EUROPEAN ANTI NUCLEAR MANIFESTATION HELSINKI NOVEMBER 9-11, 2007
Thursday November 8th Late afternoon European Action outside the Italian Embassy The 8th of November 2007 will be the 20th anniversary of the popular referendum when in 1987 the Italian people decided with an overwhelming majority to ban the use of nuclear power in Italy. This action supports an international nuke action that will be held this day in front of the Italian Parliament in Rome.
Friday November 9th Morning: in small groups possibly visits to some ministries, possibly presidents office, possibly prime ministers office
12.00 Press Conference
13.30 – 16.00 European Hearing in the auditorium of the Parliament, Mannerheimintie 30 Please note: All foreign guests must show the passport (or a copy of the picture page) Chair: Satu Hassi, MEP, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance Foreign guests questioning to: - energy companies (Fortum, TVO, Fennovoima) - Posiva, company responsible for final repository for spent fuel - Uranium mining companies: Cogema/Areva, Namura - Trade and Industry ministry - Members of Parliament (no and yes people)
Foreign guests: (Please note: We are still hoping for participants from Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Switzerland)
- Belgium, Pol D’Huyvetter, Friends of the Earth Flanders & Brussels - Belarus, Antonina Yelistratova, Public Association "Ecohome" and Antinuclear coalition - Czech Republic, Monika Machová – Wittingerová, South Bohemian Mothers - Denmark, Frede Hvelplund, Aalborg university, - France, Veronique Marchandier, Réseau Sortir du Nucléaire - Germany, Francis Althoff, Bürgerinitiative Lüchow-Dannenberg - Holland, Peer de Rijk, World Information Service on Energy – WISE Amsterdam - Italy, Laura Radiconcini, Amici della Terra - Latvia, Alda Ozola, chairperson of the Green Movement - Lithuania, Saulius Piksrys, ATGAJA - Norway, Tore Braend, Norwegian Society for the Conservation of Nature - Portugal, Susana Fonseca Quercus – National Association for Nature Conservation - Romania, Camelia Zamfir, Prietenii Pamantului (Earth Friends) - Russia, Oleg Bodrov Green World - Slovak Republic, Jan Beránek, Greenpeace - Slovenia, Smiljana Jurecic, Association of Ecological Movements - Spain, Josep Puig, GCTPFNN, Group of Scientists and Technicians for a non nuclear future - Sweden, Eia Liljegren-Palmaer, Swedish Anti-Nuclear Movement, Johan Swahn MKG - Turkey, Ayþen Eren, kfk-platformu.org - Ukraine, Anna Golubovska-Onisimova, MAMA-86 - United Kingdom, Antony Frogatt, energy consultant
16.00 – 19.00 Europeans distributing leaflets around Helsinki
19.30 Get-Together Party
Saturday November 10th
European Nuclear-Critical Conference at Teatterikulma, Meritullinkatu 33
The Finnish situation
Chair: Nils Torvalds, The Swedish People´s Party, deputy chair
09.00 – 09.15 Opening of the conference: professor Markku Wilenius, Member of the Club of Rome
09.15 – 09.45 Plans for new reactors in Finland - Riitta Savikko, Finnish Association for Nature Conservation - Thomas Rosenberg, sociologist, chairman of the former Loviisa-movement, the citizen movement against nuclear waste disposal in Loviisa
09.45 – 10.15 Uranium mining plans in Finland - Mika Flöjt, Kuusamo - Tuomo Tormulainen, Kontiolahti/Eno - Aaro Toivonen, Uraaniton.org, Porvoo
10.00 – 10.15 Finland and NPT - Laura Lodenius, Finnish Peace Union
10.15 – 10.35 Final repository for spent fuel in Finland - Lauri Myllyvirta, Greenpeace Finland
10.35 – 11.00 Coffee
The Situation in Europe
Chair: Christian Democrats
11.00 – 13.00 Problems connected to nuclear power - Ulla Slama, medical doctor, Finland, “The Effects of Chernobyl in Finland” - Bruno Chareyron, CRIIRAD, France, “Uranium Mining in France” - Antony Frogatt, energy consultant, UK, “The Economics of Nuclear Power” - Jan Beránek, Greenpeace, “Nuclear Power and CO2 Problems”
13.00 – 14.00 Light lunch
14.00 – 14.45 Uranium mining - Manuel Pino, professor of sociology and Director of American Indian Studies at Scottsdale Community College in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA - Eia Liljegren-Palmaer, deputy chair, Swedish Anti-nuclear Movement, Uranium Mining – the root of evil
Chair: The Finnish social democratic party
14.45 – 16.10 Waste - Johan Swahn, MKG, The Swedish NGO Office for Nuclear Waste Review, The situation in Sweden - Nils-Axel Mörner, professor of paleogeophysics and geodynamics, Sweden, Dry- Rock-Deposit - David Lowry, Research Officer, PhD, UK, the situation in the UK - Francis Althoff, Bürgerinitiative Lüchow-Dannenberg, the situation in Germany
16.10 – 16.30 Nuclear renaissance in Europe- a big lie? - Peer de Rijk, World Information Service on Energy – WISE Amsterdam 16.30 – 17.15 Nuclear resistance in Europe - Veronique Marchandier, Réseau Sortir du Nucléaire France /France - Heffa Schücking, Urgewald, Germany
17.15 – 17.30 Coffee
Chair: True Finns Party
The Situation in the Baltic States
17.30 – 18.45 - Russia, Oleg Bodrov, physicist, ecologist, Green World - Latvia, Alda Ozola, chairperson of the Green Movement - Lithuania, Saulius Piksrys, ATGAJA - Belarus, Antonina Yelistratova, Public Association "Ecohome" and Antinuclear coalition - possibly participants also from Estonia and Poland 18.45 – 20.00 Art Cavalcade 20.00 Dinner
Sunday November 11th
European Nuclear-Critical Conference at Teatterikulma, Meritullinkatu 33 Chair: Esko Seppänen, MEP, Confederal Group of the European United Left - Nordic Green Left, Renewable Energy 09.00 – 09.30 - Ari Lampinen, energy and climate consultant, Technology for Life (TFL) (INforSE- Finland), the situation in Finland 09.30 – 10.00 - Thomas B. Johansson, Sweden, Professor and Director International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund university, “Overview on the global Energy challenges and options “ 10.00 - 10.30 - Dörte Fouquet, attorney, Germany/Belgium, European Renewable Energies Federation (EREF) 10.30 - 11.00 - Frede Hvelplund, Denmark, professor, Aalborg university 11.00 – 11.30 - Josep Puig, Spain, GCTPFNN, Group of Scientists and Technicians for a non- nuclear future 11.30 – 12.00 - Göran Bryntse, Sweden, Ph.D technology, " Energy efficiency in the pulp and paper industry"
12.00 - 12.45 Discussion 12.45 – 13.30 Light Lunch
Chair: Centre Party of Finland Strategies for further co-operation 13.30 - 14.30 Short Presentations by representatives for all countries present 14.30 - 16.00 Discussion 16.00 – 17.00 Conclusion 17.00 Closing ______
Organizers of the conference: Women Against Nuclear Power -movement, co-ordinator: Ulla Klötzer, [email protected] Women for Peace -movement, co-ordinator: Lea Launokari, [email protected] No More nuclear power –movement, co-ordinator: Anna-Liisa Mattsoff, [email protected] Co-organizers of the conference (so far): Finnish Association for Nature Conservation, Uusimaa section, The Left Youth of Finland, Finnish Peace Committee, Imatra section Financial supporters (so far): Satu Hassi, MEP, Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, Esko Seppänen, MEP, Confederal Group of the European United Left –Nordic Green Left, Pekka Haavisto, MP, Green League, Merja Kyllönen, MP, Left Wing Alliance, Pentti Tiusanen, MP, Left Wing Alliance and some 50 private persons.