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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

Nuclear: Dirty, Dangerous and Expensive by Kevin Kamps

Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear explodes the myths now being promulgated by those promoting nuclear power. He tells of the insoluble problems of nuclear waste, how nuclear power plants routinely emit radioactive poisons, how catastrophic accidents can happen, how nuclear power plants are pre-deployed weapons of mass destruction for terrorists, and the enormously high costs of nuclear power. He exposes that nuclear power does not contribute to global warming.

EarthSayers Karl Grossman; Kevin Kamps

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

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