Chernobyl's 40th Anniversary and Ireland

The Belfast Telegraph is reporting that "Ukrainian woman in Belfast tells of father's Chernobyl heroism on 40th anniversary." I subscribe to Catherine Connolly's YouTube channel where she posts videos from hosting community teas. 

Last night I saw a bandura being played and I showed my son. Someone from the Ukrainian orchestra in Vancouver plays the bandura. Then we noticed a Ukrainian choir there as well.

At first I was a bit confused and thought she was talking about the current war in the Ukraine but people in Ireland used to see Russia as big brother. Then her speech was going on about Chernobyl and it finally dawned on me.  

I remember seeing an episode of the Derry Girls where some Ukrainian immigrants come to Ireland after the Chernobyl incident. Evidently that really did happen. Well, maybe not the way the sit com portrayed it. I guess there's two thoughts. 

One is the idea of accepting refugees, the other is the dangers of nuclear power. Natural gas is clean burning. Industrial coal is not. Likewise, nuclear power is anything but green. The Chernobyl accident was just one example of the dangers of nuclear power like Fukushima. There are two others. 

Nuclear waste is virtually impossible to safely dispose of. It is anything but clean. As we speak, nuclear waste is leaking from rusty storage bunkers into the Colombia river. 

Then there's the threat of nuclear war. When you have or use nuclear power, that gives you the technology and the materials to make nuclear weapons. That is not something any of us should support but that is something Bill Gates and the WEF actively promote. So did John Rustad and Danielle Smith.

Nuclear power is not a good thing. Neo Cons exporting CANDU reactors is not a good thing. It promotes the ongoing threat of nuclear war. Iran having nuclear power probably isn't a good thing but in all honesty I'm far more worried about Israel having nukes than Iran. We saw what happened to Gaddafi in Libya. 

Nicolas Sarkozy, le chien sale, tried to convince the world we should trust Gaddafi with nuclear weapons because he wanted to sell him a French reactor. Then as soon as Gaddafi decided to buy a reactor from Argentina instead of France, Sarkozy said Gaddafi was evil and needed to be exterminated. 

That was disgusting and that did happen. Likewise in Iran. One minute Obama and England and both trying to sell Iran  nuclear reactors, the next minute the US of A is bombing Iran because of the reactors they sold them. That is a whole lot of crazy.

Let's calmly and rationally oppose nuclear power without committing atrocities based on lies. Hydroelectric power is green. Let's save the world and support that instead. Just don't do what Modi does and weaponize the dams to create mass flooding. Proper use of dams reduce flooding.