Filed under: End the nuclear age | Tags: Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, Philippines, Nuclear, No Nukes, Bataan, No To BNPP, Bike Ride, Congress
The bike ride that began in the far flung town of Morong, Bataan concludes with thousands of concerned Filipinos sending a clear message to the House of Representatives to reject any proposal for nuclear power in the country and instead enable massive uptake of renewable energy.
Filed under: End the nuclear age | Tags: BNPP, Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, Philippines, Bataan, No To BNPP, Energy [R]evolution, Bike Ride
One of the bikers talking about the Bike Ride to kids in San Fernando, Pampanga
After repeatedly hearing Heber Bartolome’s ‘Payag ka ba?‘ for the nth time during the bike ride its easy to think that being part of the movement against nukes means enlisting to a perpetual battle of putting the nuclear threat kept at bay.
But what seems like a perpetual defensive on the dangers of nukes is actually a misnomer, because one needs not only to look at the issue of nuclear power from the vantage point of someone who wants it to be stopped. I mean yes, it needs to be stopped, because it is an unacceptable risk to the environment and to humanity. The only solution is to halt the expansion of all nuclear power, and for the shutdown of existing plants.
Filed under: End the nuclear age | Tags: Bataan, Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, Bike Ride, BNPP, Energy [R]evolution, No To BNPP
Volunteers of Greenpeace, Livestrong and Firefly Brigade leave Morong, Bataan.
After a few mishaps last night including an injury, car problem and hours of delay. We arrived exhausted. It was there in Morong that we all spent the night in an elementary school classroom.
By 5AM the following morning I was surprised that the sun was almost up, and the folks from Live Strong were already prepared and warming up in the basketball court adjacent to the room where we were all sleeping.
Signage that marks the location of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
At 7:30 AM we were already reciting the responsorial Psalm at the send-off liturgy that was led by Fr. Ronnie of the Diocese of Morong, and the Nuclear-Free Bataan Movement (NFBM), by the time he sprinkled the bikers with his blessing we were off, from the town proper of Morong to the gate of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), there we took pictures at the guarded gates of the plant.
Filed under: End the nuclear age, 1 | Tags: Bataan, Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, Google Map, map, Nuclear Meltdown, Nuclear Power, Philippines
I believe that one reason why the powers that be in the government and the energy sector are all keen on pushing for the revival the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is partly because of the fact that we all have come to believe that Bataan is too far off from Manila, for it to affect us in the event of a nuclear accident.
Filed under: End the nuclear age, Life at work | Tags: Bataan, Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, BNPP, Mark Cojuangco, No To BNPP, Online activism, petitions, Philippine Congress
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I’ve spent the whole day asking people to sign petition against nukes and the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
In the duration of the day I could hardly count the number of times I’ve answered this question: Does signing a petition still make a difference?
Filed under: End the nuclear age | Tags: Anti-BNPP Veterans, bands, Bataan, Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, greenpeacebuzz, Music, Nukes, Nuklus Band
I was surprised when I opened the Greenpeace Youtube channel this morning.
I got a message on our inbox coming from veterans of the historic anti-Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), campaign in the 80s. The message was from the NUKLUS Band, an alternative and progressive rock band that performed during the 80’s. They were the ones who composed the song “Dambuhala Sa Morong” (Monster of Morong), in 1980 which became the battle-cry of the Philippine anti-nukes movement at the time.
Filed under: End the nuclear age | Tags: Bataan, BNPP, Chernobyl, Chernobyl Anniversary, greenpeacebuzz, No Nukes, No To BNPP, Nukes
Greenpeace marked the anniversary of the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster with a solemn candle-lighting ceremony.
With the images still fresh in our heads, we went out to the wet grass, to light candles. Right after watching, Zero Hour: Disaster at Chernobyl, we went out and lit 2,000 candles to remember those who’ve been affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Filed under: End the nuclear age | Tags: April Fool's Day, Bataan, Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, No To BNPP, Nuclear safety, PBA097p91s09
Almost everybody knows that Google is the best place to find information about anything. Thanks to Google, we now know that we’ve made a terrible mistake on the issue of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, according to a recent search that we did on the famed search engine – the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is safe!
I guess its time for us to swallow our prides and concede our convictions. Apparently we were wrong – the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant was safe all along…
Click here to read all about it.
Chuck Baclagon
PBA097p91s09
Filed under: End the nuclear age, Stop climate change | Tags: Bataan, No To BNPP, Nuclear Energy, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Politics, Safety
From the Philippine Daily Inquirer
SOMETHING terribly wrong is going on for nuclear power to be considered “clean energy.” Nuclear power is not the solution to climate change and it creates more problems than it purports to solve.
Believers in nuclear power, like Representative Mark Cojuangco, think that climate change is their best argument. Nuclear power, they say, is the only alternative to the dirty coal fuel. But notice how, when they talk about nuclear power, they omit or belittle renewable energy. To admit that renewable energy works (it does) renders nuclear power irrelevant.
Filed under: End the nuclear age, Stop climate change | Tags: Bataan, Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, BNPP, Climate Change, Nuclear Power, Nukes, Philippine Daily Inquirer
This is in response to the front-page article titled “Nuke energy key to stem climate change” (3/2/09), which is about the nuclear industry’s claim that nuclear power has a role in climate change mitigation.
Nuclear power in fact undermines climate protection and can only make a negligible contribution to carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction.
Greenpeace Southeast Asia 