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Everything you wanted to know about nukes but were afraid to ask
Anti-Nuke Fact Sheets Galore Nukes and Climate Change Radioactive Waste Radiation Alternatives And much more! See http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/fctsht.htm.
BankTrack calls on banks to stop funding nuclear power
BankTrack, in cooperation with a number of working partners, today (26 May 2010) launches http://www.nuclearbanks.org, a new website mapping the involvement of 45 leading commercial banks in funding nuclear power projects and companies active in the nuclear sector. These banks include British-based Barclays, HSBC and RBS. BankTrack considers nuclear energy a grave danger for people [...]
Introduction to Anglo American plc
This website contains links to a large number of articles about Anglo American plc, which can be viewed at http://londonminingnetwork.org/tag/anglo-american/. The related Mines and Communities website (http://www.minesandcommunities.org/) contains a much larger number of articles on the company, which can be found at http://www.minesandcommunities.org/list.php?r=44. London Mining Network’s Introduction to Anglo American gives a brief background to [...]
Briefing on the health and environmental hazards of uranium mining
This technical briefing by Inge Lindemann summarises the impacts of uranium mining on human health and the environment and makes a compelling case for leaving uranium in the ground. To download the twelve page Word briefing, click on the link below: Health and Environmental Hazards of Uranium April 2010 A longer version of this paper [...]
Clean Coal? It’s an illusion!
“Carbon capture and storage” (CCS) is one of the prime “end of pipe” solutions being peddled around the world, supposedly to cope with the egregious impacts of burning coal. However “clean” may be a consignment of coal before entering a power plant, refinery or smelter (by treating it beforehand to remove its dirty contents of [...]
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