By Jack Gibbons, Ontario Clean Air Alliance
The Green Energy Act lays out the McGuinty government's new energy agenda in very broad strokes: More emphasis on efficiency and renewable power.
But it's the details -- and what's not yet in the act -- that will determine whether this legislation powers a green energy revolution or leaves Ontario a sputtering green weakling.
There are four additional elements needed to create a prosperous green economy: A real commitment to ramp up spending on energy efficiency; a more enlightened approach to using natural gas; increased electricity trade with Quebec; and an end to blank cheque spending on nuclear projects.
http://www.torontosun.com/comment/2009/03/23/8848431-sun.html
March 19, 2009
The myth of a successful nuclear power industry in France has melted into financial chaos.
With it dies the corporate-hyped poster child for a "nuclear renaissance" of new reactor construction that is drowning in red ink and radioactive waste.
Areva, France's nationally-owned corporate atomic façade, has plunged into a deep financial crisis led by a devastating shortage of cash.
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2009/1732
A superb 90 min. 2007 documentary on the Chernobyl disaster.
Watch it free on you-tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4vMTdSAm1w&feature=PlayList&p=6BB4C9CA0705E0D5&index=0&playnext=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3u_8frR0IpE&feature=related
About 100,000 litres of contaminated water is seeping from a tailings dam at the mine every day.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/03/15/2516584.htm
A growing body of personal and scientific evidence contradicts the official story that the accident posed no threat to the public.
http://www.alternet.org/story/134977/
Lake County's child cancer death rate rose 54 percent since Perry NPP began operating, compared to a 27 percent U.S. decline, the Centers for Disease Control reports.
Scientific American
A new report finds that nuclear power plants cannot be built quickly enough and in a safe and secure manner to be a major global solution for climate change, according to a report released yesterday from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=nuclear-cannot-solve-climate-change