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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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The Sinkhole That's Swallowing Louisiana by Ben Depp

In an industrial strip of land in Louisiana known as Bayou Corne, a 25-acre sinkhole has formed. As earth sinks into the ground, toxic pollutants are being released into the air. Watch as trees disappear into a swamp and meet residents in the area, known as Cancer Alley, who say the place is no longer safe to live.Published on Jan 7, 2014

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

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