Category Archives: Nuclear power

Will you pay as new reactors jump $900 million in three months?

By Harvey Wasserman May 15, 2012 – The projected price for Georgia’s Vogtle Double Reactor Project has jumped at least $900 million in just three months….and that’s just for starters. Will you pay for it?  The future of new atomic … Continue reading

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This MayDay: Occupy the Farm!

MayDay began as an ancient celebration of renewal of springtime, and continues today as a celebration of Immigrant and International Workers’ Day. Among myriad others, Rosa Luxembourg wrote about the origins of May Day as a workers holiday. This MayDay, as … Continue reading

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Obama’s Atomic Solyndra?

By Harvey Wasserman, cross-posted from The Huffington Post 04/18/2012 – The future of nuclear power now hangs on a single decision by President Obama — and us. His Office of Management and Budget could cave to the unsustainable demands of reactor builders … Continue reading

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From Fukushima Disaster Comes Radioactive Biomass Energy

Note: Okay, here’s a REALLY bad idea–Japan is now planning to take the heavily radioactive wood from the Fukushima power plant and other nuke plants–to feed wood-burning electricity production.  That’s right, because not enough radiation was released by the disaster, … Continue reading

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Scientists Track Radioactive Iodine in New Hampshire from Japan Nuclear Reactor Meltdown

Note: Another reason why false solutions to climate change designed to maintain the status quo: like nuclear power, wood-based “biomass” electricity, and industrial-scale agrofuels (biofuels) are only making things worse.  We need a systemic transformation.  Nothing short of this will … Continue reading

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Report from the False Solutions Circus at VT Yankee

Clowns Highlight Absurdity of Entergy’s Vermont Yankee Nuclear Plant by the Red Clover Climate Justice Collective On Thursday, March 22nd in Brattleboro, Vermont, the Red Clover Climate Justice collective, based in Burlington, Vermont, held a False Solutions Circus highlighting the … Continue reading

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Vermont Yankee Protest: 130 Demonstrators Arrested At Nuclear Plant’s Corporate Headquarters

By WILSON RING 03/23/12   Cross-Posted from the Huffington Post Hundreds of anti-nuclear activists march to the local corporate offices of Vermont Yankee owner Entergy Corp., Thursday, March 22, 2012 in Brattleboro, Vt. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) . BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — A … Continue reading

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Dozens arrested in Vermont Yankee anti-nuclear protest

By WILSON RING, Associated Press – 24 minutes ago BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — Dozens of protesters are being arrested in Brattleboro for trespassing on the property of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant in a demonstration against the continued operation of … Continue reading

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“From Fukushima We Change the World”

2012年3月8日木曜日 Sachiko Sato Cross-posted from Shut From Fukushima We Change the World An appeal to be delivered during CSW, NY, March 2012 Sachiko Sato, Fukushima (This is and appeal prepared for the UN CSW Conference, March 2012) Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident … Continue reading

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2011 Top Ten Articles on Climate Connections

Note:  The following are the top ten articles from Climate Connections from 2011 according to those the number of views each received.  Several of these are original articles/photos from GJEP’s Jeff Conant, Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle, and were also published … Continue reading

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Filed under Biodiversity, Carbon Trading, Chiapas, Climate Change, Climate Justice, Corporate Globalization, Durban/COP-17, Energy, False Solutions to Climate Change, Forests and Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, natural disasters, Nuclear power, Photo Essays by Orin Langelle, Pollution, Posts from Anne Petermann, Posts from Jeff Conant, REDD, UNFCCC