On Thursday January 7, 2010, Paxus Calta went before a jury in defense of a pre-meditated trespassing charge to which he plead not guilty based on a defense of necessity. Calta was appealing the 2008 conviction in which a judge sentenced him to two weeks in jail. This time the jury found him guilty and despite the Commonwealth Attorney, Tom Garrett, requesting “several months in jail” for the offense, the jury sentenced Calta to only 5 days.
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January 13th, 2010 | Category: New Nukes | Leave a comment
Title: PACE Meeting
Location: C-ville Coffee
Description: Monthly Meeting
Start Time: 1:00 pm
Date: 2010-01-11
January 8th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
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 Regulatory Commission (NRC) from completely examining untried nuclear power systems.
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January 8th, 2010 | Category: Conservation, Energy Efficiency, New Nukes, Renewable Energy | Leave a comment
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 Transcript, February 20, 2009) With this
ruling, a decades-old violation of the law was ended. The impact of
the decision could benefit the many thousands of people who use the
lake annually.
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January 8th, 2010 | Category: New Nukes, Renewable Energy | Leave a comment
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.
December 15th, 2009 | Category: Energy Efficiency, New Nukes, Renewable Energy | Leave a comment
2000+ IN FIRST 24 HOURS!
BUT WE NEED A LOT MORE…
December 4, 2009
THANK YOU to everyone who sent a message to your Senators and President Obama over the past 24 hours–way more than 2,000 messages already have gone in.
But we need a lot more than that…
Here’s one reason why: Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) is one of three Senators trying to lard the climate bill with billions of your dollars for nuclear power, for “clean” coal, for more offshore oil drilling. Graham’s interest isn’t climate–it’s bailing out how the big energy interests.
Here’s what Graham said yesterday following a personal meeting he had with President Obama:
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December 7th, 2009 | Category: New Nukes | Leave a comment
Please note: The following event has cancelled. It will be rescheduled at a later date.
Title: A talk and discussion on the impacts of nuclear reactors on the Chesapeake Bay.
Location: The Central Library, downtown Charlottesville
Description: Our special guest: Cathy Garger from PAARC, People Against A Radioactive Chesapeake.
When: Monday December 14, 6 PM
Where: The Central Library, downtown Charlottesville
Dinner will be served
Voluntary donations gladly accepted, toward our Clean Water Act lawsuit.
Start Time: 18 pm
Date: 2009-12-14
Cathy Garger Flyer Dec. 2009
December 3rd, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Title: A talk and discussion on the impacts of nuclear reactors on the Chesapeake Bay.
Location: The Central Library, downtown Charlottesville
Description: Our special guest: Cathy Garger from PAARC, People Against A Radioactive Chesapeake.
When: Monday December 14, 6 PM
Where: The Central Library, downtown Charlottesville
Dinner will be served
Voluntary donations gladly accepted, toward our Clean Water Act lawsuit.
Start Time: 18 pm
Date: 2009-12-14
December 3rd, 2009 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
Next Tuesday, Environment Virginia is going to be releasing a new
report which makes the case that new investments in nuclear energy
will hinder our efforts to combat global warming. This is always
relevant, but especially so since Senator Webb introduced legislation
this week which would invest $20 billion in nuclear power and provide
$100 billion in loan guarantees to the industry.
We’re are releasing the report next Tuesday at 10:30 AM in front of
city hall in Charlottesville. I would like to extend an invitation to
each of you to attend
November 19th, 2009 | Category: New Nukes | Leave a comment
Harvey Wasserman
The reactor relapse takes 3 hits to the head
November 12, 2009
The much-hyped “Renaissance” of atomic power has taken three
devastating hits with potentially fatal consequences.
The usually supine Nuclear Regulatory Commission has told Toshiba’s
Westinghouse Corporation that its “standardized” AP-1000 design might
not withstand hurricanes, tornadoes or earthquakes.
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November 16th, 2009 | Category: New Nukes | Leave a comment
