Those now supporting George Bush’s plan for a renaissance of nuclear power aren't worried. Nuclear power’s safe they say, the US is falling behind other countries by not developing more of it. And besides, with gas prices hitting $4/ gallon and global temperatures rising, there’s no better way to slow down climate change. So which is it: Green solution or GREENWASHING? We’ll have a discussion with Leslie Lowe, the Director of Energy & Environment Programs for the Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility, Robert Lamb, Clinical Professor of Management at the Stern School at NYU and journalist Christian Parenti, contributing editor for The Nation magazine.
Then, ARIEL DORFMAN, novelist, playwright, and former cultural advisor to Chile's president Salvador Allende is the subject of a new film: Promise to the Dead: which will open the Human Rights Festival Friday in New York City. Dorfman's survived two tragic September 11ths and seen friends and family slaughtered in the US-backed coup of 1973. He has lots to say about torture, democracy, and the legacy of exile and somehow he still has hope, because, as he puts it, "What's the alternative?"
Also in today's program, a bio-diesel outfit in Slidell, LA that’s employing vets to clean up the gulf coast. And will the US Bureau of Indian Affairs be forced to pay out billions for a century of mismanagment – that’s the topic of Broken Promises - this week's documentary-in-progress (Got Docs?)
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New Band name: Nitty gritty dirt Flander
I love the large viewer, btw.
“radio frequencies from the camera interfered with the control panel on the boiler pump.”
That seems hardly possible. Got a better explination?
I like that.
The Clinton administration started this by telling the Indians why don’t you sue us? Bwahahaha! I wonder what remedy the courts will suggest for the Indians F the tax payers paying the oil companies did the cheating and we are quite sure paid the government to look the other way.
I’m thinking that the oil companies should do a stock split with the split going to American Indians.
Yes Nukes are a bad investment to many people at the Lake think otherwise how about some links to the study?
Old reactors are dangerous and we are not investigating them.
“Very few countries have Uranium” even less fuel grade’” What is Iran’s Uranium ?
Wallstreet does not want to build New Reactors so I’m thinking GE wants a government handout. A bigger handout.
Wind Power rules Yes
” Energy return on energy invested” ” mining impacts ” a Lefty who understands business!
Imagine how much money we could save if we stopped funding private nuclear reactors!
Ok if we really need Nuclear Reactors we need new one standard of plant run by one company under strict government rules.
However Denmark and Israel not France and Japan are the ones who are planning to go with electric cars even though they plan to buy the cars from French car maker Renault you would think that if France had the extra juice they would be going electric.
Denmark is getting its power from wind though and they have enough to charge their cars. I admit I am not sure about Israel’s power generation.
What kind of fat gives you the best Miles Per Gallon?
You heat the oil what if you use solar power for heating?
” Nothing like being the center of History” nothing like changing things sure sounds like us right now. ” How to read Donald Duck” sounds hilarious I knew the Mouse was a Nazi I didn’t know the Duck was a racist!
Laura I hope the others at the Lake follow up on these topics!
I wonder if America has lists?
Nixon and Kissenger are so going to hell!
Other Options what about Denmark and electric cars?
Especially in light of the great documentary on the Cobell case highlighted by GRITtv (tho I don’t think I’d use Tom Daschle as a friendly talking head for First Nation matters…another day) we should point out that like the Alberta oil sands production nuclear plants rely on uranium that comes from……First Nations land. And its not just the Navajo who bear the brunt of this mining.
Again, in the Dakotas people are still ill and experiencing high rates of cancer from uranium mining done in decades past and not cleaned up, if it even can be. PowerTech is fighting one determined group in South Dakota, Defenders of the Black Hills and its fierce Lakota advocate Charmaine White Face. If PowerTech gets its way - and so far the SD State Depts. in charge of protecting the environment have waved them on through the permitting process despite the scientific and passionate pleas against the mining - SW SD, near the very cosmic center of the Oglala, will again be plundered by deadly radioactive emissions from in situ uranium mining and in particular groundwater sources threatened. 40,000 acres in NW South Dakota, Harding County, have also been leased by yet another corporation seeking to mine uranium and will the State’s far-too-friendly permitting process may very well get the green light.
Alot of stuff for a small-populated state and a core group of activists to have to fight on their own.
Check out Defenders of the Black Hills. You’ll be glad you did.
Yes, Solar preheating of the oil dose reduce our electrical needs. In fact, provided we had the money to invest, we would power the entire plant using solar electric and backed up with a BIO DIESEL generator.
Bio Liberty, LLC is a green business run by veterans. Our current Bio Diesel plant is for demonstration of combining green technologies and to experiment with all sorts of alternative energy.