The deposit, near the Rudall River, alongside Karlamilyi National Park in WA's north was originally part of the park before it was excised in 1994, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said. "So as you can imagine it is a pristine natural area and it has environmentally sensitive wetlands in the vicinity," Senator Ludlam said.
There were thousands of truck accidents every year in WA, Senator Ludlam said. Simi Valley, CA Nuclear Disaster. Energy - May 11. Click on the headline (link) for the full text. Many more articles are available through the Energy Bulletin homepage Japan to Cancel Plan to Build More Nuclear Plants Maratin Fackler, New York Times Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Tuesday that Japan would abandon plans to build more nuclear reactors, saying his country needed to “start from scratch” in creating a new energy policy. Mr. Kan’s announcement came as Japan allowed residents of evacuated areas around the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant to briefly revisit their homes for the first time since the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March caused the nuclear accident at the plant.
Tuesday’s decision will mean the abandonment of a plan that the Kan government released last year to build 14 nuclear reactors by 2030 and increase the share of nuclear power in Japan’s electricity supply to 50 percent. The cancellation of the planned nuclear plants is the second time that Mr. Massive Cloud of Radiation Heading for the U.S | Myweathertech.com. Earth Day Special: Vandana Shiva and Maude Barlow on the Rights of Mother Earth. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: As the world celebrates Earth Day, Bolivia is about to pass the world’s first law that grants nature equal rights with humans.
The Bolivian delegation to the United Nations urged the global body to adopt a similar law during this week’s Harmony with Nature conference. DAVID CHOQUEHUANCA: [translated] The United Nations is revolutionizing the way we look at our planet. AMY GOODMAN: That was the Bolivian foreign minister speaking in New York City about the Harmony with Nature dialogue at the United Nations. This week also marks the one-year anniversary of the BP oil spill; next week, the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. We speak with two renowned environmental justice activists: Maude Barlow and Vandana Shiva. VANDANA SHIVA: We have a very, very strong anti-nuclear movement in India. AMY GOODMAN: And people live there. VANDANA SHIVA: People live there. So, what I’m calling for here is not complacency. Do Fungi Feast on Radiation? Like plants that grow toward the sun, dark fungi, blackened by the skin pigment melanin, gravitate toward radiation in contaminated soil.
Scientists have observed the organisms—somewhere between plants and animals—blackening the land around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine in the years since its 1986 meltdown. "Organisms that make melanin have a growth advantage in this soil," says microbiologist Arturo Casadevall of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. "In many commercial nuclear reactors, the radioactive water becomes contaminated with melanotic organisms. Nobody really knows what the hell they are doing there. " Casadevall and his colleagues, however, have a theory. Based on experiments with three different types of fungi, they believe the melanin-containing breeds absorb the high levels of energy in ionizing radiation and somehow turn it into a biologically useful (and benign) form, akin to a dark and dangerous version of photosynthesis.
Canadian Nuclear Plant Leaks Radioactive Water Into Lake Ontario – Planetsave.com: climate change and environmental news. With all the focus placed on the Japanese radiation leak as well as the toxic plume of radioactive particles (possibly containing uranium and plutonium) heading for the United States, another potential disaster is receiving virtually no attention. Of course, attention should be paid to the Japanese situation. Nevertheless, it seems the continent of North America is being hit from two sides in terms of radiation danger. No doubt this is an attempt to hush concern over another radioactive accident amid anxiety over the catastrophe in Japan.
So they can push the “Nuclear is safe” agenda, just like coal, oil and gas companies do. No doubt the new speech about nuclear will include “A little radiation won’t hurt anyone, it’s natural.” John Luxat, an “expert” on radiation from McMaster University claims the water that found its way into Lake Ontario Monday is actually not radioactive at all. Apparently, the nuclear industry was unable to get its story straight this time around. According to Mr. The problems with Smart Grids.
How is it that so many intelligent, inside-the-beltway environmentalists are buying into an eco-health-safety-finance debacle with the potential to increase energy consumption, endanger the environment, harm public health, diminish privacy, make the national utility grid more insecure, cause job losses, and make energy markets more speculative? Answer: by not doing their homework. Welcome to the Smart Grid -- a government-funded money machine capable of intruding into every aspect of our lives.
Smart Grid technologies -- initially funded to the tune of $3.4 billion through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and slated to cost $11 billion through 2011 -- are enough to make even die-hard liberals demand a claw back of misspent tax dollars. And there’s the enticing communications factor: a nationwide high-speed broadband information technology barreling down high-tension electric corridors called Broadband-Over-Power-Lines (BPL). What Is a Smart Grid? David O. U.S.