1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    arbeiten. Viele, die sich dennoch auf die Straßen wagten, blieben mit ihren Fahrzeugen stehen. Einige mussten in ihren Autos übernachten. Die Behörden schickten Tanklastwagen auf die Straßen und Autobahnen, um das Wasser abzupumpen. In einige Häuser drang Wasser ein. [...] Starken Regen gab es auch in Katar, Bahrain und Saudi-Arabien. Im Sultanat Oman sind bei heftigen Regenfällen 19 Menschen...

  2. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    It is not effective due to a lack of acceptance among the population. Now a scientist contradicts him. Politicians and experts have been discussing a speed limit on German motorways for years. According to the latest statements by Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP), it is an ongoing issue, but not a solution for climate protection. [...] A nationwide speed limit of 120...

  3. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    applies to agricultural use of tractors: in the field and back and forth. Precisely because they then don’t use the infrastructure around it. Any “improper use” – pushing green people, blocking motorways, that kind of thing – must be “immediately reported” to the main customs office. Taxes must then be paid “at least for one month” according to Section 5 Paragraph 2 Sentence 4 KfStG. Interesting sloppiness at...

  4. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    old thinking still prevails. Climate reporter°: Mr. Holzapfel, traffic infrastructure construction is being pushed forward in Germany. The Bundestag has decided that the construction and expansion of motorways and other roads should also take place more quickly. You criticize this. Every additional meter of road represents a significant threat to nature - and ultimately to the biosphere, you warn. Hard tobacco...

  5. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    are dangerous. It's about highly radioactive nuclear waste from the reactor of the former Jülich Nuclear Research Center, which is to be driven almost every week for two years on more than 170 kilometers along highways through the most densely populated regions of North Rhine-Westphalia - for example through the Düsseldorf airport tunnel or via the dilapidated 'Berliner Brücke' of the A59 in the middle...

  6. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    With weapons, ammunition and equipment, it provides the essential equipment for the Israeli army's attack on Gaza... December 19th Farmers and climate glue block traffic Highways blocked: Are farmers threatened with the same punishments as climate activists? Farmers blocked traffic with their tractors on several highways in North Rhine-Westphalia on Monday. There were long traffic jams -...

  7. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    soon on the streets? The small THTR experimental reactor in Jülich was decommissioned in 1988. Since then, the 300.000 radioactive fuel balls have been stored there in 152 castors. Now they are to be taken via the motorway to the interim storage facility in Ahaus, 170 kilometers away, where the nuclear waste from Hamm is already stored. A second test trip without radioactive cargo took place on November 21st and 22nd with...

  8. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    the local action alliance! Route: There are also many opportunities to protest along the way. In Jülich the Castor first takes the B56 to the A44. The blue sparkling convoy can be clearly seen on the highways. Spontaneous vigils at the motorway entrances or within sight of the motorways are a strong sign that there are also protests along the route. Because: This time it works...

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

    certainly not the Jülich nuclear waste company JEN or the research center behind it want to abandon their transport plans. They want to plunge North Rhine-Westphalia into a Castor disaster on the highways with 152 Castors. We continue to demand the cancellation of the Castor plans and finally the start of construction on a new Castor warehouse in Jülich. Current news also on www.westcastor.org and...

  10. 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

    Intermediate storage | Ahaus Dear friends, from next Monday, November 6.11th, according to the operator, the second test Castor can roll from Jülich to Ahaus - with an empty Castor and over the highways. Nightly return transport is planned. In contrast, next Monday, November 2th, vigils will take place in Jülich and Ahaus: in Jülich at 6.11 p.m. in front of the main gate of...

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

    | Ahaus 250 people protest between Jülich and Ahaus In several places between Jülich and Ahaus there were protests today against the threat of nuclear waste transport along the possible motorway transport routes through North Rhine-Westphalia. Around 200 people took part in the rally in Ahaus, and around 50 people took part in the vigils in Jülich, Düsseldorf and Duisburg. In Düsseldorf and...

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

    on the way to a 3 degree world by the end of the century.”... * Greenhouse gas emissions | Transport transition | EU transport policy in car fever: 15.000 km of rails gone, but 30.000 km of new motorways. The road network continues to proliferate, railway tracks are disappearing, and have been doing so for 30 years. A study shows the extent: Germany invests incorrectly, other countries surprise. What experts demand...

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

    and so not sustainable. In a brochure published today, the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) explains what mistakes are being made in the current plans to expand motorways and federal highways and shows how sustainable mobility could be achieved. A change of direction is necessary in order to finally actively shape the future of mobility in Germany. In the...

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

    August, at 14 p.m. at the “Mahner” in the Ahaus pedestrian zone. In 2024, 300 highly radioactive fuel balls in 000 Castor containers are planned to be transported from the Research Center Jülich via the highways of North Rhine-Westphalia to the nuclear waste storage facility in Ahaus, writes Marita Boslar from the “Stop Westcastor” Jülich campaign alliance. [...] The anti-nuclear power initiatives support the BI “No nuclear waste in...

  15. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Krško (Slovenia)#Risks and incidents Problems arose during delivery in 1981: When the 322-ton steam generator was being transported from Rijeka to Krško, it crashed onto the motorway. In the first eight years, the operation of the two billion dollar plant was interrupted 70 times... May 2008 (INES Class?) Nuclear power plant Cruas 4, FRA Wikipedia de Cruas nuclear power plant This block was...

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

    Direct current Long dispute over a long line The plans for the SuedLink power line have been in existence for more than ten years. The groundbreaking ceremony with Minister Habeck took place today. But the electricity highway from north to south is already leaving deep traces. [...] In order to achieve climate neutrality in the electricity sector, many kilometers of additional power grids would have to be built over the next two decades...

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

    The Transport Minister is not fulfilling his legal obligations, said FFF spokesman Pit Terjung on Monday in Berlin. The FFF's immediate program provides for a speed limit of 120 on motorways and an immediate stop to the construction and expansion of motorways and federal roads, including the 144 new motorway projects planned by Wissing. The climate protectors are also calling for the expansion...

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

    between Jülich and Ahaus Dear people, apparently things are getting serious again in Ahaus: Tomorrow (Tuesday) and Thursday, test castors are to be driven by truck from the Research Center Jülich via the highways across the Ruhr area to Ahaus, although there is still no permit for the transport of the 300 highly radioactive fuel balls from Jülich to Ahaus. Officially it still applies...

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

    ... * Climate protection | Transport sector | Wissing Quaschning explains: Wissing's climate protection The transport sector is mercilessly tearing down its climate targets, but Minister Wissing is sticking to the combustion engine, wants to build new motorways and weaken the climate protection law. Others should save CO2. That will not work. Transport Minister Wissing doesn't give a damn about climate protection. So that it doesn't stand out so much, others should...

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

    This makes it one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded in the region... * Nuclear transport | Uranium hexafluoride BBU sounds the alarm Secret nuclear transport rolls over the A31 near Ahaus On Friday morning (June 31th) - according to the Federal Association of Citizens' Initiatives for Environmental Protection (BBU) - a secret nuclear transport with three trucks rolled on the Autobahn 16.06 near Ahaus. [...] Without police protection...

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