The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
It’s going to be a nuclear ‘renaissance’, they’ve told us. A dormant (or dying) and discredited nuclear industry was going to spring back to life, provide cheap, safe, reliable and clean electricity, and save us from catastrophic climate change. But...
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Britain poised to lose jobs as £10bn nuclear power plant contract goes to US ‘Thousands of jobs that were to have been created in Britain to build the next generation of nuclear power...
The World's Fair (Free subscription) | yesterday
I recently attended the TEDxVancouver event, which was wonderfully done and also useful for being able to network with a lot of interesting people. There was, however, one thing that irked me - nothing to do with the conference logistics but rather a statement or two issued by one of the speakers, Patrick Moore . Just a little background on Patrick: he's one of the founders of Greenpeace, with a major...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | yesterday
PhillyBurbs.com: W.Va. university to host cap and trade debate A global warming skeptic and a leading climate change expert are going to debate the potential impact of cap and trade legislation on West Virginia's economy. Cato Institute Senior Fellow Patrick Michaels and Climate Change Director David Hawkins at the National Resources Defense Council will face off Dec. 7 at the University of Charleston....
NewEnergyNews (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
As the death toll mounts in China's most recent coal mining disaster, here is the current entry in Greenpeace's ongoing fight against the devastations of coal. Wait for the punch line. From GreenpeaceMagazine via YouTube.
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
This is not good, the CRU computer hack « Greenfyre’s This is going to be politically costly no matter what. No matter how trivial the actual ‘in context’ revelations turn out to be, the public will remember the initial Denier spin. People like Inhofe and Morano will make sure that the most fraudulent version is constantly put forward as the “true, unspun” version....
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
An independent expert commissioned by Greenpeace has found the two nuclear reactors currently being built in Finland and France have serious safety flaws in their design. Dr. Helmut Hirsch, Scientific Consultant for Nuclear Safety says the design of AREVA’s...
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: Peak Uranium? Our nuclear future might be shorter than we thought ‘We’ve all heard of Peak Oil (even if there’s some doubt about whether we’ve heard the truth over when it’s going to...
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
It's no secret that big polluting companies are going all out to try and destroy the chance of the US congress passing meaningful global warming legislation with significant emissions reduction targets. On big loop hole is the option of "offsetting"...
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
“Nuclear power is a dangerous distraction to real solutions.†Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director, Greenpeace International “Have a French nuclear industry that works. That means that we have to rethink the whole industry.†Henri Proglio, the incoming boss of EDF “For...
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Why should we trust the nuclear industry when it doesn’t trust itself? That’s the underlining question of a Greenpeace report released this week. The Harper government has tabled the Nuclear Liability and Compensation Act in Parliament. The bill would, if...
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Today's big stories from the nuclear industry: New Greenpeace Chief Calls for Sustainable, Nuclear-Free Power Supply ‘Kumi Naidoo was appointed executive director of the environmental campaign group Greenpeace International this month after two decades leading civil society groups in Africa...
Tom Nelson (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
New Greenpeace Chief Calls for Sustainable, Nuclear-Free Power Supply - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com [If we let human rights activist Kumi Naidoo make hoax-based decisions about our power supplies, when will the blackouts start'] From there we have to move to implementation. On the energy side, that means winning the argument that we can have a clean, sustainable power supply if we embrace existing...
The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
The Happy Ranger carrying both steam generators - for AREVA's disaster-prone OL3 EPR nuclear reactor at Olkiluoto in Finland - and eight Greenpeace activists arrived at their destination this afternoon. After the formalities of Finnish immigration, our heroes are...
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