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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.

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Haynesville Movie Trailer: Largest Natural Gas Field in the U.S.

Haynesville takes place in the Louisiana backwoods and follows the momentous discovery of the largest natural gas field in the United States. As the Haynesville boom erupts, three lives are caught in the middle of the find: A single mom defends her communitys environmental protections, an African American preacher attempts to use the riches to build a school, and a self-described country boy finds himself conflicted as he weighs losing his land against becoming an overnight millionaire. From a broader perspective, Haynesville explores what a natural gas find of this scale could mean to the United States energy picture as environmentalists, academics and pundits hash out the concept of a clean energy future and discuss how the Haynesvilles reserves could provide an energy answer. To order video from Amazon, click on image.

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TED Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? Brand and Jacobson
Community Organizing at Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Conference
The Last Mountain
The Perils of Fracking by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
The Sinkhole That's Swallowing Louisiana by Ben Depp
Last U.S. Nuclear Test by Konstantin Kakaes
Tar Sands Resistance March
Trying to Create Clean Coal Technologies by Nicholas K. Akins of AEP
Ecuadorian Indigenous Peoples opposed to oil development
Portland, Oregon: Train Tankers and Tar Sands Oil
Nuclear Power Plants and Global Warming by Helen Caldicott
Making A Documentary About Haynesville by Gregory Kallenberg
Contamination of Ecuador's Rainforest: The Chevron Tapes
Want the truth about Australia's coal industry?
What is the Fracking Process by Chesapeak Energy
Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Costs Up Another $4.5B by Tom Carpenter
Last of Energy Resources are in the Territories of Indigenous Peoples by Erick Gonzalez
Japanese Director A. Funahashi talks about his film Nuclear Nation
Deep Drilling Fracking, Deep Pockets by Common Cause
Why is Coal So Angry?
Transporting Coal through the Pacific NorthWest
How The Exxon Valdez Disaster Still Affects Victims Today
My Water's On Fire Tonight
Energy: The Next 10 Years Really Matter by Alexander Van de Putte
Natural Gas Wells in Pennsylvania: an infographic
Nuclear: Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive by Kevin Kamps
Hindsight and Foresight: 20 Years After the Exxon Valdez Spill
Fukushima's Ongoing Impact by Helen Caldicott
Chinese CoExist with Coal
Kumi Naidoo Scales Cairn's Arctic Oil Rig
The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons (trailer)
From Atomic Bombings to Fukushima, Japan Still Pursues a Nuclear Future
A Danger on the Rails from the The New York Times
Promised Land (movie trailer) with Matt Damon
GasLand by Josh Fox
300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds
The History of Fracking by Russell Gold
Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, by Professor Burleson
Global Warming and Nuclear Energy by Amory Lovins
Frac Biocides DeepLife by Sandra Steingraber
Ending Nuclear Weapons by Alice Slater (2019)
No Fracking in Colorado by Misha Luzov

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