Cane
Energy in Plettenberg Bay

CANE is a fast growing group of Organisations, Environmentalists, NGO's, Communities and Private Citizens in South Africa who are opposed to Nuclear Energy as a viable Power Source to combat climate change.

NGOs, CBOs and individuals throughout South Africans have formed a broadbased national coalition to oppose the expansion of the nuclear industry and to demand a commitment to public participation in energy planning. CANE has been formed as an umbrella group comprising community organisations, residents’ associations, NGOs, academics, professionals, unionists, environmentalists and ordinary citizens now grappling with the spectre of nuclear developments in their back yards. They represent a groundswell of ordinary people who want government to act democratically in seeking alternative energy crisis and climate change solutions. Most of these communities are concerned about the unnecessary and heavily subsidised costs, nuclear safety and the unresolved problem of long-term spent fuel storage. Seven sites have been chosen for new nuclear reactors: from the Northern, Western and Eastern Cape, while Pelindaba in the North West Province has been offered nuclear enrichment facilities, nuclear fuel fabrication and nuclear smelter plants. Communities living near the nuclear dump site in the Namaqualand also now face the spectre of increased volumes of radioactive nuclear waste of higher levels than before being foisted on their region. The methods used by the nuclear industry to prevent most South Africans from questioning or fully understanding the dangers of nuclear energy have become clear during the numerous environmental impact assessments currently underway throughout the Republic. A feisty activist, in 1994 he became an MP in SA’s first democratic Parliament. Of the incidents identified in Nuclear Near Misses: A Decade of Accident Precursors at U.S. The Coalition Against Nuclear Energy (CANE) was set up to co-ordinate and synchronise all anti-nuclear activity in South Africa and to liaise with overseas sympathisers. Regional activities are managed by its affiliates and like-minded individuals. A growing number of academics, unionists and clergy are members of this Coalition in their personal capacities. Even the evacuation plan for your area is unknown to most (if not all) residents, and if memory serves, the last (and only?) time an evac was attempted, the people were sent INTO the radiation! all the more reason to join the growing voice against an extension of the life of Koeberg and the erection of a new power station.