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Nuclear

A category all its own, despite being a form of energy. The until-now primarily dormant energy form of nuclear power is getting a new lease on construction life in the wake of the astronomical energy needs of the tarsands. The tarsands need a vast and growing energy supply, almost requiring half of what it will produce at the point of consumption. As a means of both feeding that "need" and using the thin-wedge of "thirsting for energy" that is "not greenhouse gas emitting" for the tarsands, this highly dangerous and discredited form of energy is making a slow and speeding up comeback. Again, as a result of peak oil, the resurgence of nuclear energy comes cloaked (in Orwellian fashion) in greenwash rhetoric-- ignoring the level to which greenhouse gasses are A) emitted in construction of power plants that will take several years to finish, and B) need to operate for a decade after that before any noticable depreciation in total greenhouse gasses and carbon emissions are registered. Even though it is portrayed as a boon for the earth, radioactive material is anything but and is yet more of the vast and growing assault on the earth of the tarsands. In complimentary fashion, the tarsands would provide legitimacy for a nuclear industry in a post-oil existence, where Three Mile Island and Chernobyl once took it away.

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A category all its own, despite being a form of energy. The until-now primarily dormant energy form of nuclear power is getting a new lease on construction life in the wake of the astronomical energy needs of the tarsands. The tarsands need a vast and growing energy supply, almost requiring half of what it will produce at the point of consumption. As a means of both feeding that "need" and using the thin-wedge of "thirsting for energy" that is "not greenhouse gas emitting" for the tarsands, this highly dangerous and discredited form of energy is making a slow and speeding up comeback. Again, as a result of peak oil, the resurgence of nuclear energy comes cloaked (in Orwellian fashion) in greenwash rhetoric-- ignoring the level to which greenhouse gasses are A) emitted in construction of power plants that will take several years to finish, and B) need to operate for a decade after that before any noticable depreciation in total greenhouse gasses and carbon emissions are registered. Even though it is portrayed as a boon for the earth, radioactive material is anything but and is yet more of the vast and growing assault on the earth of the tarsands. In complimentary fashion, the tarsands would provide legitimacy for a nuclear industry in a post-oil existence, where Three Mile Island and Chernobyl once took it away.

ConocoPhillips Wants to go Nuclear in the Tar Pits

ConocoPhillips seeks oil sands cost-cutting
By Bloomberg AP and Staff Reports
2/15/2008

A ConocoPhillips executive says the company would be a "fast follower" if other producers were to successfully use nuclear energy to power Canadian oil-sands operations.

"If they should be successful, we would be fast on their heels," Kevin Meyers, president of the Canadian unit of ConocoPhillips, said this week during an energy conference in Houston hosted by Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

Former chief won't give up uranium mine battle

Former chief won't give up uranium mine battle
Posted By Sue Yanagisawa

A former chief of the Ardoch Algonquin First Nations yesterday told Justice Douglas Cunningham that he will continue to resist uranium prospecting on lands claimed by Frontenac Ventures Corp. north of Sharbot Lake, even if it means disobeying an order of the court.

Saskatchewan uranium expert brings warning to eastern Ontario, western Quebec

Saskatchewan uranium expert brings warning to eastern Ontario, western Quebec

Four city tour to reveal uranium's long-term ecological and health pain for short-term private economic gain

by Lynn Daniluk

OTTAWA - An expert on Saskatchewan's uranium mining industry will warn people against letting the industry establish itself in the Ottawa River watershed in a 5-day book tour Jan. 22-26, 2008.

Deline says no to further uranium development

Deline says no to further uranium development
Guy Quenneville
Northern News Services
Published Monday, January 21, 2008

FORT FRANKLIN - The Deline Land Corp. will oppose all future uranium development in its district until outstanding issues having to do with the old Port Radium mine are resolved, the organization announced recently.

First Nations vow to occupy eastern Ont. site to block uranium mining

First Nations vow to occupy eastern Ont. site to block uranium mining

Keith Leslie, THE CANADIAN PRESS Published Friday January 11th, 2008

TORONTO - Aboriginals in eastern Ontario warned Friday that they would ignore a court order and illegally occupy the site of a proposed uranium mine north of Kingston later this month unless the province calls a halt to the project.

Conservative Ploy to Neuter Canada's Nuclear Regulatory Agency to supply nuclear to the tarpits

Conservative Ploy To Neuter Canada's Nuclear Regulatory Agency

PEJ News - Al Rycroft - Under the guise of providing medical isotopes for the world the Conservative Government in Ottawa has initiated a high stakes game to neuter Canada's nuclear regulatory agency by threatening to fire its president. The ultimate goal of this game of chicken is to deliver a controllable "nuclear regulator" to the government to allow the unfettered re-development of nuclear power in Canada and the export of Candu reactors to the rest of the world - safety be damned...

Vancouver Launch of Dominion Special Tar Sands Issue

What do you know about the largest industrial project in human history?

EDUCATIONAL ON THE TAR SANDS

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18TH
6:30 PM ROOM 2270
SFU HARBOUR CENTRE

515 WEST HASTINGS

Come learn about the Alberta Tar Sands and its impact on indigenous rights, the environment, labour rights including migrant workers, as well as its global consequences in an era of oil-dependency, the War on Terror, and an expanding corporate regime through the Security and Prosperity Partnership Agreement.

Bruce Power looks at Alberta facility (for Nuclear Reactors)

Bruce Power looks at Alberta facility

By The Canadian Press
Published: 12/14/2007 - Vol. 3, No. 25

An Ontario-based company that operates Canada's first private nuclear electricity generating plant wants to build a similar facility in Alberta.

Bruce Power has announced plans to buy Energy Alberta Corp., which has already begun preliminary work on a proposal to build a nuclear plant in the Peace River area about 350 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

The company says any decisions it makes will rely heavily on having a willing community.

Akaicho Land Trust "Largest Ever" [Doesn't Include Entire Thelon Region]

Akaicho Land Trust "Largest Ever" [Doesn't Include Entire Thelon Region]
By LEA STORRY, SRJ Editor 30.NOV.07

Some historic and sacred places of the Akaitcho Dene First Nations have recently been protected for the time being by Ottawa. Approximately 62,000 sq km of land have been preserved from further development.

“It’s a good news story,” said Dennis Bevington, Western Arctic Member of Parliament (MP). “It says a lot about the hard work and efforts the Akaitcho Dene First Nations have put into this.”

Settlers and natives, united against the government

Settlers and natives, united against the government

THIS COUNTRY: ONTARIO: URANIUM EXPLORATION
Settlers and natives, united against the government
ROY MacGREGOR
December 3, 2007

Let us head down Snow Road on this morning when the plowed banks are higher than they have been any Dec. 3 for some time.

Let us visit on a bitter weekend when Environment Canada has predicted the coldest winter in 15 years.

And here let us talk about global warming - and the hints of heat to come in at least the next 15 years.

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