Nnimmo Bassey on Justice for the Earth Community, "Keep the Oil in the Soil" Chevron Oil Spill off Brazil - 10 Times Bigger Than Official Estimate? Tories bar opposition MPs from official delegation at climate talks. Opposition MPs had better hope for a seat sale if they want to go to the next round of international climate talks.
Environment Minister Peter Kent says opposition parties will not be part of Canada's official delegation at a UN-led meeting in South Africa this month. So if they want to take the Tories to task, they will have to pay their own way. “It's our government's decision with regards to this conference,” Mr. Kent said Wednesday. Canada's delegation will include members of the governing Conservative Party, as well as business leaders and other experts. Mystery Radiation Detected 'Across Europe' The hunt is on for the source of low level radiation detected in the atmosphere "across Europe" over the past weeks, nuclear officials said today.
Trace amounts of iodine-131, a type of radiation created during the operation of nuclear reactors or in the detonation of a nuclear weapon, were detected as early as three weeks ago by Austrian authorities and then two weeks ago by the Czech Republic's State Office for Nuclear Safety. Today the International Atomic Energy Agency released a statement revealing similar detections had been made "in other locations across Europe. " The IAEA said the current levels of iodine-131 are far too low to warrant a public health risk, but the agency still does not know the origin of the apparent leak and an official with the agency would not say where else it has been detected. The IAEA has been unable to determine from which country the radiation is emanating, and both Czech and Austrian officials said it was unlikely their countries were the source.