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The earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan raised new concerns about the risk of another nuclear reactor disaster. The explosion of the FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR POWER PLANT gives our citizens cause to re-examine the risk assumed by the public. At this writing, the full extent of the damage to the plant, the community, and the environment is unknown - it will take years.

At the same time concerns over the high risks associated with extracting natural gas and as noted in a Financial Times article is "energy that comes from the same place as our drinking water. Extracting it had better be safe. The political fault lines over hydraulic fracturing (hence the term fracking) have been easy to predict for anyone paying attention to the controversies over climate change and genetically modified organisms. France’s national assembly voted to ban fracking while in the US its been full steam ahead in 32 states. These are high risk alternative energy sources.

Curated by mokiethecat

Contamination of Ecuador's Rainforest: The Chevron Tapes

Published on April 8, 2015

In 2011 Amazon Watch receiveda mysterious package from a Chevron whistleblower. Chevron which bought Texaco in 2001, has just been found guility of one of othe worst environmental disasters in Ecuador's Rainforest.

These are video tapes of Chevron consultants trying to find uncontaminated soil and water with not much success.

Ver en español aquí: https://youtu.be/8VKX2yD2slM

Why is Coal So Angry?
Trying to Create Clean Coal Technologies by Nicholas K. Akins of AEP
Tar Sands Resistance March
Want the truth about Australia's coal industry?
From Atomic Bombings to Fukushima, Japan Still Pursues a Nuclear Future
Natural Gas Wells in Pennsylvania: an infographic
Frac Biocides DeepLife by Sandra Steingraber
Haynesville Movie Trailer: Largest Natural Gas Field in the U.S.
Deep Drilling Fracking, Deep Pockets by Common Cause
Nuclear Power Plants and Global Warming by Helen Caldicott
300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds
Last of Energy Resources are in the Territories of Indigenous Peoples by Erick Gonzalez
The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons (trailer)
Japanese Director A. Funahashi talks about his film Nuclear Nation
Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, by Professor Burleson
GasLand by Josh Fox
TED Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? Brand and Jacobson
Transporting Coal through the Pacific NorthWest
Ending Nuclear Weapons by Alice Slater (2019)
What is the Fracking Process by Chesapeak Energy
Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples opposed to oil development
Fukushima's Ongoing Impact by Helen Caldicott
Last U.S. Nuclear Test by Konstantin Kakaes
The Sinkhole That's Swallowing Louisiana by Ben Depp
The History of Fracking by Russell Gold
Portland, Oregon: Train Tankers and Tar Sands Oil
Nuclear: Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive by Kevin Kamps
Chinese CoExist with Coal
Energy: The Next 10 Years Really Matter by Alexander Van de Putte
Making A Documentary About Haynesville by Gregory Kallenberg
Global Warming and Nuclear Energy by Amory Lovins
Community Organizing at Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Conference
Kumi Naidoo Scales Cairn's Arctic Oil Rig
How The Exxon Valdez Disaster Still Affects Victims Today
The Last Mountain
Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Costs Up Another $4.5B by Tom Carpenter
My Water's On Fire Tonight
A Danger on the Rails from the The New York Times
Promised Land (movie trailer) with Matt Damon
Hindsight and Foresight: 20 Years After the Exxon Valdez Spill

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