July Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
Küre Mountains National Park (L) is on its way to becoming part of a protected European park network, while demonstrators in Ankara (R) were arrested for protesting nuclear power. Photos via Turkish Adventures (L) and Today’s Zaman (R).
With summer in full swing in Turkey, the season’s regular environmental woes have again come to the fore. Helicopters dropping water have become a common sigh…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Colbert Grills Stewart Brand on Nukes, Oil
photo via comedy central
This week, Stephen Colbert brought on Stewart Brand, who has been an environmental leader almost since the first Earth Day but who has softened some of his positions. Brand created the Whole Earth Catalog, published between 1968 and 1972, which showed its readers how to live a more sustainable lifestyle and championed the Do-It-Yourself mind set. Now Brand has changed some of …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Does Russia & US Arms Reduction Treaty Lower Chance of Nuclear Winter?
Image via Liquid Daddy
Even if there are caveats abound, Obama and Medvedev’s signing of a nuclear arms reduction treaty is a very big deal. The biggest caveat is probably that the actual reductions in arms from each nation’s nuclear arsenal aren’t exactly huge–but nonetheless, it’s very significant progress. After all, the chances of a nuclear winter occurring are higher now tha…Read the full story on TreeHugger
DEC Rules that Indian Point cooling technologies will not meet New York’s water quality standards
photo: SMI direct
Obama last week expanded controversial sources of energy such as drilling along the coastlines, but the nuclear power plant near Westchester, NY may be in its final years of operation. On Friday, New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation denied Entergy, the owners of Indian Point nuclear power plant, a water quality certificate. The denial of the water permit follows on the heels of New York’s utility regulator rejecting Entergy’s …Read the full story on TreeHugger
Zombie Power: Abandoned Nuclear Projects Rise From Their 1970’s Graves
Zombie attack survival kit. Image credit:iPower
Dave Levitan writing for SolveClimate has published an excellent survey of what the future may hold for the ‘More than 60 proposed US nuclear projects, scrapped in the 1970s and early 1980s.’ Some are nothing more than unapproved plans on paper (there was no CAD back then – so hand drawn), others are in various states of completion and “mothballed,” some were started up b…Read the full story on TreeHugger
No More Nucs – ‘Say Hello To My Rewewable Friends’
An image of a windmill is made into a crop formation by Greenpeace and Iowa Farmers Union. Image credit:All American Patriots, by B.G. Johnson
Last year I laid out a case that we have nothing to fear from ‘Clean Coal’ a.k.a “CCS” because as a matter of process economics these are going nowhere fast. No matter how much taxpayer money they throw down the coal hole, financial risks are too high to get big lenders behind full scale development. See <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/carbon-captur…Read the full story on TreeHugger
February Eco-Tidbits from Turkey
The Aegean town of Akyaka (left) wants to become an eco-friendly “slow city” while the Munzur Valley (right) in eastern Turkey is threatened by plans to build a dam in the area. Photos via Friends of Akyaka (L) and Arser (R) via Wikimedia Commons.
On the global Environmental Performance Index recently released by the U.S. universities Columbia and Yale, Turkey</a…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Friends of the Earth Launches Spooky Anti-Nuclear Ad Campaign
Prominent environmental organization Friends of the Earth has already made clear its opposition to the Obama Administration’s support for the nuclear industry, which it is calling a <a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/loan-guarantees-a-nuclear-bailout.ph…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Vermont Shutters Only Nuclear Plant Due to Radioactive Waste Leakage
Photo via NRC
Just a week ago, Obama announced that the first nuclear reactor to be built in the US in over 30 years was receiving an $8 billion loan guarantee. Today, Vermont has voted to shut down its only nuclear plant because of revelations that it was leaking radioactive tritium into the ground, and that the plant’s operators lied to regulators about its safety. …Read the full story on TreeHugger
There’s a New Drive for Nuclear Power, But It’s Still a Financial Dead End
photo: morisius cosmonaut via flickr.
DC has been just showering love on nuclear power these days, and there’s been some on TreeHugger as well, but as recent articles over at Mother Jones and on <a href="http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/05/the-loan-arranger-obama-triples-budget-for-nuke-loan-guarantee-program-but-hasnt-seen-a-single-promising-application-in-two-years/?…Read the full story on TreeHugger
