Stop The Nuclear Bailout - NukeFree.org

[bananas]

Run time: 03:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzPhRdwxb_Q   Posted on YouTube: October 11, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: October 12, 2007 By DU Member: bananas Views on DU: 793

 
Press release:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-11-2007/0004680396&EDATE=

No-Nukes Musicians Launch Campaign to Stop the Nuclear Bailout



Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt Spark Effort

Energy Bill Would Subsidize New Nuclear Reactors with Taxpayer Billions

YouTube Video and Petition Released at http://www.nukefree.org


LOS ANGELES and WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Musicians Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne and Graham Nash announced today a
new campaign to stop Congress from bailing out the nuclear power industry.
They launched the campaign with the release of a YouTube video and national
petition effort all available at http://www.nukefree.org. The artists will
deliver the petitions to Congress at a press conference and Lobby Day in
Washington D.C. on October 23rd.

Initial petition signers include Ben Harper, Natalie Maines and Emily
Robison of the Dixie Chicks, Melissa Etheridge, Maroon 5, Keb' Mo', Patti
Smith, Pearl Jam, Herbie Hancock and dozens of others. Already the Natural
Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, League of
Conservation Voters, U.S. PIRG, Environmental Working Group,
TrueMajority.org, Friends of the Earth, Physicians for Social
Responsibility and Working Assets Wireless have joined the effort. The
musicians are urging the public to sign the petition.

The Senate version of the Energy Bill, currently before Congress,
authorizes the Department of Energy to provide virtually unlimited loan
guarantees for funding of new nuclear reactors. The nuclear energy industry
has already indicated it wants $25 billion in guarantees for 2008, and
another $25 billion for 2009, with untold billions more to come after that.

The petition states:

"We ask that all members of Congress join us in working to remove from
the pending Energy Bill massively expensive loan guarantees -- potentially
a virtual blank check from taxpayers -- for the building of many more
nuclear power plants. We strongly support those parts of this Energy Bill
that advance Renewable Portfolio Standards, increased fuel efficiency for
automobiles, and other safe, clean solutions to global warming."

The YouTube video, produced by Robert Greenwald's Brave New Foundation,
integrates an adapted version of the Stephen Stills song, "For What It's
Worth," with information about both the problems of nuclear power and the
potential of safe, green energy, including:
-- The vulnerability to attack, or accident, of both the reactors and
the thousands of shipments of radioactive nuclear waste moving
through neighborhoods across the country.
-- How subsidies to nuclear power would depress investment in
sustainable safe sources of energy.
-- The global warming pollution produced in reactor construction,
and in the mining, milling and transport of nuclear fuel and waste.

Graham, Bonnie and Jackson worked, with many others, on the issue of
nuclear power throughout the 1970's, culminating with the 1979 series of
five "No Nukes" concerts at Madison Square Garden. The Rally, feature film
and triple album based on those concerts along with the ongoing work of
grassroots organizations helped catalyze overwhelming public opposition to
nuclear power. There have been no new atomic reactors ordered and built in
the U.S. since then.

Instead of new nuclear reactors, the artists are urging Congress to get
behind those parts of the Energy Bill that advance safe, economically
viable solutions to global warming.


SOURCE Fenton Communications

[PATRICK]

1. The immense cost

of past endeavors are not an erasable lesson. The energy is not cost effective. The waste problem has not been solved. The dangers of the plant itself in time just multiply.

The biggest unspoken of nuclear reactors is the simplest ploy, just like pols eager to buy cheating e-voting machines. Nuke plants can lead to nuke weapons= power=prestige=clout=protection=partnership. The bastards world leaders, and in a human sense these blighted individuals are bastardized from the rational human race, fairly twinkle with lust and joy over the prospect of getting these weapon babies. Nothing else matters, certainly not cost effectiveness versus energy output.

In the political struggle for sane, peaceful and safe energy the straw argument plays off various hydrocarbon burning, global warming finite money pits against repressed and sensible conservation(a necessity) solar, wind and water. The mediating ever present and ever desired by the establishment atomic option sneaks in between this argument and people forget the whole other range of horrors and lies behind those hi-tech wonder plants. Poisoning all is the desire to warp the sane development of anything for profit and other, utterly unnecessary and dangerous goals such as centralizing mammoth power sources to control and suck profit from the local.

[cooolandrew]

2. As Malloy said in world of corrupt leaders. What can seriously be doneabout global warming...

... we can only hope sanity prevails. I mean given globalisation we stop our pollutants here in the industrialised world then corps will just move to deregulated countries. The task is daunting to say the least. Mr Gore ? Are you busy.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. K&R

[slipslidingaway]

4. Kick, missed earlier. Please sign this petition and call your....

http://nukefree.org/about

"Dear Friend,

Do you live near a nuclear power plant? You may not today, but if the nuclear power industry has their way, a lot more of us could have those radioactive smokestacks as neighbors.

Please join musicians Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt as well as a growing list of concerned citizens in signing a petition to Congress that will stop a pending bailout of the nuclear power industry.

The Senate version of the Energy Bill now pending in Congress could authorize virtually unlimited loan guarantees for backers of new nuclear reactors – effectively, a blank check, at taxpayer expense. Besides the fact that reactors are vulnerable to terrorist attacks, human error in operation, and earthquakes, there is also no solution to the problem of safely storing or transporting nuclear waste. Why would we want more nuclear power facilities built if the safety of those already in operation is in question?

Tell Congress that nuclear power is not a “clean alternative” and has no place in an Energy Bill that seeks to expand the role of truly safe and reliable renewable energy from wind, solar, bio-fuels, geothermal and other green technologies.

Please sign this petition and call your Senators and Congresspersons and urge them to “REMOVE THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY LOAN GUARANTEES FROM THE PENDING ENERGY BILL.”

Thank you for taking action, please forward to your friends by October 22nd and ask them to do the same. Together we can make a difference, but time is of the essence!

~ No Nukes"