[Biofuel] Petition: Introduce tough rules to rein in food speculators
Hi all, Let's support EU start regulating food speculation! Best wishes, Midori * Petition: Introduce tough rules to rein in food speculators http://www.wdm.org.uk/food-speculation/petition-dont-weaken-proposals-regulation-food-speculation The European commission has made some proposals to regulate reckless food speculation. The lead MEP scrutinising the proposals, Markus Ferber, wants input from ‘interested parties’ to inform the discussions in the European parliament. It’s vital that he hears from the public that we want strong rules to rein in the speculators. The finance industry will be calling for the proposals to be weakened. We will be delivering the letter on the right to Markus Ferber on Wednesday 11th January. Please sign the petition now so that the voices of ordinary people, and not just the banking sector, are heard. What are we asking you to sign? As we're writing to a policymaker in Brussels, and referring to very technical proposals, we've purposefully made the language in the letter technical too. The letter essentially calls for three things. The first is for commodity trading to be done in public instead of behind closed doors (‘over the counter’) so regulators and the public, as well as big financial players, know what’s going on. This means contracts will need to be standardised instead of complex. The second is proper reporting by traders of how many contracts they own and whether they’re betting on rising or falling prices – so we can see what’s really going on and regulators can step in when speculators start creating bubbles. And finally limits on how much of the market can be controlled by any one type of trader (for example hedge funds) with no loopholes. Regulators should be able to step in when speculators are swamping markets with their huge bets. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World 2012 YOKOHAMA (January 14-15, 2012)
Hi all, Wish you all a happy new year, although the Fukushima disasters still continue; people are eating radioactive contaminated food, they are getting sick already, more radioactive pollution went into the pacific ocean than into Japan, some radioactive particles from Fukushima were found in Europe, and the governments of both Japan and Belarus still plan to continue nuclear power... For your information, Best wishes for 2012, Midori http://npfree.jp/english.html Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World 2012 YOKOHAMA Creating the future, creating a new world As damage inflicted by the radioactive contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster spreads, we must think in a global context about what we can learn and where we are headed. It is time to say goodbye to nuclear power and create a new society centered around natural energy sources. Let us gather together beyond borders and generations, and take a step towards this new society. Objectives of the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World To communicate a message from Japan: We must learn from Fukushima, exchange lessons about nuclear power from around the world and make clear the need to break away from nuclear power. To propose action plans: We will bring together ideas from around the globe and propose action plans that can be carried out by Japan and other countries all over the world. To discover kinds of action that can be taken: We will provide a venue where people can learn about actions we can take in daily life, and where new ideas and projects will be created and exchanged. Conference Objectives The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami, and accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that occurred on March 11, 2011 have had dramatic impact around the world. In response to this massive disaster and its tragic consequences for people’s lives and environment, the people of Japan are trying to take steps towards recovery. ≫Read More Event details Title: Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World 2012 YOKOHAMA Date: January 14-15, 2012 （A visit to Fukushima for international guests will also be held on January 12-13, 2012. For enquiries regaring this part of the programme, please contact the Secretariat.) Venue: PACIFICO Yokohama - PACIFIC Convention Plaza Yokohama Minato Mirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan http://www.pacifico.co.jp/english/facility/accessmap.html Tickets are available for purchase online here. For those coming from overseas, a different system for participating in the conference is available. Please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you are considering coming from overseas. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] International Food Sovereignty Day to Cool Down the Earth
Hi, all, FYI. from Midori 5 December: International Food Sovereignty Day to Cool Down the Earth http://viacampesina.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1140:5-december-international-food-sovereignty-day-to-cool-down-the-earth&catid=48:-climate-change-and-agrofuels&Itemid=75 CALL TO MASS ACTION AND MOBILIZATION 5th December 2011, Durban, South Africa We call on all farmers’ movements and organizations, rural workers, landless people and all the food sovereignty movement to join us for an international day of mass action on the 5th of December 2011, during the COP 17 civil society mobilization in Durban, South Africa. Humanity is confronted with a food, economic and ecological crisis that is rooted in the neoliberal capitalist system of production, distribution and consumption. These multiple crises highlight the limits of neoliberal capitalist production. Today transnational corporations and governments are presenting false solutions to climate change, hijacking the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP17) also referred to as the Conference of Polluters, to be held in Durban South Africa. These corporate elites, western governments and the neo liberal capitalist system that is responsible for generating the crisis are presenting us with false solutions. The countries of the South and Africa in particular will be hard hit by climate change. Scientists indicate that the African continent is expected to be drier and would become warmer more quickly than other regions of the planet, despite the fact that Africa has contributed the least to global warming. This will hugely impact on agriculture, which is an important livelihood source across Africa. There will be yield losses of the major staple foods of the continent like maize, sorghum, millet, cassava etc. due to temperature rises. Industrial agriculture and production is responsible for global warming, hunger, land dispossession, massive displacements of farmers, rural workers and indigenous communities across the continent. In South Africa the host country after 17 years of democracy, millions of farm workers and dwellers have been evicted from commercial farms, only 5% of agricultural land has been transferred to black people, millions in rural and urban areas suffer from food and nutritional insecurity. Today this country is the most unequal society in the world. Particularly women in South Africa have felt the impact of these unequal relations and exclusion more severely. The solutions put forward by these corporations and governments are already leading towards a re-colonization of Africa and the countries of the global south with massive land grabs and the imposition of a new green revolution. Instead of finding real solutions to climate and ecological crisis faced by humanity, the Durban COP17 meeting is a platform for corporations through their governments to accelerate the complete commodification of nature. These criminal schemes presented as solutions include amongst other things the promotion of Genetically Modified Seeds, Agro-fuels, carbon trading, climate smart agriculture, Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD). Why an Agro-ecology and Food Sovereignty Day As farmers, farm workers, landless women and men we should mobilize through direct action against these false solutions to expose its criminal intent and catastrophic consequences for the continent and the global south. At the World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Right of Mother Earth (April 2010) held in Bolivia resulted in the People’s Agreement of Cochabamba real solutions to climate change were offered which was totally ignored by governments. Food Sovereignty and agro-ecology are the real solutions of farmers and workers to climate change. We call on all farmers, workers and the landless and all social movements to join us in Durban and everywhere in the world on the 5th of December 2011 to demand a change of the entire capitalist system. The fight against climate change is a fight against neoliberal capitalism, landlessness, dispossession, hunger, poverty and inequality. The crisis of the planet requires that we take direct action. During the agro-ecology and food sovereignty day we will have public protest marches to the conference of the polluters, actions against multinational corporations like Monsanto undermining our seed sovereignty, which will cuminate in a massive Assembly of the Oppressed to discuss ways of ending this unjust system. This will be a day of continued actions where farmers and workers from the entire African continent with social movements from the whole world will demand: Genuine agrarian reform for food sovereignty Agro ecological revolution as the solution to climate change Restructuring of the entire food system Full and equal participation of women in the new food system and in the society as a whole Building of a food system based on human
[Biofuel] Tainted Beef Hits Japanese Market - less than 1% has been tested
"the number of tests conducted on beef from Fukushima was 45―a sampling that probably represents less than 1% of what has been shipped." The point is, IMHO, beef has one of the best traceability system because of BSE. When more than 99% of beef has been shipped out WITHOUT radiation test, what do you expect to other food products? - Midori Tainted Beef Hits Japanese Market Authorities Find Radioactive Cesium in Shipments to Shops and Restaurants http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303678704576441682767970202.html?KEYWORDS=japan+cesium wsj.com JULY 13, 2011 By PHRED DVORAKTOKYO―Japan grappled with a fresh radiation scare Tuesday, as authorities found that beef contaminated with radioactive cesium had been shipped to shops and restaurants throughout the country. The beef, from six cattle raised on a farm near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, registered radioactive-cesium levels up to seven times that permitted by Japanese food-safety standards. Some of the meat had already likely been eaten, government officials said. Experts said the level was too low to create health problems in people who ate just one or two servings. But the discovery dominated local news and TV shows, reminding Japanese consumers that they will be living with the threat of radiation for a long time to come―and highlighting holes in the way Japan is testing cattle for radioactive exposure. The beef scare, coming after reports of radiation contamination in food had largely died down, reignited worries that the damaged Fukushima reactors could be poisoning staples from water to produce to fish. A month ago Japanese testers found higher-than-permitted levels of radioactive material in tea leaves that grew more than 200 miles from the nuclear plant―a sign contamination had spread farther than previously thought. That contaminated beef had gotten into the food supply shocked the public. The scramble to locate the meat started Saturday, when the Tokyo government said it had found elevated radioactive-cesium levels in meat from other cattle raised on the same farm in Minamisoma, around 18 miles north of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The six cattle―which had all passed external radiation tests―had been shipped earlier to Tokyo butchers, who had gone on to sell the meat to wholesalers and retail shops in eight prefectures, or states, and metropolitan areas. Some of the meat is still unaccounted for, but some appears already to have been bought by consumers, said a spokeswoman from the Tokyo metropolitan government's food-monitoring division. The impact on beef sales is so far unclear. Radioactive cesium emits gamma rays, which can damage cellular DNA and raise the risk of cancer. The levels found in the beef, though, would become a health concern only if a person ate large quantities every day for a year, said Shizuko Kakinuma, a researcher at Japan's National Institute of Radiological Sciences who sits on an independent committee investigating the Fukushima Daiichi accident. "With a Japanese diet, that's unlikely," she said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. One or two meals wouldn't have much effect. Still, the government ought to increase its testing of cattle for radiation contamination to at least one animal from each herd, said Ms. Kakinuma, as it is possible to lower the amount of radioactive cesium in contaminated animals to safe levels. "It would be better not to rush them to the butcher," said Ms. Kakinuma. Officials in Fukushima said the prefecture had performed external tests on all cattle raised in zones near the nuclear plant where radiation levels have been high. The cattle whose meat proved contaminated had cleared those tests, said Yutaka Kashima, an official in the prefecture's animal husbandry section. The prefecture also asked farmers to fill out a questionnaire to help determine the risk of exposure. Questions included what kind of water the cattle drank, where they were housed and what kind of food they ate. The farm that produced the contaminated meat had said it hadn't given its cattle contaminated feed―which turned out to be untrue, Mr. Kashima said. The farmer later admitted he had fed his cattle straw that had been exposed to the elements―as well as radiation fallout―and that subsequent tests found to contain extremely high levels of radioactive cesium. That caused internal contamination that wasn't detectable by the prefecture's screening. Fukushima and other localities also test some meat from potentially contaminated areas after the cattle are butchered. But only a few of those time-consuming test have been done. A spokesman at the health ministry said that prior to Saturday's discovery of contaminated meat, the number of tests conducted on beef from Fukushima was 45―a sampling that probably represents less than 1% of what has been shipped. Write to Phred Dvorak at [EMAIL PROTECTED] _
[Biofuel] The disastrous situation of the children in Fukushima
Dear all, Some Japanese are trying hard to take children out of Fukushima. These conscientious scientists are helping the team. Good for them! You can read their English statements here, which also tell the disastrous situation the children are going to face. Midori Prof. Dr Chris Busby http://1am.sakura.ne.jp/Nuclear/110623Statement-BusbyE.pdf Professor Ernest J. Sternglass http://1am.sakura.ne.jp/Nuclear/110623Messag-SternglassE.pdf Leuren Moret, Independent Scientist http://1am.sakura.ne.jp/Nuclear/110624Messag-LeurenE.pdf ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] How the first 24 hours shaped Fukushima nuclear crisis
I wish the article focused more on what happened to the reactors BEFORE tsunami hit. The Japanese government and their nuclear circle want to blame the tsunami for the disaster, but some experts here say the earthquakes themselves failed the reactors but the government is trying to hide it. Why? Because if the tsunami was the main cause, they just need to build higher walls to prevent future disaster. But if the earthquakes are the main cause of reactor failures, most of all other nuclear power plants in Japan need to be stopped for the safety reason. The Japanese government and the nuclear promoters don't want that. They are trying hard to restart the suspended nuclear power plants even after THAT much of disaster. If Japan does not restart any nuclear power reactor after the regular maintenance, there will be no nuclear reactor working in Japan by next spring. Japanese people are working hard not to restart the reactors. Midori (2011/07/10 9:53), Keith Addison wrote: > http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nn20110707f1.html > > Thursday, July 7, 2011 > > How the first 24 hours shaped Fukushima nuclear crisis > > Chaos, inadequate preparation, indecision, lack of forthrightness > > AP > > Fukushima - When unit 2 began to shake, Hiroyuki Kohno's first hunch > was that something was wrong with the turbines. He paused for a > moment, then went back to logging the day's radioactivity readings. > > He expected it to pass. Until the shakes became jolts. > > As sirens wailed, he ran to an open space, away from the walls, and > raced down a long corridor with two colleagues. Parts of the ceiling > fell around them. Outside, he found more pandemonium. > > "People were shouting about a tsunami," he said. "At that point, I > really thought I might die." > > Breathless, Kohno climbed a small hill and turned to look back. Black > plumes rose from the reactor units. The emergency diesel generators > had kicked in. > > He saw the wave. It crashed over the plant's seawall, stopping only > when it reached the foot of the slope about 460 meters from where he > stood. > > Kohno watched, stunned. > > Unit 2, one of the six reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 power station, > is ordinary by nuclear standards: a drab labyrinth of switches and > valves, ladders and bulkheads, meters and gauges. That's how Kohno, a > veteran radioactivity specialist, knew it. > > Now, nothing about what he saw was normal. > > He kept moving. > > The events of the next 24 hours brought the promise of nuclear power > into question, both in Japan and around the world. > > Through interviews with dozens of officials, workers and experts, and > hundreds of pages of newly released documents, AP found the early > response to the crisis was marked by confusion, inadequate > preparation, a lack of forthrightness with the public and a > reluctance to make quick decisions. These problems set the tone for > the troubled recovery effort since. > > On March 11, Prime Minister Naoto Kan was taking a beating in an > Upper House committee meeting over whether he had taken campaign > money from a foreign national, which is illegal. > > The questioning stopped suddenly when the entire Diet building > started to rock. It was 2:46 p.m. All eyes rose to the huge crystal > chandeliers above, clinking and shaking violently. > > "Everyone, please stay in a safe position," committee Chairman Yosuke > Tsuruho said, grasping the armrests of his upholstered velvet chair. > "Please duck under your desk." > > Within four minutes, a crisis headquarters was up and running across > the street in the prime minister's office. Kan rushed there as soon > as the shaking subsided. At 3:37 p.m. he convened a roundtable of his > top advisers. > > Soon after the tsunami hit, Kan's task force was deluged by reports > of massive damage up and down the coast, aerial photos and video > showing entire villages gone. > > Kan, who majored in applied physics in college, was among the first > whose attention went to the 40-year-old nuclear plant, according to > Kenichi Shimomura, a senior aide who was with him. The prime minister > demanded an assessment. > > The plant's operator was in disarray. Phone calls to Tokyo Electric > Power Co. went unanswered, and what little information trickled out > was conflicting. > > In those critical first hours, the government was flying blind. > > Tepco President Masataka Shimizu, who was traveling, boarded a > military airlift from Nagoya after he heard the news. But the flight > was turned around. The Defense Ministry bumped him to free up its > planes for the emergency response. > > Kan quietly repea
Re: [Biofuel] Italy's Voters Scrap Nuclear Energy
"Nobuteru Ishihara characterized Italian voters' decision as a product of "mass hysteria."" People in Italy, please get angry on this insult! Midori ** http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ed20110616a1.html Thursday, June 16, 2011 Italy's anti-nuclear power vote In a referendum Monday, an overwhelming 94 percent of Italian voters rejected Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's plan to have Italy return to nuclear power generation. They also rejected water supply privatization and a law exempting him and other ministers from appearance in courts. Clearly the people of Italy take a serious view of the accidents at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which was badly damaged in the March 11 quake and tsunami. Germany decided June 6 to abolish its 17 reactors by 2022 and Switzerland decided June 8 to stop its five reactors by 2034. Italy had stopped the operation of its five reactors at four locations by 1990, following the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident. After the Italian referendum, industry minister Banri Kaieda expressed his intention of continuing nuclear power generation by saying that nuclear power is an important pillar of Japan's energy policy. Liberal Democratic Party Secretary General Nobuteru Ishihara characterized Italian voters' decision as a product of "mass hysteria." Japan may have to rely on nuclear power as a short-term policy to secure energy supply, since it cannot import electricity as European countries do. But these factors should not be used as an excuse to maintain reliance on nuclear power. The Fukushima nuclear crisis has shown the risks of nuclear power generation. It is an unstable provider of electricity and is costly if indirect outlays, such as accident compensation, subsidies for host municipalities and the costs of disposing of spent nuclear fuel, are included. Japan should accelerate the development of renewable sources for power generation, on which the policy pushed by the nuclear power establishment has put a brake for more than 10 years. The nation should strive to make full use of geothermal, solar and wind power sources, and to exploit the potential of biomass derived from wood and grass. Japan should also improve energy conservation and heat insulation of buildings. These efforts will help open a new frontier in technological innovation and create new job opportunities. The monopoly in the power market must be broken so that small-scale green power generation can flourish. The process to make energy policy decisions must be made transparent to fully expose moves of the nuclear power lobby. (2011/06/14 22:28), Keith Addison posted: > http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/06/13-5 > Published on Monday, June 13, 2011 by CommonDreams.org > Italy's Voters Scrap Nuclear Energy! > by Tina Gerhardt > > BERLIN, Germany - As polls closed today in Italy, voters had turned > out in droves to scrap nuclear energy and water privatization. ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Are We on the Brink of Burying Nuke Power Forever?
(2011/06/17 2:29), Keith Addison posted: > http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12772 > Are We on the Brink of Burying Nuke Power Forever? Let Us Hope So > Wed, 06/15/2011 > From well-reasoned fear, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Israel > and other critical players have announced they will build no more > reactors. Some will start shutting the ones they have. That's not the case in Japan, I'm afraid. Even after that disaster - or even when it has been getting worse, Japan is still trying to restart its suspended reactors. If we let this Genkai reactor to restart in a coming month or two - then nuclear power is going to be "business as usual", I'm afraid. On the other hand, IF Japan prohibits restarting of any reactors from now on - all the nuclear power plants in Japan will be stopped in 1.5 years, I heard. Would you put pressure from outside to never let Japan to restart any of its nuclear reactors? If we could kill the Japanese nuclear industry, that can give a massive damage to the world nuclear, as Japan has long been at the core of the reactor industry, as the article says. Many thanks and best wishes, Midori in Kyoto ** http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110609a8.html Thursday, June 9, 2011 Saga town may be first to see reactor restart Kyodo SAGA — The town of Genkai in Saga Prefecture plans to agree by early July to restart the Genkai nuclear plant's two reactors that have been suspended for checkups, becoming the first municipality to give such a go-ahead amid the ongoing nuclear crisis. While it is not legally required, Kyushu Electric Power Co. makes it a rule to obtain approval from municipal and prefectural governments before restarting reactors after regular inspections. The consent by Genkai will put the onus on Saga Gov. Yasushi Furukawa, who has expressed qualms about restarting the reactors. Restarting the Nos. 2 and 3 reactors was postponed amid the nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 plant. Genkai intends to summon Kyushu Electric officials around July 1 so the mayor can hand them conditions for restarting the reactors, including taking steps to guard against tsunami. ** ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Fukushima media cover-up - PR success, public health disaster
Dear all, I think he is describing the situation here quite well. Midori from ENE News: http://enenews.com/massive-entry-of-radiation-into-groundwater-will-spread-throughout-water-table-in-northern-japan-video 'Fukushima media cover-up -- PR success, public health disaster’, RussiaToday, June 11, 2011: At 1:15 in Dr. Robert Jacobs, Professor of nuclear history, at the Hiroshima Peace Institute - Massive entry of radiation into groundwater in Fukushima - Will spread throughout water table in the area of Northern Japan - Effect could be quite wide and large on youtube: 'Fukushima media cover-up - PR success, public health disaster' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_rAX9TzY2A ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
Re: [Biofuel] Japan Doubles Fukushima Radiation Leak Estimate
Dear all, 2011/6/8 Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/07-1 > According to the latest estimates, 770,000 terabequerels - about 20% > as much as the official estimate for Chernobyl - of radiation seeped > from the plant in the week after the tsunami, more than double the > initial estimate of 370,000. That's the amount only to the air. 770,000 terabequerels doesn't include the amount which has been leaking (or poured intentionally) into the ocean. Midori ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] Japan just biding its time to restart more Nuclear plants
Dear all, Even after Fukushima, Japan has not terminated its plan to start or build more nuclear plants - they just postpone or suspend, just biding its time until the voice of anti-nuke reduces a bit, I would say. We suppose many overseas media are planning to write three-month anniversary features on Fukushima for June 11th. I helped Aileen Smith of Green Action to assemble this media pack, hoping pressures from outside can help terminate any attempt for starting more nuke in Japan. Please forward this message to anybody who can help the islanders of Iwaishima. (They are lovely grannies and grandpas - you can see them in trailers below) Many thanks! Midori ** 2 June 2011 To: Foreign Media in Japan Japanese Utility Still Committed to New Nuclear Reactors Amid calls to halt all nuclear development in Japan, following the unprecedented disaster in Fukushima, Hiroshima-based utility Chugoku Electric is pushing ahead with a total of three new nuclear reactors in Matsue and Kaminoseki, the latter despite three decades of opposition by local island residents, and recent warnings on the need to safeguard biodiversity in Kaminoseki’s “Kiseki-no-Umi” - "Sea of Miracles." Chugoku Electric Power Co. Inc. (head office, Hiroshima city) has a new reactor (No. 3) nearing completion at the Shimane Power Plant, close by Matsue city. Two more reactors are planned for the new Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant, located on the Seto Inland Sea coast 70 km south-west of Hiroshima, a project which has been actively opposed by nearby islanders for the last 30 years. Iwaishima is a small island 3.5 km offshore from the site of the plant. Its residents, mostly grandmothers and grandfathers now, have refused to accept 1 billion yen as compensation. In weekly protest demonstrations, they have used their boats and their own bodies to try to block construction. Many young people from around Japan have come to support them, including a kayak team working with the local people trying to prevent planned landfill from proceeding. The company has retaliated by obtaining a Supreme Court ruling setting a penalty of 5 million yen per day if work is obstructed. International academics and scientists have expressed deep concern over the plant’s threat to the biodiversity of the nearby sea, and recent documentaries have depicted the islanders’ hard-fought campaign against the plant, and highlighted the island’s beautiful environment. On March 17th, the governor of Yamaguchi Prefecture requested Chugoku Electric to temporarily suspend the project. However, parties opposed to the construction of Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant demand its complete termination. The triple meltdown and resulting emissions of high levels of radioactivity into the air, land and ocean in Fukushima has proved beyond doubt that the safety of nuclear power cannot be guaranteed, and its threat to the environment cannot be ignored. The grandfathers and grandmothers of Iwaishima are not interested in the company’s promises of safety and financial prosperity. They understand real wealth. All that they want is to pass on to their successors the traditional cultural heritage and unspoilt natural environment that they have known all their lives. They want the Kaminoseki Nuclear Plant project terminated, permanently. ■Information available in English ●Chugoku Electric Power http://www.energia.co.jp/e/energia/profile/profile.html (Head Office) 4-33 Komachi,Naka-ku,Hiroshima-shi,Hiroshima 730-8701,Japan Tel: +81-82-241-0211 Fax: +81-82-523-6185 ★General meeting of stockholders is scheduled for June 29, 2011. Local citizen’s organizations (“Iwaijima-citizens against building the Kaminoseki Nuclear Power Plant <http://shimabito.net/>” and “the Anti-Nuclear Citizens of Kaminoseki”) along with the anti-nuclear shareholders of the Chugoku Electric Power Co. Inc. have been organizing sit-ins in front of the Chugoku Electric Power Co. Inc. headquarters building and writing up appeals to the shareholders every year. ●English leaflet from Iwaishima islanders "No Nuclear Power Plant in Our Community! Iwaishima says no to nuclear power" http://shimabito.net/200907english.pdf ●Kaminoseki: Nuclear Power Plant, Human Rights and Biodiversity http://hotspotkaminoseki.soreccha.jp/ English Blog by ANKEI Yuji, Professor of area studies in Yamaguchi Prefectural University. Head of the Comittee for Conservation of Kaminoseki Biodiversity, Ecological Society of Japan. A member of the Amnesty International. Sc. D., Ecological Anthropologist. ●Recent blog post at Ten Thousand Things “Amidst hopeful signs, activists continue impassioned efforts to stop nuclear power plant in gorgeous Seto Inland Sea” http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.com/2011/05/amidst-hopeful-signs-activists-continue.html ●Recent news article in Japan Times May 15, 2011 "Utility and opponents lock horns over planned N-plant" http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi
[Biofuel] Japanese are eating food contaminated by radioactivity
Dear all, This is what Japanese government say about food after Fukushima. http://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/houdou/2r985201558e-img/2r9852015av4.pdf Food goes in the market (and people's stomach) if it has less than 500Bq/kg of Radioactive cesium. The German Society for Radiation Protection recommends no more than 4 Bq/kg of Cesium 137 for children, and no more than 8 Bq/kg for adults. Original text here (in German). http://icbuw-hiroshima.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Risikokalkulation_Japan_032011_dt.pdf What would you say? Midori ___ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
[Biofuel] A new website
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[biofuel] Not much Tempura oil
Dear listers, Sorry I've been quiet for such a long time. Lots of catch up to do. Last night Keith and I visited some of the restaurants around here in this suburb near Tokyo to collect some used cooking oil. To our surprise, we found that many of restaurants that smelled of cooking oil had little or no used oil for us. The proprietor of the tofu shop we visited first, who also sells deep-fried tofu and other cooked food, told us: "We don't produce used cooking oil anymore. We bought this nice frying machine which cleans the oil by just adding some water, so we can use it again and again. It cost 1.5 million yen [US$14,000], but we don't have to deal with used cooking oil anymore!" When we left the shop I told Keith: "I will never buy food from this shop, yuk!" Then we visited a Chinese-style restaurant. The chef told us: "We have no cooking oil, we use lard." "Lard is okay," I said. "No," he said, "we use it all up so there isn't any to give away." Another place we won't be eating at! At the third, a Japanese food and Sake restaurant, the chef told us: "We just throw the old oil down the drain so we don't have any." He looked a bit ashamed. We did find a couple of other restaurants that gave us some used cooking oil, and promised us more. But the whole experience discouraged us even more from eating out at restaurants. Quite many "environmentally aware" Japanese recommend that people should use Tempura oil over and over, and then use it up in stir frying to the end. They feel good about not throwing it down the drain, but their bodies surely don't like it. Of course what goes down the drain is never counted when people calculate how much, or how little, biodiesel could be produced to meet a country's needs. Best wishes, Midori Hiraga Handmade Projects Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/jp/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
wanting to know about blue prints?
What shall we do about this? I would write to him "What kind of still? Can you tell us more?" Midori > Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 19:51:55 -0400 > From: Jerry Lamey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Accept-Language: en > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: wanting to know about blue prints? > > We do sell copies of the still blueprints, and this will go to > help support Journey to Forever and the new > BioFuels > project/newletter. >
Alcohol Fuel Manual
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Re: [biofuel] Alcohol Fuel Manual
From: Midori Hiraga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > From: "Nilsson Family" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > having trouble opening these files. please send more detailed info.rom: Hi, Could you tell us more about your trouble? These files are made of simple html, so you should be able to see the page same way as any other homepages without downloading it. But we are not sure what happens on the process of uploading these files on ONElist and when you open the file on their website. We can make the files with Word document, but we are afraid it would cause more troubles to open it. How about other files in the group's file section, like "ethanol_faq.html" or "autostill.rtf"? Could you open them? I write the procedure of accessing the Alcohol Fuel Manuals below, although this may not be a problem with you. This procedure varies a bit depending on how your browser is set as well. When you go to http://www.onelist.com/mygroups and log in to ONElist if your browser hasn't saved the cookies, then you will find the "biofuel" group listed as your subscribing mailing list. So you click it and go to the "ONElist: biofuel" page (URL is http://www.onelist.com/group/biofuel). On the left side, you see the navigation list, and "Files" should be highlighted in blue letters because you are a member of this group (it will be black and no link added for those people who haven't signed up email address and password for the ONElist). Clicking it leads you to "biofuel Files" page and you find the list of files there. Because this manual is put in a folder, you click the folder's name "manual" and goes to the http://www.onelist.com/files/biofuel/manual/. Then, if you click the manual's file name (like "manual4-5.html") you should be able to see the page as an ordinary website page on your browser. You can do whatever you do with other website with your browser: copy it, save it as text or save it as html, etc. ONElist, or almost all the mailing list services, use cookies. So it may not work well if you have set your browser to reject all the cookies (if you haven't heard of cookies, don't worry then - browsers are set to accept cookies by default nowadays). We hate cookies and we looked hard for a mailing list service which doesn't use them, but couldn't find any good service. I hope this can help you. Could you open the file now? Regards, Midori Hiraga Handmade Projects "Journey to Forever" You have a voice mail message waiting for you at iHello.com: http://click.egroups.com/1/2377/2/_/_/_/954272733/ Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://jtforever.org/biofuel.html To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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(BYou sent the message to the "owner" that is me. Please check the post (Bmessage address. I've already posted one message in the archive, see the (Bbelow URL. (B (BI'm sorry, but I just get sick of all these people saying "Oh, it's so easy (Bto make your mailing list" which isn't at all! Why can't they make things (Bwork properly? (B (BMidori (B (BAddresses: (BPost message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BSubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BUnsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BList owner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BURL to this page: http://www.onelist.com/group/biofuel-journeytoforever (B (BAt 7:43 PM 2000/03/23 +0800, Keith Addison wrote: (B>tst message
