No New Nukes at North Anna
Nuclear Power and the Bottomless Bank
Envisioning a Nuclear Future—Funded by Taxpayer Dollars
By Roger Witherspoon
Congress and the Obama administration are on a course to provide the nation’s nuclear industry an unprecedented financial package—one that could dwarf the combined expenditures of last year’s bailout programs. And the legislative package comes with restrictions that would block the Nuclear [...]
Update on Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League v. the Commonwealth
of Virginia
In the Circuit Court for the City of Richmond
Case No. 07-6083
The ruling of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond was short and
to the point: “Virginia law requires regulation of Dominion’s thermal
pollution discharge because the exception for waste treatment simply
doesn’t apply here.” (Court [...]
Nuclear Monitor-a special issue published to coincide with
this week’s climate negotiations in Copenhagen that includes work by
Amory Lovins on the four myths of nuclear power (and why it isn’t an
answer to climate change) and Benjamin Sovacool on the carbon
footprint of nuclear compared with other energy technologies.
“A New Energy Future: Conservation, Efficiency,and Renewables”
Physics Building at the University of Virginia
Saturday, Oct. 17 from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Keynote Address and workshops on energy efficiency, wind energy,
biomass. sustainable food production, alternatives to coal and nuclear
energy production and more.
$10(includes lunch).
Preregistration is encouraged.
“REAL DISCUSSION, REAL CHOICES, REAL ANSWERS”
Sponsored by:
Sierra Club-Piedmont Group
People’s Alliance for Clean Energy
Charlottesville [...]
Wall Street Journal
MARCH 26, 2009
Water Worries Shape Local Energy Decisions
Scarcity Forces Electricity Companies to Rethink Power-Plant Plans,
Providing an Opening for Renewable Sources
By REBECCA SMITH
Last month, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a
utility that provides power to mostly rural areas, agreed to conduct a
major study to see if it might meet growing energy needs through
energy efficiency and [...]
Columns
Harvey Wasserman
Obama’s stimulus money must NOT be wasted on nuke reactors
January 8, 2009
A nuke power bailout must NOT be part of the hundreds of billions of
federal dollars about to pour out of Washington to revive our
Bush-whacked economy.
If the huge Obama stimulus package we all know is coming includes
money to build new reactors, the whole venture [...]
DURHAM, NC – For three years Progress Energy and Duke Energy have
insisted that giant nuclear and coal-fired power plants must be built
to handle growth in electricity demand. The NC Utilities Commission
has failed to connect the dots between glaring discrepancies in those
arguments, even though all the information below is from Commission
proceedings.
Gambling 35 to 40 billion public [...]
The ongoing campaign to stop Climate Crimes — and the first
non-violent direct action at a nuke in “Relapse” need your support –
significant fines and fees have already been
awarded to the first to go before a judge — please contribute what
you are able — we are appealing these unconstitutionally harsh
sentences — so need money for legal [...]
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