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Helen Caldicott links nuclear power to global warming (video & transcript)
Monica Trauzzi:, E&E TV
As Congress continues to debate the issue of nuclear waste repositories, industry is pushing nuclear power as an excellent source of clean, safe energy. During today’s OnPoint, Nuclear Policy Research Institute founder Helen Caldicott discusses her new book, “Nuclear Power is not the Answer.” Caldicott explains the link between nuclear power production and global warming and discusses what she calls a propaganda campaign by industry and the Bush administration to push nuclear power. Caldicott also criticizes environmentalists who support nuclear power as a clean and safe source of energy.
(5 Oct 2006)
Greenpeace challenges ‘flawed’ energy review
Press Association, Guardian
Greenpeace has launched a court action claiming the government’s recent energy review, which backed a new generation of nuclear power plants, was “legally flawed”.
In legal papers lodged at the high court in London today, the environmental campaign group argues that the government did not carry out the full public consultation to which it had committed itself before making its decision.
Greenpeace says that if its judicial review application succeeds, the government will be forced to ditch the conclusions of the energy review and carry out a much fuller consultation on the full range of issues relating to building new nuclear reactors in the UK.
(5 Oct 2006)
BHP says enriching uranium locally ‘unviable’
Katharine Murphy, The Age (Au)
A FLIRTATION by senior Government ministers with the idea of Australia enriching uranium has been dealt a blow by BHP Billiton’s declaration that the industry is unviable.
BHP Billiton owns Australia’s largest uranium deposit at Olympic Dam in South Australia. It told Prime Minister John Howard’s nuclear inquiry in a blunt submission that there was no case for developing conversion or enrichment facilities.
A separate new submission to the inquiry has confirmed the Government is considering with industry a significant shift in Australia’s energy policy, with options ranging from nuclear power to a carbon tax. ..
BHP’s position contrasts with the consistently upbeat assessment of Australia’s prospects of building a uranium manufacturing industry made by senior Government players, including Mr Howard, Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane. ..
But Mr Howard’s nuclear inquiry has so far failed to find a major mining company interested in expanding into manufacturing. ..
(4 Oct 2006)
