Entries from September 2007
September 17th, 2007 · No Comments
THE NUCLEAR CREDIT CARD
Some people may remember the heady feeling of power when aquiring their first credit card. There is the shiny piece of plastic with the power to buy anything you want. It doesn’t look or feel like money so it doesn’t hit so hard when you hand it over. So people buy and buy and buy with the virtual money they don’t actually have.
The nuclear industry has been marketing its product along similar appealing lines. Nuclear energy just won’t run out according to its marketers - some ministers in South Africa have even called it “sustainable”.…
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Tags: Letters · Uranium · Nuclear Energy
September 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Hon Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela Foundation
Private Bag X70000
Houghton
2041
South Africa
Tel: 021 930 3622 Fax: 021 930 0995
Dear Sir,
RE: Nelson Mandela Foundation Anti-Nuke Legacy
The year 2013 will see the twentieth anniversary of the historic 1993 announcement of the dismantling of South Africa’s atomic weapons programme. As an anti-nuclear activist and world peacebuilder whose association with Earthlife Africa and other environmental groups has lasted nearly twenty years, I would like to urge you and your foundation to add your name to the International Campaign to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW).
South African uranium products, such as depleted uranium…
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Tags: Letters · Nuclear Waste · Uranium · Nuclear Energy
September 17th, 2007 · No Comments
Reasons Not to Glow
On not jumping out of the frying pan into the eternal fires
by Rebecca Solnit
Chances are good, gentle reader, that you are going to have to sit next to someone in the coming year who will assert that nuclear power is the solution to climate change. What will you tell them? There’s so much to say. You could be sitting next to someone who hasn’t really considered the evidence yet. Or you could be sitting next to scientist and Gaia theorist James Lovelock, a supporter of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy™, which quotes him saying, “We…
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Tags: Nuclear Waste · Uranium · Nuclear Energy
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
Top lawyer joins forces with greens
Sunday Tribune, September 09, 2007 Edition 2
Leon Marshall
The government and mining houses face a major challenge - with the strong likelihood of legal action - from a powerful new conservation alliance.
The coalition is about to be formed by an array of environmental bodies seriously concerned at the way precious parts of the natural environment are being destroyed.
Renowned human rights lawyer George Bizos has pledged his support in his capacity as a consultant to the Legal Resources Centre.
“We are very concerned about the environment and are willing and able to…
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Tags: Mining · DME - Minerals and Energy · Press Releases
September 13th, 2007 · No Comments
A powerful new conservation alliance is about to be formed by an array of environmental bodies that are concerned about the way precious parts of the natural environment are being destroyed, notes a report in The Sunday Independent.
Renowned human rights lawyer George Bizos has pledged his support in his capacity as a consultant to the Legal Resources Centre. The aims of the proposed alliance are to fight for the environmental integrity of the country and for sustainable development. At a recent meeting of environmental organisations from all over SA, accusations were made by several speakers of collusion between the…
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Tags: Press Releases
