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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

Transporting Coal through the Pacific NorthWest

Energy producers, transporters and brokers of coal, specifically, Ambre Energy and Arch Coal Inc. have put Southwest Washington and the Pacific Northwest in the spotlight with proposals to transform ports into key shipping hubs in a worldwide realignment of valuable oil and coal resources. Under 14 different plans and operations, Washington and Oregon ports would essentially serve as a vast transfer station for the coal and oil being extracted from America's heartland, where raw materials are sent to domestic and overseas markets, primarily in Asia, demanding fuel and electricity for growth. This is a trailer for the documentary, Momenta which explores the impact of these plans and the citizen groups opposed to such plans.

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

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