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Protests continue over uranium mine proposal - 24/11/2009
Protestors in Alice Springs say opposition is growing to a proposed uranium mine close to the town.
Jess Abrahams, from the Arid Lands Environment Centre, says they believe industries like cattle grazing and ecotourism will be at risk should the mine go ahead.
He says they're calling on the government to reject any application for a mining lease at Angela Pamela, 25 kilometres south of Alice Springs.
300 at Plymouth anti-nuclear protest
CAMPAIGNERS protesting against possible plans to scrap nuclear submarines at Devonport Dockyard descended on the city for an organised protest at the weekend.
Around 300 people turned out in support of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament who believe that Plymouth will be turned into a dumping ground for nuclear submarines.
The rally began with a march through the city centre before speeches outside the Guildhall. The group then travelled to Devonport Park before a protest march along the dockyard wall, finishing at the site’s Camels Head entrance.
North West Evening Mail | Campaign against Sellafield
CAMPAIGNERS from Norway descended on Westminster to demand Sellafield be closed down amid fears an accident at the site would cause devastation across the globe.
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CAMPAIGN: Campaigners from Norway protest against Sellafield at Westminster
The group claimed the quality of the radioactive waste is poor and they fear there will be an accident at the site.
Frank Storelv, from Oslo, said 90 per cent of wind blows from the south west and if there was an explosion or accident at Sellafield, one or two days later the radioactive waste would be carried to the west coast of Norway.
Nuke power gets a blast
Nearly 200 people from across Alberta gathered at the legislature on Tuesday to ask their MLAs to refuse nuclear development in the province.
"Nuclear power is expensive, obsolete and a dangerous technology, and Albertans don't want any part of it," Elena Schacherl told the crowd holding placards and banners.
Schacherl is vice-president of the Coalition for a Nuclear Free Alberta, which opposes the construction of nuclear power plants in the province, and the organizers of the demonstration.
Court hears uranium protesters locked in container - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Court hears uranium protesters locked in container
Civil action starts over uranium protest in 2000
A civil trial has started in the SA Supreme Court over police treatment of protesters at an outback uranium mine.
Ten protesters who were locked in a shipping container at Beverley in South Australia in 2000 are claiming damages from the government for injury and suffering caused by their allegedly false imprisonment.
The government has already settled out of court with three other plaintiffs who had been part of the class action.
A lawyer for the remaining plaintiffs, Brian Walters, told the court the protesters were given no warning before police beat them with batons, used capsicum spray and locked them in a shipping container with no water or toilet facilities for up to eight hours.
They are now suing the state government over their treatment by police.
AFP: Thousands protest against France's oldest nuclear plant
Thousands of people demonstrated in eastern France on Saturday to demand the closure of the country's oldest nuclear power plant amid a huge police presence.
Organisers said more than 10,000 people, including from Spain, Italy and neighbouring Germany and Switzerland, rallied peacefully in Colmar while police said 3,500 took part in the protest against the Fessenheim nuclear plant.
"This is a success and the question of the closure of Fessenheim has now been clearly put forward," said Denis Vernet, of the anti-nuclear umbrella group SDN, which organised the protest with the German movement Bund.
A delegation handed a letter to the region's prefect Pierre-Andre Peyvel calling for the immediate closure of the plant.
India: Rally demanding closure of nuclear plants tomorrow
Anti-nuclear activists have organised a rally here tomorrow to demand closure of nuclear power plants in the country, saying they were creating health hazards due to radiation.
The activists, under the aegis of the 'National Alliance of Anti-nuclear Movements', insisted on development of renewable technologies and demanded better health facilities for people suffering from radiations caused by nuclear plants.
"Tomorrow we are celebrating the birth anniversary of our father of the nation but our country no longer follows his principles," Neeraj Jain of NGO 'Lokayut' in Pune said.
He alleged that propaganda of nuclear energy being a safe, cheap and clean energy are all lies.
Samuel Jyrwa, President of Khasi Student's Union which has been spearheading movement against the proposed nuclear power plant in Meghalaya, said people of the state have expressed their opinion by participating in anti-nuclear hearings.
Whitehaven News | Anti-nuke cathedral protest
ANTI-NUCLEAR campaigners protested outside Carlisle Cathedral at the pro-nuclear stance of the new bishop.
The Right Reverend James Newcome succeeds Graham Dow as Bishop of Carlisle in October.
He recently endorsed the nuclear industry, telling journalists: “We regard Sellafield as one of the most important institutions in the diocese.
“It employs a significant number of people.
Demonstrations In Helsinki And Tampere Against Uranium Mining | News | YLE Uutiset | yle.fi
Protesters gathered in Helsinki and Tampere on Thursday to lend support to residents of Ranua, in Finnish Lapland, who oppose plans for uranium mining in the area.
The French energy group Areva has filed an application with the Ministry Employment and the Economy for a uranium mining claim at Ranua, just south of Rovaniemi. If granted, the claim would allow Areva to carrying out prospecting in the area.
According to a local activisit, Kaisa Kaikkonen, granting the claim could force residents of the area to live for decades in fear of the start-up of uranium mining.
Radioactive cows: vandals hit ads touting nuclear power in Alberta | Alberta | News | Edmonton Sun
People apparently opposed to nuclear power in Alberta have depicted their views on at least one billboard that touts the controversial technology.
Bruce Power, an Ontario company exploring nuclear development in the province, has put up billboards pitching the power source as a clean energy alternative in four Alberta communities.
But one of the company’s ads recently was painted over with a glowing, dead cow with a nuclear symbol branded on its rump and the slogan “A New Brand of AB Beef.” There was also a radioactive symbol painted in the “o” in Bruce Power’s name.
Albert Cooper, a spokesman with Bruce Power, shrugged off the graffiti.
“It’s not a big deal,” he said. “We simply replaced the board and moved on.”
Still, photos of the billboard were circulated among anti-nuclear advocates.
BBC NEWS | UKe | Peace demo walk to nuclear site
About 30 anti-nuclear campaigners have walked from Reading to Berkshire's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE).
The 13-mile (21km) "peace pilgrimage" was organised by Reading Peace Group to mark the anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Campaigners left the Civic Centre at 0900 BST and held a multi-faith service outside AWE in the afternoon.
Burlington rally opposes all nukes | burlingtonfreepress.com | The Burlington Free Press
On the 64th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, the focus of Burlington’s Nuclear Disarmament Day observance wasn’t limited to abolishing weapons. Doing away with nuclear power — as produced by the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, which supplies about one-third of Vermont’s electrical power needs — was also on demonstrators’ wish list.
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Jody Williams, Brattleboro native and 1997 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for her work to ban land mines, tied the two nuclear threads together in a brief speech at a lunch-hour rally in front of City Hall. She opened with a memory of her Aug. 6, 2006, visit to Hiroshima, praised President Barack Obama’s call for the abolition of nuclear weapons, and then urged that Vermont Yankee — whose owners are seeking to continue its operation for two decades after its scheduled closure in 2012 — be shut down.
Push is on for mine cleanup funds to go to uranium sites - Salt Lake Tribune
The name Poison Canyon offers a hint of what's faced by those trying to clean up abandoned uranium mines in the West.
The area north of the village of Milan contains some of the 259 abandoned uranium sites in New Mexico that need cleanup. State officials are pressuring the federal government to direct more money to those areas because of their unique hazard of radioactivity.
"In this case, a pile of rocks is more than just a pile of rocks," said New Mexico Mining and Minerals Division Director Bill Brancard.
There are hundreds of thousands of safety issues at abandoned hardrock mines in 13 western states, according to the Government Accountability Office. Thousands of sites, many dating to the 19th century, also are considered environmentally damaged.
'A direct threat to all life on the planet' | knoxnews.com
A number of peace groups are expected to join members of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance for Thursday's ceremony on the anniversary of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
A Names and Remembrance Ceremony is scheduled for 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. at the entrance to the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant which produced the enriched uranium that was used in the Little Boy bomb.
Among the groups planning to participate are Footprints for Peace, Michigan Stop the Bombs Campaign, Episcopal Peace Fellowship and Buddhists from the Nipponzan Myohoji.
Hanford News : Monks plan prayer walk to Hanford
Buddhist monks will lead a prayer walk from Richland to the Hanford reservation on Tuesday to promote peace and abolition of nuclear weapons.
The monks, from the Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhist Temple on Bainbridge Island, will arrive in the Tri-Cities on Monday to lead a short walk in Richland from Christ the King Church, 1111 Stevens Drive, to John Dam Plaza on George Washington Way at 3:30 p.m.
An opening ceremony will be held at 4 p.m. at the plaza, followed by an interfaith evensong service at 7 p.m. at Shalom United Church of Christ, 505 McMurray St., Richland.
Netherlands: Greenpeace Protest New Nuclear Power Plant – New Tang Dynasty Television
Greenpeace activists in the Netherlands are up in arms.
Dutch utility company Delta has applied to build a second nuclear power plant.
The Netherlands already has one nuclear power plant and protesters think this is more than enough.
[Maike Baretta, Greenpeace Campaigner]:
"Greenpeace is here to show that building a second nuclear power plant in the Netherlands is a really bad idea because it will create an enormous amount of nuclear waste and we don't even know [what to] do with the waste of the first nuclear power plant."
In the past, the Dutch government phased out nuclear power, leaving one plant in Borssele which is owned by Delta and Dutch company Essent.
It's on this site that Delta plans to build its second plant.
A draft proposal has been submitted to the Environment Ministry. Delta then hope to put forward a formal request.
Protesters Demonstrate Against Demolition of Lab's Bevatron - The Daily Californian
A number of residents held a press conference in Downtown Berkeley Tuesday evening to protest the demolition of a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory building known to contain radioactive materials.
Concrete shielding blocks in the Bevatron, the lab's 180-foot particle accelerator, became mildly radioactive during the past 40 years of use.
Residents voiced concerns in front of Old City Hall that transporting these materials may affect the health of Berkeley residents and cause damage to roads.
Reuters AlertNet - Kazakhstan remembers horror of Soviet A-bomb tests
More than 20,000 people gathered in a small Kazakh town on Thursday to mark 20 years since the closure of a site where the Soviet Union conducted lethal nuclear tests for much of the Cold War.
Moscow used the vast open steppes of now-independent Kazakhstan to test some 500 nuclear bombs between 1949 and 1989, poisoning swathes of land and entire generations of people, and feelings among the population still run high.
President Nursultan Nazarbayev, despite being a close ally of Russia, used some of his strongest words yet to describe the grave legacy of the Soviet nuclear past.
"Millions of Kazakh citizens fell victim to this nuclear madness," he told the crowd gathered at the town's memorial site. "The scar inflicted on our environment is so serious that it will not disappear for at least 300 years."
BBC NEWS | Eleven charged over nuclear demo
Eleven people have been charged after a demonstration at the UK's nuclear weapons production site.
The protest began early on Monday at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Aldermaston, Berkshire.
One man and 10 women are accused of causing a wilful obstruction of the highway. They are due to appear before magistrates in June and July.
AWE provides and maintains warheads for Trident, the UK's submarine-launched nuclear missile system.
The Watch Newspapers - Uranium Mill Opponents Plan Protest Wednesday
Opponents to a proposed uranium mill in Paradox Valley plan a protest before a public meeting Wednesday in Montrose.
Marie Moore of the Paradox Valley Sustainability Association said protesters will meet at 5 p.m. Wednesday outside Friendship Hall on the Montrose County fairgrounds to oppose the mill.
The Montrose County Planning Commission will hold its second public hearing in the hall at 6 p.m. on whether to recommend a special use permit to Energy Fuels Corp. The final decision on the permit will be up to the county’s board of commissioners.
At the first public meeting on the permit, on May 19, in Nucla, more than 200 people showed up, both for and against the mill, and feelings were strong on both sides. The West End Planning Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations to the county planning commission, voted in favor of the bill, 4-1.
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