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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

Japanese Director A. Funahashi talks about his film Nuclear Nation

Amy Goodman of Democracy now continues to look at the fallout from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant crisis in 2011 with a documentary about the former residents of Futaba, where the facility is located. "Nuclear Nation: The Fukushima Refugees Story" follows them in the first year after the disaster as they live communally in an abandoned school near Tokyo. Amy interviews director Atsushi Funahashi.

Watch the entire special broadcast from Japan here.

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

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