Producer: teachers won't accept 'Truth'; Nuclear power is back
Date: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 @ 18:59:06 UTC
Topic: General
U.S. teachers say they cannot show the environmental movie "An
Inconvenient Truth" to their students because of a policy against
endorsing projects.
Daily Variety reported Monday the National Science
Teachers Association declined the offer by the film's executive
producer, Laurie David, to distribute 50,000 copies of the
controversial Al Gore global-warming film to its members.
David, bewildered by the refusal to accept the DVDs, wrote an op-ed
in the Washington Post where she argues that that the teachers
association had accepted contributions from ExxonMobil, Shell and the
National Petroleum Institute, among others, where a "shameless pitch
for oil dependence" was alleged.
The association denies the characterization.
Not to be detered, David will offer the film to teachers via the
Web site participant.net through Jan. 18 on a first-come, first-served
basis.
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
From: http://www.physorg.com/news86281044.html
U.S. EYEING RETURN TO NUCLEAR ENERGY, December 25
Thanks mainly to Bush administration policy, the United States could soon find itself re-embracing the use of nuclear power.
The Chicago Tribune reported that the
administration has recently supported the creation of several new
nuclear plants, and just last week President Bush publicly endorsed the
energy source at a news conference.
"Nuclear power is going to be an essential source, in my judgment,
of future electricity for the United States," Bush said at the
conference. "Nuclear power is renewable, and nuclear power does not
emit one greenhouse gas."
The government's proposal to increase the number of operating
reactors in the nation beyond its current 103 has brought immediate
opposition from anti-nuclear activists.
Those activists claim that besides possible cataclysmic events,
such as occurred at Chernobyl or Three Mile Island, new reactors could
lead to cost overruns for consumers.
Copyright 2006 by United Press International
Source: http://www.physorg.com/news86258461.html
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