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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

GasLand by Josh Fox

Trailer for GASLAND - (2010) Directed by Josh Fox. Winner of Special Jury Prize - Best US Documentary Feature - Sundance 2010. Screening at Cannes 2010. This addresses hydraulic fracturing a.k.a. fracking, a highly contentious, high risk energy alternative.

A criticism of Gasland is a video by the folks at ANGA - American Natural Gas Alliance - who argue that Gasland is "flawed."

You are going to have to form your own opinion after listening to a wide range of voices of sustainability, but especially the citizens who are experience fracking first hand in their fields and communities.

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

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