CANE - Coalition Against Nuclear Energy South Africa

Earthlife Africa Cape Town
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Email: coordinator@earthlife-ct.org.za
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7 February 2008

Press Release: Small independent film upsets the powerful nuclear industry

The South African nuclear industry has lodged a complaint with the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) over the screening on M-Net’s Carte Blanche of a documentary about the country’s nuclear industry.

Earthlife Africa is extremely concerned that this is an attempt by the powerful nuclear lobby to silence any dissenting voices.

A hearing date has been set for February 20 at the BCC’s offices in Johannesburg. The hearing is open to the public.

Entitled Uranium Road…

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Submission to the Department of Minerals and Energy
on the draft for public comment of the document
Nuclear Energy Policy and Strategy for the Republic of South Africa
from
NECTEC
Nuclear Energy Costs the Earth Campaign,
Earthlife Africa, Johannesburg

0. Participation of civil society is minimal and problematic.

We welcome the opportunity to make submissions to the policy process. However, in our view that the policy process is misplaced, having had no input from civil society in its very formulation. Gone are the days in our democracy when different sectors of society were drawn into the policy making process. Now…

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The Editor
Cape Times

Dear Sir

Solly Moeng from DonValley Brand, Marketing and Communications, discusses the role of PR in the Nuclear Energy debate in today’s Cape Times (10 October 2007). He throws out millions and millions of questions, like some over-excited Uranium-235 nucleus.

In the interests of public mental health, I submit a quote from one of his more revealing web-spinning tales:

“As the country prepares to boost its electricity supply … key players - all mainly foreign nuclear giants - are quietly flexing their communications muscles to educate the public and, if need be, help deal with whatever…

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Dear Ed,

Andrew Kenny deserves a prize for the most contrived and specious piece of nuclear greenwashing (Cape Times 25/09/2007) yet published in the daily press. To say there has only been one nuclear accident “in which five or more people died”, and by implication that there was only one accident at Chernobyl, is to discount the hundreds of thousands of victims of the disaster.

In 2006 a Greenpeace report revealed that the full consequences of Chernobyl could top a quarter of a million cancer cases and nearly 100,000 fatal cancers. The report involved 52 respected scientists and challenged the…

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NUKES FOR AFRICA?

If nuclear power is okay for South Africa, what about Zimbabwe? Or how about Rwanda, or Sierra Leone? If we are concerned about South Africa’s ability to provide safe transport for nuclear fuel and waste, risks of sabotage and smuggling of nuclear materials - what about nations in Africa that have been torn by civil war? What about a neighbouring nation like Zimbabwe where inflation is now at 7000%? South Africans may not be aware that despite poverty and starvation, Zimbabwe is somehow still considering the hugely expensive option of nuclear power. How comfortable do South Africans…

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