Japan:
¶ Municipalities where nuclear plants are located realize now, 1½ years after the Fukushima Disaster, how much their finances depend on the nuclear power-induced money. “They’re like drug addicts cut off from supplies.” [The Japan Times]
¶ Nuclear policy is an important issue in the upcoming Japanese elections. Pro-nuclear people have hopes of seeing a change in their favor. [Asahi Shimbun]
… Anti-nuclear sentiment remains very strong in much of Japan. [BBC News]
¶ Governments of two municipalities in Fukushima Prefecture have decided to resume planting rice next year. [AsiaOne]
World:
¶ Germany’s Energiewende or energy transition, was set in motion by many factors, but it was reinvigorated by the Fukushima Disaster. It is not easy, but it is working. [The Market Oracle]
¶ In a recent interview, Australian Climate Change Commissioner Tim Flannery said, “What we can now see is the emerging inevitability that renewables are going to be running the economy at some point in the future.” He added that they give people independence. [RenewEconomy]
¶ The Bharatiya Janata Party (Indian People’s Party) is deeply involved in protests at Kolar Gold Fields and Robertsonpet against dumping nuclear waste. They blocked the Marikuppam-Bangalore Swarna Express train for more than 20 minutes to mark their protest. [Waste Management World]
US:
¶ Harvard students overwhelmingly passed a referendum on the Undergraduate Council election ballot calling on Harvard to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry. [Harvard Crimson]
… The university, however, is not considering divestment. [Harvard Crimson]
… Students at McGill University are among this pushing their colleges and universities to divest also. [McGill Daily]
¶ Conservatives and Libertarians are working with fossil fuel companies to reverse the laws most states have supporting renewable power. [Examiner.com]
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