The Nuclear Energy & Weapons Connection - Failure to Disarm - Chizu Hamada - Hiroshima & Fukushima eon3 2026-09-18 | The Nuclear Energy & Weapons Connection - Failure to Disarm - Chizu Hamada - Hiroshima & Fukushima
GOT DEMOCRACY?: Confronting America’s Electoral Crisis eon3 2022-11-05 | Leading researchers, journalists and activists from around the country present massive evidence of the unacknowledged electoral crisis in the United States... and what we can do about it. 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 RileyEON-the Ecological Options NetworkProducer: Mary Beth BranganDirector: James Heddle
From Ad Man to Anti-Ad Man - Advertising As Activism eon3 2022-02-13 | A Legendary Ad Man and A Legendary Litigator in ConversationAuthor 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.
Golden Gate Health Freedom Rally - Speaker Highlights eon3 2021-12-07 | The Health Freedom Rally held at San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge Plaza on November 11, 2021 - sponsored by the Children's Health Defense California Chapter - brought together informed and passionate speakers from across the political, ethnic and racial spectrum united in their opposition to Covid lockdown and injection mandates. Crowd estimates ran between 300 and as high as 3 thousand at the peak. (We didn't get video of the peak crowd.) Authorities' efforts to block attendance resulted in a late afternoon traffic jam snarling the region, one fender bender, and a few minor injuries, which some initial news reports attempted unsuccessfully to blame on the peaceful non-violent protesters. The EON Team was there. This is our video report.
Golden Gate Health Freedom Rally - Pt. 1 - Alix Mayer eon3 2021-11-20 | This is the first of a series of forthcoming video posts in our coverage of the Nov. 11, 2021 Golden Gate Health Freedom Rally.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
Donna Gilmore Briefs the NRC eon3 2021-03-11 | Nuclear Waste Storage and TransportIn 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 ActivitiesThe 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 InstituteRoger 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 StaffFor more information:SanOnofreSafety.orgExcerpted by EON as a public service.
Credible Risks at San Onofre - Charles Langley eon3 2021-03-10 | "No Credible Risks" - Oh, Really?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.orgFacingFuture.TV
The Legacy of Noel Marquez - A Video Tribute - Updated eon3 2021-03-10 | The Legacy of Noel Marquez - A Video TributeNoel 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
Alice McNally - Coalition for Nuclear Safety eon3 2020-07-24 | Public comments by Alice McNally of the Coalition for Nuclear Safety in the July 16, 2020 California Coastal Commission meeting on radioactive waste storage at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant.Excerpted as a public service by EON - the Ecological Options Network - EON3.org
Michael Aguirre - Aguirre & Severson eon3 2020-07-24 | Comments by Michael Aguirre of Aguirre & Severson LLP in the July 16, 2020 California Coastal Commission meeting on radioactive waste storage at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant.Excerpted as a public service by EON - the Ecological Options Network - EON3.org
SanOnofreSafety.org eon3 2020-07-24 | Public Comments by San Onofre Safety founder Donna Gilmore in the July 16, 2020 California Coastal Commission meeting on radioactive waste storage at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant. Excerpted as a public service by EON, the Ecological Options Network – EON3.org
SanClementeGreen.org eon3 2020-07-24 | Public Comments by San Clemente Green co-founder Gary Headrick, U.S. Representative Mike Levin (D-CA), Adm. Len Hering in the July 16, 2020 California Coastal Commission meeting on radioactive waste storage at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant. Excerpted as a public service by EON, the Ecological Options Network – EON3.org
PublicWatchDogs.org eon3 2020-07-24 | Public Comments by Public Watchdogs spokespeople Charles Langley, Paul Blanch, Nina Babiarz in the July 16, 2020 California Coastal Commission meeting on radioactive waste storage at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant. Excerpted as a public service by EON, the Ecological Options Network – EON3.org
SanDiegoSierraClub.org eon3 2020-07-24 | Public Comments by San Diego Sierra Club spokesperson Cody Petterson in the July 16, 2020 California Coastal Commission meeting on radioactive waste storage at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant. Excerpted as a public service by EON, the Ecological Options Network – EON3.org
Coalition for Nuclear Safety eon3 2020-07-24 | Public Comments by Coalition for Nuclear Safety spokespeople Dave Rice, Bart Zigler, Cathy Iwane in the July 16, 2020 California Coastal Commission meeting on radioactive waste storage at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant. Excerpted as a public service by EON, the Ecological Options Network – EON3.org
Surfrider Foundation – Surfrider.org eon3 2020-07-24 | Public Comments by Surfrider Foundation spokeswomen Rose Acheson. Katie Day, Mandy Sackett in the July 16, 2020 California Coastal Commission meeting on radioactive waste storage at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant.Excerpted as a public service by EON, the Ecological Options Network – EON3.org
Commissioner Wilson Questions CCC Staff & SCE eon3 2020-07-24 | Commissioner Mike Wilson questions Commission staff members Alison Dettmer and John Webber and Edison spokesperson Tom Palmisano in the July 16, 2020 California Coastal Commission meeting on radioactive waste storage at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant.Excerpted as a public service by EON, the Ecological Options Network – EON3.org
Commissioner Comments and Final Vote eon3 2020-07-24 | Commissioners Dayna Bochco, Roberto Uranga, Sara Amenzader and Chair Stephen Padilla comment and vote in the July 16, 2020 California Coastal Commission meeting on radioactive waste storage at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear plant. Excerpted as a public service by EON, the Ecological Options Network – EON3.org
Pt. 1 Practicing Active Hope - Papermaster & Macy eon3 2020-02-28 | Conference organizer Cynthia Papermaster and Author-Teacher Joanna Macy apply the concept of Active Hope to bringing about the early shutdown of Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. 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.orgCodePINK.orgLocalCleanEnergy.org/UtilityJustice Solartopia.org
Pt. 2 - Nuclear Waste at Diablo - Linda Seeley eon3 2020-02-28 | Mothers for Peace Spokesperson Linda Seeley describes the serious safety issues surrounding long-term storage of tons of radioactive waste at PG&E's Diablo Canyon reactor site after it is shut down. 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.orgCodePINK.orgLocalCleanEnergy.org/UtilityJustice Solartopia.org
Pt 3 - Shut Diablo Canyon Now! - Wasserman & Geesman eon3 2020-02-28 | Author-Activist Harvey Wasserman and Attorney John Geesman make the case for Governor Newsom to use his authority to shut down Pacific Gas & Electric's aged, embrittled Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant immediately, and not allow it to operate for its scheduled five more years. 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.orgCodePINK.orgLocalCleanEnergy.org/UtilityJustice Solartopia.org
Pt 4 - Nuclear PG&E vs. Clean Energy CCAs - Jessica Tovar eon3 2020-02-28 | Jessica Tovar of the Utility Justice Campaign tells how bankrupt PG&E is trying to sell Community Choice Clean Energy agencies nuclear power. 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.orgCodePINK.orgLocalCleanEnergy.org/UtilityJustice Solartopia.org
March & Non-Violent Action eon3 2019-12-17 | Protesters march to the Livermore Lab gate commemorate the victims of US atomic bombs and risk arrest in opposition to the Labs nuclear weapons program
Call to Action - Phyllis Olin and Jackie Cabasso eon3 2019-12-17 | Phyllis Olin and Jackie Cabasso, respectively Board Member and Executive Director of the Western States Legal Foundation – WSLF.org – give the call for non-violent action.
Roxanne eon3 2019-12-17 | Roxanne speaks on divestment from nuclear weapons and war. She is a retired Judge who has worked and lived in Indian Country and seen firsthand the impacts of sacrifice zones created by the development of nuclear weapons. Roxanne first came into contact with nuclear issues in the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, which moved her to pursue graduate studies in renewable energy alternatives to the pollution, destruction and terror that nuclear weapons inflict. Roxanne currently organizes with CODEPINK's Divest From the War Machine campaign.
Rev. Nobuaki Hanaoka eon3 2019-12-17 | Nobuaki Hanaoka, the special guest speaker, was an infant when the bomb fell on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. His mother and sister died from illnesses linked to radiation poisoning and his brother died at age 39 from premature aging associated with fallout from the bomb. Rev. Hanaoka is a retired minister in the United Methodist Church, who came to the U.S. following seminary training in Japan. He has settled in the Bay Area where he speaks, writes and teaches on topics of peace and human rights. Rev. Hanaoka will present the “Hibakusha Appeal” and solicit signatures from participants.
Marylia Kelley eon3 2019-12-17 | Marylia Kelley addresses Livermore Lab’s role in promoting a new, destabilizing global arms race. She is Executive Director at the Livermore-based Tri-Valley CAREs and brings 36 years of research, writing and facilitating public participation in decisions regarding the Lab and the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. Kelley has testified before the House Armed Services Committee of the U.S. Congress, the California Legislature and the National Academy of Sciences, among other deliberative bodies. She has lived in Livermore since 1976. Kelley was inducted into the Alameda County Women’s Hall of Fame in 2002.
Rafael Jesús González eon3 2019-12-17 | Rafael Jesús González offers poetry and insight into the movement for nuclear disarmament. He is the City of Berkeley’s first Poet Laureate and an organizer of the 1983 International Day of Nuclear Disarmament. González has taught at the Univ. of Oregon, Western State College of Colorado, Central Washington State Univ., Univ. of Texas, and Laney College in Oakland, where he founded the Department of Mexican and Latin-American Studies. His poetry and academic articles appear in reviews and anthologies in the U. S., Mexico, and abroad. In 2013 he received the César E. Chávez Lifetime Award. The City of Berkeley honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
Dr. Sharat G. Lin eon3 2019-12-17 | Dr. Sharat G. Lin speaks on current nuclear flashpoints. He is a research fellow and past President of the San José Peace and Justice Center. Lin writes and lectures on global political economy, labor migration, social movements, and public health. Last August he delivered an apology from the American people to the Japanese people for the U.S. atomic bombings at mass rallies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. A medical radiation scientist by training, Lin has connections to the nuclear energy programs in Iran and India, providing him with inside knowledge of the decision-making behind those programs. His insights on the nuclear calculations of Iran and North Korea are reinforced by personal visits to these countries, and provide a vision for denuclearization.
CEP Clip 9 Panel Responses eon3 2019-12-10 | The November 21, 2019 Community Engagement Panel Meeting was posted to the SONGS CEP video archive within days after the meeting.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
CEP Clip 8 Public comments eon3 2019-12-10 | The November 21, 2019 Community Engagement Panel Meeting was posted to the SONGS CEP video archive within days after the meeting.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
CEP Clip 7 - Bret Leslie, U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board eon3 2019-12-10 | he November 21, 2019 Community Engagement Panel Meeting was posted to the SONGS CEP video archive within days after the meeting.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
CEP Clip 6-B - - Spent Fuel Removal - North Wind Team eon3 2019-12-10 | The November 21, 2019 Community Engagement Panel Meeting was posted to the SONGS CEP video archive within days after the meeting.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
CEP Clip 6 A - Spent Fuel Removal - Tom Issacs eon3 2019-12-10 | The November 21, 2019 Community Engagement Panel Meeting was posted to the SONGS CEP video archive within days after the meeting.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
CEP Clip 5 - - Radiological Safety - Bob Corbett eon3 2019-12-10 | The November 21, 2019 Community Engagement Panel Meeting was posted to the SONGS CEP video archive within days after the meeting.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
CEP Clip 4 - Decomtamination & Dismantlement Thomas Dieter eon3 2019-12-10 | The November 21, 2019 Community Engagement Panel Meeting was posted to the SONGS CEP video archive within days after the meeting.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
CEP Clip 3 - - Enviornmental Stewardship - Ron Pontes eon3 2019-12-10 | The November 21, 2019 Community Engagement Panel Meeting was posted to the SONGS CEP video archive within days after the meeting.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
CEP Clip 2 - - Fuel Transfer - Lou Bosch eon3 2019-12-10 | The November 21, 2019 Community Engagement Panel Meeting was posted to the SONGS CEP video archive within days after the meeting.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
CEP Clip 1 Open eon3 2019-12-10 | The November 21, 2019 Community Engagement Panel Meeting was posted to the SONGS CEP video archive within days after the meeting.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
PUBLIC POWER - From Energy Crisis to Solar Democracy eon3 2019-12-07 | This is a reprise of an EON documentary from 2001 - still relevant after all these years. 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
HELP AMERICA VOTE...ON PAPER - a citizen call for election integrity eon3 2019-12-07 | An empowering, fast-moving 18-minute briefing on the dangers to democracy posed by privately owned electronic voting machines, what patriotic citizens, activists and officials of all parties are doing about it - and how you can help. 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 NetworkDirector: James HeddleProducer: Mary Beth BranganNarrator, Associate Producer: Megan Matson
Tina Cordova - Nuclear Impacts on Native Peoples in New Mexico eon3 2019-11-19 | Navajo/Dine' activist, Tina Cortova - co-founder of New Mexico community group Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) - TrinityDownWinders.com - tells of how her people have been tragically impacted by the Atomic Age. From the 1945 Trinity Test of the first atomic bomb to today's push to dump the waste from the country's shutting down nuclear energy reactors on New Mexico, indigenous, minority and low-income communities have been on the front lines of opposition to racist, nuclear colonialism.An excerpt from the Environmental Justice Panel - Albuquerque, N.M. Nov. 8, 2019For more info:Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC)TrinityDownWinders.comNuclear New MexicoNuclearNewMexico.com
Daniel Ellsberg on the New Nuclear Arms Race eon3 2019-11-18 | Daniel Ellsberg - the keynote speaker at Aug. 6, 2019 Hiroshima Day Livermore Lab rally and protest. He is perhaps best known as the whistleblower who released “The Pentagon Papers” to hasten an end to the war in Vietnam. He was an analyst at RAND Corp. and a consultant to the Defense Dept., specializing in problems of command and control of nuclear weapons, war plans and crisis decision-making. In 2017 Ellsberg released his critically acclaimed memoirs, “America’s Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner.”
Is Edison Out of Compliance with its License Requirements? eon3 2019-08-12 | SoCal Edison is out of compliance with its San Onofre nuclear fuel waste storage licenses. Doug Bauder, San Onofre Chief Nuclear Officer, admitted in this video that Southern California Edison cannot unload thin-wall nuclear fuel waste canisters back into the spent fuel pools. He said it's been done with a bolted lid thick-wall cask, but does not believe it's ever been done with a thin-wall welded canister. Bauder said it's unproven technology and there is "no pathway for success" to unload spent nuclear fuel canister back into the pool. [There are over 3000 spent nuclear fuel canisters and casks loaded around the country as of April 2019. Most of these are thin-wall welded canisters]. 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 saidCrystal 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.orgyoutube.com/watch?v=FuUuulQa0Rg&feature=youtu.be
Doug Bauder speaks on handling of damaged casks Gilmore qs Morris EON eon3 2019-08-12 | Excerpts from the June 2019 San Onofre Citizen Engagement Panel meeting. For more information: SanOnofreSafety.org
Doug Bauder Chief Nuclear Officer SCE Company Vice President, Decommissio eon3 2019-08-12 | Excerpts from the June 2019 San Onofre Citizen Engagement Panel meeting. For more information: SanOnofreSafety.org
Radiation Rebellion eon3 2019-08-08 | California citizens tell why they have joined the "5G Crisis National Day of Action" on Sat. July 27, 2019.Note: This video is also posted at youtube.com/watch?v=suOsBmWydFU where it has so far had 292 views.
Pt 3 of 3 - Holtec/NRC call on canister scratches 4-10-2019 eon3 2019-04-19 | Public comments as Holtec presents its case to the NRC and the public that scratching of canisters during loading at San Onofre is not a safety issue.Recorded as a public service.
Pt 2 of 3 - Holtec/NRC call on canister scratches 4-10-2019 eon3 2019-04-19 | NRC questions and comments as Holtec presents its case to the NRC and the public that scratching of canisters during loading at San Onofre is not a safety issue.Recorded as a public service.
Pt 1 of 3 - Holtec/NRC call on canister scratches 4-10-2019 eon3 2019-04-19 | Holtec presents its case to the NRC and the public that scratching of canisters during loading at San Onofre is not a safety issue.Recorded as a public service.
