How Do You Stay Informed About the Market?

[Kathy]

No fault lines needed for this type of nuclear disaster... the simple fact is the plants "lost cooling capability". This can happen at ANY nuclear reactor facility. The spent fuel pools are just as bad as the reactors (they need constant cooling also).

At Fort Calhoun, Nebraska and Cooper as well, the Missouri river has flooded the power stations causing big concerns. While Fort Calhoun's reactor may have been shut down for refueling, that does not mean that a significant problem couldn't occur if they lost cooling abilities. Also, they have spent fuel on site that must be cooled, and even once it is moved to dry storage, it must have air circulated around the casks for over 10 years... nice.

Fukushima TEPCO nuclear disaster was a simple failure of the cooling system... caused by, Yes, an unusually massive/high tsunami but this doesn't mean that a loss of power to the cooling system couldn't just happen from other mishaps. Chernobyl was a "drill" to test the system... and it went haywire.

My point is that even if a coal fired plant blew up sky high.... the consequences to the environment would be a pin prick compared to the long lived radioactive contamination that now pollutes the entire northern hemisphere of this planet. The Japanese reactors are still leaking radiation into the air and sea....

The nuclear industry and the media conspired after the March 11 disaster to cover-up and manage the media/news getting to the public.... months later some of the truth is out. My friend Leuren Moret was proven to be right from the get go... as as early as 4 hours after the loss of cooling the reactors were initiating melt-downs (3 separate reactors)....The nuclear industry is full of liars that would sell their first born and their mothers for their job and company... sick souls!

The total incompetence of the authorities immediately after the tsunami at Fukushima's reactors is an on-going saga. Our own guestapo (CFIA) are no better.... They should have to eat the spoils of this disaster... then maybe we'd see some testing being done....NOT!

[littledoggie]

An interesting program on OASIS HD tv if you get it. Called "The Wolves of Chernobyl" (or something similar) 25 years now since the Chernobyl disaster and there has been an incredible transformation back to a natural state. No humans live "in the zone", but the wildlife is thriving.

[littledoggie]

I should add that although the animals are radio-active, they don't appear to be deformed (they checked newborns in dens and nests of smaller rodents and birds) The fish from the river were enormous - they claim that was because no one was fishing them, aside from bear and eagles and the like. The fish were radio-active, but the things eating them didn't appear to be affected. I don't know what it all means, but I found it quite fascinating.

[ASRG]

Accidents happen in any industry,however This "industry" has the potential to destroy the whole world!
The coverup in Japan is a scandal, but typical of many governments when it comes to dirty technology? How can the nuclear industry hope to ever sell their deadly product if people know the truth?
In Alberta our energy minister Ron Liepert, likes to downplay the Japan wreck as something that could never happen here and stresses nuclear power could still be on in Alberta! One thing about Ron Liepert...he's never met a corporation he didn't like! If there is money to be made, he's all for it and to hell with the people!

[ASRG]

Kathy you forgot Bill 24, the Carbon Capture bill, which is the most blatant property grab of the whole bunch?
Bills 19, 50, 36 are all similar in that they "might" take away your property......Bill 24 "DID" take your property...without compensation and without due process of law!
Did you know that no longer can you deny a company the right to put an injection well on your land? Or that you can deny a seismic company the right to cross your land for the purpose of finding suitable locations for C02 storage?
Prior to Bill 24 you did not have to allow injection. Bill 24 was a pretty slimy deal.....first the government "clarified" the ownership of the pore space by calling it a mineral and then they "vested" the pore space mineral to themselves......therefore not having to expropriate the "mineral"....and actually paying compensation and opening themselves to a court challenge?
This bill sets a precedent for the eventual "vesting" of all freehold mineral rights!
Now, with the passage of Bill 24, the government has the right to access their "mineral"(pore space) and you have no right to say what happens beneath your land?
By the way "pore space' is defined as any space occupied by a liquid, gas, or solid object that is removed. This could include the roots from plants! Legally speaking, the government just stold your land!
......of course they like to stress....they would never do that.....but that isn't what the law says? Keith Wilson will tell you Bill 24 is the greatest grab of all.....it just hasn't got the attention it needs yet because no one can believe the government could be that evil!

[per]

Cochrane and Strathmore tomorrow. 1pm at the Ranche House and 7pm at the Civic Center.

[Kathy]

Didn't forget it (24) the dot dot dot is for all the other crap passed by this pathetic government... puppets for the large corporations and our neighboring government.

When a former Greek resident was asked what he thought about the goings on in Greece (the banker bailout scam).. he stated that he "..didn't care I live in Canada now."

How stupid. Our economies are so interlinked now, that all of us are paying for bailing out these corrupt bankers and governments.... People who come from other countries make up a large portion of our population, and as long as they think things are still better here than where they came from.... well, they won't rock the boat.

One thing I am seriously concerned about, is the use of "delegated authorities" with "the powers of the Minister (except to make regulation)"... but no liability as they are NOT considered "agents of the Crown" - yet they will be doing all the dirty work against the people of this province. When economies are bad... (USA is bankrupt)... people will do any job to make a dime.

[Kathy]

There is a very serious threat that nuclear power is planned for Alberta. SCN Lavalin aka Alta Link...aka Bruce Power... just bought Atomic Energy Canadas "commercial division" for the sale of nuclear power plants et al. They want to pollute Alberta because it is an Oasis, with lots of fresh clean water, food and other resources. Nuclear power is about two things... making money at the expense of the environment and people... and depopulating the world.

Interesting things happening in Chernobyl area, and other areas with radiation contamination... while there "appears" to be a wide swath of animals populating the contaminated areas... in fact, there is fertility problems... the "colorful" birds are disappearing and the genetic effects might take a few generations to really start to show up in the visible wildlife... Chernobyl was only 25 years ago... time will tell... an there isn't one dang thing that we can do to remedy the situation (once the radioactive cat is out of the bag, there is no putting it back).

Watch "Chernobyl Heart" (you tube) if you want to see some of the "effects" of their nuclear holocaust.

[littledoggie]

I have no doubt about the dangers of nuclear power. I too am very concerned. This program on OASIS had a different slant - propaganda? perhaps. Hope? - I don't know.

[Kathy]

littledoggie I'm glad to hear you are also concerned about nuclear power, to many people only hear the industries' and governments' propaganda.

You may want to watch this you tube video which shows how the nuclear industry and government (UK in this case) colluded to keep information from the public (re: fukushima) and to down-play all the problems in Japan:

"Governments/Corporations Cover ups Confirmed : Los Alamos, Fort Calhoun, Fukushima 7/3/2011"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al5KYyw5jYg

apprx. 6 minutes long.