BP dispersants

'causing sickness'

Denise Rednour of Long Beach, Mississippi, has been sick with chemical poisoning since July [Erika Blumenfeld]

Investigation by Al Jazeera online correspondent finds toxic illnesses linked to BP oil dispersants along Gulf coast.

Dahr Jamail Last Modified: 29 Oct 2010 16:01 GMT Al Jazeera

Two-year-old Gavin Tillman of Pass Christian, Mississippi, has been diagnosed with severe upper respiratory, sinus, and viral infections. His temperature has reached more than 39 degrees since September 15, yet his sicknesses continue to worsen. Read more

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U.S. Nuclear Industry Will Remain Ward of the State, as in France, Report Warns

Thu, Sep 16 2010 Reuters
Government subsidies of nuclear power plans could hitch U.S taxpayers to a technology that suffers out-of-control costs while pushing aside renewable energy development, according to a study released last week by the Vermont Law School's Institute for Energy and the Environment.
The study looks at the nuclear energy industry in France, where an aggressive nuclear program has resulted in three-quarters of the country’s power coming from nuclear sources. But it says that what has been hailed as a “nuclear miracle” in the European nation should serve as a cautionary tale of over-dependence on nuclear power.
"This analysis shows the greatest danger is not that the U.S. will import French technology, but that it will replicate the French model of nuclear socialism," said Mark Cooper, the report’s author and a senior research fellow for economic analysis at the Vermont Law School Institute. "Nuclear power will remain a ward of the state, as has been true throughout its history in France." Read More

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Suit seeks to stop work on CMRR at Los Alamos

The Los Alamos Study Group announced today that it had a filed a suit in Federal Court in Albuquerque, N.M., seeking to halt further design and other activities on a plutonium processing facility known as the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) project at Los Alamos National Lab. Read More

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Citizens call on nuclear agency to abide by environmental laws, analyze impacts of proposed warhead factory and alternatives

Santa Fe -- A New Mexico citizen's organization has written a letter calling on the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to follow the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) before proceeding further with a proposed $3.4 billion factory annex for plutonium warhead cores ("pits") at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

The proposed facility, to be built mostly underground over the next decade or longer, is awkwardly-named the "Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility" (CMRR-NF). Further information about the CMRR-NF is available at http://www.lasg.org/CMRR/open_page.htm.

This proposed facility is the largest nuclear infrastructure project in President Obama's proposed nuclear weapons spending "surge" and if built would be by far the largest public infrastructure project in the history of New Mexico except for the interstate highway system.

The estimated cost of the proposed building has risen by a factor of ten... Read More

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Large portions of Recovery Act spending fail to stimulate New Mexico's economy

Nuclear and military controlled funds generate few jobs and accrue benefits to a relatively small number of corporate contractors, institutions, and privileged communities; Recovery Act experience suggests need for broad-based, not centralized “trickle-down,” economic development path

By Darwin Bond-Graham or Greg Mello

Albuquerque — An analysis of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) contracts and grants in New Mexico reveals that the intended effects of the legislation —to stimulate the economy and protect communities hit hard by job losses— have been blunted by prevailing patterns of federal spending in the state. Entitled "Nuclear and Military Maldistribution and Inefficient Use of Recovery Act Funds in New Mexico," the brief is available through the Los Alamos Study Group's web site.
"Regardless of what Congress and the Obama administration intended with the Recovery Act a serious portion of its dollars have been wasted in the state of New Mexico," explains Darwin BondGraham, a board member and visiting researcher with the Los Alamos Study Group, and author of the analysis. "If the goal was to create large numbers of good jobs, jobs involving dignified work in areas like clean energy, transportation infrastructure, education, and industry, then Recovery Act dollars have been poorly allocated in this state." ...READ MORE

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BP: 100 Years of Moral Failure
As oil continues to leak into the Gulf, Iranians might remember the company's dark history in their country.

Saeed Rahnema
Professor, political science, York University; media commentator on the Middle East

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BP Oil Slick Video From Environmental Countdown and the Waterkeeper's Alliance

The Gulf of Mexico is bleeding and only way we can stop it is by stopping our dependence on fossil fuel. Read more about spill from Greg Palast>>

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