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CA Lands Commission looks at Diablo
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A shocking and empowering video documentary report based on presentations at the First National Teach-In on electoral reform in Oakland, California.
Includes:
Ohio attorney Bob Fritakis
Investigative journalists Lynn Landes and Wayne Madsen
Statistician Allyson Washburn
Researchers Emily Levy & Dr. Jonathan Simon
Activists, Megan Matson, Butch Wing, Medea Benjamin, Sharon Cornu & Walter Riley
EON-the Ecological Options Network
Producer: Mary Beth Brangan
Director: James Heddle
Author and International Forum on Globalization co-founder Jerry Mander talks about his evolution from ad man to activist with ads he wrote that changed the world in this just released interview with celebrated Washington attorney, the late James Turner, recorded in 2019.
A fascinating oral history with graphics, this is a delightful sharing of stories of exuberant activism between two exceptionally accomplished elders of our times.
Both men authored books selling in the millions, both have made social and political contributions that changed the course of history. Both are planetary treasures.
Jerry Mander is the founder of the country’s first nonprofit ad agency in 1971, Public Media Center, which ran advertising and publicity campaigns for Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, and various indigenous and antiwar groups. These campaigns included the celebrated Sierra Club campaigns (with David Brower) that kept dams out of the Grand Canyon, established a Redwood National Park, and stopped production of the Supersonic Transport (SST).
Legendary litigator, Jim Turner was an original (Ralph) Nader’s Raider, who went on to found organizations and legal precedents that among many others, protected public access to organic food, acupuncture, homeopathy, redress against vaccine injury or death, alternatives to mercury in teeth and most recently, protection against harmful radiofrequency radiation beamed from satellites in low earth orbit.
He passed away January 25, 2022.
We’re honored and grateful that Jim and his life and law partner Betsy Lehrfeld have been founding board members of our non-profit organization, EON, the Ecological Options Network.
Please stay tuned.
Alix Mayer, President of Children's Health Defense, California Chapter, speaks at the November 11, 2021 Health Freedom Rally at the Golden Gate Bridge Plaza. Produced as a public service by EON - The Ecological Options Network EON3.org eon3.org
In an indication of the effectiveness of her years of work, Donna Gilmore was invited to give a 10-minute presentation at a February virtual meeting February 11, 2021 together with industry executives and NRC officials.
Meeting Topic: Discussion of NRC's Regulatory Framework for Dry Cask Storage and Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and Related Research Activities
The agenda included:
Wayne Norton, President and CEO, Yankee Atomic Electric Company
Randy Stark, Director of the Fuels, High Level Waste and Chemistry, Electric Power Research Institute
Roger Maggi, Chief Commercial Officer, Orano TN Dr. Kris Singh, President and Chief Executive Officer, Holtec International Donna Gilmore, Founder, SanOnofreSafety.org Dr. David Victor, Chairman, San Onofre Community Engagement Panel NRC Staff
For more information:
SanOnofreSafety.org
Excerpted by EON as a public service.
A "Risk-Informed" - and risk averse - NRC gets informed about the very credible risks at Southern California Edison’s San Onofre nuclear waste dump-by-the-sea.
Public Watchdogs Executive Director Charles Langley's presentation to the NRC's Petition Review Board in a virtual meeting March 9, 2021.
Its an excerpt clip from a two hour webcast in which Langley and his colleagues Paul Blanch and Stuart Scott of FacingFuture.TV challenged the NRC and Holtec claim that radioactive waste canisters buried on the beach at San Onofre in an earthquake and tsunami zone 'pose no credible threat' to public and environmental safety.
These are the same 5/8 inch thin steel canisters being used by other Holtec customers at reactor sites around the country.
Excerpted by EON as a public service.
For more info:
PublicWatchdogs.org
FacingFuture.TV
Noel Marquez, 67, passed away Dec. 23, 2020. In the brief time we were honored to know him, we were touched, like all who worked with him, by his open heart and deep commitment to environmental justice, democratic rights and our responsibility to future generations.
He was a Good Ancestor in every sense of the words.
Noel Marquez won the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts for his many murals depicting the plight of the state’s indigenous people and his beloved land. Noel was also a dedicated and effective community organizer for nuclear safety and indigenous rights.
He identified himself as a community artist, small-time farmer and most importantly, the father of his beloved daughter Pai.
He is survived by his partner, respiratory therapist Madelene Aguinaldo, and their daughter, Paikea ‘Pai’ Marquez, 14.
As our video shows, Pai has already begun to follow in her father’s activist footsteps.
We offer this short video of two talks by Noel (and one of Pai’s) to honor his persistent effective advocacy, his pride as Pai’s father, and to show a glimpse of his community creativity and his inspiring and masterful mural art.
His opposition to proposed national high level nuclear waste sites in Lea and Eddy counties and Andrews, Texas lives on in these video clips.
The widespread movement he helped create continues its fight to preserve his precious land from the transgenerational threat of radioactive waste.
For more info:
No Nuclear Waste Aqui
nonuclearwasteacqui.org
Beyond Nuclear’s tribute: Noel Marquez, Presente! http://www.beyondnuclear.org/centralized-storage/2020/12/29/noel-marquez-presente.html
Nuclear Issues Study Group Facebook.com/NuclearIssuesStudyGroup
Roswell Daily Record tribute:
rdrnews.com/2021/01/09/friends-pay-tribute-to-local-artist-environmentalist
Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
nuclearactive.org
New Mexican Legislature: nmlegis.gov/handouts/RHMC%20110317%20Item%204%20Alliance%20for%20Environmental%20Strategies.pdf
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They spoke on Feb. 15, 2020 as part of "Shut Diablo Canyon 2020," the latest installment of the Active Hope series organized by Code Pink's Cynthia Papermaster at the Historic Unitarian Universalist Hall in Berkeley, CA.
Other speakers on the program included author Harvey Wasserman, Attorney John Geesman, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace spokesperson, Linda Seeley, and Jessica Tovar of the Utility Justice Campaign.
The event was presented by the BFUU Social Justice Committee, CodePINK, Extinction Rebellion and Barkers Agitating for Reactor Closures.
For more information:
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility - A4NR.org
MothersforPeace.org
CodePINK.org
LocalCleanEnergy.org/UtilityJustice
Solartopia.org
Choices made at Diablo could set the standard for nuclear waste management across the country as more of the US fleet of aged reactors are shutdown in coming years.
Seeley spoke on Feb. 15, 2020 as part of "Shut Diablo Canyon 2020," the latest installment of the Active Hope series organized by Code Pink's Cynthia Papermaster at the Historic Unitarian Universalist Hall in Berkeley, CA.
Other speakers on the program included Conference organizer Cynthia Papermaster and Author-Teacher Joanna Macy author Harvey Wasserman, Attorney John Geesman, and Jessica Tovar of the Utility Justice Campaign.
The event was presented by the BFUU Social Justice Committee, CodePINK, Extinction Rebellion and Barkers Agitating for Reactor Closures.
For more information:
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility - A4NR.org
MothersforPeace.org
CodePINK.org
LocalCleanEnergy.org/UtilityJustice
Solartopia.org
They point out that PG&E - which is now in bankruptcy court as a result of being responsible for devastating California fires, and was found guilty of criminal negligence in causing the lethal San Bruno gas explosion - is the only convicted felon being allowed to operate a dangerous nuclear plant, which is running at a billion dollar per year loss that the company is attempting to pass on to ratepayers.
They spoke on Feb. 15, 2020 as part of "Shut Diablo Canyon 2020," the latest installment of the Active Hope series organized by Code Pink's Cynthia Papermaster at the Historic Unitarian Universalist Hall in Berkeley, CA.
Other speakers on the program included Conference organizer Cynthia Papermaster, author of Active Hope & teacher Joanna Macy , San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace spokesperson, Linda Seeley, and Jessica Tovar of the Utility Justice Campaign.
The event was presented by the BFUU Social Justice Committee, CodePink, Extinction Rebellion and Barkers Agitating for Reactor Closures.
For more information:
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility - A4NR.org
MothersforPeace.org
CodePINK.org
LocalCleanEnergy.org/UtilityJustice
Solartopia.org
Tovar spoke on Feb. 15, 2020 as part of "Shut Diablo Canyon 2020," the latest installment of the Active Hope series organized by Code Pink's Cynthia Papermaster at the Historic Unitarian Universalist Hall in Berkeley, CA.
Other speakers on the program included Conference organizer Cynthia Papermaster, author-teacher Joanna Macy, author Harvey Wasserman, Attorney John Geesman, and San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace spokesperson, Linda Seeley.
The event was presented by the BFUU Social Justice Committee, CodePINK, Extinction Rebellion and Barkers Agitating for Reactor Closures.
For more information:
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility - A4NR.org
MothersforPeace.org
CodePINK.org
LocalCleanEnergy.org/UtilityJustice
Solartopia.org
EON downloaded it on the 25th.
Since then, the bulk of the meeting has been taken down and replaced by just three of the night’s official slide presentations.
Missing are other parts of the meeting and over an hour of public comments and the Panel’s responses.
Folks are wondering why.
So here – as a public service – are the missing pieces.
Please draw your own conclusions from the official record, once removed.
songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting-20191104
EON downloaded it on the 25th.
Since then, the bulk of the meeting has been taken down and replaced by just three of the night’s official slide presentations.
Missing are other parts of the meeting and over an hour of public comments and the Panel’s responses.
Folks are wondering why.
So here – as a public service – are the missing pieces.
Please draw your own conclusions from the official record, once removed.
songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting-20191104
EON downloaded it on the 25th.
Since then, the bulk of the meeting has been taken down and replaced by just three of the night’s official slide presentations.
Missing are other parts of the meeting and over an hour of public comments and the Panel’s responses.
Folks are wondering why.
So here – as a public service – are the missing pieces.
Please draw your own conclusions from the official record, once removed.
songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting-20191104
EON downloaded it on the 25th.
Since then, the bulk of the meeting has been taken down and replaced by just three of the night’s official slide presentations.
Missing are other parts of the meeting and over an hour of public comments and the Panel’s responses.
Folks are wondering why.
So here – as a public service – are the missing pieces.
Please draw your own conclusions from the official record, once removed.
songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting-20191104
EON downloaded it on the 25th.
Since then, the bulk of the meeting has been taken down and replaced by just three of the night’s official slide presentations.
Missing are other parts of the meeting and over an hour of public comments and the Panel’s responses.
Folks are wondering why.
So here – as a public service – are the missing pieces.
Please draw your own conclusions from the official record, once removed.
songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting-20191104
EON downloaded it on the 25th.
Since then, the bulk of the meeting has been taken down and replaced by just three of the night’s official slide presentations.
Missing are other parts of the meeting and over an hour of public comments and the Panel’s responses.
Folks are wondering why.
So here – as a public service – are the missing pieces.
Please draw your own conclusions from the official record, once removed.
songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting-20191104
EON downloaded it on the 25th.
Since then, the bulk of the meeting has been taken down and replaced by just three of the night’s official slide presentations.
Missing are other parts of the meeting and over an hour of public comments and the Panel’s responses.
Folks are wondering why.
So here – as a public service – are the missing pieces.
Please draw your own conclusions from the official record, once removed.
songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting-20191104
EON downloaded it on the 25th.
Since then, the bulk of the meeting has been taken down and replaced by just three of the night’s official slide presentations.
Missing are other parts of the meeting and over an hour of public comments and the Panel’s responses.
Folks are wondering why.
So here – as a public service – are the missing pieces.
Please draw your own conclusions from the official record, once removed.
songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting-20191104
EON downloaded it on the 25th.
Since then, the bulk of the meeting has been taken down and replaced by just three of the night’s official slide presentations.
Missing are other parts of the meeting and over an hour of public comments and the Panel’s responses.
Folks are wondering why.
So here – as a public service – are the missing pieces.
Please draw your own conclusions from the official record, once removed.
songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting-20191104
EON downloaded it on the 25th.
Since then, the bulk of the meeting has been taken down and replaced by just three of the night’s official slide presentations.
Missing are other parts of the meeting and over an hour of public comments and the Panel’s responses.
Folks are wondering why.
So here – as a public service – are the missing pieces.
Please draw your own conclusions from the official record, once removed.
songscommunity.com/community-engagement/meetings/community-engagement-panel-meeting-20191104
Who caused California's turn-of-the-century 'energy crisis?' Enron, PG&E, the state's Public Utilities Commission? Who defended the public interest with alternative visions? Some of the same actors and issues are at the center of California's current energy corruption scandals...and the resurgent drive for energy solutions. Come with us now to the days of yesteryear, where the seeds of the present and future were planted...
"Ain't no power like the Power of the People
'Cause the Power of the People don't stop!"
Teatro Capesino - 2001
Includes dramatic documentary footage and interviews with Dolores Huerta, election lawyers Lowell Finley and John Eichorst, and Congresswomen Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, Lynn Woolsey and Cynthia McKinney. Produced by EON - the Ecological Options Network in cooperation with FreePress.org and Mainstreet Moms - theMMOB.org.
EON-the Ecological Options Network
Director: James Heddle
Producer: Mary Beth Brangan
Narrator, Associate Producer: Megan Matson
An excerpt from the Environmental Justice Panel - Albuquerque, N.M. Nov. 8, 2019
For more info:
Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC)
TrinityDownWinders.com
Nuclear New Mexico
NuclearNewMexico.com
Scott Morris, NRC Region IV administrator, admits to Donna Gilmore, SanOnofreSafety.org, that it is a license requirement [Condition 8 of their Holtec license] to unload fuel back into the pool. Morris admitted this would make Edison out of compliance with their storage licenses. This video clip is from the June San Onofre Community Engagement Panel (CEP) meeting, The conversation between Scott Morris and Donna Gilmore, SanOnofreSafety.org, was recorded immediately after the meeting.
The Holtec dry storage system license requires that a canister that drops over 11" must be opened and inspected inside for damage. Holtec almost dropped a San Onofre canister 18 feet -- twice. In spite of all this, the NRC is allowing more Holtec canisters to be loaded with spent nuclear fuel.
Bauder stated that unloading canisters is not a requirement of San Onofre's NRC licenses. This is not true. The NRC gives exemptions to this safety requirement only after all fuel is in dry storage. This NRC license exemption leaves the fuel stranded with no method on-site to handle cracking or leaking canisters or retrieve the spent nuclear fuel. Bauder's suggested solution to use an overpack to store a cracked canister. He doesn't mention the NRC has no overpacks approved for this purpose. Thin-wall canisters require convection cooling. Storing a hot thin-wall canister in an overpack eliminates the required cooling system, causing the canister to overheat.
The only other option to handle spent nuclear fuel is in a "hot cell" facility. This is a dry fuel handling facility where fuel is handled remotely in a room filled with an inert gas. The only hot cell available in the US large enough for this purpose (Idaho National Lab Test Area North (TAN) hot cell facility was destroyed in 2007.
Bauder stated no decommissioning facility keeps their pools. Donna Gilmore said
Crystal River is keeping their pool. Bauder responded that Crystal River will be destroying their pool in decommissioning. However, Florida Public Utility records show Duke Energy is keeping the empty spent fuel pool so they can retrieve the fuel and repackage it as needed. The Nuclear Waste Policy Act requires monitored retrievable fuel storage. Thin-wall canisters do not meet that requirement. Therefore, the DOE cannot legally accept ownership of these uninspectable unmaintainable thin-wall canisters. Only thick-wall casks can meet the NWPA safety requirements for storage and transport.
More information at SanOnofreSafety.org
youtube.com/watch?v=FuUuulQa0Rg&feature=youtu.be
Note: This video is also posted at youtube.com/watch?v=suOsBmWydFU where it has so far had 292 views.
Recorded as a public service.
Recorded as a public service.
Recorded as a public service.