Sizewell Camp and Demo — 25/26th April (& solidarity call-out for anti-nuke actions on Chernobyl Day)

No to New Nuclear Pow­er — Yes to Decen­tralised Ener­gy!

If you do not think nuclear pow­er is the answer to cli­mate chaos come and join us in the 2 day demo and camp this week­end.

Where — Sizewell A and B, Suf­folk UK.
When — 25th April
Time ‑12 noon

Speak­ers include- Pete Wilkin­son Co-founder of Green­peace UK, CORWM etc (tbc), Peter Lany­on and Charles Bar­net, Shut Down Sizewell Group, Mell Har­ri­son, Cam­paign for Nuclear Dis­ar­ma­ment and Sizewell Block­aders, Rupert Read Green Par­ty Euro­pean can­di­date.

Bring a ban­ner, friends, music, colour, cos­tume, cakes and tea.

There will also be a camp on the beach over night so that we can hold a vig­il
on the morn­ing of 26th April, Cher­nobyl Day, to remem­ber all those who are still
being affect­ed by the 1986 dis­as­ter.

Bring a tent, water and a sun­shade

More info con­tact 08453370282 or mellcndeast@cnduk.org.

Hope to see you there
more info and local (to sizewell) trans­port con­tact Mell 08453370282

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PRESS RELEASE (and UPDATE-
Update- Since the press release below all 5 activists have had their bail con­di­tions removed from 9am on the 25th April to 2pm on the 26th April. So will be able to attend..)

Sizewell Nuclear Pow­er Stations-‘3 times a nui­sance!’

The gov­ern­ment has announced that Sizewell is one of the sites nom­i­nat­ed for a new nuclear pow­er sta­tion, Sizewell activists head to court and a demon­stra­tion against new build at Sizewell is planned. What a week!

Tomor­row (Fri­day 17th, 10 am) the group call­ing them­selves the ‘Sizewell Block­aders’ Rebec­ca Dale 33 from Bun­gay, Mell Har­ri­son 37 from Gelde­ston, Nico­la Stik­les 39 from Sax­mund­ham, Irene Willis 60 from Essex and Pete Lux 44 from Bec­cles, are again appear­ing at Low­est­oft mag­is­trates court for tak­ing direct action against the what they say are ‘unlaw­ful activ­i­ties’ at the nuclear pow­er sta­tions at Sizewell in Suf­folk. The group are hop­ing to have restric­tions on their right to protest lift­ed so that they can attend the two-day demon­stra­tion and camp planned for 25th and 26th April. The rea­son for the planned demon­stra­tion is two fold- one to com­mem­o­rate all those who died and are still affect­ed by the radioac­tive fall­out from the dis­as­ter at Cher­nobyl and two- because the gov­ern­ment has announced that sizewell has been nom­i­nat­ed as a site for not one, but two new nuclear reac­tors.
Local cam­paign­ers are con­cerned about this choice. Mell Har­ri­son , who works for Cam­paign for Nuclear Dis­ar­ma­ment and lives in Suf­folk said, “The flood risks of the sizewell coast are clear, the maps giv­en with the site nom­i­na­tions show just how high risk it is. 10 years of waste are in a fuel pond at the site now- it seems very irre­spon­si­ble to build here,” she con­tin­ued “ every­one knows the risks involved with nuclear pow­er but we are being told it is a nec­es­sary evil to bridge the ener­gy gap- this is not true. Mod­els such as the Bor­ough of Wok­ing show just how decen­tral­i­sa­tion of ener­gy sup­plies can work, not just at deliv­er­ing ener­gy but cut­ting CO2 emis­sions too’
Wok­ing Bor­ough has a pop­u­la­tion of 100,000 and has the largest domes­tic com­bined photovoltaic/ com­bined heat and pow­er (CHP) in the UK and is home to the UK’s first small –scale com­bined heat and power/heat fired chiller sys­tem. Wok­ing bor­ough coun­cil have devel­oped these projects, with Allan Jones at the fore­front, through its public/private joint ener­gy ser­vice com­pa­ny- Thamesway Ener­gy Ltd, again the first of its kind in the UK .The coun­cil is now recog­nised as the most ener­gy effi­cient local author­i­ty in the UK hav­ing achieved-
1. Over 80% CO2 cuts
2. 51% reduc­tion in ener­gy con­sump­tion
3. 44% reduc­tion water con­sump­tion

At the demon­stra­tion the cam­paign­ers hope to high­light the Wok­ing mod­el as an alter­na­tive to nuclear pow­er but they will need to wait and see if they are allowed with­in 100m of the site before this can hap­pen. Only tomor­row will tell.

More Info.

Wok­ing – www.ideascentre.co.uk/download/file?ref=68
Sizewell new build nom­i­na­tion, includ­ing flood map- http://www.nuclearpowersiting.decc.gov.uk/nomination/sizewell
Sizewell Block­aders
http://www.easterncnduk.org/News/size200807.php

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Call for actions on 26 April — the day of Cher­nobyl, against the con­struc­tion of new nuclear pow­er sta­tion in Belarus

A call out for com­mon actions against the con­struc­tion of a new nuclear pow­er sta­tion in Belarus. 26 April the day of Cher­nobyl nuclear acci­dent.
Present-day Belarus is a post sovi­et coun­try, on which ter­ri­to­ry a regime, police state in form and neolib­er­al in essence, for­ti­fied its posi­tion. For already 14 years the coun­try is run by one and the same per­son Alexan­der Lukashenko, a pop­ulist at the begin­ning of his gov­ern­ing and open­ly pur­su­ing anti­so­cial reforms now.
The free­dom of speech, free­dom of the press, free­dom of assem­bly is not about our coun­try. These basic val­ues as well as the polit­i­cal oppo­si­tion are sup­pressed. Peace­ful gath­er­ings dis­per­sions, polit­i­cal tri­als, pre­ven­tive deten­tions all this has become a norm of polit­i­cal prac­tice in Belarus.
A few years ago the rul­ing top start­ed to con­sid­er anoth­er ven­ture­some project the con­struc­tion of a nuclear pow­er sta­tion (NPS). Lukashenko took a deci­sion regard­less of the pub­lic wish­es and com­mon sense. The deci­sion was made with the active sup­port of the inter­na­tion­al nuclear lob­by. The con­struc­tion is to be under­tak­en by a Russ­ian cor­po­ra­tion Rosatom. It is to be held in a seis­mi­cal­ly active zone, in a dozen kilo­me­ters away from Lake Naroch the largest lake in Belarus, which is eco­log­i­cal­ly unique for our coun­try and is a tourists and hol­i­day-mak­ers attrac­tion. On the con­struc­tion will be spent $4 bil­lion, which oth­er­wise could be out­laid for alter­na­tive ener­gy means devel­op­ment.
But the above-list­ed points pale before the fact that Belarus shared 70% of radioac­tive con­t­a­m­i­na­tion after Cher­nobyl nuclear acci­dent. But the gov­ern­ment and the pres­i­dent are absolute­ly not con­cerned about that. They want to cre­ate a delayed-action bomb in the coun­try, where one third of the ter­ri­to­ry is unfit for farm­ing and berries/mushrooms gath­er­ing.
We, Anti­nu­clear resis­tance, an anar­chy group, come out against nuclear pow­er engi­neer­ing on the whole and against the NPS con­struc­tion specif­i­cal­ly in Belarus. A part of polit­i­cal forces in Belarus, includ­ing oppo­si­tion, sup­port­ed the NPS con­struc­tion. Unlike them we do not believe in NPS safe­ty irre­spec­tive of the polit­i­cal regime, with­in which it is func­tion­ing and being con­struct­ed. Our activ­i­ty is based upon non-author­i­tar­i­an prin­ci­ples, we do not coop­er­ate with any polit­i­cal par­ties on a reg­u­lar base, but with eco­log­i­cal orga­ni­za­tions and grass­roots ini­tia­tives.
On 26 April, the anniver­sary of the Cher­nobyl nuclear acci­dent, an annu­al demon­stra­tion Charnobyl­s­ki Shlah (The Cher­nobyl Path) takes place in com­mem­o­ra­tion of the acci­dent and the peo­ple who fell the imme­di­ate and lin­ger­ing vic­tims of it. Start­ing with the year of 1996 anar­chists take part in the demo with eco­log­i­cal and anti­nu­clear slo­gans. But nowa­days the demon­stra­tion, instead of just mourn­ing and com­mem­o­ra­tive event, is gain­ing a protest mood: in the coun­try, where dozens of thou­sands peo­ple have died as a result of the nuclear acci­dent after­maths and hun­dreds of thou­sands have acquired acci­dent-caused ill­ness­es or become hand­i­capped, a new NPS is to be con­struct­ed! And that is done accord­ing to the com­mon reg­u­la­tions of an author­i­tar­i­an police state not ask­ing the peo­ples opin­ion, but just con­fronting them with the fact.
On 26 April we will again take a most active part in the Charnobyl­s­ki Shlah (The Cher­nobyl Path), well try to pass along to every­one our clear anti­nu­clear posi­tion, will inform as many peo­ple as pos­si­ble of the approach­ing dan­ger. But now it is not enough! As an instru­ment of strug­gle against the state law­less­ness we rely on the inter­na­tion­al sup­port. We urge envi­ron­men­tal­ists and anti­au­thor­i­tar­i­ans of the world to car­ry out sol­i­dar­i­ty actions on 26 April 2009. We call for a decen­tral­ized day of action of any form, which could help peo­ple learn some­thing about our prob­lem and stop the impu­dent author­i­ty and their spon­sors from IAEA.
If you already take actions on 26 April on your local prob­lems con­cern­ing nuclear pow­er engi­neer­ing, please put on your list the demand for abo­li­tion of the NSP con­struc­tion in Belarus. You are also wel­come to par­tic­i­pate in The Cher­nobyl Path in Min­sk and oth­er actions in Belarus.
Togeth­er we will be able to stand up for the right for life on a clean and eco­log­i­cal­ly safe plan­et!
If you have any inten­tion to make sol­i­dar­i­ty actions with the Belaruss­ian anti­nu­clear move­ment or par­tic­i­pate in the demon­stra­tion in Belarus please con­tact us:
antiatombel@riseup.net
Spread out the call out through any acces­si­ble for you infor­ma­tion chan­nels