Obama Administration Says No to Full Environmental Study of LNG Exports

April 22nd, 2013 | Natural Resources News Service | | 2 comments

LNG tanker at sea (Photo courtesy of FERC)

The Obama Administration is blocking a comprehensive environmental study on the impact of exporting massive quantities of liquefied natural gas, or LNG, on the grounds that new gas drilling induced by the exports is not “reasonably foreseeable.”

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Energy is resisting calls by Dow Chemical and other manufacturers for a more clearly defined and transparent DOE process for determining whether proposed LNG export projects serve the “public interest.”

Both the DOE and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission face mounting pressure to evaluate the economic and environmental consequences of licensing LNG export facilities. Since the agencies licensed an LNG export terminal in Sabine Pass, La., in 2011, 19 other applicants have lined up with licensing requests. Continue reading Obama Administration Says No to Full Environmental Study of LNG Exports

Trento on Japan Nuclear Efforts

May 9th, 2012 | Bulldog Blog | | Leave a comment

Public Education Center President and DC Bureau Editor Joe Trento was interviewed by James Corbett from Tokyo about the recent National Security News Service investigation of US – Japanese nuclear history. Corbett discussion with Trento came in the wake of the renewal of political platitudes about nuclear arms reduction at the Nuclear Summit in earlier this year in Seoul. NSNS’s painstaking decades–long investigation reveals how the United States broke its own laws to supply Japan with 70 tons of weapons grade plutonium for a secret Japanese nuclear weapons program that has been in action since the 1960s. Trento joined Corbett us to discuss this report and its ramifications.

United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium

April 9th, 2012 | National Security News Service | | 20 comments

Monju Nuclear Power Plant

The United States deliberately allowed Japan access to the United States’ most secret nuclear weapons facilities while it transferred tens of billions of dollars worth of American tax paid research that has allowed Japan to amass 70 tons of weapons grade plutonium since the 1980s, a National Security News Service investigation reveals. These activities repeatedly violated U.S. laws regarding controls of sensitive nuclear materials that could be diverted to weapons programs in Japan. The NSNS investigation found that the United States has known about a secret nuclear weapons program in Japan since the 1960s, according to CIA reports. Continue reading United States Circumvented Laws To Help Japan Accumulate Tons of Plutonium

The Bomb Plant: A MOX White Elephant?

October 20th, 2011 | National Security News Service | | 2 comments

The National Nuclear Security Administration may have a $10 billion taxpayer-financed white elephant on its hands based on Britain’s experience with a similar plant that has been shuttered after a decade of failed operations. Continue reading The Bomb Plant: A MOX White Elephant?