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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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Conditional Use? Fracking Frontline by Barbara Arrindell |
Barbara Arrindell is the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Damascus Citizens for Sustainability. Here in her testimony she challenges the ethics of the hearing and the objections to changing the zoning to conditional use, a redefiniation of gas drilling giving it a favored status. EarthSayer Barbara Arrindell |
TED Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy? Brand and Jacobson
No Fracking in Colorado by Misha Luzov
GasLand by Josh Fox
Energy: The Next 10 Years Really Matter by Alexander Van de Putte
Conditional Use? Fracking Frontline by Barbara Arrindell
Climate Change and Nuclear Energy by Anthony Giddens
Haynesville Movie Trailer: Largest Natural Gas Field in the U.S.
The Perils of Fracking by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, by Professor Burleson
Nuclear: Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive by Kevin Kamps
SAVE THE WORLD AWARDS 2009
The Last Mountain
Deep Drilling Fracking, Deep Pockets by Common Cause
Gas Drilling (2006) : Stories From the Front Line
My Water's On Fire Tonight
300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds
Making A Documentary About Haynesville by Gregory Kallenberg
Global Warming and Nuclear Energy by Amory Lovins
What is the Fracking Process by Chesapeak Energy
Natural Gas Wells in Pennsylvania: an infographic
Promised Land (movie trailer) with Matt Damon
Peak Oil and Resource Wars by Daniele Ganser
Community Organizing at Alliance for Nuclear Accountability Conference
Kumi Naidoo Scales Cairn's Arctic Oil Rig
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