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bananas

(27,509 posts) Wed Jun 17, 2015, 06:59 AM Jun 2015

Clean Energy Groups Launch International Campaign to Keep Nuclear Power Out of Global Climate Talks

Source: WISE International

Clean energy groups from across the world today launched a new international campaign in preparation for December's COP21 climate summit in Paris, to ensure that climate negotiators will stand up for clean energy, and not to listen to the false promises of the nuclear energy lobby.

"Under the expiring Kyoto Protocol, nuclear energy is rightly excluded from the possible solutions available to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Yet the nuclear industry, in collaboration with certain nations, is lobbying for their dangerous and polluting technology to be sold as a climate-friendly option during the Climate COP21 this year," explains Peer de Rijk, director of WISE (World Information Service on Energy). "We are calling on 1,000 civil society organisations to join us for a campaign to block the nuclear industry's lobby activities at COP21 and instead ensure the world chooses clean energy; it is the only real climate solution."

"France should shift towards renewable energy," said Charlotte Mijeon of France's Sortir du Nucleaire. "But the government keeps supporting a dirty, expensive, dangerous and declining nuclear industry. We condemn the sponsoring of the COP by polluting companies--and especially by EDF--and will denounce the greenwashing of the nuclear industry in Paris."

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As the initial step in the campaign, the organizing groups today launched an international petition to world leaders in support of the nuclear-free, carbon-free path. The petition is available for sign-on here:

http://www.wiseinternational.org/campaign/sign-petition

Read more: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/clean-energy-groups-launch-international-campaign-to-keep-nuclear-power-out-of-global-climate-talks-507794411.html

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Clean Energy Groups Launch International Campaign to Keep Nuclear Power Out of Global Climate Talks (Original Post) bananas Jun 2015 OP

Press releases from advocacy groups are not "breaking news" FBaggins Jun 2015 #1

A major international campaign is being launched today - this is "breaking news". bananas Jun 2015 #3

Dozens of locked threads haven't taught you otherwise yet? FBaggins Jun 2015 #4

Post removed Post removed Jun 2015 #2

Inhabitants of the earth must continue pushing for expanding the use of clean renewable energy Dont call me Shirley Jun 2015 #5

Absolutely! And Environmental activism works, study shows bananas Jun 2015 #9

Ban nuclear from Paris talks, green groups urge bananas Jun 2015 #6

Don't nuke the climate, say clean energy groups bananas Jun 2015 #7

glad to see this. riversedge Jun 2015 #8

Nukes are "dangerous and polluting technology." Absolutely right! Peace Patriot Jun 2015 #10

"Cleanup of Ohio uranium plant expected to take decades more" Peace Patriot Jun 2015 #11

FBaggins

(26,737 posts)

1. Press releases from advocacy groups are not "breaking news"

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 07:08 AM

Jun 2015

You shooting for a record?

Pretty silly title to imply that the people pushing deforestation/burning, but opposing nuclear, are the "clean energy groups"

bananas

(27,509 posts)

3. A major international campaign is being launched today - this is "breaking news".

Reply to FBaggins (Reply #1)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 07:49 AM

Jun 2015

FBaggins

(26,737 posts)

4. Dozens of locked threads haven't taught you otherwise yet?

Reply to bananas (Reply #3)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 08:24 AM

Jun 2015

Press releases aren't "breaking news" (with an exception for those from Democratic candidates).

A major international campaign

Advocacy groups always think their nonsense is a "major campaign"

Nor was it "launched today"... they've been sending out press releases for days now. The current "don't nuke the climate" campaign is well outside the LBN timeframe.

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Dont call me Shirley

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5. Inhabitants of the earth must continue pushing for expanding the use of clean renewable energy

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 08:43 AM

Jun 2015

while eliminating dirty toxic fuel sources.

bananas

(27,509 posts)

9. Absolutely! And Environmental activism works, study shows

Reply to Dont call me Shirley (Reply #5)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:32 AM

Jun 2015

http://www.democraticunderground.com/112786916

Environmental activism works, study shows

http://csis.msu.edu/news/environmental-activism-works-sustainability

Environmental activism works, study shows

June 15, 2015

The environmental movement is making a difference – nudging greenhouse gas emissions down in states with strong green voices, according to a Michigan State University (MSU) study.

Social scientist Thomas Dietz and Kenneth Frank, MSU Foundation professor of sociometrics, have teamed up to find a way to tell if a state jumping on the environmental bandwagon can mitigate other human factors – population growth and economic affluence – known to hurt the environment.

“We’ve used new methods developed over the years and new innovations Ken has developed to add in the politics – and find that politics and environmentalism can mediate some environmental impact,” Dietz said. “Environmentalism seems to influence policies and how well policies that are in place are actually implemented and it also influences individual behavior and the choices people make.”

The study, in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows a state-level win for environmental activism that hasn’t been apparent on a national scale.

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http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/06/09/1417806112.full.pdf

bananas

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6. Ban nuclear from Paris talks, green groups urge

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:17 AM

Jun 2015

http://www.edie.net/news/6/Ban-nuclear-industry-from-Paris-talks--urge-green-groups/

Ban nuclear from Paris talks, green groups urge
17 June 2015, source edie newsroom

An international coalition of clean energy groups have launched a new campaign asking for the nuclear power industry to be barred from the UN climate talks in Paris.

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As an initial step for the campaign, the organising groups today launched an international petition, designed to lobby world leaders in support of nuclear-free clean energy.

The coalition is also planning a “mass demonstration” in Paris on the 12 December, in the midst of the UN conference.

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No UK groups have yet joined the campaign, but the technology remains divisive.

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bananas

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7. Don't nuke the climate, say clean energy groups

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:19 AM

Jun 2015

http://www.energylivenews.com/2015/06/17/dont-nuke-the-climate-say-clean-energy-groups/

Don’t nuke the climate, say clean energy groups
Jun 17, 2015 Jacqueline Echevarria

Clean energy groups from all over the world have launched an international campaign to ensure nuclear energy is not part of climate talks.

The ‘Don’t Nuke the Climate Campaign’ aims to ensure negotiators at the COP21 climate conference in Paris will back clean energy “and not to listen to the false promises of the nuclear energy lobby”.

Groups such as World Information Service on Energy (WISE), French Sortir du Nucleaire and US-based Nuclear Information and Resource Service have joined the campaign.

They have launched a petition to energy world leaders to support the nuclear-free and carbon-free path.

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riversedge

(70,218 posts)

8. glad to see this.

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:25 AM

Jun 2015

Peace Patriot

(24,010 posts)

10. Nukes are "dangerous and polluting technology." Absolutely right!

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 10:40 AM

Jun 2015

"...the nuclear industry...is lobbying for their dangerous and polluting technology to be sold as a climate-friendly option...". (from the OP)

Nuclear energy is TOO DANGEROUS. It needs to be banned, and it needs to be banned NOW. Another need: re-start of the movement to ban nuclear weapons.

We're playing with "armageddon" AS IT IS. Carbon emissions are dangerous. Predatory, unregulated capitalism is dangerous. Deforestation is dangerous. Oil spills are dangerous. Plastics are dangerous. Toxic pesticides are dangerous. There are a whole lot of things that humans are doing that will kill the planet in the next 100 years, if we don't stop doing them. And we DON'T NEED TO ADD more Chernobyls and Fukushimas! Cuz they WILL happen. They will!

We have so much to do simply to ensure humanity any future at all, let alone a prosperous future on a healthy planet--from replenishing earth's soils, to ending CO2 emissions, from cleaning up ocean and river pollution and ending such pollution, to finding joy and satisfaction from life rather than from unnecessary consumer products. We are losing biodiversity at a catastrophic rate. The signs and signals of earth's distress are everywhere--from bee colony collapse to catastrophic loss of Arctic and glacier ice, and severe weather stressing virtually every environment on earth.

Artificial nuclear energy is not the solution--it is yet more of the same problem: critical environmental decisions being made for profit alone.

This has got to stop! There are higher values than profit.

Peace Patriot

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11. "Cleanup of Ohio uranium plant expected to take decades more"

Reply to Peace Patriot (Reply #10)

Wed Jun 17, 2015, 11:15 AM

Jun 2015

Yet ANOTHER problem with this extremely dangerous industry is that it combines profiteering from energy with profiteering from the inevitable "clean-up's"*--sometimes by the same damn corporations! WHO PAYS FOR THE CLEAN-UPS?!!!!

Cleanup of Ohio uranium plant expected to take decades more

Source: AP

PIKETON, Ohio (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy says the cleanup of a Cold War-era uranium plant in southern Ohio is expected to take another three decades or more.

U.S. Sen. Rob Portman had asked whether the administration was committed to the earlier goal of finishing the cleanup at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Piketon by 2024. In a response that was shared Tuesday by Portman, the department says that isn't an achievable goal. It says its target range for finishing the decommissioning and decontamination work is now between 2044 and 2052.

The cleanup employs more than 1,800 people and provides some of the best-paying jobs in a pocket of high unemployment. Last year, hundreds of layoffs were threatened until Congress provided a last-minute infusion of funding. (my emphasis)

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/38109f5175614a81b4702ec6416f96f4/cleanup-ohio-uranium-plant-expected-take-decades-more
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141119888

*(There is, really, no such thing as a nuke "clean-up." Nuke pollution is basically for forever. These EXTREMELY TOXIC substances are simply MOVED from one place on or in the earth to another. It is utterly INSANE to keep creating them on purpose!)

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I've heard that argument about "jobs" (which the Associated Pukes naturally emphasizes) all the while that Boise Cascade, Georgia Pacific and Louisiana Pacific, et al, were destroying the ancient redwood forest on the Mendocino coast. And now there are virtually no logging jobs in this region, cuz the forest is gone! And, believe me, this and similar deforestation by similar predatory capitalists worldwide is a major factor in the earth's inability to absorb the excessive CO2 emissions that predatory capitalists, and our consumer habits, have created. WHO PAYS FOR THIS? It's the same question for nuke pollution, only nuke pollution is even more dangerous. WHY AREN'T WE REQUIRING THE PROFITEERS TO PAY FOR THESE THINGS? And what is wrong with our "system" that we let them happen in the first place?

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