http://www.sprol.com/2005/06/athabasca-tar-sands-alberta-canada.aspx Excellent article and pictures of the tar sands. Were this oil extracted using wind electric powered heat pumps for heat and aeration, the increased profits would make the whole project efficient enough to completely clean it up as it goes on. As is done with coalmining in Germany. But it is being sold to Chinese companies which removes the property rights offshore, preventing Canadian environmental policies from steering the project in this greener direction.    more »

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?category=6420&slug=Congress%20Spending "Fearing more delays in the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project in Nevada, the House wants the Energy Department to establish temporary storage for commercial reactor waste at one or more federal sites around the country." "The spending bill calls on the Energy Department to produce a plan for aboveground storage for spent reactor fuel from commercial nuclear power plants within four months at one or more federal sites, and to begin accepting waste by October 2006" "...a report accompanying the bill suggested a wide range of potential facilities - among them DOE's Savannah River weapons facility in South Carolina, the Hanford nuclear reservation near Richland, Wash., and the Idaho National Laboratory."    more »

http://www.counterpunch.com/estulin05272005.html "Another Bilderberger asked about hydrogen alternative to the oil supply. The US government official agreed gloomily that hydrogen salvation to the world´s eminent energy crisis is a fantasy." The bushco inc. regime's hydrogen economy is merely a dodge to put off plugin hybrids and renewable energy, and boost the lies behind nuclear power revival efforts.    more »

http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/6/3/20277/13287#7 http://www.sundancechannel.com/popup/?ixFilmID=6133 Check out Chernobyl to see our future under the nuclear power priesthood. Right arm Dave, Bill is taking the tack that you have. Using nukes as a rhetorical device to feature renewables asd more cost effective. Because theoretically at least...it is true. Given enough money, oversight, design and testing, research, the right location (I would argue..only in an already radioactive mine site in geologically stable rock formation)... nukes could be operated safely.    more »