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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

My Water's On Fire Tonight

"My Water's On Fire Tonight" is a product of Studio 20 NYU in collaboration with ProPublica.org (http://bit.ly/5tJN). The song is based on ProPublica's investigation on hydraulic fractured gas drilling (read the full investigation here.

Music by David Holmes and Andrew Bean
Vocals and Lyrics by David Holmes and Niel Bekker
Animation by Adam Sakellarides and Lisa Rucker

EarthSayers David Holmes; Lisa Rucker; Adam Sakellarides

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

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