[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: Their post-election agenda: Mobile Chernobyl, nuclear power and climate change denial]
agnes at mcn.org
agnes at mcn.org
Wed Nov 5 19:47:16 PST 2014
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Subject: Their post-election agenda: Mobile Chernobyl, nuclear power and
climate change denial
From: "Nuclear Information and Resource Service" <nirsnet at nirs.org>
Date: Wed, November 5, 2014 12:55 pm
To: agnes at mcn.org
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On top of the new Congress' Agenda: Mobile Chernobyl, nuclear power, and
climate denial.
With your help, we WILL prevail!
Start with new action to EPA on carbon cuts and ending nuclear power support.
November 5, 2014
Dear Friends,
The election is over and yes, things have changed--and not for the better.
Elections do matter.
Consider this little diatribe [
http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/inhofe-statement-on-ipcc-synthesis-report
] from Sen. James Inhofe, released on Monday:
""The idea that our advanced industrialized economy would ever have zero
carbon emissions is beyond extreme and further proof that the IPCC is
nothing more than a front for the environmental left....At a time of
economic instability and increased threats to American interests, the
IPCC's report is little more than high hopes from the environmental
left.""
The IPCC is of course, the international panel of climate change
scientists. The scientists who know what they're talking about. Sen.
Inhofe is not a scientist, nor an expert in any environmental matters.
Nonetheless, in January Sen. Inhofe is set to replace Sen. Barbara Boxer
as chair of the Senate Environment Committee. What did we say about
elections mattering?
[ https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5502/shop/custom.jsp?donate_page_KEY=341
]With a large cadre of climate change deniers like Sen. Inhofe now in
control of the U.S. Congress, we can expect to see new efforts to block
the Obama Administration's plans--modest though they may be--to reduce
carbon emissions.
*Those plans, embodied in the EPA's Clean Power Plan proposal, contain
unacceptable support for nuclear power. And we need to change that. But we
also need to say clearly that we support the proposal's attempt to reduce
carbon emissions. After all, what we all want is a nuclear-free,
carbon-free energy system.*
*So we have rewritten our sample comment letter to the EPA* to make clear
that we support the carbon reductions--and believe they should actually be
increased--but vigorously oppose any support for nuclear power.
The December 2 comment deadline is drawing near. About 5,000 of you have
sent in comments to the EPA so far on this issue. We can--and must--do
better than that. *Whether or not you already have sent in comments,
please act now--with our new letter necessitated by yesterday's election.
It's critical* [
http://org2.salsalabs.com/o/5502/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=18179
]. And please help us spread the word--if we're going to win this battle,
we need thousands more comments in.
But that's not all. Here's a headline from Bloomberg News today: ""Nuclear
Power, Banks Seen Gaining in Republican Congress.""
Yep, nuclear power and bank bailouts are right at the top of the
Republican agenda. We all have our work cut out for us. Fortunately, with
your activism and support, we're up for the task.
With Nevada Sen. Harry Reid deposed as Majority Leader, one thing we will
certainly see next year is an effort to resusitate Yucca Mountain as a
permanent nuclear waste dump--despite its litany of documented flaws. More
immediately, expect a revival of the old plan for "consolidated interim
storage" of high-level radioactive waste. That's the one that would send
tens of thousands of radioactive waste casks on trucks and trains across
the country to a temporary storage site--basically a glorified parking
lot--just because nuclear utilities want to get that waste off their
sites. It's not a solution to our radioactive waste problem; it's an
effort to sweep it under the rug.
[ http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/hlwtransport/mobilechernobyl.htm ]But
we've successfully beat back this concept before, in the 1990s--also with
a Democratic President and Republican Congress. We coined the phrase
"Mobile Chernobyl" and it stuck. Because at its essence, it's accurate. A
serious accident involving one or more high-level waste casks would be a
disaster. And the odds of a serious accident when that many casks are on
our roads and railways are frighteningly high.
That Congress passed "interim storage" legislation. Following one of the
largest public organizing and mobilization campaigns we've ever
undertaken, President Bill Clinton vetoed it. And his veto was sustained
by one vote.
*With your support, we can win this again.*
*Please support NIRS as generously as you can today*. Your tax-deductible
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nuclear power industry and build a safe, clean, and affordable energy
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so!). Or you can send a check to NIRS, 6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma
Park, MD 20912. However you choose to donate, thank you.
The players on Capitol Hill may have changed, but our resolve hasn't. We
intend to win these battles, and the others we'll face in the future. It's
what we've been doing since 1978, and we're not stopping now.
Thanks for all you do,
Michael Mariotte
President
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