1. Newsletter XIII 2024 - News+ March 24th - Protest at the first nuclear summit in Brussels against the IAEA's “nuclear fantasies”.

    Energy sources. After the end of locally produced city gas, German natural gas supply was entirely focused on flexible pipeline supplies, initially from the Netherlands and later from Russia and Norway. Only Norway remained after gas from Russia was no longer wanted and the gas field in Groningen was closed due to earthquakes caused by production. Volatile elements in the gas supply...

  2. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    Activists are calling for a quick PFAS ban. There should only be exceptions for important medical uses. The environmental authorities of the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Denmark have already submitted an application for a ban on PFAS to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in 2023. * Israel | Gaza | Famine EU foreign policy chief Borrell: Israel...

  3. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    The problem: "The federal government has renounced this." The result: excesses remain, financial investors and corporations continue to lavishly subsidize their "green" image. January 18 Norway | North Sea | Oil drilling Climate activists in Norway successfully sue against oil approval In the year-long dispute between climate activists and the oil nation Norway, environmental protection organizations...

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

    government in Ankara. This violates international agreements on crossing the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, which belong to Turkey, during wartime... * Energy transition | Denmark | Norway | Electricity imports Energy transition: Where Germany gets most of its electricity from Energy and climate – compact: New green electricity record 2023. Wind power on the rise, coal-fired power plants on the decline....

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

    (e.g.: Guardian of Prosperity) announced in the Red Sea. The US-led coalition already includes Bahrain, France, Great Britain, Italy, Canada, the Netherlands, Norway and the Seychelles. Greece and Australia also want to join the alliance. Spain says it only wants to take part in an EU or NATO mission. The...

  6. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    Newsletter XLVIII 2023 November 26th to December 2nd *** 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 released through official channels, leaving this information to the public...

  7. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    Up to 40 percent of the cement can be replaced by a finely ground waste product from silicon manganese production without affecting the stability of the concrete, as a pilot test in Norway has shown. The slag concrete saves up to 95 percent of the CO2 emissions that would otherwise be caused by the cement content. Along with steel production, cement production is one of the largest...

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

    they died a few days later. (Costs?) Nuclear Power Accidents NTI - Nuclear Threat Initiative https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/former-yugoslavia-nuclear/ Yugoslavia cooperated with Norway in the field of plutonium reprocessing, set up a department for the reprocessing of spent fuel, signed a cooperation agreement in 1956...

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

    Up to two thirds of the European population will be affected by weather extremes, and without further adaptation measures to global climate change between 2071 and 2100, 80.000 to 240.000 people will die per year in the EU, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland. Between 1981 and 2010, around 3.000 Europeans lost their lives in weather disasters every year. 99% of weather fatalities...

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

    The representatives of 31 of these states sit on the side of the hall. There are more than 80 lawyers. The lawsuit is aimed at all EU member states, as well as Norway, Switzerland, Turkey, Great Britain and Russia, which, however, is not represented. These countries are also fighting: against this high European court declaring the lawsuit admissible...

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

    more closed to rail passengers than other European countries. According to Greenpeace, investments in road and rail in the 27 EU states as well as in Great Britain, Norway and Switzerland were examined for the analysis. Comparable data for these 30 countries was available for the years 1995 to 2018. During this period, an average of 66 percent more was used on roads than on rails...

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

    Proposal released that could cut global chemical production more than ever before. Environmental authorities from five countries - Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden - have presented a plan that would severely restrict the production of more than 12 substances. They are known as per- and polyfluorinated alkyl compounds, or PFAS for short, and...

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

    Newsletter XXXII 2023 August 6th *** 12 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 Current+ background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military atomic industry . Some of this information only became public in a roundabout way. As soon as...

  14. 1950 to 1959 - INES, NAMS and other events

    they died a few days later. (Costs?) Nuclear Power Accidents NTI - Nuclear Threat Initiative https://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/former-yugoslavia-nuclear/ Yugoslavia cooperated with Norway in the field of plutonium reprocessing, set up a department for the reprocessing of spent fuel, signed a cooperation agreement in 1956...

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

    So far this year and for 20 years we have exported more electricity than we have imported. And the net electricity we import this year comes largely from Denmark, Sweden and Norway. Yes, that is really true. See for yourself. I'll show you all the numbers and, as always, with links so that you can check for yourself: OUR ELECTRICITY MIX HAS NEVER BEEN AS GREEN AS THIS SUMMER So far...

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

    Newsletter XX 2023 May 14th to 20th *** 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 accidents and releases of radioactivity. Some of this information was only made public under the most difficult conditions. As new information emerges, this...

  17. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    the work." The North Sea will soon become an important place for energy production. Specifically, the nine countries - in addition to Germany and Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg and Great Britain - want to build offshore wind turbines with an output of 2030 gigawatts by 120. At least 2050 gigawatts are expected to be generated in the North Sea by 300...

  18. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    especially in the USA, as well as experiments by research groups in two marine areas, namely the North Sea and the Barents Sea. These investigations by international research groups into leaks in former natural gas and oil storage facilities that Norway is now using as CO2 storage have shown that the CO2 injected into them remains there and the leak rate is minimal. Because Norway has been reducing CO1991 emissions since 2...

  19. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    led, not fully clarify; However, the second investigation believed that the incident was due to structural defects in the boat. The poor level of training of the crew was also criticized. Norway later said that they could have reached the boat by air or sea two hours before the sinking, but they were notified too late. *** April 6th War | Climate change |...

  20. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    on the procedure. For example, CO2 could escape from the sea again. How dangerous is CCS? Wallmann: We did a lot of research into the leaks. We looked at the two existing storage facilities off Norway with research ships from all over Europe. We found that no CO2 escapes there. But we found in the area around these reservoirs that, especially at old boreholes...

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