Beyond Nuclear appeals to federal courts in opposition to Fermi 3 proposed new reactor

Artist's rendition of Fermi 3 (depicted in blue), to be built right on top of the exact spot where Fermi 1 suffered a partial meltdown on Oct. 5, 1966.Terry Lodge, a Toledo-based attorney who serves as legal counsel for an environmental coalition including Beyond Nuclear, on Oct. 28th filed a legal appeal against Detroit Edison's proposed new Fermi 3 atomic reactor targeted at the Great Lakes shore in southeast MI (see photo, left). The coalition has resisted Fermi 3 since 2008. The appeal focuses on quality assurance violations (Arnie Gundersen of Fairewinds Associates, Inc. serves as the coalition's expert witness), as well as Nuclear Regulatory Commission violations of the National Environmental Policy Act, by excluding the proposed new transmission line corridor from its Environmental Impact Statement. Re: the latter, this is the first ever legal challenge against a highly controversial 2007 NRC regulatory rollback involving the Orwellian change in the definition of a single word -- construction -- in the agency's regulations. More

Take action! Keep Japan's nukes out of India!

PETITION DEADLINE: November 6, 2016

 

Japan intends to to export nuclear technology to India, a country that has not signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and possesses nuclear weapons. Signing the Indo-Japan Nuclear Cooperation Agreement this month will  increase the military tensions in South Asia. It also highlights the Japan government's callous disregard of victims of Japan's ongoing nuclear power catastrophe, Fukushima, since Japan insists on spreading nuclear  technology to other countries, while continuing to deny their own victims compensation.   

 

In India, citizens who are concerned about the dangers of nuclear power have mounted large-scale protests, which have been met with brutal repression. Compensation for land acquisition, safety measures in case of accidents and evacuation plans are woefully inadequate.

 

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Standing Rock Water Protectors need your help -- Call President Obama!

Food & Water Watch has issued the following action alert: The situation in Standing Rock, North Dakota is escalating. In the last week, militarized police from five states used pepper spray, tasers, rubber bullets and sound grenades to break up peaceful Native American water protectors and their allies standing in the path of the Dakota Access Pipeline. I'm hearing horror stories from people on the front lines that make me sick - the violence is unacceptable.

We can't allow a private oil and gas corporation to build a dirty pipeline through sacred indigenous lands, put key waterways at risk and keep us addicted to climate-changing fossil fuels. We must all stand against the injustices against Native peoples and their allies.

Call 877-559-7809 to tell President Obama to protect Native communities and stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.

[Also see Beyond Nuclear's Human Rights website section for additional news updates and action alerts re: the Dakota Access Pipeline resistance at the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe reservation.]

FOCUS: Dakota Pipeline and Geprag's Park Vermont Protests Unify

Channel 17 (CCTV, TownMeeting Television, Burlington, Vermont) host Margaret Harrington gets together with Kevin Kamps of Beyond Nuclear, Jane Palmer of Rising Tide, Vermont and Dr. Rachel Smolker of Protect Geprag's Park to talk about the unification of the Dakota Oil Access Pipeline Protest with the Fracked Gas Pipeline Protest in Addison County, Vermont. The activists emphasize the main similarity which is that corporate interests take precedence over the needs and wishes of the people and the environment. Elected officials and those running for office are noncommittal. President Obama states he will wait to see how the Dakota Pipeline plays out while 140 Native American protesters are arrested and caged by law enforcement officers from seven states. Meanwhile the Bundy Clan who took over federal land by armed violence have been acquitted by a federal jury.

Watch the 29-minute epidsode of CCTV-Channel 17's "FOCUS" here.