Long struggle still Blocks Nuclear Waste Cemetery in Villar de Cañas, Spain

It all began in Jan 2010 at 23:56 at night, in the little village of Villar de Cañas when a council meeting voted in favour of a Nuclear Waste Cemetery which was not even on the agenda,

Spain finally had a place which agreed to host its high level Nuclear Waste, for thousands of years. But the battle against the cemetery had only just begun

Laguna del Hito.. its protected habitat protection has been abolished by the PP courts

Last 25 Nov the 3rd Assembly of the Iberian Antinuclear Movement (MIA) was held nearby in Cuenca to highlight the risk that the nearby construction of the ATC in Villar de Cañas would entail. If there is a Nuclear Cemetery available it would boost the Nuclear Industry and could delay even further the closing down of dangerous obsolete plants.

In Sept 2017 the local Castilla-La Mancha government again rejected the Centralized Nuclear Cemetery (ATC) pending a new environmental resolution by the Ministry, which they said “must be negative.”

“We have made it clear that we want a different energy model; we do not want the promotion of nuclear energy and we are committed to renewables. The ATC is not compatible with a natural space, “they argued.

For five years renewable energy has been severely blocked in Spain due to disgraceful laws by the corrupt PP to favour the fossil sector and finally the EU is set to fine Spain for its blatant ‘Tax on using the Sun’ policy.

Several geological reports from the Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) indicate that this nuclear cemetery would be located on unsuitable land due to its risk of subsidence.

The Government delegate in Castilla-La Mancha, José Julián Gregorio, has defended the installation of the ATC in Villar de Cañas and has assured the public that this infrastructure “is necessary for Spain”. “Everyone will have to do what they think is convenient”, he pointed out.

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Economic ‘Growth’ will destroy everything. Greening it won`t work – We Need a New System.

Everything Must Go

By George Monbiot, Everyone wants everything – how is that going to work? The promise of economic growth is that the poor can live like the rich and the rich can live like the oligarchs.

But already we are bursting through the physical limits of the planet that sustains us. Climate breakdown, soil loss, the collapse of habitats and species, the sea of plastic, insectageddon: all are driven by rising consumption.

The promise of private luxury for everyone cannot be met: neither the physical nor the ecological space exists.

But growth must go on: this is everywhere the political imperative.

And we must adjust our tastes accordingly. In the name of autonomy and choice, marketing uses the latest findings in neuroscience to break down our defences.

Research by Oxfam suggests that the world’s richest 1% (if your household has an income of £70,000 or more (78,000 euros), this means you) produce around 175 times as much carbon as the poorest 10%.

Those who seek to resist must, like the Simple Lifers in Brave New World, be silenced – in this case by the media. With every generation, the baseline of normalised consumption shifts. Thirty years ago, it was ridiculous to buy bottled water, where tap water is clean and abundant.

Today, worldwide, we use a million plastic bottles a minute. Continue reading “Economic ‘Growth’ will destroy everything. Greening it won`t work – We Need a New System.”

CSO La Chispa ‘The Spark!’ Finally Evicted and Demolished. Demos Today

Desallotjament i enderroc del C.S.O. La Chispa..~ 10 anys d’okupació

Han desallotjat i enderrocat el C.S.O. La Chispa! Aquesta tarda a les 19:00H concentració a plaça ricard vinyes! Demá manifestació a les 19:00H a plaça europa!

Four activists have been condemned and fined this year for ”damages” to the abandoned buildings which have now been demolished for land speculation

Demonstration of rejection of the demolition of the CSO la Chispa – 7pm Europe (Lleida)

by support group cso Las Chispa
E-mail: los.chi.spa@hotmail.com 23 Nov 2017
This morning 10 vans from the catalan riot police brigade have evicted La Chispa, after nearly 10 years of occupation. Continue reading “CSO La Chispa ‘The Spark!’ Finally Evicted and Demolished. Demos Today”

Occupiers in Holland and Switzerland resist Capitalist Evictions

Two squats under attack from the authorities are mobilising to beat back the latest round of evictions on the European scene.

Writing on Indymedia Netherlands, Bajesdorp in Amsterdam explained they are on the front line of a major redevelopment project due to be on the agenda of council meetings today, the ¨bestemmingsplan.¨ They said:

Our message is clear: We want a social city and we won´t move for hotels, speculation and tax advantages.

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STOP the Uranium Mine: Demo/Mani 26 Nov. en Salamanca

No to the uranium mine, yes to life ..No a la mina de uranio, sí a la vida

by José Ramón Barrueco A company of Australian origin, Berkeley Minera España SL, intends to open several open-cast uranium mines in the province of Salamanca, 40 hectares of a holm oak grove in perfect state of preservation have already been destroyed. The extracted uranium ore would be treated in a concentrates plant in the town of Retortillo, which is also the mining project most developed by the company Berkeley.

The majority of the inhabitants of the area oppose the planned mines due to the negative effects that this activity will entail for the region: explosions with expulsion of radioactive dust into the atmosphere thec(negative effect of radon gas), tyhe continuous transfer of trucks and heavy machinery, loss of forest, diversion of water courses, etc.

In spite of the neighborhood opposition, the different administrations involved have given their approval to the development of uranium mining in Salamanca. In the case of Retortillo, the actions of the local council have been shameful, preventing a popular referendum that the mayor (of the PSOE) wanted from the polls in the 2015 elections and his replacement by a party member favorable to the interests of the mining company. Continue reading “STOP the Uranium Mine: Demo/Mani 26 Nov. en Salamanca”

Llega un metanero con GAS DEL FRACKING a Barcelona…en un barco Ruso!?

de NoMesGas › Ayer martes 20 de Noviembre llegó un metanero desde Sabine Pass en Louisiana y está descargando hasta 170,000 m3 de GNL derivado del fracking en el EEUU en la planta de Enagás en la Zona Franca port.

EN TWITTER…https://twitter.com/search?q=%23+NoAlFrackGasDelTrump.. #NoAlFrackGasDelTrump

Market News

”Gas Natural’s Pskov loaded at Sabine Pass on 6-November and is now making her laden voyage towards Barcelona, ETA 20-November”.

Según el sitio web analista Kpler el barco la PSKOV es ”de Gas Natural’. Pero no figura en la lista de metaneros de GNF, al menos que fuera fletado últimamente. Pertenecía en 2015 a la gran empresa Rusa OAO Sovcomflot (SCF) pero fue fletado a GAZPROM por 15 años.The Pskov LNG carrier has a cargo storage capacity of 170,200m³

(”The Pskov gas carrier is the second one in a series of high-tech ice-class LNG carriers that have been designed on Gazprom’s order., Gazprom Marketing & Trading (GM&T) chartered Pskov from Russian shipping company Sovcomflot” http://www.gazprom.com/press/news/2014/august/article199499/ ). Continue reading “Llega un metanero con GAS DEL FRACKING a Barcelona…en un barco Ruso!?”