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Monthly Archives: June 2015

US Supreme Court Dissent Against Blinkered Supreme Court Judge Scalia et. al.

June 30, 2015

“Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards”, EPA-452/R-11-011 December 2011 http://www.epa.gov/ttnecas1/regdata/RIAs/matsriafinal.pdf The US EPA wasn’t even …

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Canada UK Strengthen Nuclear Cooperation; CANDU MOX?

June 29, 2015

Canada Press Release: Canada and the United Kingdom Strengthen Nuclear Cooperation June 29, 2015 Ottawa Natural Resources Canada The Honourable …

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UK Nuclear Transboundary Impact Case Pending Until After March 2016: Espoo Convention Implementation Committee expressed “profound suspicion of non-compliance” by the UK

June 29, 2015

In May 2013, The National Trust for Ireland, An Taisce, “launched judicial review proceedings in London to challenge the legality …

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Nuclear and Climate News at the end of June 2015

June 29, 2015

Originally posted on nuclear-news:
Christina Macpherson’s websites & blogs Pope Francis denounces nuclear power. CLIMATE CHANGE: Pope Francis and Naomi Klein –…

Strong Effects of Ionizing Radiation from Chernobyl on Mutation Rates

June 28, 2015

Original pdf found here: http://www.nature.com/srep/2015/150210/srep08363/pdf/srep08363.pdf

Letter in Windermere Now – Moorside Nuclear Reactors-Nuclear Waste Dump

June 27, 2015

Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
The Lake District – pre the parochial National Park Boundary Dear Windermere Now, Radiation Free Lakeland…

The Ongoing Saga 57: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia

June 27, 2015

Most recent updates on top. This is a continuation of: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/06/09/the-ongoing-saga-56-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ It continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/07/17/the-ongoing-saga-58-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ (The information on Burkina Faso …

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Don’t let Ontario Power Dump Nuclear Waste on Great Lakes

June 27, 2015

Creative Commons by 2014 SumOfUs Sign Petition Here http://action.sumofus.org/a/lake-huron-nuclear-waste/

Aboriginal owners want no more uranium mining at Ranger or at Jabiluka

June 27, 2015

Originally posted on Nuclear Australia:
Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, 12 June 15 The Mirarr Traditional Owners of the Ranger Uranium Mine area…

#StopMoorside EVENTS EVENTS EVENTS!

June 27, 2015

Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
Anti Nuclear Art Therapy for Grown Ups! (&children) #STOP MOORSIDE! Print out and Colour as much…

Dismantling of Contaminated Water Tanks in Fukushima Daiichi

June 27, 2015

Originally posted on nuclear-news:
TEPCO explains how they will go about taking down the many bolt together tanks at the…

Nuclear Energy Opposed by Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox Christian Churches; Divestment from Nuclear Called For

June 26, 2015

The opposition to nuclear weapons by many Churches is well known and long-standing. What of nuclear energy? The World Council …

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Catholic Bishops of Japan: Abolish Nuclear Power Immediately

June 26, 2015

“we as members of the human race, have responsibilities to protect all life and nature as God’s creation, and to …

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139 Years After Custer’s Last Stand, Lakota Sioux Fight Foreign Uranium Miners in Custer County South Dakota

June 25, 2015

Even as Obama pretends to love the Lakota Sioux, he does nothing to protect them from foreign uranium miners. Standing …

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Dow Chemical-Rockwell’s Plutonium Nuisance & Price Anderson – Rocky Flats

June 24, 2015

“During the Cold War, the Rocky Flats plant served as home to a nuclear weapons production facility. Located just sixteen …

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Fast Tracking the “Comparative Advantage” of Low or No Wage Labor and Radioactive Food

June 23, 2015

Australia Forced Labour by Convicts, early 20th Century While most Americans were pre-occupied with the Charleston, South Carolina massacre, the …

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No Dose of Radiation is Safe for the Eyes: Any Dose Can Cause Cataracts, USNRC Comment Deadline Today 11.59 pm NY-DC (ET) One Minute to Midnight

June 22, 2015

Click to access EPA_SW_FS_EyeDamage_v7_508_RELEASE.PDF Recent studies have suggested a “no-threshold” dose for cataracts from radiation exposure to the lens of …

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Fukushima Offshore Earthquake Reminder – M 4.3 & M 4.5; F. Nuclear Reactors Still Spewing Radiation into Air and Water

June 21, 2015

Update: A second earthquake occurred in the same area, after this post was published. Unknown quantities of radioactive waste water …

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Heartless US NRC Ignores ICRP Concerns re Radiation Risks to Cardio – Cerebrovascular Systems

June 20, 2015

The comment deadline is past, but the topic is still critically important. Some comments may be seen at the link. …

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Arkansas Man Sentenced to 15 Years for Attacks on Central Arkansas Power Grid/ Entergy /AREVA Goofy Backup Plan for US Nuclear Emergency-Downed Grid

June 19, 2015

The US DOJ reports that an Arkansas Man was sentenced to 15 Years for attacks on Central Arkansas Power Grid. …

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GE Inspection Technologies Support Radiation Protection – US NRC Comment Deadline 22 June 2015, 1159 pm NY-DC (ET)

June 19, 2015

US NRC Comment Deadline on “Radiation Protection” next Monday 22 June 2015, 11.59 pm (one minute to midnight) NY-DC (ET). …

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Radiation in Water: Dilute, Deceive, Externalize Costs

June 18, 2015

US NRC Comment Deadline on “Radiation Protection” next Monday 22 June 2015, 11.59 pm (one minute to midnight) NY-DC (ET). …

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UK MP Flynn on the Terrible Costly Mistake of Nuclear Energy – New and Old

June 18, 2015

William Pitt the Younger addressing the Commons on the outbreak of the war with France (1793) by Anton Hickel French …

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Lockheed Martin Opposes USNRC Radiation Protection Rule; Wants to Keep Rule from 1956!

June 17, 2015

On Monday, June 15, 2015 Reuters informed readers that “Dozens of US companies bet on nuclear power revolution – report“. …

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Kick Nuclear – Nuclear Industry Forum

June 17, 2015

Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
A Message from Kick Nuclear to the Nuclear Industry Forum 2015. We are here this morning…

TPP – Sacrificing the Environment for Corporate Interests

June 16, 2015

Canada mining giant Cameco’s Crow Butte ISL uranium mine in Nebraska, USA. From wikileaks: “TPP – Sacrificing the Environment for …

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Friends of the Earth Urges US House to Reject TAA-Fast Track for a Second Time

June 16, 2015

For Immediate Release Monday, June 15, 2015 – 2:00pm Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth Urges House to …

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The week that has been , in nuclear news

June 14, 2015

Originally posted on nuclear-news:
Christina Macpherson’s websites & blogs Trans Pacific Partnership would give corporations, including nuclear ones, power over…

US Sen. Boxer on TPP: Security Clearance Required for Staffers; No Notes; Race to the Bottom for Wages and the Environment

June 14, 2015

[Note: The Republican Leadership is threatening to try to run through Fast Track-TPP again, as soon as this coming Tuesday …

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Cataracts: NRC Robbing Americans Blind – Comment Deadline 22 June 2015, 1159 pm NY-DC (ET)

June 13, 2015

Originally posted on Mining Awareness + :
Vision without cataracts Vision with cataracts Images by Marcela, CC-BY-SA-3.0 US NRC Comment Deadline June 22:…

US Representative Pelosi on Not-So-Fast Track for Jobs and the Environment

June 12, 2015

Image from: http://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/recent-business/sanders-applauds-house-vote-on-trade-bill NB: Unfortunately the TPP Kill Bill which will allow the dumping of unlabeled radioactive Japanese food on …

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US Congress: Funds for Workers who Lose Jobs to Trade Deals; Radioactive Welfare to Work? US Debt? What Debt? Did they Forget?

June 12, 2015

The US Congress recognizes that Americans will lose jobs from trade deals, such as TPP. Their solution? Government “funds”! Worker …

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Investor-State Arbitration Foretaste of TPP: Philip Morris Asia vs. Australia; Who pays for medical costs?

June 12, 2015

Smoking is estimated to cost Australia $31.5 billion (In the US it costs an est. $300 billion a year, including …

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TPP and Intellectual Honesty

June 12, 2015

From: openDemocracy “TPP and intellectual honesty CONOR J. LYNCH 11 June 2015 Basically, big corporations discovered how valuable the ISDS …

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TPP Guts State Laws & Environmental Protection: Indian Point Nuclear & Other Examples

June 11, 2015

It has never been more clear that the US Federal government does little to protect the US public, and appears …

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The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Empowering Corporations to Attack Nations

June 11, 2015

From Public Citizen: The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Empowering Corporations to Attack Nations Incentivizing Corporations to Offshore Our Jobs and Attack Our …

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Trans Pacific Trickle-Down Economics: Health, Safety, Environment, Jobs – Not

June 11, 2015

Robert Reich, Economist, former US Secretary of Labor Trans Pacific Trickle-Down Economics, by Robert Reich, Published on Monday, May 04, …

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US House Bill for Sunlight on Secretive Trade Deals; Last-Ditch Effort to Slow Fast Track (10 June 2015)

June 11, 2015

From Common Dreams: “With Corporate Deals Shrouded In Secrecy, Lawmakers Call for ‘Sunlight’ Representatives introduce legislation to force clandestine agreements …

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Deformed Beaks & other Increased “Abnormalities” in Chernobyl Birds

June 10, 2015

When they speak of “loss of fitness” and “natural selection”, below, these are biological science euphemisms for their inability to …

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MOORSIDE CONsultation – BOYCOTT TOSHIBA – Send a Giant Postcard to NuGen

June 10, 2015

Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
BOYCOTT TOSHIBA If you are going along to FESTIVALS  over the summer or just sitting out in…

The World & All that is in it, Endangered by Nuclear Energy, but it’s not their world to destroy

June 9, 2015

We are to be Good Stewards, Not Destroyers of the Environment: The World is Endangered by Nuclear Energy (and weapons) …

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The Ongoing Saga 56: News, Updates, Tidbits & Trivia

June 9, 2015

This post continues here: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/the-ongoing-saga-57-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ It is a continuation of: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/the-ongoing-saga-55-news-updates-tidbits-trivia/ Most recent updates on top, after images. Call-up to …

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Enbridge Must Restore Environment Injured by 2010 Pipeline Rupture and Oil Spill in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River, says US DOJ; Comment Requested

June 9, 2015

These are not vultures. They are Canada Geese with oil on them from the 2010 Enbridge oil pipeline rupture and …

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Alfred Wainwright’s “Atomic Carbuncle” Or Amber Rudd’s “Beautiful Nuclear”?

June 8, 2015

Originally posted on RADIATION FREE LAKELAND:
Alfred Wainwright famously called Calder Hall an “atomic carbuncle.”  That was in the halcyon days when…

Canada Resource Grab: Past-Present Genocide Against Indigenous Peoples to Gain Control over Land and Resources – Landmark Report

June 8, 2015

http://youtu.be/dONtV6H5UGc By DemocracyNow.org: “WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 2015 “Cultural Genocide”: Landmark Report Decries Canada’s Forced Schooling of Indigenous Children The Truth …

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Indigenous People Are the First Ones Impacted by Resource Extraction

June 8, 2015

http://youtu.be/RRhNtIV9tVQ By DemocracyNow.org: FRIDAY, JUNE 25, 2010 Indigenous Leader Art Manuel: “Indigenous People Are the First Ones Impacted” by Western-Driven …

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Concerns with Uranium Mining in the Grand Canyon Region USGS

June 7, 2015

Highlights from: “Potential Withdrawal of Uranium Mining from the Grand Canyon Region, AZ“, by John Hoffmann and Bob Hart USGS …

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Safety Doubts Persist for Ukrainian Nuclear Power Stations; West Funds Extension of Reactor Operations

June 6, 2015

From Bankwatch Network-Bankwatch.org: “Operations suspended at one Ukrainian nuclear unit, as wider safety doubts persist Bankwatch Mail, May 14, 2015 …

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Restless Earth , Animals Give Advance Notice of Large Earthquakes

June 6, 2015

Dr. Friedmann Freund is part of a team who recently published an academic paper documenting the reaction of birds and …

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Latest in nuclear and climate news

June 5, 2015

Originally posted on nuclear-news:
Christina Macpherson’s websites & blogs WORLD. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists launches Cost Calculator for the nuclear fuel…

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