8/12/20: Beyond Nuclear on Radio Sputnik's "Loud & Clear"

News, #energy, #environment, #nuclear, #regulation, #safety

Wednesday’s regular segment, Beyond Nuclear, is about nuclear issues, including weapons, energy, waste, and the future of nuclear technology in the United States. Kevin Kamps, the Radioactive Waste Watchdog at the organization Beyond Nuclear, and Sputnik news analyst and producer Nicole Roussell, join the show.

Listen to the audio recording, here.

Fort Worth doesn't need dangerous nuclear waste rolling through on Tarrant rail lines

Op-ed in the Star-Telegram, written by Peggy Hendon and Linda Hanratty.

Peggy Hendon is president of the League of Women Voters of Tarrant County. Linda Hanratty is the group’s environmental chairwoman.

Beyond Nuclear comments to the New Mexico Environment Department, opposed to the expanded Forever WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant)

See Beyond Nuclear's public comments, posted at our Repositories website section.

See the backgrounder, "WIPP History: The Forever WIPP Expansion & the New Shaft Permit Modification," dated July 20, 2020, posted at the CCNS (Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety) website.

The WIPP site is only 16 miles from the proposed Holtec/ELEA highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF). And just 40 miles from there, is the Waste Control Specialists national "low" level radioactive waste dump, and propsed CISF, in Andrews County, west Texas, immediately upon the New Mexico border at Eunice. This attempt to turn the majority minority State of New Mexico, and the majority Hispanic and Native American southeast of NM, into a national radioactive waste sacrifice zone, is an outrageous environmental injustice. Learn more about the CISFs at our Centralized Storage website section.

ComEd customers file racketeering lawsuit

ComEd customers in Illinois have filed a class action lawsuit to demand at least $150 million compensation

Commonwealth Edison customers have filed a civil racketeering class action lawsuit (RICO) against Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, (pictured in 2013) Commonwealth Edison Company, ComEd’s parent Exelon Corporation, and others, including former executives of ComEd. The Plaintiffs seek in excess of $150 million from the Defendants, an amount they were forced to wrongfully pay to ComEd for delivery of electricity. 

The suit also seeks to exclude Madigan from any legislative activities involving electricity matters affecting Commonwealth Edison and Exelon, and for Madigan to be prevented from continuing to Chair the Democratic Party of Illinois and “running it as a corrupt organization”. ComEd has already admitted it paid bribes to associates of Madigan in return for favorable legislation. Read more.

Energy Companies Have Spent Billions on Projects That Go Nowhere

Ohio’s high-profile bailout of nuclear plants is just one of several questionable schemes between lawmakers and energy companies.

As reported by Akela Lacy at The Intercept.