Environment

Family Night At Nature Center 6-7 p.m. Today

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Enjoy hands-on fun at the Los Alamos Nature Center’s Family Night. Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
Family Night is 6 to 7 p.m. today at the Los Alamos Nature Center. Mesa Public Library’s Melissa Mackey will uncover the mysteries and origin of igneous rock. The nature center will be open until 8 p.m. for exploring exhibits.
 
The second Tuesday of each month is Family Night at the nature center. This program is free to attend thanks to a generous sponsorship from Kiwanis Club of Los Alamos.
 
For more information about this and other programs offered
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DPU Seeks Input For Policy On Customer-owned Solar Energy Systems

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COUNTY News:

Discussion scheduled for March 16 BPU Meeting

Los Alamos Department of Public Utilities (DPU) officials encourage Los Alamos citizens to go to the County’s online open forum at https:////www.peakdemocracy.com/3411 and provide feedback on recommended policies related to distributed energy resources or customer-owned generation sources, such as roof-top solar systems. 

The Board of Public Utilities (BPU) will review and discuss recommendations in the July 7, 2015 Future Electrical Energy Report on this issue at the March 16, 2016 board meeting held at 5:30 Read More

Roger This: Limiting Liability For Our Nuclear Nightmares

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By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

In his novel, Odds Against Tomorrow, a talented young writer Nathaniel Rich, explores the converging vectors of risk, natural and manmade disaster and finance in the wisp of time folded between today and tomorrow.

Published in 2013, a few months after Superstorm Sandy battered the entire East Cost while pounding New York and the Jersey Shore, this story of an apocalyptic inundation of Manhattan could not have been better timed. Introducing a  “long-short” scheme to profit from a whole market basket of global fears, Rich spins up a valuable parable Read More

Nuke Bird Vulnerability

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Indian Point nuclear power plant. Courtesy/wikipedia

 

HSNW News:

  • Bird droppings cause N.Y. nuclear reactor power outage

One of the nuclear reactors at Indian Point nuclear power plant outside New York City was safely shut down for three days last December, following an electrical disturbance on outdoor high voltage transmission lines.

Entergy Corp., which operates the power plant, hired outside expert to analyze the incident, and they found that the culprit was what the experts call bird “streaming.”

“If it has nowhere to send its electricity, the generator senses that and Read More

Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board Sets Area G Hearing In Santa Fe March 22

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Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board Chairman Joyce Connery
 
By ROGER SNODGRASS
Los Alamos Daily Post

The Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board announced that it will hold a public hearing March 22 in Santa Fe.

The board will hear from its own staff and from LANL, DOE and NNSA officials on new and residual management and safety issues concerning Area G, Los Alamos National Laboratory’s hazardous waste disposal area.

In a prepared statement Thursday, DNFSB Chairman Joyce Connery said, “With the upcoming wildfire season, the Board is interested in understanding potential hazards to Read More

Interior Deputy Secretary Connor To Host Listening Session On Land Buy-Back Program

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Interior Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor
 
USDI News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Department of the Interior Deputy Secretary Michael L. Connor hosted a Listening Session March 3 in Albuquerque, to hear directly from tribal leaders and individual landowners on the progress of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program).
 
Deputy Secretary Connor was joined at the Albuquerque Convention Center by Special Trustee for American Indians Vincent G. Logan and Acting Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Lawrence S. Roberts.
 
As part of
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Fish And Wildlife Conservation Leaders Call For $1.3 Billion Annual Investment For States

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NWTF News:
 
EDGEFIELD, S.C. — A group of energy, business and conservation leaders released their recommendations March 3 on how to avert the growing endangered species crisis in this country.
 
The Blue Ribbon Panel on Sustaining America’s Diverse Fish & Wildlife Resources determined that utilizing a portion of revenues from energy and mineral development on federal lands and waters to fund state-based conservation could address conservation needs for thousands of species. An annual investment of $1.3 billion from these development
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Storytelling Workshops At Nature Center With Harriet Cole March 12

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Harriet Cole, storyteller and story-teacher, captivates audiences with the art of performance storytelling. Courtesy photo
 
PEEC News:
 
Learn more about the art of performance storytelling. Pajarito Environmental Education Center (PEEC) is offering three storytelling workshops with storyteller Harriet Cole at the Los Alamos Nature Center on Saturday, March 12.
 
Each workshop has a different focus, and all the workshops will be interactive, experiential, and filled with storytelling games designed to increase performing
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Cardin, Delaney, Luján Introduce Resolutions Establishing National Clean Energy Goals

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CONGRESSIONAL News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján (N.M.-3) and U.S. Rep. John K. Delaney (Md.-6) filed resolutions in the House and Senate affirming the establishment of a national goal of more than 50 percent of America’s electricity production coming from clean and carbon-free electricity sources by 2030 and calling for the enactment of new legislation to achieve this goal.
 
In a show of significant support for this initiative, the “50×30 Resolutions” are cosponsored by 30 Senators and 103
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