[Sustain] Fwd: CBS's Nuclear Revival
Jeanne
greengal at netvista.net
Thu Aug 2 11:56:48 PDT 2007
Don,
Sorry; as you see I am behind on email. But I do think that the "no
subsidies" line is a winner. Then you don't have to argue danger or
waste or any of the other stuff that the technofix crowd think is
somehow magically solvable.
Jeanne
Don Eichelberger wrote:
>Cal-
>
>I visited with Diane D'Arrigo of NIRS this
>Friday- she's out here for a visit. She has
>worked against P-A for years and is convinced it
>is a sacred cow, of sorts, that legislators will not touch- at least, not now.
>
>She suggested going after other subsidies to the
>nuclear industry whose support is softer,
>especially the loan guarantees that are being
>offered to try to win over Wall Street to invest in nuclear power.
>
>More on this as it develops. For now, any ideas
>for how we can do this are welcome.
>
>Since it is an election year, it would seem we
>need to be pushing all candidates to support a no
>subsidies for nuclear power statement and let the
>technology compete, stand or fall, on its own merits.
>
>We should also try to get energy spending -
>especially to lower greenhouse gasses-officially
>prioritized by CEC for quickness of
>implementation and cost per kilowatt, which would
>put energy conservation at the top of spending priorities.
>
>I am convinced nuke cost and time for
>implementation, as well as their security threats
>to safety and mass outage potential, will undo them.
>
>But the anti-nukers among us can no longer be the
>"silent majority" on the subject. Even in
>California, opposition to nukes, once at 2/3rds
>looks to be slipping, thanks to a well
>orchestrated campaign around global warming by
>the nuclear industry and their partners.
>
>Let's talk,
>
>Don
>
>At 09:06 AM 6/14/2007, you wrote:
>
>
>>How about eliminating the Price Anderson Act? No insurance waiver means no
>>nukes. We pushed a proposition in 1976 but it failed, though it sparked a
>>lot of debate.
>>
>>Cal Broomhead and Kathleen Ribeiro
>>broomhead at igc.org
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>[Original Message]
>>>From: Don Eichelberger <done7777 at sbcglobal.net>
>>>To: Susan Swift <vencejo at mindspring.com>
>>>Cc: <sustainability at sfgreens.org>; Lynda Hernandez
>>>
>>>
>><redwoodsforever at verizon.net>; <GPCA-Energy at yahoogroups.com>;
>><TrueGreen_NoNukes at yahoogroups.com>
>>
>>
>>>Date: 6/12/2007 6:43:37 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [Sustain] Fwd: CBS's Nuclear Revival
>>>
>>>I hope they were responsive to working together.
>>>Seems we have "allies" almost everywhere we
>>>look. It is a matter of finding ways to keep
>>>each other in each other's loops and, if not
>>>"coordinating efforts", at least making a buzz in unison.
>>>
>>>Overcoming the other side's media blitz will be a
>>>big part of it. I am ccing the state Green Party
>>>media guy, Cres, with a heads up that his help
>>>would be good to have. The main media strategy
>>>at present seems to be writing and responding to
>>>blogs (my first blog is
>>>www.greenuprising.blogspot.com) and writing
>>>letters to editors for newspaper articles that promote nukes
>>>
>>>We need to do something newsworthy. We (SF Green
>>>Sustainability Working Group) are considering
>>>pushing Leno for stronger legislation than a
>>>study, including opposing renewal of nuke
>>>operating licenses in the state on the same grounds we now oppose new
>>>
>>>
>>licenses.
>>
>>
>>>I would like to get something happening,
>>>
>>>Don
>>>
>>>At 07:48 AM 4/19/2007, you wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Great News! We have some allies outside the immediate environmental
>>>>ncommunity. Thanks for sharing this Don. I'll write to CBS and FAIR.
>>>>
>>>>-Susan
>>>>
>>>>-- In TrueGreen_NoNukes at yahoogroups.com, Don Eichelberger
>>>><done7777 at ...> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>I looked at the 60 Minutes segment and said to
>>>>>myself, "Noooooo! Not 60 Minutes, too!" I had
>>>>>intended to respond to them, but got turned to
>>>>>other things, until I got this alert. In case you want to respond....
>>>>>
>>>>>Glad FAIR is doing this.
>>>>>
>>>>>Don
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:27:06 -0700
>>>>>>From: "Richard A. Knee" <rak0408 at ...>
>>>>>>To: "Knee Richard A." <rak0408 at ...>
>>>>>>Subject: Fwd: CBS's Nuclear Revival
>>>>>>------- Forwarded message -------
>>>>>>From: FAIR <fair at ...>
>>>>>>To: rak0408 at ...
>>>>>>Cc:
>>>>>>Subject: CBS's Nuclear Revival
>>>>>>Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:34:18 -0700
>>>>>>
>>>>>>http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3086
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Action Alert
>>>>>>
>>>>>>CBS's Nuclear Revival
>>>>>>60 Minutes' critic-free boosterism
>>>>>>
>>>>>>4/18/07
>>>>>>
>>>>>>On April 8, the CBS newsmagazine 60 Minutes aired a segment about the
>>>>>>"resounding success" of the French nuclear power program,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>suggesting that
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>"emission-free" nuclear power might offer an easy solution to the
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>problem
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>of climate change. The report protected this dubious assertion from
>>>>>>skeptical scrutiny by failing to quote a single bona fide critic of
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>the
>>
>>
>>>>>>nuclear industry.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The segment was titled "Vive Les Nukes," which gave a good
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>indication of
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>the slant it took. Describing it as "an efficient means of
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>producing large
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>amounts of carbon-free energy," correspondent Steve Kroft announced
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>at the
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>top of the segment that nuclear power is "a technology whose time
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>seemed
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>to come and go, and may now be coming again." The notion of a nuclear
>>>>>>power renaissance was bolstered by CBS's choice of interview
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>guests--the
>>
>>
>>>>>>program spoke only to nuclear power supporters (in France and
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>elsewhere),
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>thereby allowing their rhetoric to go unchallenged.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Guests on the segment were French energy official Pierre Gadonniex,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>French
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>nuclear industry executive Bertrande Durrande, White House deputy
>>>>>>secretary of energy Clay Sell (Bush's "point man on nuclear power"),
>>>>>>French nuclear executive Anne Lauvergeon, MIT nuclear researcher
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>Andrew
>>
>>
>>>>>>Kadak and David Jhirhad of the World Resources Institute, described
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>as "an
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>environmental think tank in Washington."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Jhirhad was the only potentially balancing source, but he is quoted
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>only
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>to make Kroft's point that "even some environmental groups are
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>taking a
>>
>>
>>>>>>second look at nuclear power." This is an emerging line in much of
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>the
>>
>>
>>>>>>corporate media (e.g., Washington Post, 4/16/06; New York Times,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>2/27/07),
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>though the actual number of green groups embracing nuclear power is
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>quite
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>small. The World Resources Institute receives contributions from
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>several
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>energy companies and other major polluters, information that would
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>have
>>
>>
>>>>>>been useful for CBS viewers in evaluating Jhirad's claim that the
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>nuclear
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>industry's "safety record has been pretty good."
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The segment's one-sided sourcing was made all the more problematic
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>when
>>
>>
>>>>>>the White House's Sell claimed that "no serious person can look at
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>the
>>
>>
>>>>>>challenge of greenhouse gases and climate change and not come to the
>>>>>>conclusion that nuclear power has to play a significant and growing
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>role
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>in meeting that challenge worldwide." Of course, "serious people" do
>>>>>>question precisely that--and CBS should have interviewed them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Excluding such sources meant excluding important information. While
>>>>>>France's nuclear power is portrayed as widely popular, CBS failed to
>>>>>>mention large protests held across the country on March 17 (Agence
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>France
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>Presse, 3/17/07) against construction of a new nuclear plant. Nor, in
>>>>>>touting the massive nuclear reprocessing plant France has built in
>>>>>>Normandy, did the show refer to the radiation it releases into the
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>English
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>Channel (NIRS Nuclear Monitor, 3-4/00) or the cluster of leukemia
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>cases
>>
>>
>>>>>>occurring around the plant (British Medical Journal, 1/11/97).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Kroft even adopts industry-friendly language in describing the push
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>to
>>
>>
>>>>>>revive U.S. nuclear power, discussing the "financial incentives" and
>>>>>>"streamlined regulatory system" intended to encourage nuclear energy
>>>>>>development. Such "incentives" might better be described as
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>government
>>
>>
>>>>>>subsides, which have long been criticized by nuclear industry
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>critics as a
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>waste of taxpayers' money. Unmentioned in the CBS report were similar
>>>>>>subsidies in France; according to the U.S.-based Institute for
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>Energy and
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>Environmental Research (5/4/06), $1 billion a year in government
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>subsidies
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>go to plutonium production alone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Excluding critical voices allowed grossly misleading information to
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>go
>>
>>
>>>>>>unchallenged, as when nuclear executive Lauvergeon claimed, in the
>>>>>>segment's conclusion, that "wind and solar are, you know, temporary
>>>>>>sources of energy. It works when you have wind, it works when you
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>have
>>
>>
>>>>>>sun. No sun, no wind, no energy. You don't want to watch TV only
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>when you
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>have wind." Of course, wind and solar energy are not "temporary"
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>sources
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>of energy; power generated by both can be stored. Airing this sort of
>>>>>>misinformation eliminates any real consideration of viable
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>alternatives to
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>nuclear energy.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>At one point, Kroft says that "the Bush administration is pushing a
>>>>>>nuclear revival." The same could be said for CBS.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>ACTION:
>>>>>>Contact 60 Minutes to ask why its report on nuclear energy excluded
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>the
>>
>>
>>>>>>views of the industry's numerous critics.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>CONTACT:
>>>>>>CBS 60 Minutes
>>>>>>60m at ...
>>>>>>(212) 975-3247
>>>>>>
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>>>>width="526"><!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><P><FONT
>>>>color=#8f4444><FONT face=Georgia><FONT size=3><SPAN
>>>>class=communique_category><a
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>>>>
>>>href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
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>>15&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fair.org%2Findex.php%3Fpage%3D3086">http://www.fair.
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>>>>><P><FONT color=#8f4444><FONT face=Georgia><FONT size=3><SPAN
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>class=communique_category>Action
>>>>Alert</SPAN><BR><BR></FONT></FONT></FONT><STRONG><FONT
>>>>face=Georgia><FONT size=3><SPAN class=main_headline>CBS's Nuclear
>>>>Revival</SPAN><BR></FONT></FONT></STRONG><FONT face=Georgia><FONT
>>>>size=3><SPAN class=sub_headline>60 Minutes' critic-free
>>>>boosterism<BR></SPAN><BR><SPAN
>>>>class=date>4/18/07</SPAN><BR><BR></FONT></FONT><SPAN
>>>>class=published-content-body><FONT face=Georgia size=3>On April 8, the
>>>><SPAN class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN> newsmagazine
>>>><SPAN class=media_outlet><STRONG>60 Minutes</STRONG></SPAN> </FONT><a
>>>> title=""
>>>>
>>>>
>>>href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
>>>
>>>
>>16&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fstories%2F2007%2F04%2F06%2F60minutes%2
>>Fmain2655782.shtml"
>>
>>
>>>>target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272 size=3>aired a
>>>>segment</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3> about the
>>>>"resounding success" of the French nuclear power program, suggesting
>>>>that "emission-free" nuclear power might offer an easy solution to the
>>>>problem of climate change. The report protected this dubious assertion
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>from skeptical scrutiny by failing to quote a single bona fide critic
>>>
>>>
>>>>of the nuclear industry.<BR><BR>The segment was titled "Vive Les
>>>>Nukes," which gave a good indication of the slant it took. Describing
>>>>it as "an efficient means of producing large amounts of carbon-free
>>>>energy," correspondent Steve Kroft announced at the top of the segment
>>>>that nuclear power is "a technology whose time seemed to come and go,
>>>>and may now be coming again." The notion of a nuclear power
>>>>renaissance was bolstered by <SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN>'s choice of interview
>>>>guests--the program spoke only to nuclear power supporters (in France
>>>>and elsewhere), thereby allowing their rhetoric to go
>>>>unchallenged.<BR><BR>Guests on the segment were French energy official
>>>>Pierre Gadonniex, French nuclear industry executive Bertrande
>>>>Durrande, White House deputy secretary of energy Clay Sell (Bush's
>>>>"point man on nuclear power"), French nuclear executive Anne
>>>>Lauvergeon, MIT nuclear researcher Andrew Kadak and David Jhirhad of
>>>>the World Resources Institute, described as "an environmental think
>>>>tank in Washington."<BR><BR>Jhirhad was the only potentially balancing
>>>>source, but he is quoted only to make Kroft's point that "even some
>>>>environmental groups are taking a second look at nuclear power." This
>>>>is an emerging line in much of the corporate media (e.g., <SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>Washington Post</STRONG></SPAN>, </FONT><a
>>>> title=""
>>>>
>>>>
>>>href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
>>>
>>>
>>17&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F20
>>06%2F04%2F14%2FAR2006041401209.html"
>>
>>
>>>>target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272
>>>>size=3>4/16/06</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3>; <SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>New York Times</STRONG></SPAN>, </FONT><a
>>>>title=""
>>>>
>>>>
>>>href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
>>>
>>>
>>18&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2007%2F02%2F27%2Fscience%2Fearth%2F27t
>>ier.html%3Fei%3D5088%26amp%3Ben%3Dde61beaa4b05ed09%26amp%3Bex%3D1330232400%2
>>6amp%3Bpartner%3Drssnyt%26amp%3Bemc%3Drss%26amp%3Bpagewanted%3Dprint"
>>
>>
>>>>target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272
>>>>size=3>2/27/07</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3>), though
>>>>the actual number of green groups embracing nuclear power is quite
>>>>small. The World Resources Institute </FONT><a title=""
>>>>
>>>>
>>>href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
>>>
>>>
>>19&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wri.org%2Fpartners%2Fcontrib_financial.cfm"
>>
>>
>>>>target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272 size=3>receives
>>>>contributions</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3> from
>>>>several energy companies and other major polluters, information that
>>>>would have been useful for <SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN> viewers in evaluating
>>>>Jhirad's claim that the nuclear industry's "safety record has been
>>>>pretty good."<BR><BR>The segment's one-sided sourcing was made all the
>>>>more problematic when the White House's Sell claimed that "no serious
>>>>person can look at the challenge of greenhouse gases and climate
>>>>change and not come to the conclusion that nuclear power has to play a
>>>>significant and growing role in meeting that challenge worldwide." Of
>>>>course, "serious people" do question precisely that--and <SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN> should have interviewed
>>>>them.<BR><BR>Excluding such sources meant excluding important
>>>>information. While France's nuclear power is portrayed as widely
>>>>popular, <SPAN class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN> failed
>>>>to mention large protests held across the country on March 17 (<SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>Agence France Presse</STRONG></SPAN>,
>>>>3/17/07) against construction of a new nuclear plant. Nor, in touting
>>>>the massive nuclear reprocessing plant France has built in Normandy,
>>>>did the show refer to the radiation it releases into the English
>>>>Channel (<SPAN class=media_outlet><STRONG>NIRS Nuclear
>>>>Monitor</STRONG></SPAN>, </FONT><a title=""
>>>>
>>>>
>>>href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
>>>
>>>
>>20&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nirs.org%2Fmononline%2Fcogemamonitor.htm"
>>
>>
>>>>target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272
>>>>size=3>3-4/00</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3>) or the
>>>>cluster of leukemia cases occurring around the plant (<SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>British Medical Journal</STRONG></SPAN>,
>>>></FONT><a title=""
>>>>
>>>>
>>>href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
>>>
>>>
>>21&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bmj.com%2Fcgi%2Fcontent%2Ffull%2F314%2F7074%2F101"
>>
>>
>>>>target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272
>>>>size=3>1/11/97</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia
>>>>size=3>).<BR><BR>Kroft even adopts industry-friendly language in
>>>>describing the push to revive U.S. nuclear power, discussing the
>>>>"financial incentives" and "streamlined regulatory system" intended to
>>>>encourage nuclear energy development. Such "incentives" might better
>>>>be described as government subsides, which have long been criticized
>>>>by nuclear industry critics as a waste of taxpayers' money.
>>>>Unmentioned in the <SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN> report were similar
>>>>subsidies in France; according to the U.S.-based Institute for Energy
>>>>and Environmental Research (</FONT><a title=""
>>>>
>>>>
>>>href="http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=325422084&url_num=
>>>
>>>
>>22&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieer.org%2Freports%2Fenergy%2Ffrance%2Flowcarbonrepo
>>rt.pdf"
>>
>>
>>>>target=_blank><STRONG><FONT face=Georgia color=#015272
>>>>size=3>5/4/06</FONT></STRONG></A><FONT face=Georgia size=3>), $1
>>>>billion a year in government subsidies go to plutonium production
>>>>alone.<BR><BR>Excluding critical voices allowed grossly misleading
>>>>information to go unchallenged, as when nuclear executive Lauvergeon
>>>>claimed, in the segment's conclusion, that "wind and solar are, you
>>>>know, temporary sources of energy. It works when you have wind, it
>>>>works when you have sun. No sun, no wind, no energy. You don't want to
>>>>watch TV only when you have wind." Of course, wind and solar energy
>>>>are not "temporary" sources of energy; power generated by both can be
>>>>stored. Airing this sort of misinformation eliminates any real
>>>>consideration of viable alternatives to nuclear energy.<BR><BR>At one
>>>>point, Kroft says that "the Bush administration is pushing a nuclear
>>>>revival." The same could be said for <SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN>.<BR><BR><BR><SPAN
>>>>class=sub_headline>ACTION:</SPAN> <BR>Contact <SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>60 Minutes</STRONG></SPAN> to ask why its
>>>>report on nuclear energy excluded the views of the industry's numerous
>>>>critics.<BR><BR><BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Georgia><FONT size=3><SPAN
>>>>class=sub_headline>CONTACT:</SPAN><BR><SPAN
>>>>class=media_outlet><STRONG>CBS</STRONG></SPAN>
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