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Bad guys and bombs: The nuclear risks of small modular reactors

05/11/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Illustration by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Nov. 3, 2023

Nuclear proliferation experts are warning that 50 years of policy designed to limit the spread of nuclear weapons is unravelling as governments invest in certain small modular reactors that could be misused to build bombs.

The concerns are aimed at Moltex, a Saint John, N.B., nuclear startup building small modular reactors (SMRs) that will be powered with spent fuel from CANDU reactors. To make the fuel, Moltex plans to separate plutonium from uranium in CANDU waste and use the extracted plutonium to power new SMRs.

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Missing Paris Goal Could Cost CANADA $5.5 Trillion

04/11/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Mark Carney speaks at the Fall 2023 Net-Zero Leadership Summit in Ottawa on Oct. 31, 2023. Photo via Carney/X(Twitter)

Nov. 2, 2023

It’s estimated that the Canadian economy could take a $5.5-trillion hit by the end of the century due to climate change, according to a white paper from Independent Sen. Rosa Galvez’s office published this week as sustainable finance experts and policymakers descended on Ottawa for a high-level conference Wednesday.

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Banks Fund $1.8 Trillion in Carbon Bombs 2016-2022

04/11/23
Author: 
Olivia Rosane
Link: 
Common Dreams
Protesters picket outside a Chase Bank branch in November 2019. (Photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Oct. 31,2023

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400,000 Quebec Workers on Verge of General Strike?

04/11/23
Author: 
Felix Fuchs
Link: 
Jacobin
A demonstration of Quebec’s Common Front in October 1988. (Flickr / André Querry)

 

Website Editor: See -  Quebec unions representing 400,000 public sector workers set to strike Nov. 6 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/common-front-quebec-union-strike-1.7007518

Oct. 11, 2023

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Is White Hydrogen a Magic Climate Solution

04/11/23
Author: 
Louise Boyle Senior Climate Correspondent
Link: 
Independent
White House Announces $7 Billion Push to Replace Fossil Fuels With Hydrogen

Nov. 2, 2023

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The ‘flickering’ of Earth systems is warning us: act now, or see our already degraded paradise lost

04/11/23
Author: 
George Monbiot
Link: 
The Guardian
‘Rishi Sunak now seems to have discovered his purpose: trashing the planet on behalf of corporate power.’ Photograph: Peter Nicholls/AP

Oct. 31, 2023

When Rishi Sunak granted 27 new North Sea licences this week, he wasn’t thinking about the survival of the living world

Can you see it yet? The Earth systems horizon – the point at which our planetary systems tip into a new equilibrium, hostile to most lifeforms? I think we can. The sudden acceleration of environmental crises we have seen this year, coupled with the strategic uselessness of powerful governments, rushes us towards the point of no return.

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Bidenomics and the Left

30/10/23
Author: 
 Sam Gindin
Link: 
The Bullet
Bidenomics

October 29, 2023  • 

“There’s something happening here
But what it is ain’t exactly clear.”

– “For What It’s Worth,” Buffalo Springfield.

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Ford Caves

29/10/23
Author: 
Jane Slaughter
Link: 
Portside
Workers at Ford’s Michigan Assembly have been on strike since September 15. Ford strikers will return to work while they consider a tentative agreement announced on Wednesday. ,Jim West, jimwestphoto.com.

Oct. 28, 2023

UAW President Shawn Fain announced a deal with Ford. The contract gains are substantial.

Since 1979, union auto workers have endured round after round of concessions. That era is over. On Wednesday, the 41st day of the union’s Stand Up Strike against the Big 3, Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain announced a deal with Ford. The contract gains are substantial.

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Labour - Unions
Social
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An Urgent Call from Palestinian Trade Unions: End all Complicity, Stop Arming Israel

29/10/23
Author: 
Progressive International
Link: 
The Bullet
Gaza flattened

Oct. 17, 2023

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What do our cabinet ministers think about LNG?

26/10/23
Author: 
BC Climate Emergency Campaign
Link: 
BC Climate Emergency Campaign
Where do BC cabinet ministers stand on the defining climate question of our time?

Go to the link here to find the answers: https://bcclimateemergency.ca/fracking-and-lng

And if you think anyone is listed in the wrong category, or if you have intel on a minister listed in the "unknown" category, please reach out the BC Climate Emergency Campaign Coordinator at www.bcclimateemergency.ca

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British Columbia
Climate Change
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Indigenous Peoples
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