The News reader from Sicilian.Net

The Greenpeace weblog
The Greenpeace Blog

Greenpeace - Making Waves: Illegal logging shipment halted in Paradise
5 Sep 2008 at 5:33pm
Here's some "fly on the wall" footage from the recent action in Papua New Guinea
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Olkiluoto 3 and Flamanville in Private Eye
5 Sep 2008 at 12:31pm
The UK has a famous satire and investigative journalism magazine called Private Eye. In the current edition, it has the following to say about the construction of the EPR reactors at Olkiluoto in Finland and Flamanville in France:...
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Animated Areva
5 Sep 2008 at 12:25pm
Take a look at this rather amazing animated advertisement from everyone’s favourite nuclear incompetent, Areva: Beautiful, isn’t it? Everything’s so green. Nuclear power stations aren’t grey, foreboding monsters. Oh no, they’re cool science-fiction constructions that you can build in a...
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Nuclear energy news for September 5 2008
5 Sep 2008 at 12:22pm
Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: icLiverpool: French fuel prices 'subsidised by us' ‘A MERSEY MP yesterday accused a French-owned energy firm of stinging British families with sky-high prices rises - to keep bills down...
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Don’t rat on your nuclear friends
4 Sep 2008 at 4:02pm
Finland’s nuclear safety watchdog; STUK had to face a tough decision last week. Greenpeace had published evidence that basic construction standards had been violated in the welding of the reactor building of the European Pressurized Reactor prototype in Olkiluoto. STUK...
Greenpeace - Making Waves: Cutting down paradise
4 Sep 2008 at 3:35pm
--UPDATE -- Four of our activists have managed to stop a ship loading timber here and they are still on board over 24 hours later - harnessed to a crane! Read more.
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Nuclear energy news for September 4 2008
4 Sep 2008 at 2:20pm
WIBA: Florida Governor Doyle got money from nuclear power company, then softened his stance A new study has found executives of a Florida utility gave Gov. Jim Doyle almost $24,000 weeks before Doyle softened his stance against nuclear power. Florida...
Greenpeace - Making Waves: Fires raging in the Amazon
4 Sep 2008 at 9:56am
It's currently the dry season in the Amazon and, as the live webcast last week demonstrated, fires have been decimating large areas. The video crew weren't the only ones documenting the fires and last week we received images from another Greenpeace team who took to the air to photograph them and the devastated areas they leave behind. We've put together some of the most striking (not to say depressing) images into the slideshow below.
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Increasing Nuclear Waste; Increasing Pr...
3 Sep 2008 at 4:13pm
Dangerous accidents, poor economics, deadly waste, and hazards of proliferation – four issues that even the nuclear industry indicated as obstacles for a nuclear boom. Its strategy is now to claim all four have been technically solved, and only irrational...
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Nuclear energy news for September 3 2008
3 Sep 2008 at 12:01pm
Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: AFP: Russia will complete Iran nuclear plant ‘The Russian company building Iran's first nuclear power plant has renewed a commitment to complete the project, the official IRNA news agency...
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Dutch Nuclear Short-Sightedness
2 Sep 2008 at 11:25am
Maybe it’s just journalists in The Netherlands, but the repetitive headlines on nuclear energy in the Dutch media show either an absence of memory, or a well-orchestrated, repetitive push for nuclear energy. The latter would be quite sad, in view...
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Nuclear energy news for September 2 2008
2 Sep 2008 at 10:46am
Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: The Guardian: Energy: GDF Suez raises profits and possibility of British invasion GDF Suez, the new French energy group, yesterday posted a 20% leap in first-half earnings as it...
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: The Safest and Most Powerful?
1 Sep 2008 at 4:35pm
Since we have been following the Nuclear Industry PR spin closely we constantly have to read and listen to some laughable claims about nuclear energy and how they can get placed in newspapers. One of the funniest ones is European...
Greenpeace - Making Waves: 125 000 years is a long time
1 Sep 2008 at 11:50am
The Independent reports on the news that for the first time in human history the north pole can be circumnavigated. "New satellite images, taken only two days ago, show that melting ice last week opened up both the fabled North-west...
Nuclear Reaction - a Greenpeace blog: Nuclear energy news for September 1 2008
1 Sep 2008 at 10:13am
Some other stories from the nuclear industry you may have missed: GoUpstate.com: Nuclear power can't live up to proponents' hype ‘While nuclear industry lobbyists and their political backers are pushing for new nuclear power plants, is a nuclear resurgence really...

Newsfeed display by CaRP

Sicilian Networks
Gunnar W.A. Steinke - mobile phone: +39 388 604 2233
skype: sicilian05 . E-mail: gunnar@sicilian.net