NHL Georges Laraque adds ethnicity “muscle” to Green Party of Canada team?!

NHL Georges Laraque adds ethnicity “muscle” to Green Party of Canada team?!

NHL Georges Laraque adds ethnicity to Green Party of Canada team?! In the global game of environment, the Green Party plays the role of environmental conscience in Canadian politics. Well, the Party just added to its game team, a new Deputy Leader: famed former NHL enforcer Georges Laraque.

But shall this appointment to the Green team, help Green Party Leader Elizabeth May build public, ethnic and media awareness with Canadiens?! --sorry, a little fun, with the fact, that Laraque finished his NHL career with the Montreal Canadiens.
The Green Party claims it is often ignored by the mainstream media. Can the retired NHL enforcer help get the media coverage that environmental and Party activists say that they are not getting?

The world is in greatly troubled times! Nuclear waste from the Bruce Nuclear Power Plant –North America’s largest plant-- is about to move across the Great Lakes in September 2010. Iran is about to accelerate its nuclear program. The world’s worst oil spill, the BP Gulf spill, is finally capped; but its huge ecological damage is now only being speculated.

Climate change has dominated media weather stories around the world this summer of 2010, with record hot and cold weather crises globally.

On the human rights front, in Canada, a $45 Million class action suit is launched against the abuse of power by the Canadian governments in their treatment of protesters at the Toronto 2010 G20 meeting.

With Mr Georges Laraque’s fame and personal veganism, can he really help bring public and media awareness to such important global lifestyle and environmental issues?

With Mr Georges Laraque’s parents born in Haiti, can the NHL enforcer star bring ethnic outreach and credibility “muscle” to the Green Party?

The Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May, and the Party is holding its national convention in Toronto this August 2010. It shall be insightful to see what role the new Deputy Leader plays in the Convention and the Green Party’s outreach in Toronto, one of Canada’s most multicultural cities.

By the way, some followers of NoNuclearNow were asking why we are giving space to covering the Green Party of Canada and its activities –thank you, by the way, for your comments!

Well, as NoNuclearNow is a blog about nuclear energy, we think that public and media awareness and education is key to learning and disseminating the truth about nuclear energy. We believe nuclear power is NOT just a theoretical issue; but something that we must study, understand and defend –or oppose! So NoNuclearNow feels it appropriate and necessary that we provide information and insights into the political leaders and parties that create, influence and enact our public policies and laws; such as Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and the Green Party of Canada.

We noted earlier this month, that the transportation of nuclear waste in the Great Lakes could be a symbolic moment that the green politicians and activists can seize upon, to raise public and media awareness.

A leak of nuclear waste from Bruce Nuclear Energy Generating Plant would make the BP Gulf oil spill a footnote; contaminating 20% of the world’s surface fresh water. Bruce is the second largest plant in the world. This is symbolism galore for alert politicians, and activists.

Perhaps, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and the party can equally seize upon the opportunity that they have created, with the symbolism in a retired NHL enforcer with Haitian heritage, Montreal birth place and green vegan lifestyle?!

Green-Party-Leader-Elizabeth-May-at-2010-Green-Party-Convention-in-Toronto, to make Toronto glow nuclear green

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May at 2010 Green Party Convention in Toronto, to make Toronto glow nuclear green?!

Toronto Goes Green with both Green Party of Canada Convention and Bruce Nuclear Power Plant waste!Toronto --What are Canada’s leaders doing about nuclear waste? It’s ironic that the Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May, and the Green Party of Canada is holding its national convention in Toronto this summer 2010. This September, Toronto and the Great Lakes could glow green –nuclear green that is!Bruce Nuclear Energy Generating Plant is the largest in North America, second largest in the world. Sixteen 16 old generators from the Bruce Plant shall be sent to Sweden for recycling! These 100 tonne generators will be sent by ship through the Great Lakes, where in Sweden 90% of the material in the generators will be recycled, with the remainder returned to the Bruce Plant to be stored as nuclear waste.With the images of the BP Gulf oil leak in the public’s mind, will the Green Party Leader May, speak out at their August 2010 Green Party Convention , against this terrible government decision to transport nuclear waste material across the Great Lakes -- some 20% of the world’s surface fresh water!We found some interesting concerns about this nuclear waste transport at the Wind Blog by Glen Estill, at http://www.biofuels.coop/windblog/ --1 “If water gets into the generator, is it possible that greater levels of radiation would be dispersed?2 “If a generator went down, and was down for awhile, what would be the impact, if any, on fish? The Great Lakes have a significant sport and commercial fishery.3 “Much of the water supply for residents of Ontario, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York State is drawn from the Great Lakes. Millions of people rely on this water. How close would the ship pass to water intakes? “Like the Titanic, BP offered complete trust in its systems, backup systems. A leak could result in catastrophic damage to the environment.Where are the political leaders, federally, provincially, municipally, on this issue?! The Green Party, of course, is committed to environmental issues. So will Green Party Leader May, speak out on this issue at their August 2010 Green Party Convention in Toronto –which ironically, sits on the shores of Lake Ontario, part of the Great Lakes system.Nuclear power safe? It’s a haunting thought, with the anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Japan; and the recent anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear plant leaks.“The threat of nuclear disaster is always with us and is an unnecessary risk that we must put to an end,” said Green Leader Elizabeth May. “Even CANDU reactors have the potential for a devastating accident, which is all the more reason to phase them out and shift to renewables.”“Every year, the anniversary of Chernobyl is a reminder to us that nuclear energy is not worth the risk.”“As Canada’s nuclear power plants age, we need to shift away from this dangerous technology and toward clean power such as wind, solar and hydroelectricity. Not only is it significantly safer, it is also the more economically sound path,” said Green Party Leader May.Such irony that the August Green Party Convention shall be in Toronto, Canada, with governments and citizens supporting the September movement of nuclear waste from Canada to Sweden, across some of the world’s most important ecology systems, from the Great Lakes’ fisheries, drinking water, to the ocean fisheries and open sea issues of the Atlantic Ocean.Can Green Party Leader May seize on this issue, on this symbolic moment, to speak out about the dangers of nuclear power, the positive potential of alternative energy; to outreach the peoples of Canada and the world?!

Health Minister quits as $1 billion CDN wasted in Ontario ehealth program

$1 billion CDN wasted in ontario on ehealth program

2009 Oct 7

Toronto, Canada --Minister of Health, David Caplan, resigns as report released showing $1 Billion CDN wasted in producing electronic computer health records system for Province of Ontario in Canada. The result of the program to date... basically, nothing...

This is the same government that wanted to spend $26 Billion on a new, massive nuclear program in Ontario, Canada...

The dangers of nuclear energy are huge. Yet what checks and balances are there in government, in the nuclear industry? Who oversees government spending and programs? Who would protect citizens from defective, inept or corrupt nuclear power industry?

Ontario Government wasted $1 billion in ONE SINGLE program... What would have happened with a nuclear energy program of $26 Billion!

Trust governments to safeguard world's nuclear? Britain admits releasing Lockerbie bomber for oil !

September 5, 2009

Trust governments to safeguard world's nuclear power use? Today a perfect example of how governments do NOT do the moral and "right" thing in the murky world of geopolitics, where decisions are made for so many, many reasons, that often don't seem to have any logic or morality?!

British government officials admit releasing Lockerbie bomber for oil favours from terrorist-supporter, Libya!

A senior British minister says trade and oil deals with Libya played a "very big part" in Britain's Minister of Justice Jack Straw admits oil played "big part" in Britain's decision to include the Lockerbie bomber, Abel Baset al-Megrahi, in a prisoner transfer agreement between the two countries.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said there was "no cover-up, no double-dealing, no deal on oil" linked to Megrahi's early release last month from a Scottish prison.

Megrahi was the only man convicted in the 1988 bombing of a U.S. airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie. The bombing killed 270 people.

Straw acknowledged to The Daily Telegraph that British trade interests were a crucial factor in the 2007 prisoner transfer negotiations with Libya, which he called a "rogue state" that "we wanted to bring back into the fold." A few weeks later, in January 2008, Libya ratified a $900 million oil deal with BP.

safe nuclear power --Iran close to producing one nuclear bomb!

Sept 9, 2009 --A global perspective and reminder about the very real dangers of nuclear power:

ONE, Glyn Davies, the senior USA official at the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency says a recent report by the nuclear group shows Iran is has enough low-enriched uranium to produce one nuclear weapon.

TWO, Venezuela's leader, Chavez, now working with Iran, to develop mutually safe nuclear power...?!

Davies spoke at a closed session of the IAEA’s 35-nation board of governors!

Great victory to people power against nuclear, but where is media?!

Great victory to people power against nuclear, but where is media?!
2009 July 16

In June 2009, Ontario was to announce commitment of $26 BILLION CDN to new nuclear power in Ontario, Canada. Instead, the Ontario Government --and federal Canadian Government, in essence-- have announced formally their decision to suspend their new MASSIVE nuclear power ramp-up!?

The probable reason: a broad, bold grassroots efforts by citizens of Ontario, Canada, against new nuclear power.

But the Ontario announcement was made weeks ago: question, where are the media stories about the issue, about the government bowing to genuine citizen concerns about the economic viability, and safety of nuclear energy power!

Where is the media? Where is the media?

people power stops nuclear explosion in Ontario, Canada

People power stops nuclear explosion in Ontario, Canada
2009 July 7

Public activism, people power?! The governments of Ontario and Canada have announced suspension of their plans to commit to new nuclear power plants! Thus saving taxpayers $26 Billion (before billions of dollars more in overruns!). And potentially saving the peoples of Ontario, Canada and the world, from a nuclear leak or explosion! Certainly, from an "explosion" of new nuclear energy plants and plans! Congratulations again, people who worked so hard on this. Sadly, the battle continues:

Nuclear is NOT safe, NOT economical, NOT green.

Thanks to all you activists and citizens, who spoke out and told your politicians "No to Nuclear!"

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