SF Energy Policy Examiner

Radioactive leak at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:54:59 -0700

I just received this news from nuclear power and weapons expert Bob Nichols:Radiation leak at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plantby Bob NicholsSan Francisco Bay View San Francisco, (Nov 22, 2009) A large radiation leak in a Three Mile Island Reacto...

Planting bio-fuels, in Rwanda, while Rwandans go hungry

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:39:28 -0700

Rwanda's greatest natural resource is its fertile agricultural land, but most is centralized in the hands of government elites and planted in export crops, coffee, tea, flowers, and soon, bio-fuels----while Rwandans go hungry. On November 9, 2009, ...

DU weapons use in Iraq; drastic birth defects in Fallujah

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:41:24 -0700

U.S. artillery fire, Fallujah, 11.14.2004, Wikimedia Commons On Friday, 11.13.2009, the London Guardian reported a "Huge rise in birth defects in Fallujah," Iraq. I sent the news to KPFA Radio 94.1FM Weekend News Anchor Anthony Fest,...

Rwanda, Uganda, Congo, and, oil and natural gas

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:25:03 -0700

On January 22, 2008, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) reported that the "Democratic Republic of Congo's 1998-2003 war and its aftermath had caused more deaths than any other conflict since World War Two," and that "war, disease...

Obama is a sociopath, but, it's nothing personal

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:47:58 -0700

On November 10, 2009, San Francisco's Fog City Journal published "Obama's Serial Non-Transparency," David Bryson's brief critique of the president's artful dodges regarding the Emanuel/Blogevich wiretap incident, the Alberto Gonzelez' perju...

San Francisco energy policy disconnects from San Francisco Rep. Nancy Pelosi's

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:17:49 -0700

Long awaited news in San Francisco this morning, 11.09.2009: "San Francisco Requests Bids for an Alternative to PG&E: Local Power-Assisted RFP Seeks New 51% Green Power Supply for Residents & Businesses, 36...

Three reasons to support African Greens

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:34:42 -0700

I sent invitations to join the Facebook group "We support the African Greens" to Green Party members and others who might, whether members of the Green Party or no. Here are three good reasons to: 1) African Greens are the only trans-Afr...

Jerry Brown for a Nuclear California?

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:50:58 -0700

Nuclear Jerry Brown? On 10.31.2009, the San Francisco Chronicle reported "SF Mayor Newsom bows out of race for governor, making me hugely glad that I've written the last in this series of Examiner.com reports on our mayor's b.s.'n broccoli...

Copenhagen climate talkers

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:00:16 -0700

Copenhagen climate talkers aren't going to put carbon caps on war for the world's natural resources:

"Militarization and global warming," by Steve Martinot.

"Peace activism = climate activism," by Ann Garrison.

Peace activism = climate activism

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:34:00 -0700

"Militarism is the way corporations maintain their access to their food supply — the planet." --Steve Martinot, Militarism and Global Warming The best thing Copenhagen climate talks could produce would be protest. No...

MoveOn.org takes the fudge, in Iraq and Afghanistan

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:13:05 -0700

Stealth Bombers fly on thousands of gallons of kerosene based jet fuel. Obama's Nobel Peace Prize already took the cake, so this takes the fudge: MoveOn.org, the Democrat...

San Francisco recruits, as Obama deliberates Afghanistan troop surge

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:12:16 -0700

Fleet Week, San Francisco. (Ann Garrison)Each September the City of San Francisco submits its request for a Blue Angels Air Show recruiting drive, which the Defense Department confirms each December, as it has every year since then Mayor Dianne...

Oil for blood: T. Boone Pickens wants his

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:41:11 -0700

Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens has reversed the anti-war complaint "No blood for oil," He's upset that U.S. energy companies aren't getting enough oil for American blood----and U.S. taxpayer dollars. He complains that it's goi...

Nuclear wastelands

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:08:12 -0700

Children outiside Arlit, Niger, site of a France-Areva uranium mine, play and walk on radioactive uranium mining waste. &n...

Don't drink the uranium

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 22:12:48 -0700

Havasupai Guardians of the Grand Canyon. Photo credit: Brenda Norrell On July 21, 20...

Big Oil in Third World California

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:33:40 -0700

Willie L. Pelote, Sr., AFSCME. Shortly after writing "Arnold Schwarzenegger Threatens California like the IMF threatens Africa," published on the Op-Ed News, I came across like essays by Willie L. Pelote, Sr., Assistant Director and...

Havasupai organize protest of Grand Canyon uranium mining

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:29:14 -0700

Denison Mining is one Arizona air quality permit away from reopening its uranium mine near the Grand Canyon's South Rim. The Native American Havasupai Tribe have invited the public to join them, on July 25th and 26th, to protest at Red ...

The worst nuclear accident in U.S. history: July 16, 1979, Navajo Reservation

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:07:31 -0700

Don't drink from the Rio Puerco, 1979. July 16th, 2009, marked the 30th anniversary of the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history, when, at 5:00 A.M., 1100 tons of uranium mining tailings, and 100 million gallons of radioactive water ...

This oil is mine; God gave this oil to me. . .

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:52:29 -0700

"God is not a real estate agent," Palestinian scholar Edward Said responded to Zionists claiming scriptural proof, from the Old Testament, that God had given Palestine to them. Were Edward Said still among us, he might now respond,...

Big Oil too big for Arnold's "shared sacrifice"

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:53:50 -0700

California's oil reserves dwindle, untaxed. The State of California is running on empty, and CA IOUs, as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger continues to demand a shredded social safety net, repeal of labor and environmental legislation, and sweeping pri...