1. 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

    in Ahaus at 17 p.m. at the Kurt-Schumacher-Ring/Tobit roundabout. There the motorway slip road from the Ahaus/Legden exit on the A31 reaches the city. We call for participation in order to advance the resistance against the absurd transfer of nuclear waste from the 152 castors with 300 highly radioactive fuel elements. There is also something new in this matter: in 000 the...

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

    According to the nine constitutional judges, nothing stands in the way of the very controversial CIGEO project of the state authority ANDRA in Bure for legal reasons. This means: Despite the local resistance of the population and despite all the protests from environmental protection organizations since the discussions about underground “final disposal” began 30 years ago, the construction of an underground...

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

    the Gulf Stream, i.e. Europe's "central heating", which ensures the relatively mild climate on our continent. But new research shows that the gigantic ice sheet is likely more resilient to global warming than previously thought. Even a – short-term – sharp rise in temperatures would then be tolerable. However, countermeasures would then have to be taken quickly...

  4. Newsletter XLI 2023 - October 8th to 14th - News+ India - Flood and destruction - the last generation is right

    All luck prevented the “spontaneously” created dam from bursting: the masses of water would then have threatened several lower-lying dams. There has been local resistance for almost 20 years, gathering in groups like Affected Citizens of Teesta. Filmmaker Minket Lepcha released Voices of Teesta about the activist group in 2017: The film was shot in Delhi...

  5. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    Newsletter XL 2023 October 1st to 7th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never made public through official channels, so this information is only made available to the public in a roundabout way...

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

    to build the world's first large offshore wind farm. The numbers were impressive: 72 wind turbines, each over 100 meters high, just 10 kilometers from the Danish coast. Resistance on the coast Many residents of the nearby coastal towns of Gedser and Nysted asked themselves at the time: Why in our untouched coastal landscape, in the middle of one of the most important bird migration areas in Europe?...

  7. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    one of the world's largest economies, has agreed in parliament to calls for a treaty on the non-proliferation of fossil fuels. The proposal faced major opposition from oil and gas lobbyists as well as 40 industry groups who banded together to block it. Nevertheless, it received the approval of the Californian Parliament by a large majority. In...

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

    Skin reactions occur... * Resilience | Resilience | Biosphere Six out of nine planetary limits exceeded Update shows further deterioration in the condition of essential Earth systems Our planet's resilience is dwindling: Six out of nine limits of planetary resilience have been exceeded - two more than in 2015, as a new balance sheet reveals. We have therefore exceeded...

  9. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    Losing fellow human beings? Even in the face of a political mainstream in which people bury their heads in the sand, adapt in advance, and voluntarily abolish what could culturally resist fascism? Since no one believes the myth of protest voters anymore, people are settling in. It won't be so bad, the little bit of fascism or post-fascism or...

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

    * Türkiye | Opencast mining | Lignite Deforestation of the Akbelen Forest in Turkey: “Go there, listen” In Turkey, a large forest is to make way for lignite mining. The residents are resisting. Now there was a special meeting in parliament. ISTANBUL taz | For the first time in the history of the Turkish Republic, the Turkish Parliament met on Tuesday for a special session during the summer break...

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

    about the planned Castor transports from Jülich to Ahaus, which were already tested last month. Another “test” is scheduled to follow in October. The BI and several other inis have already announced resistance to this. After Atomic Minister Neubaur (Greens), the BI in Ahaus has now also written to MP Wüst. Neubaur is also working in Ahaus, but of course had time for Rheinmetall yesterday at...

  12. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    muss man sich vergegenwärtigen, um den Grad der Verantwortungslosigkeit der japanischen Regierung bei der Entscheidung ermessen zu können, nach dem GAU abgeschaltete Atomkraftwerke gegen den Widerstand der Bevölkerung wieder ans Netz zu nehmen. 16. Februar 2011 (INES 2) Akw Tricastin, Pierrelatte, FRA Der Ausfall des Notstromdieselaggregats wurde bei einem der regelmäßigen Tests entdeckt....

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

    aus lauter Atomkraftbefürwortern zusammensetzte. Die Atomaufsicht von Schleswig-Holstein erstellte zwar eine detaillierte Liste mit mehreren Hunderten von Mängeln, die aber aufgrund juristischen Widerstands von Vattenfall nicht veröffentlicht werden durfte. Auch der Deutschen Umwelthilfe wurde das Gutachten nicht ausgehändigt. Die atomkritische Ärzteorganisation IPPNW warf Vattenfall vor, auf...

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

    "It should be to maintain the diversity of actors," said managing director Katharina Würtz. The rising costs due to bidding competitions, for example, would ultimately be passed on to the customers... * Resistance | Climate movement | Anti-nuclear power plant Climate movement versus anti-nuclear power plant activists: A little less block, please The climate movement could learn a lot from the former anti-nuclear movement, which saw...

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

    serve as motifs in literature and film. The current political, social and technological climate crisis, if not solved, would result in a climate catastrophe... * Resistance (politics) Resistance is the refusal to obey or active opposition to the authorities or the government. It is initially of secondary...

  16. Newsletter XXVIII 2023 - July 9-15 - News+ Bulgaria wants to sell Russian reactors to Ukraine

    Newsletter XXVIII 2023 July 9th to 15th *** 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 non-exhaustive list of known incidents and releases of radioactivity... Excerpt for this month: July 5, 2000 (INES ? Class?) Grafenrheinfeld nuclear power plant, DEU July 8, 2008 (INES 1...

  17. Newsletter XXVII 2023 - July 2nd to 8th - News+ Is nuclear power experiencing a renaissance? There are also military interests behind it

    “Importantly, this report does not represent a change in the policies or activities of the Biden-Harris Administration, which remains focused on reducing emissions, increasing resilience, advancing environmental justice and achieving true energy security,” it said in a White House statement accompanying the report: There is no...

  18. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    Climate Commissioner Frans Timmermans wants to use the renaturation law to rehydrate drained moors, reforest forests and bring more greenery into cities. They encounter bitter resistance... * Nuclear transport from Jülich to Ahaus Demo against planned nuclear transports in Ahaus In Ahaus there was a demonstration against nuclear transports to the interim storage facility there. The occasion: This week...

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

    Who is slowing down nature conservation in Brussels? Today, the EU environment ministers are discussing a central component of the Commission's "Green Deal" agenda. At the same time, there is also resistance to the project in Brussels. It's about perhaps the EU Commission's most important project - Ursula von der Leyen calls the "Green Deal" a matter of the heart. She was barely elected as Commission President...

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

    has called on an alliance of 450 South American and European organizations to stop the planned free trade agreement. On April 17, 2023, the International Day of Peasant Resistance, the Working Group for Rural Agriculture (AbL), FIAN and other organizations demonstrated in front of the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Berlin against the planned EU-Mercosur agreement... *...