In support of the dying nuclear power industry, the New York Times Editorial Board has penned an inadvertent epitaph. Continue reading
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Solartopia! Winning the green energy revolution
High above the Bowling Green town dump, a green energy revolution is being won. Continue reading
Obama’s nuke-powered drone strike on America’s energy future
So the “all the above” energy strategy now deems we dump another $6.5 billion in bogus loan guarantees down the atomic drain. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced finalization of hotly contested taxpayer handouts for the two Vogtle reactors being built in Georgia. Another $1.8 billion waits to be pulled out of your pocket and poured down the radioactive sinkhole. Continue reading
Israel’s high-pressure Leviathan gas 4 miles down and too costly to develop
Israel is having problems trying to profit from the Mediterranean gas field that it has been trying to steal from some of its neighbors. Drilling has been stopped since May 3, 2012, (SEE: Leviathan Oil Well Drilling Postponed) by Noble Energy’s “Homer Ferrington” rig, which had been working in the Leviathan gas field. Drilling stopped because of the unexpected high gas pressures encountered at the greatest depths. Continue reading
Canadian natives resist: ‘What the frack?’
Last week’s anti-fracking protest has put Canada’s First Nations at the forefront of Canada’s political life, injecting spirit back into our moribund political scene. Canadians watching the evening news were shocked by scenes of burning police cars, and riot squad of 100 police wielding tear gas and tasers on horseback. Continue reading
Jumping aboard fracking’s fossil fuel carousel
Two Pennsylvania legislators who have taken money from—and enthusiastically supported—the natural gas industry have teamed up to now praise coal. Continue reading
Standing in the sunshine, the answer is blowin’ in the wind
Tokelau, an independent territory of New Zealand, is a small three-island archipelago of about 1,400 residents about 300 miles north of American Samoa in the South Pacific. In October 2012, the Polynesian nation turned off the last of its diesel generators and became the first country to use solar power as its only energy source. Continue reading
Shut it all down: Report Calls for nationwide ban on fracking
Hydraulic fracturing gas drilling turning America's water into cancer-causing, radioactive waste
The explosion of hydraulic fracturing in the last several years, according to a new report, is creating a previously ‘unimaginable’ situation in which hundreds of billions of gallons of the nation’s fresh water supply are being annually transformed into unusable—sometimes radioactive—cancer-causing wastewater. Continue reading
Fukushima continues to spew its darkness
Radiation leaks, steam releases, disease and death continue to spew from Fukushima and a disaster which is far from over. Its most profound threat to the global ecology—a spent fuel fire—is still very much with us. Continue reading
Fracking America’s food supply
Fracking—the process the oil and gas industry uses to extract fossil fuel as much as two miles below the ground—may directly impact the nation’s water supply, reduce water-based recreational and sports activity, and lead to an increase in the cost of food. Continue reading
San Onofre is dead and so is nuclear power
From his California beach house at San Clemente, Richard Nixon once watched three reactors rise at nearby San Onofre. As of June 7, 2013, all three are permanently shut. Continue reading
Think fracking is bad? Wait Until You hear about the gas industry’s ‘acid jobs’
It is a scandal how little the public knows about the 'rock melting' extraction process
Think fracking is bad? You should know about ‘acid jobs,’ environmental groups are warning. Continue reading
San Onofre at the no nukes brink: It’s time to take action & WIN!!!
In January, it seemed the restart of San Onofre Unit 2 would be a corporate cakewalk. Continue reading
San Onofre at the no nukes brink
With its massive money and clout, Southern California Edison was ready to ram through a license e●ception for a reactor whose botched $770 million steam generator fix had kept it shut for a year. Continue reading
Los Angeles to San Onofre: ‘Not so fast!’
A unanimous Los Angeles City Council has demanded the Nuclear Regulatory Commission conduct extended investigations before any restart at the San Onofre atomic power plant. Continue reading
San Onofre to Boxer, Markey & the public: ‘Drop dead’
The bitter battle over two stricken southern California reactors has taken a shocking seismic hit. Continue reading
The tower that toppled a terrible technology
There it stood, 500 feet of insult and injury. And then it crashed to the ground. Continue reading
Keystone XL Pipeline reeks of Koch
For the public, the entire Keystone XL (KXL) streamliner is washing down easier with a confidential Big Gulp of Koch. Continue reading
Keystone XL: DilBit through the heartland
Massive exploitation of Alberta Tar Sands (MEATS) . . . is it the biggest environmental crime in history? A new benchmark for sacrifice of public health to corporate profit? Continue reading
Showdown at San Onofre
Two stricken California reactors may soon redefine a global movement aimed at eradicating nuclear power. Continue reading
Nuke power’s collapse gets ever more dangerous
In the wake of this fall’s election, the disintegration of America’s decrepit atomic reactor fleet is fast approaching critical mass. Unless our No Nukes movement can get the worst of them shut soon, Barack Obama may be very lucky to get through his second term without a major reactor disaster. Continue reading
The rust-bucket reactors start to fall
The US fleet of 104 deteriorating atomic reactors is starting to fall. The much-hyped “nuclear renaissance” is now definitively headed in reverse. Continue reading
Japan’s long atomic sayonara
As demonstrators from the Coalition Against Nukes prepare to descend on Washington, DC, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the world’s third-largest economy has taken a landmark step toward Solartopia. Continue reading
Murdoch’s Journal pushes tragic Fukushima flim-flam
With every atomic reactor disaster comes the inevitable whitewash. Continue reading
The devil STILL has us death dancing at Fukushima
Our lives still hang by a Devil’s thread at Fukushima. Continue reading
Fukushima’s melted reactors 500 days on
SAN FRANCISCO—Dr. Paolo Scampa, PhD, a well-known physicist in the European Union, has prepared a radioactive inventory of Fukushima Daiichi’s destroyed nuclear power plants 500 days after the meltdown of three disemboweled, mangled reactors Continue reading
Mother Energy and hemp: Part Two
US prohibition of hemp farming is a national catastrophe. Addiction to fossil energy is a global, ecological catastrophe. Continue reading
Mother Energy and hemp: Part One
An all-pervasive energy is fundamental to the Cosmos. Not “empty,” vacuum space itself is an ocean of energy, the essence of nature. Continue reading
Why should nuke guarantees cost less than home or student loans?
The Department of Energy wants to give the Southern Company a nuclear power loan guarantee at better interest rates than you can get on a student loan. And unlike a home mortgage, there may be no down payment. Continue reading
Cuomo would allow fracking in struggling areas of southwestern New York
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s misguided administration is offering a plan to permit the deadly drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking” in portions of several struggling New York counties along the Pennsylvania border, providing these communities express “support for the technology.” That support for technology generally comes from the generous buy-offs by natural gas companies for the land of near-bankrupt farmers or townships. It’s misery’s profit. Continue reading
‘Putting people over profits’: The fight against fracking
Posted on July 15, 2013 by Walter Brasch
Pennsylvanians want to put a moratorium on fracking. Continue reading →