Some bits of good news. Some welcome news, in UK Government support for energy saving. Some Good News About Corals and Climate Change The UK’s first hospital-owned solar farm shows how renewables could be a way out of reliance on fossil fuels.. The Good News About Renewable Energy.
I’ve read so much on the Ukraine crisis. For an overview of that situation, Charles Freeman, former USA diplomat, is the best source. His interview is long. ”USA fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian’‘. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vxufUeqnuc I think I’m the only one to transcribe it. (that took me hours!). But I recommend that you persist with it. It is worth 100 other commentaries on Ukraine.
AUSTRALIA.
Scott Morrison has no plan for the economic growth that would be needed to pay for all his touted ”Defence – Security” stuff. Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) statement March 2022. Friends of the Earth Australia’s Submission to Environment Minister calls out the dishonesty in the proposal for a national nuclear waste dump at Kimba, South Australia. Australian Radioactive Waste Agency – a couple of English nuclear waste officials conning the Australian public?
Thousands of hectares approved for projects that made koalas homeless.
Wilful ignorance . Blaming war and deadly floods on climate change activists .
‘Our dams are full’: northern NSW and south-east Queensland again brace for floods as heavy rain looms. Fears for more ’life-threatening’ floods in NSW. True impact of floods on animal populations remains unknown
‘We’d never touch it if we knew’: Farmer locked in carbon credit scheme backs inquiry into ‘rort’. Taylor’s office spent $1 billion on ‘sham’ carbon projects .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R8u11MDIjs Australian media – paid to distract you from the really important news – Michael West reports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep2LConoNkg
INTERNATIONAL
Ukraine war shows nuclear deterrence doesn’t work; we need disarmament — IPPNW peace and health blog. Dalai Lama, Other Nobel Winners Demand Explicit Vow Not to Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine. U.S. Peace Council Statement on Russia’s Military Intervention in Ukraine.
Zelensky ready to negotiate with Russia over NATO and Donbas sovereignty, but Biden won’t budge. More Evidence That The US Is Trying To Prolong This War– Caitlin Johnstone lays it bare.
We have a new energy crisis, and EFFICIENCY is the largest, cheapest, safest, cleanest and fastest way to address it.
Official cover-up by 7 governments of the cancer deaths of nuclear test veterans.
Western countries importing Russian uranium and nuclear supplies – WITH NO SANCTIONS.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to discuss climate mitigation efforts, including technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere.
Climate change at the Poles. Temperatures hit ‘unthinkable’ highs at both of Earth’s poles on the weekend. Climate scientists are trying to find out why. Record-smashing heatwaves are hitting Antarctica and the Arctic simultaneously. Here’s what’s driving them, and how they’ll impact wildlife. Wildfires caused by global warming ‘are accelerating global warming’. In 20 years of studying how ecosystems absorb carbon, here’s why we’re worried about a tipping point of collapse. Fridays for Future school climate strikes resume across the world
Bitcoin miners want to recast themselves as eco-friendly
ANTARCTICA. Climate scientists alarmed at unprecedented heat at both the Antarctic and the Arctic. Record-smashing heatwaves are hitting Antarctica and the Arctic simultaneously. Here’s what’s driving them, and how they’ll impact wildlife. Antarctic heat – a horrifying reminder of the future with global heating. Gigantic Antarctic ice shelf collapses into the sea.
ARCTIC. Very low Arctic sea ice.
UKRAINE.
Forest fires erupt around Chernobyl nuclear plant. Chernobyl radiation monitors ‘not working‘. Chernobyl nuclear worker gives the inside story on the dire situation for the staff as Russians took over.
Ukraine war – the Nazi factor. What is the risk of a nuclear accident in Ukraine? Deal on Ukrainian nuclear safety to come ‘soon,’ says IAEA chief. Bellona explains Ukraine’s nuclear stations. International Atomic Energy Agency’s grave concern over safety of Ukraine’s nuclear reactors. IAEA concerned that Russia is shelling Ukrainian checkpoints in the city of Slavutych, near Chernobyl. The work of Ukraine-based European Institute of Chernobyl. So far, Zaporizhzhya’s nuclear reactors are being managed safely under Russian control . Warning on effect of Russian force’s attack on nuclear research facility.
HUNGARY. NATO troops deployed to Hungary despite government’s reservations — Anti-bellum
USA.
- No chance of a fair trial for Julian Assange in America. Caitlin Johnstone – yes, it’s a proxy war.
- Re-Visiting Russiagate In Light Of The Ukraine War.
- Biden keeping up the big spend on nuclear weapons.
- Dozens Of Men Got Sick During A Secret Training Exercise At A Nuclear Site In 1991. They’re Still Fighting For Answers.
- Nuclear Information and Resource Servic calls upon the Biden administration to sanction the Russian nuclear industry .
- Nuclear energy development not possible in USA, unless it is tax-payer funded?
- Multi $billion plutonium cores project – unsafe, unnecessary, and ill-conceived. USA’s production for plutonium ”pits”will fall short of the goal.
- Nuclear lobby touting small nuclear reactors to Alaska.
- With threats of nuclear war and climate disaster growing, America’s ‘bunker fantasy’ is woefully inadequate.
- Nearly 60% of USA is in prolonged drought.
- Editorial: Washington conducts international Inquisition over Ukraine — Anti-bellum
- World’s richest men enthuse over new nuclear power, despite its poor progress .
CANADA. Ottawa’s Nuclear Funding Delays Climate Action, Ignores Indigenous Objections, Opponents Warn. Saskatchewn ponders new small nuclear reactors, but opposition unsure about safety and environmental impacts.
JAPAN. Nagasaki survivor calls for joint resistance to nuclear threat amid Russian invasion.
RUSSIA. Kremlin says Russia could use nuclear weapons, if its existence were threatened. Russia holds back on full assaults on Ukraine, and Zelensky prepared to negotiate on NATO and Donbas/Crimea.
FRANCE. France’s nuclear energy output continues to slump.
UK.
- As UK government touted ”media freedom”, Julian Assange in high security Belmarsh Prison was an embarassment.
- Big ‘doomsday plane’ for the Big Nobs, in the event of nuclear war, arrives in Britain.
- London. Anti-nuclear campaigners have won a victory for free expression.
- Boris Johnson determined to show ‘leadership’ on nuclear power. Boris Johnson’s enthusiasm for UK nuclear power should raise huge red flags for Scotland. UK Tories split over nuclear power. Sceptism over Boris Johnson’s plan for ”Britain carpeted in mini-nukes. UK’s Business secretary Kwasi Kwarteng considering launching State-owned nuclear company. Boris Johnson’s splashy style still avoids the costs, lack of financial commitments for nuclear power development. Boris Johnson in the grip of the nuclear lobby. Evangelical fervour for new nuclear power in UK’s Tory government. Boris Johnson ‘gung ho’ for new nuclear power, but Chancellor Rishi Sunak applying the brakes. Boris Johnson all for nuclear power – but there are tensions with the Treasury about this. Some Brits not very impressed with their government’s newbound love affair with nuclear power.
- UK’s Green Party calls for big effort on energy efficiency and renewables – nuclear is an ”expensive distraction”. Greens firm on Scotland’s opposition to nuclear power. Greenpeace scathing about Boris Johnson’s plan for nuclear power.
- British public in the dark about what ”Modular” nuclear reactors really means (hint -they’re like Lego pieces) .
- Energy efficiency and renewables – faster, safer, than nuclear power, to move away from Russian fuel, and combat climate change. The energy crisis is now, new nuclear will be (at least) twenty years too late – UK’s Nuclear Free Local Authorities (NFLA). UK does NOT need more nuclear power. Electricity demand has fallen.
- Campaigners against Sizewell C nuclear project concerned that UK govt plans to stop local opposition to it. Boris Johnson government to put limits on local community opposition to nuclear power.
- Water supply problems for planned £20billion twin reactor on the Suffolk coast .
- People Against Wylfa-B (PAWB) calls for sanctions on UK importing enriched uranium from Russia.
- Catholic bishops assert their opposition to nuclear weapons. Residents react after huge military convoy spotted travelling through Preston.
- Campaigners lose legal challenge to stop Hinkley Point C mud being dumped in the sea.
- Over 1000 tonnes of steel drums full of nuclear waste dumped at Drigg, Cumbria.
IRELAND. NATO grooming yet another new member: Ireland — Anti-bellum
IRAN. Iran’s foreign minister says nuclear deal closer ‘than ever’. Iran blames US for delays in reaching nuclear deal.
INDIA. Opinion: U.S. pressure on India over Ukraine doomed to fail — Anti-bellum
EUROPE. Europeans stocking up on anti-radiation pills. No surety that Europe will favour nuclear power, following Ukraine crisis,
CHINA. Chinese analysts: U.S. hopes to bleed Russia, collapse it like USSR — Anti-bellum
AUSTRIA. Renewable energy: Austria, a leader of anti-nuclear advocacy in Europe.
RUSSIA. Russia about to announce an export ban on uranium.
SERBIA. Serbia won’t be dragged into broader European war: president — Anti-bellum Brutal, horrible, criminal, inhuman attack on a small country: Serbs commemorate victims of NATO’s war — Anti-bellum
NORTH KOREA. North Korea preparing for its first nuclear test in 5 years.
PHILIPPINES. Greenpeace: Nuclear power is not the solution to Philippines’ energy woes.
CZECH REPUBLIC. World’s biggest bunker where billionaires could survive in luxury for 10 years.
Nuclear Australia 
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