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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

Why is Coal So Angry?

Coal has good reason to be so angry, desperate, and increasingly belligerent: He's the nation's oldest and dirtiest energy source, and now he's becoming obsolete as cleaner alternatives come online. More info at Beyond Coal. Published on Oct 23, 2013

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

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