1. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    Critics fear sabotage and espionage by Russia. Five members of the works council of the fuel element factory and two representatives of the Lingen branch of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union (IGBCE) were also in Hanover on Friday. "We want to show that despite all the protests that we are facing, there is also a workforce of 400 people who are fully behind the project...

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

    of taxes paid. Stournaras therefore wants to ensure that payments can only be made digitally in Greece so that every transaction is recorded... * Guatemala | land rights | Indigenous mining in Guatemala Indigenous people have a say in land use The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has granted land rights to an indigenous people in Guatemala. The verdict could...

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

    The agreements were signed on October 13 in Moscow on the sidelines of the 6th Russian Energy Weekly Forum. An MoU on cooperation was signed between Rosatom and the Ministry of Energy, Mines and Quarries of Burkina Faso. The signing was carried out by Rosatom Deputy General Director Nikolay Spassky and the Minister of Energy, Mines and...

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

    attacked demonstrators who were just a few meters away from the steep edge of the Garweiler II opencast mine. Dozens of people were injured. [...] The expropriation of land for mining is a historical pivot in Germany, as the modern federal mining law that enables it grew out of old Nazi legislation that allowed the eviction of communities for coal mining in...

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

    or intensified, such as forest fires or floods. [...] A verdict at the Higher Regional Court in Hamm is currently eagerly awaited. This is about the lawsuit brought by a Peruvian mountain farmer against the energy company RWE. The accusation: Because of its enormous CO2 emissions, RWE is complicit in the melting of glaciers in the Andes, which is threatening his place of residence. * Electromobility |...

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

    is being further expanded: This year there was a new contract. BRUSSELS taz | Niger is of much greater strategic importance internationally than Mali or Burkina Faso. This is also due to its mining resources. According to World Nuclear Association data, Niger was the world's sixth largest uranium producer in 2022, behind Kazakhstan, Canada, Namibia, Australia and Russia. Its at 311.000...

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

    and industry. [...] Who uses the most water in Germany? In Germany, the most water is used by the energy supply (44,2 percent), the manufacturing sector including mining and industry (26,8 percent), the public water supply (26,8 percent) and agriculture (2,2 percent). . The public water supply takes around 70 percent of the groundwater...

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

    the North Sea can also be exploited with energy islands. However, options for a better and more cost-effective concept should now be analyzed first... * Radon | Uranium mining | Erzgebirge Carcinogenic gas radon in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia The occurrence of radon cannot be prevented in some regions. But you can protect yourself against the carcinogenic gas. And it...

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

    on the supervisory board of Sfirion AG, which builds diesel power plants and wind farms. Lars Rohwer, who was elected to the Bundestag in 2021, sits on the supervisory board of the lignite company Lausitz Energie mining AG, which earns him a good 10.000 euros this year. In the Bundestag he said: “The current plans for the massive expansion of wind turbines and photovoltaics are destroying our networks.” In 2008...

  10. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    also an employee of the US secret service CIA for nine years -, on January 18th with Óscar Vera Gargurevich, who had been appointed Minister of Energy and Mines after the "parliamentary coup" on December 10th, as well as deputy ministers from various departments. A “high-level institutional dialogue” took place between “Peru and the United States,” tweeted the Peruvian...

  11. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    “Anyone who talks about the continued operation of nuclear power plants must also take the safety risks in the nuclear production chain into account,” explains Olaf Bandt, BUND chairman. “In uranium mining, countless people are exposed to life-threatening radiation every day, often without knowing it. Even in Germany, those affected often fight in vain for recognition and compensation. The same applies to...

  12. Newsletter XXXVIII 2022 - September 24th to 30th - News+ Fridays for Future calls for a special fund of 100 billion euros for climate protection

    The country for conservationists was Mexico, followed by Colombia and Brazil, as the group announced on Thursday when presenting its annual report. Activists who campaign against mining and energy projects, agriculture and deforestation in particular live dangerous lives. Most killings are never solved, the organization reported. “Risk anywhere in the world...

  13. Newsletter XXXVII 2022 - September 17 to 23 - News+ Low-level ionizing radiation also poses a risk

    or spallation processes. Radioactivity generated or released by humans Long before radioactivity was discovered, radioactive substances were released by human activities such as mining and coal burning. Paracelsus described Schneeberg's disease in 1567. Metal ores and coal contain more radionuclides than the average biosphere;...

  14. Newsletter XXVII 2022 - July 02nd to 10th - News+ Global security is only possible together!

    would mean, for example, immediately approving renewable systems, starting a skilled worker booster, stopping new gas heating systems and launching a major heat transition program. **July 02nd South America | Mining | Environmental activist | murdered activist against illegal mining in Venezuela: indigenous leader shot dead Virgilio Trujillo Arana fought against overexploitation of nature in the Amazon and armed...

  15. Newsletter XV 2022 - April 08th to 14th - News+ Russian gas and the German energy transition: perspective yellow vests

    Bolsonaro's extermination package Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wants to open indigenous territories to mining under the pretext of the war in Ukraine and because of an alleged lack of raw materials. This endangers not only these peoples, but also the Amazon rainforest ecosystem and climate protection. * Easter March | Peace movement energy transition instead of nuclear armament Under the motto...

  16. Newsletter XIV 2022 - April 01st to 07th - News+ Media: The truth and all the other victims

    Clear and binding rules for species protection should apply when expanding wind energy * Renewable Cuba is exploring energy cooperation in Berlin The Cuban Minister for Energy and Mining, Nicolás Liván Arronte, is currently in Berlin and took part in the Berlin Dialogue on the Energy Transition 2022... * Duration | Nuclear lobby | Kini Jödler Ministry of Economics: Extension of the term of...

  17. Newsletter X - March 03rd to 09.03.2021th, 03 - News+ March XNUMXrd - Radioactivity nourishes deep biosphere

    is called terrestrial radiation. Radioactivity generated or released by humans Long before radioactivity was discovered, radioactive substances were released by human activities such as mining and coal burning. Paracelsus described Schneeberg's disease in 1567. Metal ores and coal contain more radionuclides than the average biosphere;...

  18. The uranium story

    this supposedly worthless material on the rubbish heaps (slag heaps) next to the mine. It was only many years later that the first interest in this material arose... Pollution from uranium mining Deadly dangers lurk when mining uranium ore, radioactive radon gas is released and the waste still contains up to 85 percent of the original radioactivity. The wind blows away the...

  19. Important books on atomic research, THTR etc.

    Catastrophe and disaster protection - A 'thought game' about the possible Gau in Hamm - The United Electricity Works of Westphalia - A short profile - How the nuclear industry deals with coal and mining - An insight into the nuclear felt - Energy from hydropower - The unwanted gift of nature -- "Nothing has been opposed to the VEW sprinkling" -- Resistance from...

  20. THTR Newsletter No. 81 March 03

    During this period, the company temporarily cut off electricity to 10 million South Africans because they could not pay the unreasonably high tariffs. On the other hand, the wholesale prices that ESKOM grants to the mining and steel industries are the lowest in the world - an additional incentive to build thermal power plants with their high carbon dioxide emissions. The company invests 25 times as much money in...

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