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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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Energy: The Next 10 Years Really Matter by Alexander Van de Putte

Alexander Van de Putte, Senior Director and Operating Officer at PFC Energy International and a member of PFC Energy's Executive Committee discusses how givens and wildcards can affect our future global energy needs. He discusses how Givens, which are defined as: low uncertainty with high impact events, such as climate change, demographics and hydrocarbon supply will impact our ability to produce energy. Wildcards are defined as events which are low probability, huge impact, and must be seen to be logical and explainable. The two Wildcards he proposes are the BRINKS (Brazil, Russia, Iraq, Nigeria and Kazakhstan) and nuclear energy.

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

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