EU citizen? You can add your name to a couple of letters about nuclear power which may affect your future.

So... I'm really bad at getting round to writing letters... that's why, when someone else has done it for me, even better than me...I'm happy...especially when I can put my name to it, too.

There are two such letter out there at the moment, both about the fact that a whole lot of us don't want nuclear power and a whole lot of us don't want to subsidise it... and probably even more don't want their energy bills to go up in the future, especially when other people's are going down.

The first is an open letter from Energy Fair to E.U. Commissioner Almunia:

“No valid justification for subsidising nuclear power”, which you can endorse. The instructions are with their letter and they will make sure that your endorsement reaches the commissioner, with copies to Günther Oettinger, Commissioner for Energy, Connie Hedegaard, Commissioner for Climate Action, and President José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission.

The link to the letter is http://www.energyfair.org.uk/home/open-letter

The letter is also in The Ecologist, http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2160503/nuclear_subsidies_open_letter_to_commissioner_almunia.html

The other E protest is a new one from Global 2000. (Their previous successful petition against nuclear power being included in the EU subsidies for renewable energy was called “My Voice Against Nuclear Power”.)

This new E protest is “Not a single cent for nuclear power!” and is against any new state aid for nuclear power.   Using the Global 2000 form you can send the EU Commissioner for Competition Almunia an email.

This is the link   http://www.my-voice.eu/

Why?

These are six relevant articles!

http://cleantechnica.com/2013/10/30/hinkley-c-nuclear-power-plant-get-twice-rate-solar-pv-uk-government/?utm_source=Cleantechnica+News&utm_campaign=07cc6df6e8-RSS_

http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/news/comment/hinkley-a-huge-contribution-towards-yesterdays-energy-thinking/ 

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/oct/21/nuclear-power-energy-edf-deal

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/damian-carrington-blog/2013/sep/04/fukushima-farce-nuclear-industry-flaw

http://www.energymatters.com.au/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=208

http://cus.net/news/news4.html

CENSORED NEWS: International Uranium Film Festival coming to Navajo Nation

CENSORED NEWS: International Uranium Film Festival coming to Navajo Nation

What happens when a film is about your life?

On November 27th  the travelling Uranium film festival arrives in the USA.  The main festival takes place each year in Rio de Janeiro, when films from all over the world are entered for the festival. It's the only one of its kind, showing films about nuclear power, uranium mining, nuclear weapons and the health effects of radioactivity. You can find out a lot more from their amazing website.
The first films will be shown in Albuquerque NM, followed by screenings in Santa Fe and Window Rock.  Next year films will be shown in Washington D.C. and in New York City in February.
One of the films is 'The River That Harms'.  Just fourteen weeks after the accident at Three Mile Island, which a great many people have heard about, there was another nuclear tragedy, which I for one, did not find out out about for many years.
When I read that ninety million gallons of liquid nuclear waste and eleven hundred tons of solid mill wastes burst through a broken dam wall at the Church Rock Uranium Mill Facility, contaminating the Puerco River,  and I had never heard about it, I was bemused.
Many of the people affected were from the Navajo Nation. It was the river they lived by. It was the land that their animals grazed and the water that they drank, and the pools that their children played in....
Now we have films about children who don't play outside in Japan and children whose lives were affected by a poisoned river in the USA. But did their parents ever think it would happen to them, or that a film would be made about them? If the films weren't made, would you know about them?
The uranium that powered the plants in Fukushima, apparently, came from mines in Australia, but I also read of protests and long protest marches by Aboriginal people along with international protesters against the mining of uranium  http://indymedia.org.au/2013/05/10/wgar-news-walkatjurra-walkabout-stepping-out-against-uranium-mining-wanfa-anawa
 Our children, your children, have the right to be in happy films in a bright future.  It's up to us to see that this happens.