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Down the Yellowcake Road
From Exploration to fuel production, this documentary relates the contamination, water consumption, waste generation, costs to the American taxpayer through government subsidies, health impacts,and the CO2 emissions that are caused by the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle. Each phase has its own devastating impact on the environment and the surrounding population, from socio-economic [...]
Rio Tinto’s legacy in Bougainville
Two short video productions provide background and update
For background to this story, see http://londonminingnetwork.org/?s=Bougainville.
See recent video at Panguna Mine, Bougainville, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg6q7AGhmo8; some background to this video is provided by Radio New Zealand International interview with Damian Baker of angleorg, the viedo’s production group, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHqutF-6oNo.
Carbon Trading: how it works and why it fails
Report from Carbon Trade Watch
Carbon trading lies at the centre of global climate policy and is projected to become one of the world’s largest commodities markets, yet it has a disastrous track record since its adoption as part of the Kyoto Protocol. Carbon Trading: how it works and why it fails outlines the limitations of [...]
Reflections on the Copenhagen climate talks
Copenhagen Accord: A Bad Deal Waiting to Happen
Center for Environmental Concerns-Philippines, Inc. (CEC), Kalikasan-PNE Statement, 20 December 2009
The climate negotiation in the Fifteenth Conference of Parties (COP 15) in Copenhagen has come to a sour end. The world’s high expectation for a meaningful and binding agreement is doused with icy cold water by a non-binding [...]
Peru: Violence Targets Anti-Mining Activists
On Wednesday 2nd of December a new violent confrontation between local residents and police occurred in the town of Cajas Canchaque, district of Carmen de la Frontera, in the province of Huancabamba, northern Peru. During the confrontation two residents died by police fire: Cástulo Correa Huayama, 39 years old, and Vicente Romero Ramírez, 52 years [...]
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