tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35885456525071634552024-03-13T13:08:30.355+01:00Stop Nuclear Power NetworkA UK-based non-hierarchical grassroots network of groups and individuals campaigning and taking nonviolent action against nuclear power and its expansion and supporting sustainable alternatives.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-85806872553346140352012-05-04T10:00:00.000+02:002012-05-04T23:44:06.970+02:00Visit our new website: stopnuclearpoweruk.net<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U6mtx8D2x48/Tb5kQUpkLUI/AAAAAAAAABc/7PSFITTaMXg/s1600/SNPN-Frontpage.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5602025218079206722" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U6mtx8D2x48/Tb5kQUpkLUI/AAAAAAAAABc/7PSFITTaMXg/s400/SNPN-Frontpage.png" style="cursor: pointer; height: 287px; width: 507px;" /></a><br />
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The new website of the <a href="http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/">Stop Nuclear Power Network</a> is now online. <br />
<a name='more'></a>It provides resources and info for anti-nuclear power activists, as well as more general info about nuclear power.<br />
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Check it out!Stop Nuclear Power London and South-Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04010782959459034511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-72113320447117773462012-04-26T19:56:00.000+02:002012-05-04T23:44:45.358+02:00The Big Six Energy Bash<div class="field field-type-datetime field-field-event-datetime">
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<b><span class="date-display-single">Thursday, 3rd May 2012, London</span></b> </div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GE1hSg7pJXg/T47_yNMwNCI/AAAAAAAALNM/g3nwZXZZKZM/s1600/B6B+Orange+hand+JPG.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="221" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GE1hSg7pJXg/T47_yNMwNCI/AAAAAAAALNM/g3nwZXZZKZM/s320/B6B+Orange+hand+JPG.jpg" width="320" /></a><b><a href="http://kicknuclear.org/" target="_blank"></a></b><br />
<a name='more'></a><b><a href="http://kicknuclear.org/" target="_blank">Kick Nuclear</a>, <a href="http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/" target="_blank">Stop Nuclear Power Network</a></b> and friends are asking anti-nuclear activists from around the country to mobilise for this and to join them as part of the<b> 'Dirty Energy' bloc</b> at <b><a href="http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950" target="_blank">The Big Six Energy Bash</a></b> in central London on Thursday 3rd May, to give <b><a href="http://boycottedf.org.uk/" target="_blank">EDF Energy</a></b> and chums a right ole bashin' and expose nuclear power as the false, dirty, dangerous and undemocratic 'solution' to climate change that it is. <br />
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Our anti-nuclear bloc's theme will be <b>Nuclear Grim Reapers and
Liquidators</b>, so come suitably attired if possible! We will meet at
<b>10.15am outside the <a href="http://www.pubs.com/main_site/pub_details.php?pub_id=30" target="_blank">Black Friar pub</a></b><br />
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Once suited and booted, we will move off to the nearby assembly point
for the <b>Dirty Energy bloc</b> - outside <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&layer=&ie=UTF8&z=16&om=1&iwloc=addr&q=EC4M%207JH" target="_blank"><b>City Thameslink station (Ludgate Hill exit)</b></a>, for <b>11am.</b><br />
<b><i><br />If you are thinking of joining the anti-nuclear bloc, please get in
touch with Kick Nuclear beforehand</i></b><i><b> (well beforehand if you are going to
need crash space, or a bed, the night before and/or after the action)</b></i><b><br /><br />e-mail: kicknuclear at kicknuclear.org mob: 07506 234 091</b><br />
<b><br />Sign up for Dirty Energy bloc SMS text alerts here:</b><a href="http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950" title="http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950"><br />http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950</a><br />
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Spread the word, and hope to see you there!<br />
<a href="http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950" title="http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950"><br />http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950</a><br />
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THE BIG SIX ENERGY BASH - Thursday, 3rd May 2012, London<br />
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On May 3rd, representatives of corporate energy and politics will be meeting in London at the UK Energy Summit.<br />
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They want to keep on profiteering from fuel poverty, climate change and trashing the planet.<br />
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We can’t let them.<br />
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Come and take the power back!<br />
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Join us in London for a day of direct action against corporate control and for energy democracy.<br />
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Twitter: Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/CJ_Collective">@CJ_Collective</a> and use the hashtag #big6bash<br />
Facebook event page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/116076668516532" title="http://www.facebook.com/events/116076668516532">http://www.facebook.com/events/116076668516532</a><br />
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THE PLAN<br />
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Be in central London on Thursday 3rd May.<br />
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Be ready to go at 11am.<br />
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Your day of action, and your initial meeting place, will be shaped by the bloc you join.<br />
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Choose from:<br />
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<b>DIRTY ENERGY BLOC - *THIS IS THE BLOC KICK NUCLEAR AND FRIENDS WILL JOIN*</b><br />
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Dirty energy, dirty basslines and dirty business. Get down and dirty with us as we trash the planet in style!<br />
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HOUSING BLOC<br />
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For warm homes and community control. Join this bloc if you want to turn up the heat in your homes and turn up the heat on the greedy energy companies…<br />
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ROBIN HOOD BLOC<br />
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Join our merry band as we take the power from the Big Six Energy Barons, and give it back to the people.<br />
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FOSSIL-FREE FUTURE BLOC<br />
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A family-friendly bloc for a future free from fossil fuels. As climate change threatens life on earth, join this bloc if you think that the Big Six Energy Dinosaurs are the ones that ought to face extinction. Come prepared to demonstrate the colour and creativity of the democratic, fair and clean alternatives to the prehistoric energy companies’ fuels and thinking…<br />
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Sign up to a bloc and to get SMS text alerts about meeting places and action plans here:<br />
<a href="http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950" title="http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950">http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950</a><br />
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Keep up to date by following <a href="http://twitter.com/CJ_Collective">@CJ_Collective</a> on Twitter.<br />
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Bring:<br />
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Banners and colour<br />
Food and drink<br />
Big chalks<br />
Music, samba rhythms and sound systems<br />
Outdoor games<br />
Your mates<br />
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THE REASONS<br />
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People not Profit<br />
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We want to end the stranglehold that the Big Six energy<br />
companies have on energy in this country. Corporate control<br />
of energy is unfair, insanely short sighted, and always puts<br />
profits ahead of the needs of people and our environment:<br />
the Big Six’s profiteering is killing thousands in the UK each<br />
winter through fuel poverty, and millions across the world<br />
through climate change.<br />
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Climate Justice<br />
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The Big Six energy companies, hand in hand with the<br />
government, and pushed by the mentality of growth<br />
capitalism, are destroying the climate and the lives of millions<br />
of people around the world. Climate justice means that those<br />
who have caused climate change should take responsibility<br />
for stopping it.<br />
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Energy Democracy<br />
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There is an alternative. It is down to ordinary people to take<br />
action against corporate control and create an affordable,<br />
sustainable, community-controlled energy system. We all<br />
have the right to access to clean energy.<br />
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<a href="http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950" title="http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950">http://climatejusticecollective.org/#/big-six-energy-bash/4561602950</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-7717551078502824242012-04-26T00:00:00.003+02:002012-05-04T23:45:39.771+02:00Sizewell Camp 2012 - Report and Pics<h1 class="title">
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<a name='more'></a>Original report, with photos:<br />
<a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/04/495400.html">http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/04/495400.html</a><br />
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More photos: <a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/vd2012.pics/SizewellCamp2012PtI" target="_blank">HERE</a>, <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/vd2012.pics/SizewellCamp2012PtII" target="_blank">HERE</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.347574375291697.72313.127691757279961&type=3&l=0eaf546f37" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/vd2012.pics/SizewellCamp2012PtII" title="http://picasaweb.google.com/vd2012.pics/SizewellCamp2012PtII"><br /></a><br />
<i><b>Emma's report:</b></i><br />
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The fourth annual camp at Sizewell nuclear power station took place
from Friday 20th to Sunday the 22nd of April 2012. The aim of the camp
is to make information available to local people about nuclear power,
and to oppose the building of the two planned reactors, Sizewell C and
D, and the dry fuel storage dump. The camp takes place in April to
commemorate the Chernobyl disaster which occurred on 26th April 1986. <br />
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On Saturday the 21st a demonstration was held at the gates of the
power station between 12.00 and 3 .00. Speakers included Peter Lanyon
from the ‘shut down Sizewell’ campaign, Ron Bailey, a local town
councillor and co-author of the excellent “a corruption of governance?”
report about how parliament was mislead over nuclear power, Nikki Clark,
a diligent campaigner from south west against nuclear, Chris Walton
from the Ringsfield hall trust, a centre for earth education and forest
schooling, Lee from Taiwan who spoke of her experiences in post
fukushima Japan, and Pete Wilkinson from the Sizewell Stakeholders
group.<br />
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The demonstration was attended by 80 to 100 people, many of whom came
from London on a coach organised by David from London CND. (Thanks for
your hard work Dave). Tea and cakes were available and a tasty vegan
lunch was cooked up at the camp and dished out at the demonstration. The
weather was a little all over the place but a few campers rigged up a
makeshift shelter from a parachute and tarps.<br />
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The demonstration went well in general except for a couple of sore
points. The first was that there was some intrusive in your face filming
carried out by EDF security guards while we were setting up. After some
discussion we came to a grudging compromise of ‘we won’t film you if
you don’t film us.’ The police kept at a distance and did their best to
stay out of the way. There were only 2 police officers on the scene
during the demo (though how many may have been waiting in the wings is a
different issue).<br />
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The second point of contention is that someone started loudly and
crassly heckling one of the speakers. I am all for free speech, but I
was interested in what the speaker was saying, as were a lot of the
crowd, and not so interested in the boorish heckler. If the yelling chap
had wanted a slot to speak, he could have asked the organisers for five
minutes to say his piece. At one point I rather thought that the
headline of the local paper was going to be “punch up between protestors
at peaceful demo” – not helpful in any way! Fortunately things calmed
down.<br />
After the demonstration, peter Lanyon, a knowledgeable local
campaigner, took us on a tour round the perimeter of part of the power
station. We didn’t make it all the way round this year, but with a bit
more planning, for next year we hope to make the walk around the station
more of a feature, providing the area of outstanding natural beauty has
not been attacked by the bulldozers by then.<br />
The camp went very well overall, due to the hard work and enthusiasm
of the people who attended, many of whom were first timers.
Approximately 40 people camped over the weekend and more visited during
the day. The big bold colourful banners were simply amazing, thanks to
Catherine and Jill. The banners were hung on hazel sticks which bent
beautifully in the wind. They could be seen from the cliff top car park
so no one could be in any doubt of what we were about.<br />
Pete put up his detailed meticulous information boards which get
better and better every year. They are erected by the edge of the
walkway opposite the camp, and lots of the dog walkers stopped to read
them. One of the primary reasons for the camp was to provide a space for
people to come and find out about aspects of nuclear power that they
may not have considered previously, like the uranium mining and
leukaemia clusters for example. The boards were a great way to get the
information out there. It may be that I am over optimistic, but this
year I believe that the reaction from the local people was a little more
friendly , and although they might not want to be seen coming to the
demonstration, quite a few people came down to the camp from the nearby
town of Leiston, especially to talk to us. We shared knowledge around
the camp too, with workshops on basic nuclear physics and insulating
your own home.<br />
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The wind certainly showed its potential over the weekend by
blustering fiercely enough to blow our big marquee into the sea. It took
3 of us to prevent it sailing off into the sunset. Even after we had
tethered it strictly to the earth, the wind whipped up enough to lift it
and Pete, who was clinging on tenaciously, from the ground. In addition
to the wind, we had pea sized hail and buckets of rain but these were
interspersed with enough sunshine not to dampen our spirits. The sky
gave us a couple of stunning rainbows too.<br />
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On Sunday we had our annual Chernobyl remembrance. This year in the
form of a picnic with readings from “voices of Chernobyl”. The picnic
ended rather abruptly when the marquee began its bid for freedom. We
thought it was quite fitting that at the end of a remembrance for one
failed construction that our own frail structure began to blow apart.<br />
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There were plenty of other activities going on around the camp. Nelly
the norty elephant and the silent but deadly radioactive man made an
appearance, and lovely food was cooked up by a host of willing helpers
hustled into shape by the amazingly organised Niki. The pooh fairy did a
great job keeping the toilets piss pristine , and during a ‘ted talks’
session round the fire we learned about DIY solar panels and anarchy,
amongst other things. The camp was very family friendly and it was
wonderful to watch the children band together and run around in the
rain.<br />
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This year a few of the organisers had been into Leiston a couple of
weeks prior to the camp (Leiston is 2.4km from Sizewell). We leafleted
every house, and stood in the town centre talking to people about the
issues. It seemed to me that people are no longer taken in by the claims
for nuclear as being cheap or clean or a solution to climate change –
the main attitude was “we don’t like it but what else is there?” I felt
that this was a positive shift in that some people were on the point of
being open to the suggestion at least that there may be a better way to
go than nuclear. (Small steps!)<br />
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After the camp, a couple of dedicated campers continued to smooth
community relations by going to the pub opposite the power station where
it was rumoured that the landlord was not keen on the protest.
Civilities were exchanged, and the landlord even gave an almost cheery
“see you next year” when the campers left.<br />
The camp had a lot of support from CANE (communities against nuclear
expansion) and ‘shut down Sizewell’. Many of the people in these groups
have been battling away for years, first against Sizewell B and then
later against the building of Sizewell C. and it was really interesting
to make connections with them and hear the history of their opposition.
(It was also quite refreshing, as organisers in our 30’s and 40’s, to be
considered as ‘the youngsters!’)<br />
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Another shift in attitude came from the council, EDF and the police.
This year (to the annoyance of some residents), we had the quiet
permission of the council to go ahead with the camp. The police invited
us to meet with EDF, Suffolk coastal district council, and the most
vociferous angry resident, in the cafe on the beach. The police paid for
the tea. Mr security from Sizewell B was polite and offered to
facilitate our protest, and to be on hand with water and medical aid
should the need arise. (As it was we got plenty of water from the sky).
We were not sure entirely how to react to these overtures – it felt a
little like dancing with wolves, but we thought we would suck it and see
this year, reserving the right to spit it out if we didn’t like the
taste.<br />
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All in all, it was a wonderfully exhausting weekend. And we all came away with plans of how to improve it next year. <br />
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<b>emmail at talktalk.net</b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-12811733539952471132012-02-21T00:45:00.008+01:002012-04-07T11:24:00.663+02:00Sizewell Camp Against Nuclear New Build, 20-22 April, Suffolk<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Skill Share, Networking and Protest</i><br />
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Power for the People - Not Profits for the Few</b></span></div><div class="content"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VgeSAggwlGs/TbdQLzPoWpI/AAAAAAAAFIg/lx2cd74AQNM/s1600/IMG_4100.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VgeSAggwlGs/TbdQLzPoWpI/AAAAAAAAFIg/lx2cd74AQNM/s320/IMG_4100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></h3><h3><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a name='more'></a></span></span></h3><b>Friday 20th (from 6pm) – Sunday 22nd April 2012</b><br />
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Spend a sunny weekend camping on the beach at Sizewell in Suffolk and learning about the worrying plans for a new nuclear power station at the site. Come and show your opposition to nuclear power and your support for alternative, sustainable energy solutions. The weekend includes a protest at the nuclear power station entrance, workshops and skill shares, woodland and beach walks, delicious vegan grub, and networking opportunities. Now is the time to take action against nuclear new build. Come and join us to say: ‘Nuclear Power? – No Thanks!’<br />
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The Camp</h3><br />
Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd April 2012<br />
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Demonstration, Saturday 21st April, 12noon, at the entrance to Sizewell A and B</h3><br />
A demonstration outside the gates of Sizewell, opposing nuclear power and nuclear new build, and supporting sustainable alternatives.<br />
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12noon <b>Demo starts</b><br />
12:15 <b>Speakers</b><br />
<ul><li><b>Pete Wilkinson</b>, a founder member of Greenpeace - Plans for emergency evacuation, and radiation 'spikes' from outages at Sizewell</li>
<li><b>Ron Bailey</b>, co-author of <a href="http://www.ukace.org/publications/ACE%20Campaigns%20%282012-01%29%20-%20Corruption%20of%20Governance%20-%20Jan%202012">A Corruption of Governance?</a></li>
</ul>13:00 <b>Lunch</b> (provided), music, tea and cakes<br />
14:00 <b>Speakers</b><br />
<ul><li><b>Charles Barnett</b>, chair of the Shut Down Sizewell campaign</li>
<li><b>Rev Chris Walton</b>, Ringsfield Hall Eco-Centre - “A Whole Earth Education”</li>
<li><b>HsiuJung Lee -</b> A first-hand account of the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan</li>
<li><b>Nikki Clark</b>, Stop Hinkley and South West Against Nuclear - Hinkley Point in Somerset: first in line for new nuclear build in the UK (by EDF).</li>
</ul>14:30 <b>Symbolic Blockade</b><br />
15:00 <b>Demo finishes</b><br />
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<b>Workshops and Walks</b><br />
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Saturday and Sunday, at the Camp<br />
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A number of workshops have been proposed, including: 'Nuclear Power - A Rational Response to Climate Change and Energy Security?', 'Nuclear Physics for Beginners', 'Extreme Energy - Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel', 'Alternative Energy', as well as guided walks along the beach and into the woods EDF intends to destroy.<br />
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Chernobyl Remembrance</h4><br />
Sunday 22nd, 1pm at the Camp<br />
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Getting There</h3><br />
Sizewell is on the Suffolk coast, about 8 miles from the A12 and 100 miles east of (central) London. The nearest train station is Saxmundham, which is 7 miles from Sizewell. (<i><b>Contact us if you need transport from the train station.</b></i>)<br />
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The postcode for the power station is <b>IP16 4UE</b>, if you want to look it up on the Internet.<br />
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<b>Coach From London - Saturday 21st April</b><br />
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Coach leaves at <b>8.15am prompt</b> from the <b>Embankment</b> (probably opposite side to the river to the left of the riverside entrance from Embankment tube)and will also pick up at <b>9am prompt</b> from outside<b> Redbridge</b> tube station (Central line.). It will arrive outside the main gate of Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk by the start of the planned demo there at noon. (PS there is a pub for food, drink and toilets opposite the gate)<br />
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Return tickets are <b>£20 (waged), or as much as you can afford (unwaged)</b>, but £10 seems reasonable. Half-price (one-way) tickets are available for those who want to stay on at the camp into Sunday, or Monday morning.<br />
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The coach will leave at <b>5pm prompt</b> on Saturday from outside the main gate for the return journey, getting back to London by about 8pm. (PS there will also be a toilet on the coach.)<br />
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<i>Please say whether you intend to join the coach at <b>Embankment (E)</b> or <b>Redbridge (R)</b></i><br />
<b><i>Further info about London coach: 020-7607 2302; david.lrcnd [at] cnduk.org</i></b><br />
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<h3>About the Camp</h3><br />
We want as many people as possible to feel comfortable at the camp, so please no heavy drinking or loud music. The camp will be run not for you but by you, so please be prepared to help out with the running of the camp.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Please let us know (contact details below) if you are thinking of coming, so we have an idea of numbers for catering, etc.</b></span><br />
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We also need bodies to help with camp set up on Friday, and 'tat down' - taking down the camp - on Monday morning, so let us know if you're up for helping out with either of those.<br />
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<b>E-mail: camp [at] sizewellcamp.org.uk</b><br />
<b>Phone: 07894 467 356</b></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-15160599137136033892012-02-16T18:32:00.006+01:002012-02-16T20:16:17.312+01:00Hinkley Point Barnstormers - Occupiers aim to stop EDF land trash - video<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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"shannonsmy23" writes:<br />
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"This film gives an account of the first few days of the occupation of Langborough Farm on the site of one of the proposed 'new wave' of Nuclear Reactors, at Hinkley point in Somerset. The activists took occupancy in the early hours of Sunday the 12th of February and are settling in to their new home and community.<br />
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"Their aims include highlighting the fact that EDF, the French company given the contract to build Hinkley C, have been given permission to remove all hedgerows, trees and topsoil from the 500 hectare site, before they have been given planning permission to build the power station. The site includes a SSSI and a protected wetland (R.A.M.S.A.R) and is home to some beautiful deer and protected bats.<br />
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"This week has seen a number of visitors, and none more poignant than the visit by a county council officer who issued them all with Iodine tablets 'Just in case of a Nuclear Accident!'<br />
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"Please support the campaign by heading to the Farm if you are able (TA5 1UD), by donating money, and by spreading the word!<br />
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"Nuclear Power is not the solution to our climate change problems, with an embedded energy per kilo of power outputed 5 times that of wind, and a toxic waste that will be too hot to even move for 150 years...can we honestly be certain that future generations will have the climate stability necessary to deal with such a potentially devastating hazard...?"<br />
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<a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/action">Stop New Nuclear</a> Press Release - Wednesday, 28 September 2011 <br />
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People from all over the UK are set to descend on Hinkley Point nuclear power station to protest again EDF Energy’s plans to build two new mega-reactors next to the existing site. <br />
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More than 100 people have already pledged to join a symbolic mass blockade at the entrance to Hinkley Point in Somerset [south-west England] next Monday, October 3rd. On Saturday 1st October, anti-nuclear protesters will also join local residents in a march and rally close to EDF Energy’s regional HQ in nearby Bridgwater. <br />
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The new reactors at Hinkley will be the first of eight new nuclear power stations to be built in the UK. Spokesperson, Andreas Speck, said: ‘This blockade is designed to warn the government and EDF that those who understand the real dangers of nuclear power are not prepared to stand by and allow these untried, untested, reactors to be built.’ <br />
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‘The blockade demonstrates that people are prepared to use civil disobedience to stop the bulldozers from coming in and paving the way for a potentially lethal technology that has no place in the 21st century,’ he added. <br />
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Local resident, Nikki Clark said she fears for her children’s future. ‘There is already a lot of concern in the area about the radiation being discharged into the sea and air from the current nuclear power station at Hinkley Point.’ <br />
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She continued: ‘We know from Chernobyl that children are particularly vulnerable to radiation in both large and small doses. Now the disaster at Fukushima has shown that even in one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, the rights of children to be protected from radiation have been ignored. We don’t trust nuclear power and a lot of local people are saying enough is enough.’ <br />
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In a message of support to the campaigners, leading environmentalist, Jonathon Porritt, said, ‘The position of the UK government is extraordinary, given how the rest of the world has reacted to the Fukushima disaster. Nuclear has no part to play in the UK's energy mix.’ <br />
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Porritt continued, ‘We can achieve everything we need in terms of secure, low-carbon energy primarily from energy efficiency, renewables and modern technologies like Combined Heat and Power. So we don't need it and I believe that we can still persuade UK citizens that it's the wrong thing for us to be doing.’ <br />
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Notes to the editor: <br />
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For further information about the blockade and march, please contact Camilla Berens on 07811- 451417 or Crispin Aubrey from Stop Hinkley on 01278 732921. <br />
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Journalists are invited to meet key activists at the weekend protest camp from 2-3pm on Sunday 2nd October. <br />
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The blockade will begin outside the main entrance of Hinkley Point at 7am on Monday 3rd October and will continue all day. <br />
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The rally in Bridgwater is on Saturday 1st October and will run from 1-4pm. <br />
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<a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/action">Stop New Nuclear </a>is a campaign to stop new nuclear power stations and is an alliance of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, CND Cymru, Stop Nuclear Power Network UK, Kick Nuclear, Stop Hinkley, Sizewell Blockaders, Shutdown Sizewell, South West Against Nuclear, and Trident Ploughshares.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-77549112317832580032011-08-21T17:56:00.004+02:002011-10-06T11:31:53.678+02:00Nuclear New Build and Hinkley – Important update from South-West Against Nuclear (SWAN) and Stop Nuclear Power Network (SNPN)<a name='more'></a>Things are hotting up with the government and nuclear industry’s plans for nu-killer new build in Britain. If we want to put the brakes on their insane plans to build a fleet of new potential Fukushimas at up to eight sites around England and Wales, we need to get active <span class="yiv488002742caps">TODAY</span>!<br />
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Here are a few ideas for getting involved. We’re sure you’ll have more of your own: feel free to share and discuss!<br />
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<div style="font-style: italic;">Get informed</div><br />
You’ll find a brief summary of where things are at with nuclear new build in Britain after the action suggestions below.<br />
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For more regular updates, you can subscribe to the <span class="yiv488002742caps">SNPN</span> and <span class="yiv488002742caps">SWAN</span> mailing lists (if you’re not already on them).<br />
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For <span class="yiv488002742caps">SNPN</span>, contact: <b>network[at]stopnuclearpoweruk.net</b><br />
For <span class="yiv488002742caps">SWAN</span>, contact: <b>swanactive[at]gmail.com</b><br />
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Also, <span style="font-style: italic;">No2NuclearPower</span> produces comprehensive daily and monthly e-bulletins. You can subscribe here:<br />
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<div style="font-style: italic;">Blockade Hinkley</div><br />
A mass blockade of Hinkley Point nuclear power station in Somerset – where Britain’s first new nuclear reactor is planned to be built – is to take place on Monday 3rd October. It has been called by the Stop New Nuclear alliance, which includes <span class="yiv488002742caps">SWAN</span>, <span class="yiv488002742caps">SNPN</span>, Kick Nuclear, Sizewell Blockaders, Stop Hinkley, <span class="yiv488002742caps">Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament</span>, Trident Ploughshares and Shutdown Sizewell, and is supported by, amongst others, Rising Tide UK and the Public and Commercial Services Union.<br />
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For more details, see: <a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stopnewnuclear.org.uk</a><br />
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You can pledge to take part in the action, either as an ‘arrestable’ blockader or ‘non-arrestable’ supporter: <a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/pledges" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stopnewnuclear.org.uk/pledges<br />
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Everyone’s contribution, solidarity and support is valuable, whether you choose to blockade or not :o)<br />
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<div style="font-style: italic;">Mobilise locally</div><br />
You can order flyers for mobilising and raising awareness in your area:<br />
<a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/fliers" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stopnewnuclear.org.uk/fliers</a><br />
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<div style="font-style: italic;">Get trained up for action</div><br />
You can take part in one of the non-violent direct action training sessions being put on to help folks (blockaders and supporters alike) prepare themselves for this and/or future actions. At the moment, trainings are planned in Bristol, London, Glastonbury, Compton Dundon, Bridgwater and Swansea – check out <a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/training" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stopnewnuclear.org.uk/training</a> for further details and updates.<br />
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There is also an outdoor skill-share gathering taking place in South Lanarkshire, Scotland over the August bank holiday weekend:<br />
<a href="http://outdoorskillshare.noflag.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">outdoorskillshare.noflag.org.uk</a><br />
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</div><div style="font-style: italic;">Petitions</div><br />
- Help Stop Hinkley get its petition up to 10,000 signatures. Only 1,000 left to go! Please spread the word within your networks.<br />
<a href="http://stophinkley.org/PETITION.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stophinkley.org/PETITION.htm</a><br />
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- Petition on 38 Degrees website: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/38degNuclear" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tinyurl.com/38degNuclear</a><br />
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- Petition on UK government website: <a href="http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/1035" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/1035</a><br />
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</div><div style="font-style: italic;">Boycott <span class="yiv488002742caps">EDF</span></div><a href="http://boycottedf.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">boycottedf.org.uk<br />
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<span class="yiv488002742caps">EDF</span> Energy is spearheading the push for nuclear new build in Britain. Spread the word about the campaign for customers of the French-owned energy giant to switch to a green / non-nuclear energy provider. You can now order campaign postcards to help get the word out:<br />
<a href="http://boycottedf.org.uk/contact" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">boycottedf.org.uk/contact<br />
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<span class="yiv488002742caps">SWAN</span> now organises weekly meetings in Bristol, every Wednesday from 7pm, at the Smiling Chair, 40 Stokes Croft<br />
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<span class="yiv488002742caps">SWAN</span> is not, however, an organising group for the whole of the south-west. It wants to mobilise with you, so if you have ideas, suggestions or feedback for the group, or if you want to be added to the mailing list, get in touch at: <b>swanactive[at]gmail.com</b><br />
Counter the greenwash<br />
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Environmentalist and nuclear convert Mark Lynas is to speak at the Watershed in Bristol on September 1st, 6-7pm (free entry). <span class="yiv488002742caps">SWAN</span> will be there to show that not all greenies think building new Fukushimas is going to help save the planet! Join them if you can.<br />
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Why not start a group in your area and connect with others doing similar work? Let <span class="yiv488002742caps">SWAN</span> and <span class="yiv488002742caps">SNPN</span> know about your activities so we can help publicise them.<br />
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<div style="font-weight: bold;">UK nu-killer new build: where things are at</div><div style="font-style: italic;"><br />
</div><div style="font-style: italic;">Liar, liar, pants on fire!</div><br />
In July, the government was caught with its pants down conspiring with the nuclear industry to mislead the public by down-playing the seriousness of the Fukushima disaster. Clearly they fear the repercussions the Japanese crisis could have on the UK’s nu-killer new build programme.<br />
See: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/30/british-government-plan-play-down-fukushima" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun...</a><br />
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<i>Westminster gives the nod to a new fleet of nu-killer white elephants</i><br />
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Last month, the UK parliament approved a series of National Policy Statements (NPSs) for new nuclear and other major energy infrastructure. Under new planning legislation (introduced under Labour), these allow for the construction of new nuclear power stations at eight named sites in England and Wales. Barring any legal challenges before the end of the month, the public will no longer have any say in whether or not the new reactors are actually needed.<br />
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<div style="font-style: italic;">Local council okays the trashing of the Somerset countryside</div>Just days after the NPSs were rubber-stamped by the formerly anti-nuclear Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, West Somerset Council (<span class="yiv488002742caps">WSC</span>) gave <span class="yiv488002742caps">NNB</span> GenCo, a subsidiary of <span class="yiv488002742caps">EDF</span> – the industry’s cheerleader-in-chief for nuclear new build in Britain – the green light to prepare the land for its proposed Hinkley C mega-reactor.<br />
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These ‘preliminary works’ are to involve massive ground-works on over 400 acres of greenfield land on the West Somerset coast. The beautiful site lies within an area of major ecological importance: it sits within the Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve, and borders the Severn Estuary <span class="yiv488002742caps">RAMSAR</span> site, Quantock Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and terrestrial and marine habitats of every kind of environmental designation. The fields and woodlands provide important habitats for pipistrelle bats, badgers, birds, and plenty of other precious flora and fauna. The site is also popular with walkers, lying along the South-West Coast Path. More soil and rocks are to be dug up than for the site of the London Olympics and the hole filled in with concrete in preparation for the as yet unconsented reactor. The land would become one of the biggest construction sites in Europe.<br />
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</div><div style="font-style: italic;">More details:</div><a href="http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2011/08/edf-gets-green-light-to-trash-400-acres.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2011/08/e...</a><br />
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<span class="yiv488002742caps">SWAN</span> mobilised fifteen people from Bristol, with many more coming from elsewhere (one from as far as Cornwall) to support Stop Hinkley at the planning committee meeting. Over 400 letters of objection were received (with only around a hundred in support), with opposition to EDF’s plans coming from right across the community, from both pro- & anti-nuclear camps. Despite this, the pro-nuclear councillors voted through EDF’s countryside-wrecking plans by a majority of 11-1, showing just how in the pocket of the energy giant the local politicans are.<br />
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Even if <span class="yiv488002742caps">EDF</span> goes ahead with its ‘preliminary works’, there’s no guarantee any new reactor would actually be built. Hinkley C has been stopped before and, with any luck, it will be again:<br />
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- The French reactor design chosen by <span class="yiv488002742caps">EDF</span>, the Areva <span class="yiv488002742caps">EPR</span>, has yet to be approved by UK regulators, with serious safety issues remaining. The nuclear regulators in the UK, Finland and France have all expressed concerns.<br />
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- <span class="yiv488002742caps">EDF</span> has yet to submit an application to the Infrastructure Planning Commission (<span class="yiv488002742caps">IPC</span>) for the construction of Hinkley C. The company’s Somerset boss, David Eccles, admitted at a recent community forum meeting he is not at all confident the <span class="yiv488002742caps">IPC</span> will grant planning consent for the new reactor.<br />
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- Hinkley C could always get shelved for economic reasons. The coalition government is trying to push through energy market reforms that would provide hidden subsidies to the nuclear industry. Without these and other major hidden state subsidies, like accident liability coverage, nuclear new build would not be economically viable.<br />
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- Centrica (which trades as British Gas and Scottish Gas) – EDF’s (potential) junior partner for the Hinkley C project, has been warned away from investing in nuclear energy by City analysts, citing the company’s lack of ‘institutional knowledge’ in the field.<br />
See: ‘City presses Centrica to cancel plans for building nuclear power plants’ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jul/25/centrica-nuclear-power-stations" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/jul/25...</a><br />
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</div><div style="font-style: italic;">Further reading:</div>‘Hinkley C – Somerset’s nuclear money pit?’<br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/2011/aug/01/hinkley-c-reactor-plans" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk/environment/blog/201...</a><br />
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<div style="font-style: italic;">And finally…</div><br />
Check out this inspiring tale of how one mother in Germany managed to transform her region’s entire energy system:<br />
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/may/21/ursula-sladek-power-green-campaigner" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/ma...</a><br />
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<div style="font-style: italic;"><b>Together we can kick the nuclear habit!</b></div><br />
Love and solidarity,<br />
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South-West Against Nuclear<br />
(On Facebook as ‘Southwest Against Nuclear’)<br />
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Stop Nuclear Power Network<br />
<a href="http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stopnuclearpoweruk.net</a><br />
<a href="http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com</a><br />
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<a name='more'></a><b>Nagasaki</b><b> Day Ceremony, </b><b>Battersea</b><b> </b><b>Park</b><b> Peace Pagoda, </b><b>London</b><b> <br />
– </b><b>Tuesday 9<sup>th</sup> August, 2011</b></div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div align="center" class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><i>Notes from speech by Dan Viesnik (<a href="http://kicknuclear.org/">Kick Nuclear</a> and <a href="http://tridentploughshares.org/">Trident Ploughshares</a>)</i></div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">- 66 years since manmade nuclear disasters at Hiroshima and Nagasaki</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">- 5 months since nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the worst since Chernobyl, 25 years ago</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- Russian ambassador to Japan, in Hiroshima for a ceremony to remember the annihilation of the city in 1945, said that while Hiroshima was a disaster caused by humans, the Fukushima nuclear crisis is “<i>a disaster by natural causes.</i>” [1]</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- The latter is simply not true: earthquake / tsunami not the cause of 3 reactors going into meltdown and a 4<sup>th</sup> also in crisis: human origin, predictable and preventable: failure of cooling systems due to:</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">a) Loss of power b) Known design flaws c) Corner-cutting by TEPCO, the plant operator</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">Result: <i> Since March 11 radiation has leaked into air, soil and sea and forced tens of thousands to leave their homes, leading to massive public anger. Radiation also continues to rise in food samples from beef to rice and seafood – all staples of </i><i>Japan</i><i>’s diet. </i>[2]</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9.0pt;">- Cancer and birth defect risks likely to persist for generations due to radioactive contamination of the environment</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9.0pt;">- Japan only too familiar with long-term health risks from such contamination – experiences of Hibakusha (A-bomb survivors)</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9.0pt;"><br />
- Even if every possible safety measure were to be adopted, still would not eliminate risk of such a catastrophe happening again, whether in Japan, Britain or elsewhere.</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9.0pt;"><br />
- Nuclear power is inherently risky and unsafe. Other countries are finally starting to recognise this:</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- Following massive popular protests in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has agreed to shut down the last German reactor by 2022.</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- Switzerland plans to follow suit and close down all five of its reactors by 2035.</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- Italy, which doesn’t have any nuclear reactors in activity, turned out in surprising force in June for a referendum on nuclear power in which 95% of voters elected to outlaw nuclear power in the country.</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- On Saturday, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan became the first senior Japanese official to speak in favour of the country moving away from its reliance on nuclear power:</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><i>Addressing those gathered to commemorate the 66th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on </i><i>Hiroshima</i><i>, </i><i>Kan</i><i> said the ongoing crisis at the </i><i>Fukushima</i><i> Daiichi nuclear power plant… means </i><i>Japan</i><i> must turn to other energy sources.</i></div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><i><br />
"I will reduce </i><i>Japan</i><i>'s reliance on nuclear power, aiming at creating a society that will not rely on atomic power generation," he added. </i>[2]</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 18.0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9.0pt;">- Mayor of Nagasaki, Tomisha Taue, wrote yesterday about doing away with myths regarding both nuclear power and nuclear weapons and facing reality. He said:</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 9pt;"><br />
</div><i>“The myth that nuclear plants are completely safe has crumbled because of the </i><i>Fukushima</i><i> plant disaster. However, </i><i>Hiroshima</i><i> and </i><i>Nagasaki</i><i> have been fighting with a different myth for over half a century: that the </i><i>United States</i><i> was justified in dropping the atomic bombs because they saved more lives than they took. Journalist Akira Naka shows that this myth is not based in fact in his book "Mokusatsu" (Ignore by silence), but it is nonetheless still vigorously propagated.” </i>[3]<br />
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The sentiments of the Japanese Prime Minister and the Mayor of Nagasaki were echoed by the words of the Mayor of Hiroshima, Kazumi Matsui, who said on Saturday:</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><i>“The continuing radiation scare has made many people live in fear and undermined people's confidence in nuclear power,” adding that the government must review its energy policy. </i>[2]</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">Meanwhile, Greenpeace worker Sakyo Noda, who spent Saturday’s Hiroshima anniversary carrying out sampling work at a kindergarten in Fukushima City, reported:</div><i><br />
“It was such a hot day that for a second, I was reminded of the more usual </i><i>Hiroshima</i><i> Day. But I couldn't talk about that in front of the parents who were desperate to protect their own children in </i><i>Fukushima</i><i> in 2011.” </i>[4]<br />
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<div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">The <a href="http://www.gensuikin.org/english/">Japan Congress against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs</a> recently organised a 1700-strong rally in Fukushima City – joined by some of the 85,000+ residents evacuated from areas around the crippled power plant. AFP reported:</div><br />
<i>It was the first time that the leading anti-nuclear organisation staged a rally in </i><i>Fukushima</i><i> to observe the anniversaries of the World War II atomic bombings of </i><i>Hiroshima</i><i> and </i><i>Nagasaki</i><i> on August 6 and 9, 1945. </i><br />
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<i>Koichi Kawano, a Nagasaki atomic-bomb survivor who heads the organising group, told the rally:<br />
“We have tended to focus on abolition of nuclear weapons while being weak in our campaign against nuclear power plants," before adding ‘Let there be no more nuclear plant accidents.”</i> [5]<br />
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Writing about the Japanese nuclear industry a month after the accident at Fukushima, Robert Jay Lifton said:<br />
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<i>…there was… a pattern of denial, cover-up and cozy bureaucratic collusion between industry and government, the last especially notorious in </i><i>Japan</i><i> but by no means limited to that country. Even then, pro-nuclear power forces could prevail only by managing to instill in the minds of Japanese people a dichotomy between the physics of nuclear power and that of nuclear weapons, an illusory distinction made not only in </i><i>Japan</i><i> but throughout the world. </i>[6]<br />
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Trident</i></div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">Meanwhile, the UK Government continues to show its contempt for parliamentary democracy on the nuclear weapons issue by proceeding with its Trident nuclear weapon system replacement programme, including:</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;">- A multi-billion pound upgrade to the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment’s nuclear warhead facilities, without no parliamentary debate or vote</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 36.0pt;"><br />
- Signing contracts worth billions of pounds with arms giants BAE Systems, Rolls Royce and Babcock Marine to begin work on a new generation of Trident submarines years ahead of any parliamentary decision to proceed with Trident replacement, making a mockery of the coalition agreement on Trident.</div><br />
<div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><i>Nuclear power</i></div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- Only last month, Parliament gave the green light to the nuclear industry to build new nuclear power stations at eight sites in England and Wales.</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- The first of the new reactors is planned at <a href="http://stophinkley.org/">Hinkley Point</a> in Somerset</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
- The <a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/">Stop New Nuclear alliance</a>, which includes <a href="http://cnduk.org/">CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)</a> and <a href="http://tridentploughshares.org/">Trident Ploughshares</a>, is mobilising for a <a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/">blockade of Hinkley on 3<sup>rd </sup>October</a>, to stop the UK’s nuclear new build plans in its tracks.</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- I urge you all to join the action, whether as a <a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/pledges">blockader or supporter</a></div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
[More info: flyers + website <a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk</a> ]</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
- There’s also a campaign for electricity customers to <a href="http://boycottedf.org.uk/">boycott EDF Energy</a>, the UK subsidiary of French energy giant EDF, which is spearheading nuclear new build in England.</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- Finally, I have recently returned from an international walk along the Loire River in France against both nuclear power and nuclear weapons, organised by <a href="http://footprintsforpeace.org/">Footprints for Peace </a>and the French anti-nuclear network <a href="http://www.sortirdunucleaire.org/index.php?menu=english&page=index">Sortir du Nucleaire</a>.<br />
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- This linked in with a <a href="http://footprints.footprintsforpeace.net/nffcampaign/NFF2011.htm">two-month walk about to start in Western Australia</a>, also organised by <a href="http://footprintsforpeace.org/">Footprints for Peace</a>, with aboriginal communities affected by uranium mining, just as indigenous communities around the world, from North America to Niger are affected. [7]</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">- I’m happy to provide more information on any of these events and campaigns.</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><i>References</i></div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">1. <a href="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110806p2g00m0dm018000c.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110806p2g00m0dm018000c.html</a> </div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">2. <a href="http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2011/Kan_nonuke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2011/Kan_nonuke</a> </div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">3. <a href="http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110808p2a00m0na004000c.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110808p2a00m0na004000c.html</a> </div><br />
4. <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/remembering-hiroshima-in-fukushima/blog/36271/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/remembering-hiroshima-in-fukushima/blog/36271/</a> <span style="font-size: 10pt;"></span><br />
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</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">5. <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20110731-protesters-fukushima-city-call-end-nuclear-energy-demonstrations-earthquake-japan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.france24.com/en/20110731-protesters-fukushima-city-call-end-nuclear-energy-demonstrations-earthquake-japan</a> </div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">6. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/opinion/16iht-edlifton16.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/16/opinion/16iht-edlifton16.html</a> </div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal">7. <a href="http://footprintsforpeace.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://footprintsforpeace.org</a></div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"> <a href="http://nuclearfreefuture.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://nuclearfreefuture.com</a> </div><div class="yiv2137625035MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-41421335089611856512011-08-07T09:26:00.004+02:002011-10-06T11:35:22.149+02:00EDF gets green light to trash 400 acres of greenfield land in Somerset<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The greenfield land EDF plans to trash (D. Viesnik)</td></tr>
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<a name='more'></a>EDF Energy (the UK subsidiary of Electricite de France) has been granted permission by West Somerset District Council to trash over 400 of acres of beautiful greenfield coastal land at Hinkley Point, which sits within the Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve, overlooking the Severn Estuary RAMSAR site.<br />
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EDF plans to uproot all the trees and vegetation, which provide important habitats for birds, bats, mammals and other precious flora and fauna. It also plans to dig up more soil and rock than was done for the preparation of the London 2012 Olympic site. And all of this before EDF has even submitted an application to the Infrastructure Planning Commission for its planned new nu-killer power station. But worry ye not, because EDF says that if it doesn't get permission to build its new nu-killer reactor (or if it changes its mind for economic or other reasons), then it will restore the land to its former glory.<br />
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More photos of the beautiful land EDF wants to trash here: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/44e8vow%20">http://tinyurl.com/44e8vow </a><br />
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<b>Nuclear power plant decision branded a travesty by campaigners </b><br />
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29/07/2011<br />
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Anti-nuclear campaigners have slammed a council’s decision to allow EDF Energy to begin clearing land earmarked for a nuclear reactor. And they pledged to step-up their campaign of direct action against the energy giant. <br />
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Activists from the Stop New Nuclear network branded West Somerset Council’s decision yesterday to allow EDF to start bulldozing 400 acres next to Somerset’s Hinkley Point nuclear power station as a ‘circus and a travesty’. The planning committee’s decision paves the way for preparatory work to begin on the Hinkley C mega-reactor. <br />
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Local Bridgwater resident and activist, Nikki Clark, said campaigners are now gearing up for a mass blockade of Hinkey Point on October 3rd. ‘‘The planning committee was more concerned about the road layout that the social and environmental impact of such a huge power plant. Our only hope now is to physically stop the trashing of much-loved woodlands and pastures with our bodies.’ <br />
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She added: ‘The travesty of the event was emphasized by the fact that permission for a wind farm on the same site was refused two years ago because of concerns about its environmental impacts. These will be dwarfed by the devastation planned by EDF.’ <br />
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Campaigners maintain that ‘new nuclear’ power is dangerous and expensive. ‘After the Fukushima accident in Japan, the government should be pausing to consider the lessons rather than ploughing mindlessly ahead,’ said Stop Hinkley spokesman Crispin Aubrey. ‘Other countries are showing that a non-nuclear renewable future is feasible – we should be following their lead.’ <br />
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The German government recently announced a complete phase-out of nuclear power within a decade. Its report, Germany’s Energy Turnaround – a collective effort for the future also rules out a increase in the use of fossil fuels. <br />
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‘The secret ingredient is an upscaling in the use of combined heat and power – a proven technology that will support a national energy efficiency programme,’ says Camilla Berens from Kick Nuclear. ‘The burning question is, if the German government can do, why can’t ours? We want a future, not a disaster.’ <br />
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Notes: <br />
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The Stop New Nuclear network objects to EDF's preparatory works because: <br />
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• There is no certainty that EDF will go ahead with building Hinkley C, partly for financial reasons. The company’s prototype power station at Flamanville in France is now four years behind schedule and its cost has almost doubled to £6 billion. <br />
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• If the French company does not gain approval for the power station from the Infrastructure Planning Commission, over 400 acres of beautiful countryside will have been needlessly trashed. EDF claims that it could be returned to its original state is a nonsense. <br />
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• The amount of time allegedly to be saved – about a year – is insignificant compared with the overall timescale of building nuclear plants of up to 10 years. This is simply an exercise in EDF “jumping the gun”. <br />
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• There is no energy gap which cannot be filled by other means, as nuclear supporters claim. Other non-nuclear power stations can be built faster and cheaper while we move towards a safer, cleaner future based on renewable sources. <br />
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• Any supposed economic benefits to the area from this work will be outweighed by the disruption it will cause. The Planning Officer's report accepts, for example, that the employment benefits are “likely to be relatively small… compared to the local impacts”. <br />
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Nikki Clark, Stop Hinkley: 07736-930069<br />
Angie Zelter, Trident Ploughshares: 07835-354652<br />
Camilla Berens, Kick Nuclear: 07980 509986<br />
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More information on the Stop New Nuclear mass blockade can be found at: <a href="http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk/">http://stopnewnuclear.org.uk</a> <br />
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Stop Hinkley: West Somerset Councillors Could Live to Regret Groundworks Approval <a href="http://www.stophinkley.org/PressReleases/pr110729.htm">http://www.stophinkley.org/PressReleases/pr110729.htm </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-39492917803571731502011-08-04T21:22:00.008+02:002011-10-06T11:36:15.375+02:00Campaigners welcome MOX nuclear fuel plant closure, call for end to reprocessing<a name='more'></a>Kick Nuclear - 4 August 2011 <br />
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Kick Nuclear welcomes yesterday's announcement that the mixed oxide (MOX) fuel fabrication plant at Sellafield, Cumbria is to close, but demands an end to reprocessing and to highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel transports through London and across the country. <br />
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Spokesperson Nancy Birch said: <br />
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"The MOX plant has been a disaster from start to finish. One of the reactors at Fukushima that exploded and went into meltdown was loaded with plutonium-rich MOX fuel, probably supplied by the UK. This further underlines the need to terminate all reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel and production of MOX in the UK and worldwide. Reprocessing is highly polluting, generates large quantities of cancer-causing liquid high level radioactive waste, carries weapons proliferation risks and is uneconomic. No new MOX plant should be built and no new or old reactors should be allowed to use MOX fuel. Furthermore, existing transports of spent nuclear fuel, including those that pass through London, must be stopped. These present unacceptable risks from accidents and terrorist attacks." <br />
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Kick Nuclear is a London-based group affiliated to the national Stop Nuclear Power Network <br />
<a href="http://kicknuclear.org/">http://kicknuclear.org</a> <br />
<a href="http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/">http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net</a> <br />
<a href="http://boycottedf.org.uk/">http://boycottedf.org.uk</a><br />
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See also:<br />
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A Pox on Mox - Closure of the Sellafield Mox Plant<br />
<a href="http://northern-indymedia.org/articles/2152">http://northern-indymedia.org/articles/2152 </a><br />
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MOX Maneuverings<br />
<a href="http://northern-indymedia.org/articles/2157">http://northern-indymedia.org/articles/2157</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-49096117044346258132011-05-30T14:50:00.002+02:002011-10-06T11:38:07.432+02:00A glowing report for Sizewell Camp<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Copyright (c) 2011 Stop Nuclear Power Network</span></td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: left;"><a name='more'></a>by Daniel Viesnik<br />
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On Good Friday, I headed down to a sunny Sizewell Beach on the picturesque Suffolk coast. The nuclear power station, directly overlooking the beach, was, for the third successive year, the target for the annual spring weekend camp of the <a href="http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/">Stop Nuclear Power Network</a>. <br />
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Full article: <a href="http://www.peacenewslog.info/2011/05/a-glowing-report-for-sizewell-camp/">http://www.peacenewslog.info/2011/05/a-glowing-report-for-sizewell-camp</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-15510678481220349392011-04-27T21:55:00.005+02:002011-10-06T11:39:51.165+02:00Nuclear white elephant blown up outside Parliament<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<a name='more'></a>Friends of the Earth action earlier today: <br />
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No, not a terrorist incident this time, but inflation of another nuclear white elephant. Olkiluoto and Flamanville anyone?<br />
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Read more here: <a href="http://www.foe.co.uk/news/nuclear_elephant_30514.html">http://www.foe.co.uk/news/nuclear_elephant_30514.html </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-16899369260757774422011-04-27T11:40:00.005+02:002011-10-06T11:41:31.192+02:00Images from Sizewell Camp / Chernobyl 25th anniversary<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0MdkKzuwt5A/TbdQJ15fs4I/AAAAAAAAFIQ/fZrIyN9X8a0/s1600/IMG_4173.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0MdkKzuwt5A/TbdQJ15fs4I/AAAAAAAAFIQ/fZrIyN9X8a0/s320/IMG_4173.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<a name='more'></a><b> More photos: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/62j3qc6">http://tinyurl.com/62j3qc6</a> and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3cx6f42">http://tinyurl.com/3cx6f42</a></b><br />
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<b>More photos: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/62j3qc6">http://tinyurl.com/62j3qc6</a></b> <b>and <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3cx6f42">http://tinyurl.com/3cx6f42</a></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-12397054036868759252011-04-27T11:36:00.008+02:002011-10-06T11:42:51.387+02:00London remembers Chernobyl 25 years on<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A7FH0979CM8/TbfjY-so2QI/AAAAAAAAFJY/oLKUIdJDA_A/s1600/IMG_4232.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A7FH0979CM8/TbfjY-so2QI/AAAAAAAAFJY/oLKUIdJDA_A/s320/IMG_4232.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b></b><br />
<a name='more'></a><b> More images here: <a href="https://london.indymedia.org/articles/8864">https://london.indymedia.org/articles/8864</a></b><i><br />
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26 April 2011</i> - <a href="http://cnduk.org/">CND</a> and <a href="http://www.medact.org/">Medact</a> staged a vigil and parliamentary meeting at Portcullis House in Westminster to mark the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl, the world's worst ever civil nuclear disaster.<br />
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The accident at reactor 4 took place in Ukraine on 26th April 1986, with the fallout spreading across Europe and beyond. Commemorative events were being staged all around the UK and worldwide on Monday and Tuesday to mark the occasion. <br />
<br />
The Chernobyl sarcophagus, built to contain the further escape of radioactive material from the crippled reactor, is reported to be breaking up, and the international community is being asked to contribute billions of pounds towards the constuction of a new containment structure. It is likely that similar structures will need to be built at all four of the affected reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Japan, crippled by a failure of the reactor cooling systems in the wake of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.<br />
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Speakers at the vigil on Victoria Embankment, opposite Portcullis House, included Sophie Bolt from London Region CND, Marion Birch from Medact, Linda Walker from the Chernobyl Children's Project UK and Susie Greaves from Independent WHO. The latter is an international campaign for a World Health Organisation independent of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), part of whose remit is to promote nuclear power worldwide, and who report to the UN Security Council. The two organisations have an agreement since 1959 which effectively gags the WHO from conducting independent investigations and producing independent reports into the health effects of atomic radiation. A Japanese student also circulated a petition regarding the Fukushima disaster and nuclear power in Japan.<br />
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The parliamentary meeting which took place afterwards, chaired by Green Party leader Caroline Lucas MP, was addressed by Labour MP and former Minister of State for the Environment, Michael Meacher, a long-term opponent of nuclear power, Professor Dillwyn Williams (University of Cambridge) and Dr Paul Dorfman (University of Warwick, Nuclear Consultation Group).<br />
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All images are Copyright (c) 2011 Stop Nuclear Power Network, but may be reproduced free of charge if credited. For high resolution versions, please e-mail.<br />
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<b>More images here: <a href="https://london.indymedia.org/articles/8864%20">https://london.indymedia.org/articles/8864 </a></b><br />
<b><br />
Links:<br />
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</b><img alt="Link_go" src="https://london.indymedia.org/images/link_go.png?1303576885" /> <a href="http://boycottedf.org.uk/">Boycott EDF</a><br />
<img alt="Link_go" src="https://london.indymedia.org/images/link_go.png?1303576885" /> <a href="http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/">Stop Nuclear Power Network</a><br />
<img alt="Link_go" src="https://london.indymedia.org/images/link_go.png?1303576885" /> <a href="http://www.cnduk.org/">Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND)</a><br />
<img alt="Link_go" src="https://london.indymedia.org/images/link_go.png?1303576885" /> <a href="http://www.medact.org/">Medact</a><br />
<img alt="Link_go" src="https://london.indymedia.org/images/link_go.png?1303576885" /> <a href="http://www.chernobyl-children.org.uk/">Chernobyl Children's Project UK</a><br />
<img alt="Link_go" src="https://london.indymedia.org/images/link_go.png?1303576885" /> <a href="http://independentwho.info/accueil_EN.php">Independent WHO</a><br />
<img alt="Link_go" src="https://london.indymedia.org/images/link_go.png?1303576885" /> <a href="http://www.nuclearconsult.com/index.php">Nuclear Consultation Group</a><br />
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<i>Contact email:</i> <a href="mailto:vd2012-imc%20[at]%20yahoo.co.uk">vd2012-imc [at] yahoo.co.uk</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-20089167761547563352011-04-26T13:04:00.004+02:002011-10-06T11:44:41.824+02:00Windscale, Chernobyl, Fukushima - never again? 25 years on from Chernobyl<div><br />
<a name='more'></a>Monday, 25 April, 2011 PRESS RELEASE</div><br />
On 26th April 2011, 25 years on from Chernobyl, Radiation Free Lakeland<br />
will lay three crosses outside Carlisle Cathedral.<br />
<br />
Windscale-Never Again? Chernobyl-Never Again? Fukushima-Never Again?<br />
<br />
A letter will be delivered to the pro-nuclear Bishop of Carlisle - Bishop<br />
James Newcome asking that the Diocese reconsiders its support for new<br />
build and geological disposal of high level nuclear wastes. 25 years on<br />
from Chernobyl and "there are so many radiation related health crises<br />
occurring in the region that for the first time in Belarussian history ,<br />
the death rate is HIGHER, than the birth rate”.<br />
<br />
Dear Bishop Newcome,<br />
<br />
CHERNOBYL - 25 YEARS ON.<br />
<br />
Congratulations on your appointment as Lead Bishop on health care issues.<br />
<br />
Today is the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Radiation<br />
Free Lakeland and representatives from other concerned groups will be<br />
laying three crosses outside Carlisle Cathedral. The crosses will read:<br />
<br />
Windscale- Never Again? Chernobyl- Never Again? Fukushima- Never Again?<br />
<br />
The Diocese is informed by the Churches Together Environment Group which<br />
is largely advised by Supporters of Nuclear Energy SONE. “Environment<br />
Group” publications reflect this pronuclear bias. We feel that the<br />
Diocese could do much more to seriously take on board legitimate concerns<br />
about nuclear power. For two hours on the morning of your enthronement in<br />
2009 we spoke to 150 people who had come along specially to sign a letter<br />
voicing concerns at the Diocese’s pro nuclear stance. The letter asked:<br />
“Will the Diocese of Carlisle consider listening to independent expert advice<br />
(not from pro nuclear government or industry) on radiation risks of new<br />
build and geological disposal before making further pro-nuclear<br />
statements?”<br />
<br />
Well, the Diocese did agree to hosting a meeting on 6th Feb 2010. We were<br />
surprised that you chose at the meeting to reaffirm your commitment to<br />
new nuclear build. The hope was that people would have time to go away<br />
and reflect on all the points raised during the presentations. Even local<br />
Parish Newsletters present the Diocese’s pronuclear view as “the green<br />
route to secure, safe and reliable power” - no dissenting voices get a<br />
look in.<br />
<br />
This July children from Belarus will be spending a month in the South<br />
Lakes to give their damaged immune systems a respite. The damage from<br />
Chernobyl will continue through the "children of irradiated parents for as<br />
many as seven generations." So "the genetic consequences of the Chernobyl<br />
catastrophe will impact hundreds of millions of people."<br />
Alexey V. Yablokov (Center for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow,<br />
Russia), Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko (Institute of<br />
Radiation Safety, Minsk, Belarus). Consulting Editor Janette D.<br />
Sherman-Nevinger (Environmental Institute, Western Michigan University,<br />
Kalamazoo, Michigan).<br />
<br />
“In Belarus cancer of the thyroid is so prevalent that the scar left<br />
after a thyroid operation is now chillingly referred to as a Belarussian<br />
Necklace, thus marking them forever as Chernobyl's victims.<br />
Since the disaster there has also been an increase of 800% in the<br />
incidence of cancers in children living near to the reactor plus there has<br />
been a dramatic increase in the rate of babies born with substantial<br />
physical disabilities. Babies born limbless, deformed and with severe<br />
brain damage. There are so many other radiation related health crises<br />
occurring in the region that for the first time in Belarussian history ,<br />
the death rate is HIGHER, than the birth rate”.<br />
The South Lakeland branch of Friends of Chernobyl’s Children<br />
<br />
Given the ongoing Chernobyl catastrophe and since your enthronement, now<br />
Fukushima, will the Diocese of Carlisle withdraw its support for new<br />
build and geological disposal?<br />
<br />
….. and join us in saying NEVER AGAIN!<br />
<br />
yours sincerely,<br />
Marianne Birkby<br />
on behalf of Radiation Free Lakeland<br />
Note:<br />
Sent by email attachment is the document :<br />
Why a deep nuclear waste repository should not be sited in Cumbria: a<br />
geological review<br />
by David Smythe Emeritus Professor of Geophysics, University of Glasgow<br />
11 April 2011<br />
<br />
Refs:<br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2010/10/bishop-of-carlisle-appointed-as-lead-bishop-on-healthcare-issues.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.churchofengland.org/media-centre/news/2010/10/bishop-of-carlisle-appointed-as-lead-bishop-on-healthcare-issues.aspx</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.sone.org.uk/content/view/394/30/" target="_blank">http://www.sone.org.uk/content/view/394/30/</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.churchestogethercumbria.co.uk/UK%20Energy%20Policy%20and%20the%20Environment%20paper.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.churchestogethercumbria.co.uk/UK%20Energy%20Policy%20and%20the%20Environment%20paper.pdf</a><br />
<br />
<a href="http://www.churchestogethercumbria.co.uk/nuclear_energy_discussion.htm" target="_blank">http://www.churchestogethercumbria.co.uk/nuclear_energy_discussion.htm</a><br />
<br />
Friends of Chernobyl’s Children<br />
<a href="http://focc.org.uk/South_Lakes.html" target="_blank">http://focc.org.uk/South_Lakes.html</a><br />
<br />
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment<br />
Written by Alexey V. Yablokov (Center for Russian Environmental Policy,<br />
Moscow, Russia), Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko<br />
(Institute of Radiation Safety, Minsk, Belarus). Consulting Editor Janette<br />
D. Sherman-Nevinger (Environmental Institute, Western Michigan University,<br />
Kalamazoo, Michigan).
Volume 1181, December 2009<br />
<a href="http://www.nyas.org/publications/annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3bd16-51ba-4d7b-a086-753f44b3bfc1" target="_blank">http://www.nyas.org/publications/annals/Detail.aspx?cid=f3f3bd16-51ba-4d7b-a086-753f44b3bfc1</a><br />
<br />
Following delivery of the letter, Radiation Free Lakeland will be in<br />
Carlisle town centre with a petition - No Nuke Dump!<br />
<a href="http://web.mac.com/mariannebirkby1/iWeb/Radiation%20Free%20Lakeland/Radiation%20Free%20Lakeland%20.html" target="_blank">http://web.mac.com/mariannebirkby1/iWeb/Radiation%20Free%20Lakeland/Radiation%20Free%20Lakeland%20.html</a><br />
<br />
The No Nuke Dump petition can also be signed online - or more petition<br />
forms can be found at:<br />
<a href="http://101-uses-for-a-nuclear-power-station.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://101-uses-for-a-nuclear-power-station.blogspot.com/</a><br />
<br />
Contact : Marianne Birkby - Radiation Free Lakeland<br />
<a href="http://uk.mc275.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=rafl@mariannebirkby.plus.com">rafl [at] mariannebirkby.plus.com</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-75229931287853812312011-04-15T21:47:00.009+02:002012-02-21T00:44:25.915+01:00Sizewell Camp 2011<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Photos from the camp and demo:</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/62j3qc6">http://tinyurl.com/62j3qc6</a> </span></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3cx6f42">http://tinyurl.com/3cx6f42</a></span></b><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Skill Share, Network, Protest and Remember</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br />
Power for the people, not profits for the few</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Fri 22 – Mon 25 April </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">with</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://stopnuclearpower.blogspot.com/2011/03/no-to-nuclear-power-power-for-people.html"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>NATIONAL DEMO - SAT 23 APRIL</b></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PtJZW6tba3c/TW69CxVVHxI/AAAAAAAAAAk/H2Kv0_Bx3y4/s1600/tent.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5579604843658813202" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PtJZW6tba3c/TW69CxVVHxI/AAAAAAAAAAk/H2Kv0_Bx3y4/s320/tent.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 134px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<i>Which tent would you choose?</i><br />
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<br />
<br />
Spend Easter weekend camping on the beach at Sizewell, on the picturesque Suffolk coast, eastern England, to show your opposition to new nuclear power and highlight the need for sustainable energy solutions.<br />
<br />
The weekend will also mark the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. It includes a protest at the power station entrance, A public meeting, skill-sharing and info workshops, woodland and beach walks, vegan grub and networking. Now is the time to take action against new nuclear build. Come and join us to say:<br />
<br />
<br />
<b><i>Nuclear power? No thanks!</i></b><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Come join us for a weekend of networking, protest, skill-sharing and remembrance.<br />
<br />
Contact:<br />
<b>camp [at] sizewellcamp.org.uk</b><br />
<a href="http://sizewellcamp.org.uk/">http://sizewellcamp.org.uk</a><br />
<br />
The camp is organised by activists from the <a href="http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/"><b>Stop Nuclear Power Network</b></a><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Camp </span><br />
Good Friday, 22nd April (from 6pm) - Easter Monday, 25th April<br />
Bring your own tent, bowl, spoon, mug, and anything else you might need.<br />
Food provided by MouthMusic – suggested donation of £6 per day for 3 meals.- more if you can- less if you can't...<br />
<br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">National demonstration</span><br />
Saturday 23rd April, 12noon at the entrance to Sizewell A and B nuclear power stations. A demonstration and rally against nuclear power, and supporting sustainable alternatives.<br />
<br />
12:00 Start Demo<br />
12:30 Speakers Charles Barnett - Shutdown Sizewell, Ron Bailey – no need for nuclear<br />
13:00 Theatre of war, music, radioactive man, tea and cakes - lunch , etc..<br />
14:00 Speakers, Kate Hudson, Jeremy Corbyn and Mell Harrison (Stop Nuclear Power Network) and Camilla Berens (Boycott EDF) (double act)<br />
14:30 Symbolic Blockade, Porta Party mk2 to dance too.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">COACH FROM LONDON</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Seats will be available on the day: just turn up BEFORE 8.30am outside the CND Office at 162 Holloway Road N7 (near Holloway tube, Piccadilly line) BEFORE 9am outside Redbridge Station (Central Line) on the 23rd, and pay £20 (waged) or £10 (unwaged) for a return ticket. (Cash or cheque made out to “LRCND”.)</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">If you are coming, please phone David Polden on 020-7607 2302 by Thursday at the latest to tell him that you intend to come and whether you are joining the coach at Holloway Road or Redbridge.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Public Meeting<br />
</span>Saturday 7.30pm, Leiston Community Centre, King Georges Avenue, Leiston IP16 4JX, Suffolk (next to the fire station). See map <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.206235&lon=1.5829&zoom=16&layers=M&mlat=52.20664&mlon=1.58184">here</a>.<br />
<br />
<i>Workshops and Walks</i><br />
<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Easter Sunday, 24th April </span><br />
A number of workshops on the beach, including basic nuclear physics, why some environmentalists support nuclear power, alternative energy supplies and walks along the beach and into the woods EdF intend to destroy<br />
<ul><li>Chernobyl - 25 years on. Nikki S.W.A.N</li>
<li>quick consensus decision making - Mell and Andreas SNPN</li>
<li>Basic nuclear physics - Pete-Sizewell Blockaders</li>
<li>What does risk mean and whats a sievert and other dose questions - Pete</li>
<li>Beach art activities for kids – Lou – Ringsfield Eco centre</li>
<li>Banner making workshop ; Gill and Matt – unclear-power</li>
<li>Tour around the Sizewell nuclear power station... with a map!</li>
<li>And anything anyone else would like to add.</li>
</ul>Cinema 'after dark'.... Films include "COUNTDOWN TO ZERO", "THE WAR GAME" and other films both long and short...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Easter Monday, 25th April, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">12noon </span><br />
Remembering the many thousands of victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, 25 years ago, as well as the current and future victims of the unfolding catastrophe in Japan, and of all nuclear 'incidents'.<br />
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Pack up camp.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Getting there</span> <br />
Sizewell is on the Suffolk coast, about 8 miles from the A12 and 100 miles from central London. The nearest train station is Saxmundham, which is 7 miles from Sizewell.<br />
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The postcode for Sizewell is: <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.21515&lon=1.61975&zoom=11&layers=M&mlat=52.20677&mlon=1.62147">IP16 4UE</a>, if you want to look it up on the internet. View a map <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=52.21515&lon=1.61975&zoom=11&layers=M&mlat=52.20677&mlon=1.62147">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">About The Camp</span><br />
We want as many people as possible to feel comfortable at the camp, so please no heavy drinking or loud music. The camp will not be run for you but by you, so please be prepared to help out with the running of the camp.<br />
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Please let us know (contact details below) if you are thinking of coming. For more info, or to book your place, please contact: <b>camp [at] sizewellcamp.org.uk</b>Stop Nuclear Power London and South-Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04010782959459034511noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-9029209134534003602011-04-15T21:46:00.004+02:002012-02-21T00:44:53.525+01:00National Demo - No to Nuclear Power! Power for the People, Not Profits for the Few! - Sat 23 April<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-08lSud0lZeo/TZM9prYaIzI/AAAAAAAAABM/abMBkrEvLZs/s1600/1st%2Bdraft%2Bflyer%2Bdemo.png"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5589879348725949234" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-08lSud0lZeo/TZM9prYaIzI/AAAAAAAAABM/abMBkrEvLZs/s200/1st%2Bdraft%2Bflyer%2Bdemo.png" style="float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 142px;" /></a><i> </i><br />
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<a name='more'></a><i>For a sustainable, safer energy future.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Saturday 23 April, 12noon-3pm<br />
Sizewell nuclear power station, Suffolk</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>No more Fukushimas<br />
No more Chernobyls<br />
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</div><ul><li>Concerned by what’s happening at Fukushima?</li>
<li>Think that nuclear power is not the answer to climate chaos?</li>
<li>Want to be part of a sustainable energy future?<br />
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Be part of the growing anti-nuclear power movement in the UK. Protest and mass mobilisation is working for the anti-nuclear movement in Germany: the government is planning to quit its nuclear addiction and swap over to sustainable energy.<div style="text-align: left;"><br />
Join us to say:</div></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: center;"><i><b>Nuclear power? Not if we can help it!</b></i><b><br />
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Saturday 23 April, 12noon-3pm</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> Sizewell Nuclear Power Station, Suffolk</b><i><br />
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Speakers include:</i><br />
Kate Hudson, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament;<br />
Charles Barnett, Shutdown Sizewell;<br />
Mell Harrison, Stop Nuclear Power Network.<br />
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The afternoon will also include tea and cake, street theatre, music and dancing.<span style="font-size: small;"><br />
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</span>Contact: <b>demonstration [at] sizewellcamp.org.uk</b><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Transport is being organised from London and probably elsewhere. Get in touch for details. </div><br />
<div style="text-align: left;">The protest is part of the <b>action camp</b> happening on Sizewell Beach from 22 to 25 April - <a href="http://sizewellcamp.org.uk/">http://sizewellcamp.org.uk</a></div></div></div><h3 style="font-weight: normal;"></h3>Stop Nuclear Power London and South-Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04010782959459034511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-44054961900125769942011-04-12T21:45:00.010+02:002011-10-06T11:49:28.270+02:00EDF protest in Bridgwater<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YLXAr3mtTE0/TaSsZnUcOGI/AAAAAAAAE9Q/HzVan5GHSQA/s1600/tepcohinkley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="313" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YLXAr3mtTE0/TaSsZnUcOGI/AAAAAAAAE9Q/HzVan5GHSQA/s320/tepcohinkley.jpg" width="320" /></a><i></i><br />
<a name='more'></a><i>12 April 2011</i> - Campaigners from South West Against Nuclear were in Bridgwater town centre this lunchtime as part of a series of national events called for by the Stop Nuclear Power Network in response to the events unfolding in Japan. Sir Vile & his Personal Assistant Miss Information were recruiting unwitting victims on behalf of EDF for their great green rip off – new nuclear build. (1)</div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0jd5oCg-pOg/TaSsdIDkRxI/AAAAAAAAE9g/M3taCFWuseU/s1600/DSC01405.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-0jd5oCg-pOg/TaSsdIDkRxI/AAAAAAAAE9g/M3taCFWuseU/s320/DSC01405.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>Says Ornella Saibene “We believe that EDF will make no permanent contribution to jobs in Somerset – increases in temporary employment over the construction phase will more than likely be offset by job detriment in the local business sector. Particularly hard hit will be the tourist industry as the A39, the gateway to the south west tourist destinations, will be affected by gridlock on roads caused by such a development, not to mention tourists being put off holidaying near nuclear power stations in the wake of the Japanese crisis.” <br />
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V5sSiqCJDkM/TaSsb3rVmVI/AAAAAAAAE9U/3QoocSsbuog/s1600/tepco+%25281%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-V5sSiqCJDkM/TaSsb3rVmVI/AAAAAAAAE9U/3QoocSsbuog/s320/tepco+%25281%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a>Dr Ian Fairlie says “The reality is any kind of economic activity creates jobs...the issues isn’t jobs it’s what kind of jobs ...you could say building concentration camps creates jobs” Dr Fairlie goes onto say “In Germany the renewable industry employs 340,000 workers, 10 times more than the UK nuclear industry.” (2)<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aVBnaHz6ATM/TaSscYVkrEI/AAAAAAAAE9Y/MVZVBR5oI1g/s1600/DSC01415.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aVBnaHz6ATM/TaSscYVkrEI/AAAAAAAAE9Y/MVZVBR5oI1g/s320/DSC01415.jpg" width="320" /></a>Local resident Nikki Clark says “I’m absolutely disgusted that Sedgemoor District Council are still prattling on about jobs, yes Somerset needs jobs, we need sustainable jobs with a living wage not jobs where the prospects are cancer, ill health, being experimented on by the nuclear industry (3) and all the time living with the possibility of having to clean up nuclear accidents. What kind of a prospect is that?”<br />
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References<br />
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1 - <a href="http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-campaign-suggestions/suggestions/1505815-new-nuclear-energy-the-great-green-rip-off?ref=title">http://38degrees.uservoice.com/forums/78585-campaign-suggestions/suggestions/1505815-new-nuclear-energy-the-great-green-rip-off?ref=title</a> <br />
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2 - <a href="http://medwaygreenparty.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/interview-with-dr-ianfairlie-re-nuclear-power/">http://medwaygreenparty.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/interview-with-dr-ianfairlie-re-nuclear-power/</a> <br />
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3 - <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-11768944">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-11768944</a><br />
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All images courtesy of South West Against NuclearUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-27271049604546687042011-04-11T09:24:00.015+02:002011-10-06T11:47:52.931+02:00Activists blockade EDF in London<div class="yiv1280193031MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%; text-align: justify;"><br />
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<a name='more'></a>ACTIVISTS BLOCKADE QUEEN’S BACK YARD TO BRAND ENERGY GIANT’S NUCLEAR POWER BID A ‘RIGHT ROYAL RIP-OFF’<b><span style="font-size: large;"><b> </b></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/bPhJwp4WZfQ?fs=1&hl=en_US%20"><b>Click here for video of the action</b></a></span></b><br />
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Campaigners brought rush hour traffic to a standstill this morning to protest against EDF Energy’s plans to build a new generation of nuclear power stations in the UK. All four lanes of the A302 outside EDF Energy’s headquarters in Grosvenor Place – which runs alongside the gardens of Buckingham Palace – were sealed off shortly after 8am using 14-foot tripods. The cleared zone was then declared a ‘nuclear disaster area’.<br />
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</tbody></table>Campaign group, Boycott EDF, says the energy giant is spearheading a ‘nuclear renaissance’ which could see the construction of at least ten new nuclear reactors – a move spokeswoman, Bella Benson, claims will spell disaster for the UK. <br />
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“EDF has spent a massive amount of money marketing itself as an environment-friendly company,” says Benson. “But the truth is that it’s planning to lumber us with an outdated form of energy that is incredibly dangerous, extremely expensive and completely unnecessary. As the company’s HQ Is opposite Buckingham Palace, it would be fitting to call their plan a right, royal rip-off.” <br />
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</span></div>Benson apologised to motorists delayed by the protest but adds, “The inconvenience caused today pales into insignificance compared with the dangers that EDF Energy is planning to impose on the British public. The government is trying to slip the nuclear energy issue through the back door and this is the only way we can get our voice heard.”<br />
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Boycott EDF says a ‘nuclear renaissance’ will mean soaring electricity bills. Says Benson: “Nuclear power is so dangerous that millions has to be spent on safety measures. The government claims that the public won’t have to subsidise the costs of ‘new nuclear’ but you can be sure we will end up taking a hit – through hidden subsidies such as fixed-price contracts and a hike in our electricity bills (1).”<br />
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</span></div>Recent research in Germany has found that young children are more than twice as likely to contract leukemia if they live near a nuclear power station (2). “The nuclear industry has been trying to down-play the effects of radiation after the tragedy at Fukushima,” Benson adds. “But decades of mismanagement by the nuclear sector has left us with a legacy of cancers and hundreds of tonnes of toxic radioactive waste that nobody know what to do with. Nuclear energy has no place in the 21st century.”<br />
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</span></div>And the campaign insists that nuclear power is the worst possible option for combating climate change. Benson explains: ‘The new EPR reactor is untried and untested and will produce waste that is even more toxic. Moreover, documents leaked from EDF Energy show that there are serious design flaws.’<br />
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</span></div>EDF has already caused great concern - even before construction of ‘new nuclear’ has started. An independent report published last year found that land designated for EDF’s two new mega-reactors at the Hinkley Point nuclear power plant in Somerset is heavily contaminated with enriched uranium. But EDF has dismissed the report. “With such a hazardous form of energy, best practice must be observed at every stage. We find EDF’s attitude shocking,” Benson concludes.<br />
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</span></div>Cheaper, greener alternative strategies have been put forward by respected organisations including Greenpeace, the Sustainable Development Commission and the New Economics Foundation (3). Says Benson, “The billions earmarked for new nuclear power stations should be invested in further developing safe forms of energy such as renewables and the type of district heating plants (combined heat and power plants) that can be run on biogas. It’s a scandal that there hasn’t been an informed public debate about this issue.”<br />
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The campaign is urging customers of EDF Energy to say ‘no to new nuclear’ by switching to other energy providers. It is also asking the public to boycott events and attractions - such as the London Eye - sponsored by the company. <br />
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</span></div>Boycott EDF Energy’s blockade continues.<br />
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</span></div>1. The government’s recent decision to artificially increase the carbon floor price was ostensibly to encourage investment in the ‘nuclear renaissance’. It has been estimated that the increase will add at least 4% to electricity bills by 2016. <br />
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2. Evidence by Dr Ian Fairlie to the House of Commons:<br />
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<a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmenergy/memo/nps/uc8202.htm">www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200910/cmselect/cmenergy/memo/nps/uc8202.htm</a><br />
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3. The reports can be found at:<br />
<a href="http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=344">www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications.php?id=344</a><br />
<a href="http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/climate/solutions/combined-heat-and-power-chp">www.greenpeace.org.uk/climate/solutions/combined-heat-and-power-chp</a><br />
<a href="http://www.neweconomics.org/publications/mirage-and-oasis">www.neweconomics.org/publications/mirage-and-oasis</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"></span> <br />
<div class="yiv1280193031MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">For more information on the campaign go to: <a href="http://boycottedf.org.uk/">http://boycottedf.org.uk</a></div><a href="http://boycottedf.org.uk/"></a><br />
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All images (c) mini_mouse. More available at:<br />
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mini_mouse/sets/72157626440104200/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/mini_mouse/sets/72157626440104200/</a><br />
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</div><i>‘I do not believe a single word that issues from the mouth of a single spokesperson for the nuclear industry.’ JONATHON PORRITT, June,2010.</i><br />
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Update: The blockade lasted around seven hours in total. The police called a specialist team to erect scaffolding to bring down the pair of women who were on top of the bamboo tripods. Once down, the pair were arrested and taken to Belgravia police station. They were released in the late evening, having been charged with obstructing the highway and an offence under section 14 of the Public Order Act (failing to move o the designated protest area). They pair are due to appear in court in June.<br />
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<b>Video of the action:</b><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/bPhJwp4WZfQ?fs=1&hl=en_US%20">http://www.youtube.com/v/bPhJwp4WZfQ?fs=1&hl=en_US </a><br />
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<i>See also: </i><br />
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Morning Star <br />
<a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/103384">http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/103384</a><br />
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Morning Star editorial </div><div class="yiv1280193031MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/layout/set/print/content/view/full/103371">http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/layout/set/print/content/view/full/103371</a><br />
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Bloomberg<br />
<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-11/anti-nuclear-protesters-block-entry-to-edf-s-london-offices-1-.html">http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-11/anti-nuclear-protesters-block-entry-to-edf-s-london-offices-1-.html</a><br />
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LBC website <br />
<a href="http://www.lbc.co.uk/nuclear-protest-causes-victoria-delays-38504%20">http://www.lbc.co.uk/nuclear-protest-causes-victoria-delays-38504 </a><br />
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Telegraph blogs <br />
<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100083350/the-spoilt-greenies-who-are-bringing-central-london-to-a-standstill/">http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100083350/the-spoilt-greenies-who-are-bringing-central-london-to-a-standstill/</a><br />
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<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/rowenamason/100009970/is-chris-huhne-preparing-or-his-second-u-turn-on-nuclear/">http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/finance/rowenamason/100009970/is-chris-huhne-preparing-or-his-second-u-turn-on-nuclear/</a><br />
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Business Green <br />
<a href="http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2042375/energy-minister-admits-post-fukushima-nuclear-challenge">http://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/2042375/energy-minister-admits-post-fukushima-nuclear-challenge</a><br />
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City Unslicker blog <br />
<a href="http://cityunslicker.blogspot.com/2011/04/uk-nuclear-protests-must-try-harder.html">http://cityunslicker.blogspot.com/2011/04/uk-nuclear-protests-must-try-harder.html</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(Last updated: 09.45 GMT+1, 13 April 2011)</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-46876726723864719812011-04-10T23:00:00.000+02:002011-04-15T22:05:07.315+02:00Norwegians set up camp at Sellafield<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It's a sort of Greenham Common in Cumbria. Plus lots of women professors and the election candidate who puts dog-mess before votes <br />
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It's a long time since the Vikings were a regular nuisance along our northern seaboard, but a group of them are back at last.<br />
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A small band of Norwegians has set up a Greenham Common-style camp near the railway sidings at <a href="http://www.sellafieldsites.com/">Sellafield</a>, to protest against potential risks from the huge nuclear plant.<br />
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Their arrival coincided with a more official Norwegian delegation; the country's environment minister and two district mayors were shown round the site yesterday. Everyone was very polite and the protesters held a peaceful picket plus flag-waving at one of the works entrances before retiring to their longships.<br />
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Sorry, I meant tents.<br />
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Their spokesman Frank-Hugo Storelv, of <a href="http://www.neptunenetwork.org/">Neptune Network</a>, said: "Sellafield is positioned at an almost constant wind direction towards Norway. Even though the plant is struggling with technical difficulties, the management has decided to continue to receive nuclear waste for reprocessing.<br />
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"<a href="http://www.neptunenetwork.org/">Neptune Network</a> finds these things unacceptable and therefore we have established a camp by the railway at Sellafield so we can watch over this most serious activity."<br />
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A spokesman for the plant said: "We meet regularly with Neptune and other pressure groups and are always ready to discuss concerns that are raised by such organisations. On this occasion Neptune did not seek a meeting." <br />
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Maybe they'll bob in all this sunshine, at the weekend.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">© Guardian News and Media Limited 2011</span><br />
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<i>See also: </i><br />
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Norwegian Whistleblowers - Thank You! - Marianne Birkby - 9 April 2011<br />
<a href="http://101-uses-for-a-nuclear-power-station.blogspot.com/2011/04/norwegian-whistleblowers-thank-you.html">http://101-uses-for-a-nuclear-power-station.blogspot.com/2011/04/norwegian-whistleblowers-thank-you.html</a><br />
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Protest camp set up outside Sellafield nuclear plant's main gate - Times and Star - 8 April 2011<br />
<a href="http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/protest-camp-set-up-outside-sellafield-nuclear-plant-s-main-gate-1.825929?referrerPath=home">http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/protest-camp-set-up-outside-sellafield-nuclear-plant-s-main-gate-1.825929?referrerPath=home</a><br />
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Whitehaven News - 8 April 2011<br />
<a href="http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/protest-camp-set-up-outside-sellafield-nuclear-plant-s-main-gate-1.825929?referrerPath=/whitehaven-news-headlines-1.60007">http://www.whitehavennews.co.uk/protest-camp-set-up-outside-sellafield-nuclear-plant-s-main-gate-1.825929?referrerPath=/whitehaven-news-headlines-1.60007</a><br />
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Activists Deploy Buddy Electric Car to Derail British Nuke Plan - Zach McDonald - 11 April 2011 - Plugincars.com<br />
<a href="http://www.plugincars.com/activists-deploy-buddy-nev-attempt-derail-british-nuke-plant-107017.html">http://www.plugincars.com/activists-deploy-buddy-nev-attempt-derail-british-nuke-plant-107017.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-91518833300538774192011-03-31T18:08:00.003+02:002012-01-06T23:44:35.214+01:009-10 April: Fukushima Solidarity / No to Nuclear: A call to action<a name='more'></a>Activities will be happening around the UK on and around the weekend of 9-10 April. Organise a solidarity activity in your area and let us know about it!<br />
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You could stage a vigil, die-in, demo, non-violent direct action, street stall, street theatre, public debate, film showing, gig… Whatever takes your fancy!**<br />
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Join us as we show solidarity around the country with the people of Japan, suffering from twin catastrophes: one natural, the other man-made. Help us prevent yet more nuclear disasters as we deliver our message loud and clear to the UK Government and the big energy companies:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>A GREENER FUTURE, NO TO NUCLEAR!</b></div><br />
<i>Also coming up:</i><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Anti-Nuclear Camp on Sizewell Beach, Suffolk – 22-25 April</b><br />
<i>including:</i><br />
<b>National Demo Against New Nuclear, at Sizewell</b><br />
Saturday 23 April, 12noon<br />
<a href="http://sizewellcamp.org.uk/">http://sizewellcamp.org.uk</a></div><br />
In the aftermath of the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the world watches with horror as another nightmare unfolds at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the north-east of the country. Last April we said: ‘Chernobyl – Never Again’, but with less than a month to go till the 25th anniversary of the world’s worst ever nuclear accident, it is happening again, before our very eyes.<br />
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Thousands of people have already been displaced from their homes for miles around as radioactivity levels in the vicinity of Fukushima soar. The brave irradiated workers (victims) toil night and day to try and limit fallout from the crippled nuclear reactors and spent fuel ponds.<br />
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In years to come, unknown numbers of people, and animals, will suffer yet more as they develop cancers and genetic damage, to be passed on to future generations. The surrounding environment will remain contaminated for years, perhaps thousands of years.<br />
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Recent scientific research suggests that nearly a million people have died as a result of radioactive fallout from Chernobyl, Ukraine ever since that ill-fated day at reactor 4, on 26 April 1986. (1) It is not a question of if we will have another Fukushima, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Kyshtym or Windscale, but when. Where will the next major nuclear ‘incident’ take place? Sellafield? Hinkley Point? Sizewell? Wylfa? Torness? We must take action before it’s too late.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Nuclear pollution is not the solution!</b></div><br />
<i>**Get in touch if you would like us to list and help publicise your event:</i><br />
<b>E-mail: network [at] stopnuclearpoweruk.net<br />
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<b>Stop Nuclear Power Network</b><br />
<a href="http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net/">http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net</a><br />
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Ref:<br />
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1. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences – <i>Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment</i> –Alexey V. Yablokov (Center for Russian Environmental Policy, Moscow, Russia), Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko (Institute of Radiation Safety, Minsk, Belarus). Consulting Editor Janette D. Sherman-Nevinger (Environmental Institute, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan). Volume 1181, December 2009<br />
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/ydw4cwk">http://tinyurl.com/ydw4cwk</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-89556567735600507292011-03-30T17:53:00.009+02:002011-10-06T12:07:04.659+02:00Nuclear disaster in Japan and food safety<div class="content"><i></i><br />
<a name='more'></a><i>Berlin / Munich.</i> The consumer organisation foodwatch and the Environment Institute Munich eV have criticised the information policy of the federal government on food safety after the nuclear disaster in Japan.<br />
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Federal Consumer Protection Minister Ilse Aigner has for days talked about "enhanced control measures" and "special protection standards" - but she does not inform the public about the fact that the EU-wide limits for the radioactive contamination of foodstuffs from the affected areas in Japan have been increased over the weekend. Was previously the maximum allowed limit of the cumulative radioactivity of cesium-134 and cesium-137 600 becquerels per kilogram, this past weekend up to 20 times higher ceilings of up to 12,500 becquerels per kilogram for certain products in Japan came into force.<br />
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<div style="font-weight: bold;">Documents & Links</div><ul><li><a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:201:0001:0007:EN:PDF">Previous limits (EU Regulation 733/2008)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2011:080:0005:0008:EN:PDF">COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 297/2011 of 25 March 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31987R3954:EN:HTML">New limit values (EU Regulation 3954/1987)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://stopnuclearpoweruk.net.tomato.netuxo.co.uk/content/ec.europa.eu/energy/nuclear/radioprotection/doc/legislation/89944_en.pdf">New limits of "food with a low significance (EU Regulation 944/89)</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.umweltinstitut.org/">Environment Institute Munich eV</a></li>
</ul>While in Europe there is currently no cause for concern about highly contaminated products from Japan in the trade - this does not justify the lack of information from the federal government nor the raising of the limit values. "The minister speaks only of increased controls and fails to mention that at the same time the security standards for Japanese food have been reduced. Mrs. Aigner withholds important information from the public - it certainly does not win the trust of the citizens", Thilo Bode, director ofthe consumer organization Foodwatch, said. "It is absurd in the current situation to increase the limits for Japanese food in order to introduce them into the EU", said Christina Hacker, member of the Board of the Environmental Institute Munich eV.<br />
Both organizations were in favor of imposing a complete import ban. "Our solidarity is currently with the victims of the disaster in Japan, and this measure would certainly be no great loss to the Japanese economy," said Christina Hacker from the Munich Environmental Institute. In any case, the volume of imports of food from Japan to Europe is very low.<br />
Usually for food and food imports apply limits for cesium-134 and 137 of typically 370 becquerels per kilogram for infant formula and milk products and 600 Bq / kg for other foods (EU regulation 733/2008). With Emergency Ordinance 297/2011, which entered into force on 27 March 2011, the European Commission has increased these limits for products from the affected regions Japanese considerably: to 400 becquerels per kilogram for infant formula, to 1000 Bq / kg for milk products and to 1250 Bq / kg for other foods. Certain products such as fish oil or spices may even exceed these limits by ten times, ie up to 12,500 becquerels per kilogram - 20-times the previous limit.<br />
Background for the increase is EU Regulation 3954/1987, adopted in 1987 after the Chernobyl disaster in 1987. Accordingly to this regulation, in the event of a "nuclear emergency" the limits of the allowable radioactive contamination of foods can be raised to prevent food shortages. 'To bring these rules into force now is absurd, because in Europe there is no nuclear emergency, and certainly no shortage of food. Imports from Japan are of no importance for the food security of European citizens", say Thilo Bode and Chris Hacker.<br />
Press Contacts<br />
foodwatch eV: Martin Rucker, E-mail: <a href="mailto:presse@foodwatch.de">presse [at] foodwatch.de</a>, Tel: +49 (0) 30 / 24 04 76-23</div>Stop Nuclear Power London and South-Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04010782959459034511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-24076714007854145182011-03-30T09:54:00.004+02:002011-04-27T23:09:24.555+02:00Joint statement on the Japanese nuclear disaster<i><a href="http://www.rightlivelihood.org/fileadmin/Files/PDF/others/Joint_Statement_on_the_Japanese_Nuclear_Disaster.pdf">Joint statement by 50 Laureates of the Right Livelihood Award and members of the World Future Council</a></i><br />
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We extend our deepest sympathies to the people of Japan who have experienced a devastating earthquake and tsunami followed by severe damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. We commend the brave individuals who are risking their lives to prevent the escape of massive amounts of radiation from the damaged nuclear reactors and spent fuel pools at Fukushima Daiichi.<br />
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The disaster in Japan has demonstrated once again the limits of human capability to keep dangerous technologies free from accidents with catastrophic results. Natural disasters combined with human error have proven a potent force for undermining even the best laid plans. Reliance on human perfection reflects a hubris that has led to other major failures of dangerous technologies in the past, and will do so in the future. What has occurred as a result of the confluence of natural disaster and human error in Japan could also be triggered purposefully by means of terrorism or acts of war.<br />
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In addition to accidental or purposeful destruction, nuclear power plants pose other threats to humanity and to the human future. The large amounts of radioactive wastes that are created by nuclear power generation will remain highly toxic for many times longer than human civilization has existed, and there is currently no long-term solution to dealing with the threats these radioactive wastes pose to the environment and human health. Further, nuclear power plants, with their large societal subsidies, have diverted financial and human resources from the development of safe and reliable forms of renewable energy.<br />
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Nuclear power programs use and create fissile materials that can be used to make nuclear weapons, and thus provide a proven pathway to nuclear weapons proliferation. Several countries have already used civilian nuclear programs to provide the fissile materials to make nuclear weapons. Other countries, particularly those with plutonium reprocessing and uranium enrichment facilities, could easily follow suit if they decided to do so. The spread of nuclear power plants will not only make the world more dangerous, but will make more difficult, if not impossible, the goal of a nuclear weapons-free world.<br />
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Nuclear power is neither the answer to modern energy problems nor a panacea for climate change challenges. There is no solution of problems by creating more problems. Nuclear power doesn’t add up economically, environmentally or socially. Of all the energy options, nuclear is the most capital intensive to establish, decommissioning is prohibitively expensive and the financial burden continues long after the plant is closed.<br />
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The tragedy in Japan has raised global awareness of the extreme dangers that can result from nuclear power generation. Grave as these dangers are, however, they are not as great as those arising from the possession, threat and use of nuclear weapons – weapons that have the capacity to destroy civilization and end most life on the planet.<br />
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The conclusion we draw from the nuclear power plant accident in Japan is that the human community, acting for itself and as trustees for future generations, must exercise a far higher level of care globally in dealing with technologies capable of causing mass annihilation, and should phase out, abolish and replace such technologies with alternatives that do not threaten present and future generations.<br />
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This applies to nuclear weapons as well as to nuclear power reactors.<br />
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Signatories:<br />
Dr. h.c. Hafsat Abiola-Costello, Member of the World Future Council, Founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND) and China Africa Bridge, Nigeria<br />
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Dr. Martín Almada, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2002, Founder of the Fundación Celestina Perez de Almada, Paraguay<br />
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Marianne Andersson, Member of the Board and the Jury of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation, former Member of the Swedish Parliament<br />
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Dr. h.c. Shawn A-in-chut Atleo, Member of the World Future Council and National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations of Canada<br />
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Dr. h.c. Maude Barlow, Member of the World Future Council and Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2005, First Senior Advisor to the UN on water issues and Chairperson of the Council of Canadians<br />
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Dipal Chandra Barua, Member of the World Future Council, Co-founder of the Grameen Bank, Former Managing Director of the Grameen Shakti, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2007, Founder and Chairman of the Bright Green Energy Foundation, Bangladesh<br />
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Nnimmo Bassey, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2010, Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action in Nigeria and Chair of Friends of the Earth International, Nigeria<br />
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Dr. Tony Clarke, Right Livelihood Laureate 2005, Founder and Director of the Polaris Institute, Canada<br />
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Dr. h.c. Riane Eisler, Member of the World Future Council and President of the Centre for Partnership Studies, USA<br />
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Dr. Scilla Elworthy, Member of the World Future Council, Founder of the Oxford Research Group and Peace Direct, Director of Programmes for the World Peace Partnership, UK<br />
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Prof. Dr. h.c. Anwar Fazal, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1982, Director of the Right Livelihood College, Malaysia<br />
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Dr. h.c. Irene Fernandez, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2005, Director of Tenaganita, Malaysia<br />
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Dr. Juan E. Garcés, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1999, lawyer, former personal adviser to Salvador Allende and former adviser to the Director General of UNESCO, Spain<br />
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Prof. Dr. Martin A. Green, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2002, Executive Research Director of the ARC Photovoltaics Centre of Excellence, School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia<br />
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Monika Griefahn, Co-Chair and Jury Member of the Right Livelihood Award, Member of the Board of Advisors of the World Future Council, Co-Founder of Greenpeace Germany, former Member of the German Parliament and former Minister of Environmental Affairs in Lower Saxony<br />
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Cyd Ho, Member of the World Future Council and Member of Hong Kong's Legislative Council<br />
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SM Mohamed Idris, Founder and President of Sahabat Alam Malaysia, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1988, Founder and President of the Consumers' Association of Penang<br />
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Dr. Ashok Khosla, Member of the World Future Council, President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Chairman of the Centre for Development Alternatives and Co-President of the Club of Rome, India<br />
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Dr. h.c. Dom Erwin Kräutler, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2010, Bishop of Xingu, President of the Indigenous Missionary Council of the Catholic Church in Brazil<br />
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Dr. David Krieger, Member of the World Future Council and Co-Founder and President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, USA<br />
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Dr. med. Katarina Kruhonja, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1998, Founder and Director of the Centre for Peace, Non-violence and Human Rights, Croatia<br />
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Dr. Ida Kuklina, Member of the Union of Soldiers Mothers Committees of Russia Coordination Council, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1996, Member of the Council of RF President for Development Civic Society and Human Rights<br />
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Prof. Dr. Alexander Likhotal, Member of the World Future Council and President of Green Cross International, Russia<br />
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Dr. Rama Mani, Member of the World Future Council, Senior Research Associate at the Centre for International Studies, University of Oxford, and Director of the Global Project Responsibility to Protect: Southern Cultural Perspectives, France<br />
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Prof. Dr. h.c. Manfred Max-Neef, Member of the World Future Council and Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1983, Director of the Economics Institute, Universidad Austral de Chile<br />
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Prof. Dr. Wangari Maathai, Member of the World Future Council, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1984 and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 2004, Founder of the Green Belt Movement, Kenya<br />
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Ledum Mitee, President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1994, Nigeria<br />
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Prof. Dr. Raúl A. Montenegro, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2004, Professor at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, and President of the Environment Defense Foundation FUNAM<br />
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Dr. h.c. Frances Moore Lappé, Member of the World Future Council, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1987 and Founder of the Small Planet Institute, USA<br />
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Helena Norberg-Hodge, Director of the International Society for Ecology and Culture and Initiator of Ladakh Ecological Development Group, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1986, UK<br />
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Dr. Katiana Orluc, Member of the World Future Council, Historian, Middle East expert and Visiting Professor at Harvard University, Austria<br />
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Juan Pablo Orrego, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1998, President of the Grupo de Acción por el Biobío (GABB), Chile<br />
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Nicanor Perlas, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2003, Co-Founder and President of the Center for Alternative Development Initiatives, Philippines<br />
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Dr. Vithal Rajan, Member of the World Future Council and of the Jury of the Right Livelihood Award, Vice-President of Oxfam India and Chairman of the Confederation of Voluntary Associations, India<br />
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Dr. h.c. Fernando Rendón, Gabriel Jaime Franco and Gloria Chvatal of the International Poetry Festival of Medellín, Right Livelihood Award 2006, Colombia<br />
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Joao Pedro Stedile, President of Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais sem Terra, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1991, Brazil<br />
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Prof. Dr. h.c. Vandana Shiva, Member of the World Future Council and Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1993, Founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology and the NAVDANYA network, India<br />
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Prof. Dr. h.c. David Suzuki, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2010 and Co-Founder of the David Suzuki Foundation, Canada<br />
Prof. Dr. Hannumappa R. Sudarshan, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1994, Karuna Trust & Vivekananda Girijana Kalyana Kendra (VGKK), India<br />
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Pauline Tangiora, Member of the World Future Council and Maori elder of the Rongomaiwahine Tribe, New Zealand<br />
John F. Charlewood Turner, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1988, UK<br />
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Alice Tepper Marlin, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1990 and President of Social Accountability International, USA<br />
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Vesna Teršelič, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1998, Founder of Anti-War Campaign of Croatia and Director of DOCUMENTA, Croatia<br />
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Shrikrishna Upadhyay, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2010 and Chairman of SAPPROS, Nepal<br />
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Alyn Ware, Member of the World Future Council and Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2009, Founder and international coordinator of the Network Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament (PNND), New Zealand<br />
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Prof. em. Dr. h.c. Christopher G. Weeramantry, Member of the World Future Council and Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2007, former Judge and Vice-President of the International Court of Justice; Founder, Trustee and Chairman of the Weeramantry International Centre for Peace Education and Research (WICPER) and President of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA), Sri Lanka<br />
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Dr. h.c. Anders Wijkman, Member of the World Future Council, Vice-President of the Club of Rome, former President of GLOBE EU, former Member of the European Parliament and former UN Assistant Secretary General, Sweden<br />
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Francisco Whitaker Ferreira, Member of the World Future Council and Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2006, Co-Founder of the World Social Forum, Brazil<br />
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Alla Yaroshinskaya, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 1992, Journalist and former Adviser to the Russian President, former Member of Russian delegations to the United Nations for negotiating an extension of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)<br />
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Angie Zelter, Trident Ploughshares, Right Livelihood Award Laureate 2001, UKStop Nuclear Power London and South-Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04010782959459034511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-79243410000682471342011-03-25T09:40:00.002+01:002011-03-30T19:48:21.900+02:00Government faces High Court challenge on nuclear power plans<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name='more'></a>Calls for latest nuclear regulations to be quashed</span><br />
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A LANCASHIRE man who is opposed to Government plans to introduce up to 20 new nuclear reactors across the UK has launched a High Court legal challenge against the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.<br />
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Rory Walker (24), who lives close to Heysham, where one or two new reactors may be built, believes that the Secretary of State has not met his obligations in law and, as a result, is putting the health of local residents at risk.<br />
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Rory, who is opposed to nuclear power, instructed law firm Irwin Mitchell to launch judicial review proceedings on 28 February 2011 to challenge the lawfulness of Secretary of State Chris Huhne’s decisions late last year that two new types of nuclear reactor were justified.<br />
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According to the Euratom Directive and UK Regulations, the Secretary of State must ensure that the health detriments from nuclear power stations are outweighed by their economic, social and other benefits before giving the go ahead to build new nuclear power stations.<br />
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This regulatory process is called ‘Justification’ and is the first of three stages designed to protect members of the public against the dangers of ionising radiation. It is followed later by ‘Optimisation’, which requires radiation exposures to be kept as low as reasonably achievable, and ‘Limitation’, which ensures exposures remain within legal limits.<br />
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Legal papers for the judicial review claim that the Secretary of State’s approach to Justification last year failed to make proper estimates of health detriment and failed fully to take into account scientific research findings showing increased leukaemia risks near nuclear facilities. The papers criticise the Government’s decision to allow health impacts to be revisited at later stages after construction commences and highlight that with estimated costs of up to £6bn each, it would be difficult for the Government not to proceed with operating these nuclear reactors once built.<br />
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Explaining his reason for launching legal proceedings, Rory Walker said: “My concern is the effect of radiation emissions on myself and my community and the potentially long-lasting impact of radiation on people like myself wanting to start a family. In order to deliver its policy of new nuclear builds, the Government suggests that justification can be carried out after building £6 billion power stations; this is unrealistic.<br />
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“<span style="font-style: italic;">Justification is the only stage at which health risks are fully analysed and compared with the benefits. The Government’s approach to justification does not appear to give the protection that the regulations were designed to provide.</span>”<br />
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Andrew Lockley, Partner and Head of Public Law at Irwin Mitchell, said: “<span style="font-style: italic;">The fundamental purpose of the Euratom Directive is to make sure that a comprehensive and detailed assessment is made before new nuclear reactors are built. It does not permit an approach which appears generalised, generic and deferred. Justification requires that the health detriments should be considered and balanced against the economic, social or other benefits which may occur - but this doesn’t seem to have happened here</span>”.<br />
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The judicial review seeks a declaration that the Secretary of State’s decisions were unlawful. It also asks that the Justification Decision Regulations 2010, which were agreed for the two new types of reactor (EPR and AP1000) on 29 November 2010, be quashed.<br />
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In a scientific report prepared for the court, Dr. Ian Fairlie, a consultant on radioactivity in the environment, said: “<span style="font-style: italic;">There have been numerous epidemiological studies into the increased incidences of cancer near nuclear power stations. In fact, if the risks found following the KiKK study, a report commissioned by the German Government, were applied to Heysham, infants and young children under five living within 5km would be exposed to increased risks of cancer, especially leukaemia.</span>”<br />
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Heysham in Lancashire is one of seven sites that the Government identified for future reactors. Other sites are Bradwell in Essex, Sellafield in Cumbria, Hartlepool, Hinkley Point in Somerset, Oldbury in Gloucestershire, Sizewell in Suffolk and Wylfa in North Wales.<br />
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Ends<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">NOTES FOR EDITORS</span><br />
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Interview requests should be directed to David Shirt. Contact details below:<br />
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Q1. When was the Judicial Review launched?<br />
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The Application was lodged with the High Court on February 28 2011.<br />
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Q2. Why have you issued the press release now?<br />
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Because we needed to serve the proceedings on Government solicitors for DECC, and as a matter of courtesy, to allow time for the contents to be considered.<br />
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Q3. Is the application opposed to nuclear power?<br />
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This application for Judicial Review is not about opposing nuclear power but about how the Secretary of State failed to carry out his legal duty to ‘justify’ the proposed new reactors by weighing the health detriments of radiation emissions and discharges from nuclear plants against economic and social benefits. The Government is required to do this under UK Regulations which in turn follow the Euratom Directive.<br />
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Q4. What would happen if you won?<br />
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The Court could either issue a Declaration or a quashing Order, or both. If we won, the Government would need to reconsider its Justification decisions.<br />
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Q5. What would be the practical effect if you won? Would the Government have to stop its nuclear plans? For instance, would EdF have to stop its ground-clearing operations at Hinkley Point in Somerset?<br />
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The 2004 Regulations state that it is unlawful to introduce a new “practice” without it being justified in advance. Therefore if there were a judicial verdict against the Government’s Justification Decisions, then, legally speaking, it would be unlawful to continue to proceed. In particular, the Government would not be allowed to issue licenses under s. 36 of the Electricity Act 1999.<br />
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Q6. Parliament has already passed Regulations bringing the Justification Decisions into legal effect. Can the courts overturn a Parliamentary vote?<br />
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If the Justification Decisions were held to be flawed in law, then the Parliamentary votes based on them would also be flawed and therefore invalid.<br />
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Q7. What are the next steps?<br />
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The Government needs to respond by the end of the month. The papers will then go to a judge, who may order an early hearing.<br />
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Probably in London<br />
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For more information visit www.irwinmitchell.comStop Nuclear Power London and South-Easthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04010782959459034511noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3588545652507163455.post-14260209813752726672011-03-17T18:49:00.008+01:002011-03-30T19:52:25.609+02:00Emergency Vigils for Japan<a name='more'></a>There are vigils for Japan and Fukushima taking place in the coming days in <b><a href="http://www.cnduk.org/index.php/component/option,com_jcalpro/Itemid,1/extid,191/extmode,view/">London</a>, <a href="http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/703752">Bristol</a>, Manchester, Edinburgh</b> and<b> Kendal</b>. Details of the latter below:<br />
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Please join us in expressing our sympathy for those affected. We will be urging the government to look at the Japanese lesson and aband<a class="cssButton" href="javascript:void(0)" id="publishButton" onclick="if (this.className.indexOf("ubtn-disabled") == -1) {var e = document['postingForm'].publish;(e.length) ? e[0].click() : e.click(); if (window.event) window.event.cancelBubble = true; return false;}" target=""><div class="cssButtonOuter"><div class="cssButtonMiddle"><div class="cssButtonInner">Publish Post</div></div></div></a>on plans for the burial of high level nuclear wastes in Cumbria and new nuclear power stations in the UK.<br />
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We will meet at Kendal Market Place 10.30am this Saturday - join us in an emergency vigil for Japan.<br />
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The Japanese power companies were warned that it would be dangerous to build nuclear power stations on an earthquake fault line. In response, the regulators and power companies said all possible events had been taken into account. <br />
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They said the design and safety systems of the plants assured safety even in the event of earthquake and tsunami.<br />
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The same story is being played out in Cumbria. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (Nirex) was warned by the conclusions of a public planning enquiry in 1997 that West Cumbria was geologically unsuitable for underground disposal of UK's 'legacy' nuclear waste. These findings have not been overturned. Instead the NDA and regulators have given assurances that they will engineer a solution to Cumbria's leaky geology so that they can dump high level nuclear wastes deep underground.<br />
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The petition opposing the burial of high level nuclear wastes from the worlds' spent fuel in Cumbria's leaky geology will be circulating following Saturday's Vigil<br />
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<a href="http://northern-indymedia.org/system/file_upload/2011/02/11/74/no__geological__nuke_dump_in_lakes-_petition.jpg">'No High Level Nuke Dump in Cumbria' petition to print off</a><br />
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