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Monday, January 13, 2014

SINGER NEIL YOUNG ATTACKS TAR SANDS - WHY NOT NUCLEAR INDUSTRY TOO?


The Canadian Tar Sands, with their giant tailing ponds holding poisonous sludge, are indeed an ugly wound in the once pristine landscape of northern Alberta.  They consist of a mixture of crude bitumen (semi-solid crude oil), silica sand, clay minerals and water. 

Singer Neil Young has just denounced this environmental disaster.  The government has replied.  Neil Young has responded to the government.

That's all very good.  We need to talk about this issue.

But we have to wonder why are environmental activists still so silent regarding nuclear power, which is millions of times worse for the planet than even the nastiest oil industry disaster?  Worse even than the Tar Sands.

Life on Earth can recover from the damage done by the oil industry.  Earth has recovered from many major disasters, mass extinctions, and climate extremes. 

But the biosphere could NEVER RECOVER from the damage done by a major nuclear disaster. 

The Fukushima nuclear power plant has been spewing highly radioactive waste for almost THREE YEARS now, dumping it into the ocean and releasing it into the air.  Ocean currents and winds bring much of that poison into the American and Canadian west coast, and beyond.

There are almost daily reports of major anomalies among sea life, birds, and other animals.  Many scientists attribute that and countless mass animal die-offs to Fukushima radiation in the environment. 

Three years is more than enough time for environmentalists to have organized and denounced nuclear power - although nuclear power has been a threat since the mid-1940s.  Its nothing new.  We have already had some close calls in this continent.  There are frequent reports that not all is well in the areas surrounding nuclear plants.

But if you go to just about any major pro-environment website these days, they are still focusing on global warming and the oil industry - but they say nothing or next to nothing against the nuclear industry.  


Why is that? 


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REFERENCES


Neil Young and the Tar Sands:


1) Neil Young attacks oil sands
http://www.torontosun.com/2014/01/12/neil-young-attacks-alberta-oilsands


2)  Canadian government's reply
http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/politics/inside-politics-blog/2014/01/neil-young-vs-pmo-oilsands-comments-spark-war-of-words.html


3)  Neil Young's response to the government's reply.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/neil-young-responds-to-pmo-s-defence-of-oilsands-1.2494950


General information about the Tar Sands (or Oil Sands, as they prefer to call them)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athabasca_oil_sands
http://www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/campaigns/Energy/tarsands/
http://oilsandstruth.org/
http://www.naturecanada.ca/tarsands.asp
Photographer Garth Lenz video lecture (18 minutes) http://www.ted.com/talks/garth_lenz_images_of_beauty_and_devastation.html


This blog's previous article about the Tar Sands
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2013/06/environment-news-two-disasters-in.html


Latest news about Fukushima
http://enenews.com/
http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/


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