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Greenpeace report reveals global coal costs of €360 billion in 2007 - minimum Source: Greenpeace Greenpeace today released an analysis showing that the global cost of coal was at least €360 billion last year alone. The report, “The True Cost of Coal”, released with the independent Dutch Institute CE Delft, arrived at this figure by looking [...]
In another demonstration of the lack of public confidence in nuclear power, citizens of Zurich, Switzerland voted yesterday to phase-out the cityâs use of nuclear energy. Over 76 per cent of those voting supported the phase-out. More details when we...
Or so says India journalist Pallava Bagla, in France at the invitation of the French government, about Franceâs so-called flagship European Pressurized Water Reactor which Bagla suggests India is considering purchasing. âMotherâ is a useful comparison, we suppose, all the...
Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: Idaho Samizdat: NRC public meeting Dec 10 on Areva's Idaho plant âAreva's planned $2.4 billion uranium enrichment plant, to be built about 18 miles west of Idaho Falls as...
Warsaw - The Polish coal mine Konin said on Monday it will take Greenpeace to court, citing some 350,000 zloty (121,000 dollars) in losses after protesters recently blocked production for two hours. More than 20 Greenpeace activists entered the mine ...
Filed under: Activism, Climate Change Poland has made Greenpeace’s “naughty” list this year. The environmental group made its feelings clear by dumping four tons of coal in front of a Sheraton Hotel in Warsaw. Economic ministers from 20 different countries are attending a conference there and many of them are major polluters. Greenpeace UK performed a similar [...]
Photo from Indonesia : Greenpeace activists working with locals to halt drainage by constructing dams on peatlands. This will prevent the peatland from drying out and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Peat-forming wetlands are an estimated 60% of all the wetlands distributed globally. Do peatlands remain in the "grey zone" seemingly unattractive to the conservation movement? I was reminded...
Filed under: Activism , Climate Change Poland has made Greenpeace's "naughty" list this year. The environmental group made its feelings clear by dumping four tons of coal in front of a Sheraton Hotel in Warsaw. Economic ministers from 20 different countries are attending a conference there and many of them are major polluters. Greenpeace UK performed a similar stunt by dumping coal at the doorstep...
Warsaw, Poland- Greenpeace today released an analysis showing that the global cost of coal was at least €360 billion last year alone. The report, “The True Cost of Coal” (1), released with the independent Dutch Institute CE Delft, arrived at this figure by looking at very modest CO2 damage costs, health costs and mining accidents.
With only a matter of days left of his presidency George Bush is a man in a hurry. And with its future under an Obama presidency currently uncertain, so is the nuclear industry. (Fast forward to one minute) âYou like...
Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: Tennessean.com: Foes slam nuclear waste plan âA Bush administration project aimed at reprocessing nuclear waste in a global sharing arrangement is bringing opposition that's not always from anti-nuclear advocates...
(WARSAW) - The use of coal for energy production causes atleast 360 billion euros worth of damage to human health and theenvironment every year, Greenpeace said in a new report published onThursday."
Greenpeace activists dumped coal outside the Sheraton hotel in Warsaw and set up a banner stating 'Get serious, quit coal!' in a message to stop a "coal pact" from forming.
Yesterday we saw how the nuclear reactor builders in the US canât or wonât launch new projects without government loan guarantees. We also saw how the loan guarantee system actually financially penalises the government should important decisions about planning and...
Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: The Japan Times: Rokkasho plant too dangerous, costly: expert âJapan's plan to reprocess and recycle spent nuclear fuel in a reprocessing plant in the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture,...