World cannot afford nuclear climate solution-report
Saturday, June 30th, 2007The world must start building nuclear power plants at the unprecedented rate of four a month from now on if nuclear energy is to play a serious part in fighting global warming, a leading think-tank said on Wednesday.
Not only is this impossible for logistical reasons, but it has major implications for world security because of nuclear weapons proliferation, the Oxford Research Group said in its report “Too Hot To Handle - The future of civil nuclear power”.
The report fired a series of broadsides against the growing momentum for more nuclear-generated electricity to help cut climate-warming carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels.
A Green Party member since 2001, Sterk joined the party after spending a year sailing in Mexico and observing how exporting our consumptive lifestyle to a less developed country was destroying the environment, damaging their social and family systems and creating a false economy. Sterk is an elected municipal councillor who will bring her effectiveness in government, as well as her private and public sector experience, to provide balanced and effective leadership for the Green Party of BC.