Fukushima Updates

The Watershed Sentinel is proud to share Nelle Maxey’s Fukushima Updates prepared for the BC environmental community.

Every day, Nelle pours over the media and other reports of the status of the reactors at Fukushima, comparing figures and trying to make sense out of the conflicting reports.

You can read the daily updates here.

Nelle, who lives in the beautiful Slocan Valley in the West Kootenay area of BC, is an active participant in issues related to protection of our ecosystems and the commons.

“Neo-liberal globalization, bent on plundering our resources for the profit of corporations, has succeeded in turning our real wealth (natural resources) into abstract wealth (money) held in the hands of a very, very few at the expense of the very, very many. The nuclear industry is just one example of how we are all suffering from the ridiculous and unsupportable economic and political philosophy which currently permeates the halls of power. I believe it is our civic responsibility to speak against this power anywhere it touches our lives. And above all to always remember that humans are but a grain of sand in the grand scheme of things. Regardless of the fact that some humans, in their hubris, seem to think we are masters of the universe. It is that foolishness that is bringing us to our knees.” 
 

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