1. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    have become worse because of the burning of fossil fuels. [...] The eagerly watched court case is the culmination of almost ten years of effort. Lliuya, with the support of the environmental organization Germanwatch, filed his lawsuit in November 2015 with the Essen regional court, where RWE has its headquarters. The court initially dismissed the lawsuit, but in 2017 the...

  2. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    won nine US cases. It was only on Monday that the group announced that it wanted to challenge the two previous defeats... * Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania | Wind power | Lawsuits for failure to act Many lawsuits for failure to act from wind power companies in MV If, in the opinion of applicants, authorities dawdle excessively, they can be sued, for example by wind power companies. In many places in...

  3. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    Jülich the preparations. [...] The transport permit is expected this year, so that transports with the filled Castor containers could start in 2024. The city of Ahaus and a citizen are suing against the transports. In addition, anti-nuclear power initiatives have announced protests against the relocation. * Israel | Criminal Court | Palestine Tens of thousands demonstrate in...

  4. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    Don't choose your people, this also applies to a large extent to migrants and especially refugees. Instead of complaining about the number, skin color, religion or qualifications of people, we need openness and pragmatism. Germany has the opportunity to make migration profitable for all sides and should therefore not get involved in populist debates...

  5. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    passed on to a contact person. He could not rule out that this information would be passed on to other people... * Climate protection | Climate policy | Climate lawsuit European Court of Human Rights: Gen Z against 32 states They want to force Europe to do more climate protection: Six young people are filing the largest climate lawsuit in the world. How do you prove that...

  6. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    Climate change The US state of California is taking action against “the major polluters” ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhilips, Chevron and the American Petroleum Institute industry association. The statement of claim consists of 135 pages. The US state of California is suing five of the world's largest oil companies. It's about environmental damage and the accusation of misleading. California filed suit against the...

  7. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    Capacity of over 28 gigawatts and rising rapidly. * Great Britain | Hinkley Point | Construction time | Cost increase for nuclear power expansion in Great Britain: England's radiant C-side citizens are suing against the Sizewell C nuclear power plant. The government wants to build it despite safety concerns. [...] The British government sees nuclear power as a fundamental part of its future non-fossil...

  8. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    detected, although there are still 800 kg of nuclear fuel on board... August 29 Poland | Freedom of the press | EU member Poland tries to imprison journalists indefinitely without charge as a “Russian spy” Pablo González has been in custody for 18 months without any charges or evidence for the serious allegations being presented in the country, which has been criticized for its judicial problems...

  9. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    Newsletter XXXIII 2023 August 13th to 19th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 News+ Background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military nuclear power industry . Some of this information only reached the public in a roundabout way...

  10. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    carry yourself. But what about large industrial companies that are among the largest emitters of climate-damaging greenhouse gases? [...] A lawsuit is currently being heard at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm: against the energy company RWE. It's not about the flood in the Ahr Valley, but about the Palcacocha glacial lake in Peru - the home of Saul Lliuya. The mountain guide filed a lawsuit against the...

  11. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    The uranium ban passed in November 2021 made it impossible to continue the Kuannersuit project. Two weeks ago the company filed a lawsuit against the governments in Nuuk and Copenhagen. The damage suffered is “provisionally” estimated at $11,5 billion. What the company probably wants to achieve with this process: to get a mining permit after all...

  12. 1990 to 1999 - INES, NAMS and other events

    After the severe earthquake on July 16, 2007 off the Japanese west coast, the two reactors were retrofitted from December 2007 for safety reasons. On March 18, 2009, a lawsuit filed by Japanese citizens due to safety concerns and with the aim of shutting down Shika-2 was dismissed in the second instance... Incident In June 1999, three of 1 control rods on the Shika-89 unit slipped...

  13. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    In 2014 Braidwood was also affected... Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is being removed from Wikipedia! Wikipedia de Braidwood In March 2006, several lawsuits were filed against Exelon and Commonwealth Edison over tritium releases into the local water system between 1996 and 2003... Wikipedia en Nuclear power accidents by country#United_States...

  14. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    uses its economic power - also expanded by profits made from Russian gas deals - to influence politics and legislation... July 27th Energy Transition | lawsuits | Arbitration tribunals | Federal Court of Justice BGH declares private arbitration proceedings inadmissible. Disputes between investors and states within the European Union must...

  15. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    Most people don't have to take responsibility for their actions during their lifetime. It is also true that Putin and the Russian leadership are waging a war of aggression against Ukraine and committing serious crimes. But the German Foreign Minister's complaint to the UN is hypocritical and mendacious. Because law presupposes universality, without which it cannot exist. The same must be treated the same. But exactly...

  16. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    After the severe earthquake on July 16, 2007 off the Japanese west coast, the two reactors were retrofitted from December 2007 for safety reasons. On March 18, 2009, a lawsuit filed by Japanese citizens due to safety concerns and with the aim of shutting down Shika-2 was dismissed in the second instance... Incident In June 1999, three of 1 control rods on the Shika-89 unit slipped...

  17. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    In 2014 Braidwood was also affected... Slowly but surely all relevant information about disruptions in the nuclear industry is being removed from Wikipedia! Wikipedia Braidwood In March 2006, multiple lawsuits were filed against Exelon and Commonwealth Edison over tritium releases into the local water system between 1996 and 2003. Nuclear power accidents by country#United_States June 15th 1,5 degrees |...

  18. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    The report: Washington is subsidizing a new production plant of the German chemical company Evonik with $150 million out of a total of $220 million. The twist: The industry and its lobbyists complain in video and audio on all channels about rising energy prices, terrible economic policy, a lack of funding and unattainable, expensive environmental requirements from the authorities. These factors alone...

  19. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    Rightly ask why two months later a typically lying BILD campaign and FDP politicians suddenly call it a “nuclear bomb for our country”, suddenly complain about a lack of “openness to technology” and talk about 100 questions? Why is the – unchanged – law blocked by the FDP two months later? And who is lying to whom here?... * Heat pump | Collect data | Heat transition Heat transition:...

  20. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    The north produces renewable electricity and believes the pricing model lacks solidarity. Of course, those in the south see it differently. BERLIN taz | It is a north-south conflict: The federal states in the north complain that although they generate most of their electricity from renewable energies, they do not benefit from cheaper electricity prices - or even pay higher prices. The countries in the south...

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