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New Reactors and Waste Dump for East Shore of Lake Huron
14 MAY'08–The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission released draft guidelines on April 7th for the environmental review of two separate projects proposed for the Bruce Nuclear Station near Kincardine, on the eastern shore of Lake Huron.
See also: Proposes green energy production for Navajo 25 APR'08, Window Rock–Joseph Patrick Kennedy II and representatives of Citizens Energy Corp. blew into Window Rock Wednesday like a breath of fresh air, promising economic development and profit for the nation's largest tribe from its most abundant resources – wind and sun.
25 APR'08, VANCOUVER–British Columbia has slapped an official moratorium on uranium exploration and development in the province, reinforcing a long-standing informal ban on the nuclear fuel and dashing the hopes of companies that hoped to take advantage of soaring prices for the commodity. The ban, announced yesterday, makes B.C. a no-go zone for uranium and confirms a moratorium put in place in 1980 by a previous government responding to anti-nuclear sentiment in the province (more from The Globe and Mail)... Navajo Challenge Uranium Mining Permit on Tribal LandsSANTA FE, New Mexico, April 19, 2008 (ENS)–For the first time in history, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, will be challenged in federal appeals court for its approval of a source materials license for an in situ leach uranium mine. The Navajo communities of Crownpoint and Church Rock, New Mexico will fight the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the permitted company, Hydro Resources, Inc., demanding that they stay off Navajo lands in New Mexico... The communities' case is being presented with the assistance of the community group Eastern Navajo Dine against Uranium Mining, or ENDAUM, and [2006 Nuclear-Free Future Award recipient] Southwest Research and Information Center (more from Environment News Service)... Inuit halt Aurora in Labrador9 APR.'08, TORONTO–Aurora Energy Resources Inc.'s hopes of extracting uranium in Labrador were dealt a crippling blow after Inuit in the region imposed a three- year moratorium on uranium mining. The Nunatsiavut government voted 8-7 in favour of the ban which will prevent Aurora or any other mining firm from producing the radioactive metal until at least 2011. Shares of Vancouver-based Aurora plunged almost 34 per cent in response to the vote results, which became effective immediately (more from Andy Hoffman in the Globe and Mail)... Will Al Gore Help Shut the Nuke Power Loophole?2 APR.'08–Today Al Gore is unveiling a massive campaign to fight climate chaos.
turns earthworms into glowworms 15 MAR.'08–Earthworms were pushed into the firing line last week after a resumption of the testing of depleted uranium shells at Dundrennan. Significant levels of radioactive uranium isotopes were found in the flesh of worms at the Ministry of Defence's Dumfries weapons range last year. Despite concerns from environmentalists and the international community, the MoD last week started a series of tests of depleted uranium (DU) shells, supposed "safety checks". A report published in the Journal of Environmental Monitoring found that worms in the Dumfries testing ground had significant traces of poisonous uranium isotopes in their bodies. Worms are a crucial part of the ecosystem, aerating the soil and aiding the nutrient uptake of plants. If they are contaminated, it suggests the wider environment is tainted.
Hinkley Point radiation leaks for infant mortalities and breast cancers 1 MAR. '08– A BBC Inside Out documentary broadcast yesterday (29 February 2008) features new research by Green Audit (sponsored by Stop Hinkley). Two leaks of radioactivity from Hinkley Point nuclear power station near Burnham on Sea, Somerset, UK in 1994 preceded a peak in infant mortality. Infant mortality is not officially considered as an effect of radioactive pollution.
2006 NFFAward recipient, speaks out in New Brunswick 28 FEB. '08, Sackville, N.B.–New Brunswick should invest its money in alternative and renewable sources of electricity, rather than spend billions of dollars on nuclear power plants that provide short-term benefits and long-term problems, nuclear critic Dr. Gordon Edwards said. "Instead of jumping from the carbon frying pan into the nuclear fire, we need to find alternative sources of energy," Edwards said in an interview following an hour-long presentation at Mount Allison University in Sackville. He said countries like Germany are embracing wind and solar power, which are becoming progressively cheaper to set up and much safer for the environment and the people around it than nuclear power (more from Alan Cochrane of the Canadaeast News Service)... 27 FEB. 2008: OTTAWA CITY COUNCIL PASSES RESOLUTION AGAINST URANIUM MINING
BE IT RESOLVED THAT THAT THE CITY OF OTTAWA
21 FEB. 2008, WASHINGTON, D.C.–Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee and the founder and co-chair of the House Bipartisan Task Force on Nonproliferation, today criticized the Bush administration for using a Navy missile to destroy a falling American spy satellite. "The geopolitical fallout of this intercept could be far greater than any chemical fallout that would have resulted from the wayward satellite," Rep. Markey said (more from Rep. Markey)... "Contaminated Forever"U.S. Media artist Wes Rehberg and artist and social policy analyst Eileen Rehberg are producing and filming "Contaminated Forever" to help in the effort to expose the terrible consequences of the use of so-called depleted uranium weapons (DU) for test purposes and in the battlefield. To view a trailer of their project, please click here. UN General AssemblyPasses DU Resolution
The United Nations General Assembly has passed, by a landslide, a resolution calling for further research into the health effects of depleted uranium weapons.
The hoax of eco-friendly nuclear energy 4 FEB.'08– Nuclear advocates in government and the nuclear industry are engaged in a massive, heavily financed drive to revive atomic power in the United States – with most of the mainstream media either not questioning or actually assisting in the promotion (more from Nuclear-Free Future Award jury member Karl Grossman)... a brave brandishing a guitar Claus Biegert remembers our long-time supporter, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, the Indian singer, actor and activist who recently passed away. Does your bank support DU-munitions manufacture? 1 FEB.'08–The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) has broadened the scope of its traditional campaign against DU-munitions to go directly after the source: the uranium weapons manufacturers and the financial bodies that fund them. Visit the ICBUW website and find out whether your bank is investing in DU-weapons. ICBUW has developed an activist's tool-kit so that such financial institutions can be publically confronted, isolated, and challenged to ethically rethink their investment policies. Ardoch Algonquin First Nation Statement on Uranium MiningAs Algonquin people, we know that uranium mining will lead directly to our social, spiritual, and cultural demise as our collective identity as people requires a continual relationship with the land in which we interact and carry out our cultural and spiritual activities and ceremonies on a daily basis. If the land is contaminated and altered as a result of the proposed mine, the animals and beings that we depend on for our survival will also disappear, leaving us with no possibility for survival. Vacating the area is not an option for us as this land is our home and has been the home of our people for hundreds of years. As Algonquin people there is no other place that we can go and be ourselves except for this place which is our homeland (more & NIRS ALERT! sign on letter)... The Permanent Nth Country Experiment – Nuclear Weapons Proliferation in a Rapidly Changing WorldWhat is the role of the IAEA? Why is there no difference in principle between civil and military nuclear systems? How hard is it to set up a secret nuclear weapons program – just like Spain, Sweden and Switzerland already have in the past? Could terrorists build a nuclear weapon? What ironclad duties does the Non-Proliferation Treaty spell out? International energy consultant and Right Livelihood Award recipient Mycle Schneider demystifies the proliferation muddle with his insightful answers. See also:"Residual Risk", a report by Mycle Schneider on events in nuclear power plants that was the basis to Steve Stecklow's article "Nuclear Safety Reports Called Into Question" in the Wall Street Journal. Skull Valley Goshute Reservation in Utah Goes Solar18 August 2007–For more than a decade, Skull Valley Goshute tribal members worked diligently to fight the siting of a proposed nuclear waste dump on their Utah reservation. A small, volunteer group called Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia (OGD) led the effort, standing down a consortium of some of the largest electric utilities in the country, headed by the Minnesota-based giant Xcel Energy, a corporation with a long and sordid history with Native peoples (more from Honor the Earth)... "The Economics ofNuclear Power" Over the last two decades there has been a steep decline in orders for new nuclear reactors globally. Poor economics has been one of the driving forces behind this move away from nuclear power. The civilian nuclear power industry has been in operation for over fifty years. During such a long period, it would be usual for technological improvements and experience to result in learning and subsequently enhancements in economic efficiency. However, the nuclear industry has not followed this pattern. This new study, "The Economics of Nuclear Power", commissioned by Greenpeace International, was co-authored by former NRC Commissioner and NY State Public Service Commissioner Peter Bradford, among others. The report conclusively proves that nuclear power is neither a practical nor economically viable solution to tackling climate change (the Greenpeace report as .pdf)... Download. That's right, you heard it here first: "Music for a Nuclear-Free Future." Download music, abolish nuclear weapons. Download music, pull the plug on nuclear power. Sound too good to be true? Nope: each tune you download will mean seventy more cents for those working to delouse the planet of the pro-nuclear mindset. We'll try to hit all the right buttons with Arlo and friends, plus, and etc... in order to have the music portal installed as soon as possible. You all come back now, you hear? Or hey, if you're a musician youself, check this out... Dead-end, superfluous, a ticking timebomb, infinitely wasteful, n-weapon proliferator, climate con artist, job-killer, and simply old and in the way: nuclear power. Eight posters guaranteed to finally convince your father-in-law (or granddaughter, or colleague at the soda fountain...) otherwise, from WISE, Eurosolar, and our German partners, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW-Germany). Kein Ausstieg ExhibitionThomas Dashuber of the Büro für Fotografie in Munich doesn't solely photograph moth-ridden stuffed animals -- Germany's mothballed and supposedly mothball-bound nuclear power plants are another of this dedicated young artist's original focuses. Come see. |
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Been back again to Salzburg,the 2007 Nuclear-Free Future Awards
Here the historic World Uranium Hearing took place in 1992, here we arrived in 1998 for the first annual Nuclear-Free Future Awards ceremony – and here, again at the invitation of the Salzburg State government, we returned for the 10th Nuclear-Free Future Awards ceremony. RESISTANCE for defending the sacred lands of the Lakota from further uranium mining debasement on behalf of the coming generations and all of humankind EDUCATION for his courageous medical commitment and moral act of whistleblowing helping to alert the world to the toxic peril of depleted uranium SOLUTIONS for illuminating the way, on behalf of all citizens of the world, out of the labyrinth of our nuclear madness LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT for her decades of dedicated commitment in the peace and environmental movement helping to install Austria at the forefront of a nuclear-free world LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT for his selfless activism as a professor who risked his academic career to help force the curtailment of Wackersdorf See also:
Been to Window Rock, the 2006 Nuclear-Free Future Awards In 2006 the Awards were presented on 1 December in Window Rock, Arizona, during the Indigenous World Uranium Summit. Our international jury decided that the Awards should go to: RESISTANCE for his moral courage to petition for an end to the toxic mismanagement corrupting Chinese uranium mining and milling EDUCATION for his enduring role in demystifying nuclear technology and helping the public understand its perilous predicament SOLUTIONS for the valuable contributions their solar reflectors have made towards improving the quality of life in developing regions LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT for his unique brand of gadfly peace activism in the community of Los Alamos, the birthplace of the bomb SPECIAL RECOGNITION for his many years of struggle as a visionary activist calling the uranium industry to account for its blind and poisonous greed SPECIAL RECOGNITION for helping people and communities across the Southwest understand and overcome their radioactive legacy See also: The presentation NFFAward jury member Prof. Karl Grossman gave at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Sante Fe on the eve of the Indigneous World Uranium Summit.
Courtesy of the Seventh Generation Fund and the Native Youth Coalition, the Nuclear-Free Future Window Rock Awards Ceremony MP3 Audio Files. ![]() Been to Oslo, The 2005 Nuclear-Free Future Awards In cooperation with Norske Leger mot Atomvåpen, IPPNW-Germany, Nei til Atomvåpen, and the Seventh Generation Fund, USA, the Franz Moll Foundation was honored to present on Saturday, September 24th, at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, the 2005 Nuclear-Free Future Awards to: See also Karl Grossman's Solutions Award presentation speech Been to Jaipur, the 2004 Nuclear-Free Future Awards
The 2004 Award ceremony was held on 28 November in Jaipur, India, as the culminating event of the three-day Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace (CDNP) National Convention (more info: www.cndpindia.org ).
Photographer Robert Del Tredici underway in India with the NFFAward team.
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Stayed here in Munich, The 2003 Nuclear-Free Future Awards
In 2003, our international jury members chose the following individuals as Award recipients:
Resistance: Carol Gilbert, Jackie Hudson, and Ardith Platte, USA,
10 July 2007–Corbin Harney, spiritual leader of the Western Shoshone, passes on Been to St. Petersburg, The 2002 Nuclear-Free Future Awards In 2002 the Awards ceremony, hosted by the Russian environmental organizations "Green World" and "Coalition Clean Baltic", was held on October 5th in St. Petersburg. The Awards went to: Resistance: Mordecai Vanunu, Israel See also:
Been to Carnsore Point, Ireland, the 2001 Nuclear-Free Future Awards The 2001 Nuclear-Free Future Awards went to: Aborigine activist Kevin Buzzacott from Australia (Resistance category); photographer Kenji Higuchi from Japan (Education); MP Hans-Josef Fell from Germany (Solutions)- each of these three prizes is endowed with a money prize of 10.000 Euro. This year three honorary awards went out to David Lowry from England (Special Recognition), Solange Fernex from France (Lifetime Achievement), and, in cooperation with the CarnVaha Event organizers, veteran nuclear opponent David Nolan of Ireland. 18 June 2007, FAIRFAX–Kevin Buzzacott awarded environmental gong |
Been to Berlin, the 2000 Nuclear-Free Future Awards The 2000 Nuclear-Free Future Awards went to Yuri I. Kuidin of Kazakhstan (Education), to the Barefoot College of India (Solutions), and to the Inverhuron District and Ratepayers Association of Canada (Resistance). Receiving the Nuclear-Free Future Lifetime Achievement Award was Germany's Klaus Traube. The Awards Ceremony took place on 15 October 2000 at the Rotes Rathaus (Red City Hall) in Berlin.
See also: Been to New Mexico, the 1999 Nuclear-Free Future Awards The 1999 Nuclear-Free Future Awards Recipients were: Update Summer 2000: Avanyu crawled the radioactive arroyos leading to Los Alamos and set the birthplace of the atomic bomb in flames, consuming 4 of the 5 historic Manhattan Project buildings. Been to Salzburg, the Under the patronage of Landeshauptmann Dr. Franz Schausberger, State Governor of Salzburg,
the inaugural Nuclear-Free Future Awards ceremony was held at the Archbishop's Residence on 5 November, and honored: |
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