(June 9, 2011 / 13:33:07) 72194-1_GP Magazine 2011r_p01.pdf .1 Volume 11 Number 08 GreenpeaceMagazine\\ Spring/Summer 2011 Greenpeace International Executive Director Kumi Naidoo addresses protestors at an anti-nuclear demonstra- tion in Dannenberg, Germany just four months before this year's nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan. Inside, Greenpeace visits Chernobyl on the 25th anniversary of the nuclear accident there, and takes action against nuclear projects in Canada. \\ www.greenpeace.ca This is a low resolution PDF proof preflighted by Prinect Workflow. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY! Although we make every effort to avoid errors, we cannot be responsible for errors you fail to correct. Remember, corrections at this stage are inexpensive compared to the cost of reprinting. We appreciate your business. Thank you for choosing Thistle Printing. 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Although we make every effort to avoid errors, we cannot be responsible for errors you fail to correct. Remember, corrections at this stage are inexpensive compared to the cost of reprinting. We appreciate your business. Thank you for choosing Thistle Printing. (June 9, 2011 / 13:46:09) (June 9, 2011 / 13:33:17) 72194-1_GP Magazine 2011r_p03.pdf .1 Spring/Summer GREENPEACE 2011 FOLIO Rainbow Warrior 3 Facebook: Unfriend coal Photography What powers the Internet? © Oliver Tjaden / The photos, videos and status Greenpeace updates we upload to Facebook live on banks of data servers. With over 500 million worldwide users, the amount of data Facebook stores expands daily. Large data centres that house this informa- tion, like the kind Facebook is building in Oregon, require vast amounts of energy. But just as Facebook has revolutionized the way the world communicates, it can also revolutionize the Information Technology (IT) sector's current reliance on dirty sources of energy like coal. Facebook's reputation for innova- tion means that wherever it goes, other IT companies will follow. Greenpeace is calling on Facebook, as we have with A new Warrior other IT companies, to: Greenpeace is building the world's first purpose-built environ- • Set an example by continuing mental campaigning ship: the to grow without the use of new Rainbow Warrior III. We’re dirty coal power; retiring the current Rainbow • Use its purchasing power Warrior, which has been at sea to choose clean sources for over 52 years, and replacing of electricity; it with what will be one of the • Advocate for strong climate greenest ships afloat. It boasts and energy policy changes room for 30 campaigners and at the local, national and crew, a helipad, and a satellite international level to ensure system allowing campaigners to that as the IT industry's stream video footage from any- appetite for energy increases, where in the world. The Rainbow so does the supply of Warrior 3 will have both diesel renewable energy; and electric engines but will • Share this information sail solely on wind power publicly on its website so GPinTouch when at sea. its 500 million users know the Wondering why Canadian company is a climate leader. The new Warrior will join the celebrities grace the cover rest of Greenpeace’s fleet of of this edition of Greenpeace ships to help us in our work Magazine? For the full story, to stop climate change, protect turn to page 8. ancient forests, and conserve ocean life. ACTION POINT: C Visit www.anewwarrior.greenpeace.org and help us build the Rainbow Warrior III. Your name will be credited on a special commemorative wall on the new ship. Greenpeace Magazine This is a low resolution PDF proof preflighted by Prinect Workflow. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY! Although we make every effort to avoid errors, we cannot be responsible for errors you fail to correct. Remember, corrections at this stage are inexpensive compared to the cost of reprinting. We appreciate your business. Thank you for choosing Thistle Printing. (June 9, 2011 / 13:46:09) (June 9, 2011 / 13:33:22) 72194-1_GP Magazine 2011r_p04.pdf .1 Spring/Summer CLIMATE 2011 CHANGE NUCLEAR LEGACY Anti-nuclear protest in Delhi By Shawn-Patrick In light of this year’s nuclear After the Chernobyl meltdown I had recently become part of an Stensil, Nuclear disaster at Fukushima, Japan, the in 1986, gigantic metal walls international Greenpeace team Analyst New York Times published an were hastily erected right over trained as radiation advisors. article revisiting Chernobyl. It told the accident wreckage. This Some of my colleagues went to of a man, Sergei A. Krasikov, makeshift structure aimed to Japan to independently verify whose job was to visit the site of contain the radioactivity within measures of radioactivity around the Chernobyl accident 12 and the elements out, while Fukushima. I joined another times a month to pump out nuclear scientists and engineers team in Chernobyl as a radiation radioactive liquid that collects figured out what to do next. The safety advisor. around the reactor. Water has to clump of fuel is forecast to be be kept away from what lies deep dangerously radioactive for We travelled to Chernobyl within the wreckage of the reactor another 300 years. not only to commemorate the Fukushima I building: 200 tons of melted victims of the disaster, but to nuclear power nuclear fuel and debris, a mass so Sergei knows the dirty secret of remind ourselves that despite plant damage highly radioactive that scientists the nuclear industry: the disaster what industry tells us, nuclear Photography can’t go anywhere near it. at Chernobyl is still happening. is never safe. © DigitalGlobe “Nobody knows what to do with what is inside,” he said. After the Chernobyl disaster the “There will be enough work world stopped building reactors. for my children and my We had been told nuclear power grandchildren.” would be cheap, clean and safe, but Chernobyl made it clear that This past April I joined it was none of these. Twenty-five colleagues and anti-nuclear years later the nuclear industry is activists around the world in in survival mode. It knows that if Ukraine, 25 years after the it doesn’t start building new disaster that made “Chernobyl” reactors soon it will quickly be 04—05 synonymous with “nuclear accident” around the world. This is a low resolution PDF proof preflighted by Prinect Workflow. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY! Although we make every effort to avoid errors, we cannot be responsible for errors you fail to correct. Remember, corrections at this stage are inexpensive compared to the cost of reprinting. We appreciate your business. Thank you for choosing Thistle Printing. (June 9, 2011 / 13:46:09) (June 9, 2011 / 13:33:25) 72194-1_GP Magazine 2011r_p05.pdf .1 Spring/Summer 2011 Shawn-Patrick Stensil measures radiation levels at Chernobyl replaced by modern and In Ontario, the nuclear industry more innovative green energy knows it will be replaced by technologies. modern clean energy technologies if it can’t win over the public. Over The nuclear industry claims the past decade it has pressured that nuclear is a cheap energy political leaders into building new option, but it is the only industry reactors and resuscitating old to have never reduced its costs. ones. They said it would be It claims nuclear is a clean cheap, but the cost over-runs source of power, but has never have already begun. put forward a solution for radioactive waste. And it still The nuclear industry relies claims publically that nuclear is on fading memories. Fading safe, while privately asking for a memories about ballooning special piece of legislation, the costs. Fading memories about Nuclear Liability Act, to protect it what went wrong. And fading from having to fully compensate memories about what we did the public in the event of with our nuclear waste. Let’s an accident. never forget that 25 years ago Photography the world experienced its worst Greenpeace / The recent disaster in Fukushima environmental disaster ever Donang Wahyu has the nuclear industry in dam- at Chernobyl, and today its age control mode.