April 9, 2018

☢ We have better choices: It’s time to close the aging Pickering Nuclear Station By closing Pickering when its license expires in August 2018, the Government of Ontario can increase public safety, eliminate money-losing electricity export sales, lower our electricity costs, create jobs and return most of the station’s waterfront site to the local community for redevelopment and new park land.



The World

☢ Health Risks of Nuclear Power 60 min. webinar recording by the Physicians for Social Responsibility

☢ Fukushima Daiichi Timeline after March 11, 2011 1 minute video reaching decades into the future

☢ The Case Against Nuclear Power: Facts and Arguments from A-Z This handbook by Beyond Nuclear delivers each essential fact in short, manageable standalone paragraphs arranged alphabetically by topic — an anti-nuclear encyclopedia of sorts, but in bite sizes. 

☢ Low-Dose Radiation 8 min. video by Goddards Journal discussing the different models of cancer risk from radiation - LNT (Linear No-Threshold Model - no amount of radiation is safe) vs Threshold Risk Model (no cancer risk from lower doses of radiation).

☢ Cancer Stats Skyrocket Around Nuclear Reactors: Epidemiologist Joseph Mangano Audio interview with co-author of 2 books and 33 medical journal articles on radiation health. Starts 21:45

☢ Company dismantling Genoa nuclear plant spilled tainted water into Mississippi River

☢ Belgium Maintains Its Nuclear Phase-Out by 2025 Policy Belgium’s nuclear reactors produce half the country’s electricity.

☢ Japan prepares to shut troubled 'dream' breeder nuclear reactor Japan is set to start decommissioning its troubled Monju fast-breeder reactor after decades of accidents, cost overruns and scandals. The decades-old plant has cost almost $10B and hardly ever operated.

☢ How nuclear war would affect the world climate and human health The climatic effects of even a relatively small nuclear war would be planet-wide. And here's another: The global impacts of a terrorist nuclear attack: What would happen? What should we do?

Ontario

☢ Chamber of Commerce wants to have its cake and eat it too It's puzzling that the ON Chamber favours keeping the Pickering nuclear station, with the highest operating costs in North America, running until 2024 instead of importing low-cost water power from Quebec. 

☢ Going Renewable Means Phasing Out Our Aging Nuclear Reactors Blog post by me.

☢ Audio interview with Greenpeace Canada's nuclear campaigner Shawn-Patrick Stensil
 
☢ Experts say high release limits for radioactive tritium endangers humans and other species that drink water from the Ottawa River Dumping of tritium-contaminated water into the Ottawa River from a defunct nuclear reactor in Rolphton, Ontario is a risk to humans and other species. The practice is part of a systemic problem with the regulation of the nuclear industry in Canada.

☢ Citizens denounce rubber stamp approval of 10-year nuclear site license for SNC Lavalin consortium Chalk River consortium gets 10-year license. Nuclear regulator confirms its reputation as a rubber stamp organization. Decision paves the way for a giant radioactive dump at Chalk River, a new generation of subsidized reactors and growing stock of toxic long-lived radioactive waste that Canadian taxpayers will be on the hook for.

☢ Anishinabek stand with Iroquois Caucus condemning decision for a radioactive dump at Chalk River licensed for ten years “They are going to create a giant dump on the surface that could leach radioactive waste into the Ottawa River.  We assert inherent ownership of the water and jurisdiction within our regions and traditional territories. Water is the lifeblood of Mother Earth.”

☢ $1.3B cleanup of Port Hope finally underway after decades of planning Low level radioactive waste in and around the picturesque ON town for decades

Renewables and Conservation

☼ Wind, solar, and storage could meet 90–100% of America’s electricity needs

☼ Solar Energy Set a Global Record Last Year, Mostly Thanks to China

Events

☢ Pickering City Council Meeting On Tuesday. April 10, 7 p.m., Jack Gibbons, Chair of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance, will be speaking before Pickering City Council outlining why the Pickering Nuclear Station should be closed when its license expires on Aug. 31, 2018. If you’re not able to attend in person, please see Jack’s presentation here.

☢ Sign our petitions to Close Pickering and to Buy Quebec Power. And share them with your friends. Watch our 2 min. video here. 

☢ Stop OPG's  Nuclear Waste Dump Before It's Too Late Learn more about OPG’s nuke waste dump proposal in Kincardine, ON, and write Minister McKenna, Premier Wynne and PM Trudeau here.

☢ Tell the Japanese government: don’t dump nuclear waste into the ocean!

☢ Canada - do not let corporate profits dictate what we do with our nuclear waste Petition. 
 
☢ Protect Kyoto! Prevent another nuclear disaster in Japan. Stop the dangerous Ohi plant Petition.

☢ Westinghouse - Quit India International statement against the Kovvada nuclear station.

☢ Can you spare a few hours to leaflet blitz your neighbourhood mailboxes? Help us make the closure of the Pickering nuclear station a public issue. Contact: angela@cleanairalliance.org

☢ Order your free KI (anti-thyroid-cancer) pills here if you live within 50 km of an ON nuclear facility - that includes all of Toronto and beyond. Download your anti-thyroid cancer posters hereto post in your office, school, or local cafe.

☢ Canada – Sign the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Last year 122 member states of the United Nations voted to approve the text of a Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, but the Nuclear Weapons States voted against it as did most NATO countries including Canada. This petition asks Canada to sign the Treaty.