[Sustain] Fwd: URGENT: [Fwd: NEED SIGN ON OF SUPPORT ASAP] Cal nuclear push

Tue Sep 4 13:49:34 PDT 2007

Rochelle-

I join with Roger in Abalone Alliance Safe Energy 
Clearinghouse endorsement of this, and will work 
to get other Green Party activists active also.

If not too late, I would put DeVors's name to the 
initiative in the headline, or maybe a sub-head, 
to show that it is not the work of an 
organization, but the act of a single legislator. 
That was not clear to me at first reading because 
it leads off with the coalition opposed before it 
talks to the initiative, which I found confusing.

DEVORE NUCLEAR INITIATIVE WOULD REPEAL CALIFORNIA’S
NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SAFETY LAWS;
LOWER STANDARDS FOR WASTE DISPOSAL

Single legislator seeks to undo state ballot 
initiative protections against economic impacts of nuclear power

Something like that.

Also, the initiative did not challenge nuclear 
power on safety, as DeVore points out, due to 
federal preemption, but the economic consequences 
of nuclear power, which is still a strong argument.

Thank you for hearing me out, and take care,

Don Eichelberger, Co-Chair
Green Party of California Energy Working Group

>From: Don Eichelberger <done7777 at sbcglobal.net>
>Subject: Fwd: URGENT: [Fwd: NEED SIGN ON OF SUPPORT ASAP] Cal nuclear push
>>Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:34:13 -0700
>>From: Roger Herried <rogerh at energy-net.org>
>>Subject: URGENT: [Fwd: NEED SIGN ON OF SUPPORT ASAP] Cal nuclear push
>>
>>This is a very short window, but 
>>urgent.Â  Please forwardÂ  to groupsÂ  you know!
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>>-------- Original Message --------
>>Subject: NEED SIGN ON OF SUPPORT ASAP
>>Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 12:38:01 -0700 (GMT-07:00)
>>From: <mailto:beckers at thegrid.net>beckers at thegrid.net
>>Reply-To: <mailto:beckers at thegrid.net>beckers at thegrid.net
>>To: <mailto:rochelle at a4nr.org>rochelle at a4nr.org
>>
>>
>>
>>Dear Friends
>>
>>A sample press release is attached (WITH AN 
>>EMBARGO) and I would like to have all CA 
>>organizations listed to demonstrate united 
>>enviro opposition to this initiative 
>>(attached). I have also attached list of 
>>proponents of this initiative so you can see what we are up against so far.
>>
>>We can also use business owners to sign on in 
>>opposition, but need this by Wed Sept 5th at latest.
>>
>>In Peace
>>
>>Rochelle Becker, Executive Director
>>Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
>><http://www.a4nr.org>www.a4nr.org
>>PO 1328
>>San Luis Obispo, Ca 93406-1328
>>

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, September 5, 2007

CONTACT: Rochelle Becker 858 337 2703

NUCLEAR INITIATIVE WOULD REPEAL CALIFORNIA’S
NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SAFETY LAWS;
LOWER STANDARDS FOR WASTE DISPOSAL

A coalition that includes virtually every 
statewide environmental organization in 
California today called a nuclear power plant 
initiative filed by Assemblymember Chuck DeVore 
“a sneaky and duplicitous attempt to repeal 
California’s nuclear power plant safety laws and 
open the door for nuclear power plant construction throughout the state.”

             “This initiative:
·         Repeals the California nuclear power 
plant safety laws enacted in 1976;
·         Lowers the standards for safe disposal 
of highly radioactive nuclear wastes;
·         Permits construction of nuclear power 
plants in active earthquake zones;
·         Permits construction of nuclear power 
plants on the coast of California.

“It does all these things under the false and 
misleading guise of fighting global warming,”
coalition spokespersons said in a statement 
released today.  The statement was issued as the 
Secretary of State’s office certified the measure 
to be circulated for signatures aimed a qualifying for the ballot next year.

“The initiative attempts to make a case for 
nuclear power being an answer to global warming,” 
the coalition statement said. “Nothing could be further from the truth.

·         Diesel driven heavy equipment is used 
in the mining of uranium for fuel;
·         Diesel powered ships bring the uranium 
ore from mines in Australia and Africa;
·         The processing of the ore into fuel 
includes the burning of coal and the use of other pollutants;
·         The manufacture of massive amounts of 
steel and concrete generates substantial amounts of greenhouse gases;
·         Shipment of the steel and concrete is 
done in diesel spewing heavy trucks;
·         Operation of a nuclear power plant 
requires a constant source of new fuel, the 
mining and processing of which produce greenhouse gases;
·         Finally, when the plant is 
decommissioned there is the need to dismantle the 
highly radioactive structure and ship it 
someplace for storage. This also creates large amounts of greenhouse gases;
·         Then, after all this, we are left with 
the highly radioactive nuclear wastes and not 
place to put them for the hundreds of thousands of years they remain lethal.

“So, contrary to Assemblymember DeVore’s claims, 
nuclear power is an extremely dirty,
carbon-producing, greenhouse gas spewing 
technology. Assembly member DeVore’s motives 
truly were to fight global warming, he would have 
voted along with the majority of California’s 
legislators for the two most important pieces of 
legislation on the subject in the last session of the legislature.”

The coalition went on to point out that DeVore is 
inaccurate, also, in his claim that nuclear power 
means energy independence for California. First, 
they point out that no nuclear fuel is mined in 
California. Second, they point out, most uranium 
mining today is done in Australia, Canada or in 
unstable African countries, including some that are dictatorships.

Coalition organizations  issuing today’s statement include:

Rochelle Becker, Executive Director
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility:

Don Eichelberger
DJ Fix Independent Productions

Green Uprising Blog
www.greenuprising.blogspot.com

Donny Fix del.icio.us book marks
http://del.icio.us/donnyfix

The Hegelian/Marxist goal is emancipation.  Marx said it best in 1843:

"Human emancipation wll only be complete when the 
real, individual man (sic) is absorbed into 
himself the abstract citizen; when as an 
individual man, in his every day life, in his 
work and in his relationships, he has become a 
species-being (politically accountabe to the 
whole); and when he recognizes and realizes his 
own power as social powers, so that he no  longer 
separates this social power from himself as political power."
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