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All-<br><br>
I hope you will take a minute to respond to this call if you have not
already gotten it and done so. It is the expected end-run by the
nuclear industry to scare people toward nuclear with threats of global
warming and promises of unlimited, pollution-free (sic) power.<br><br>
Contact your Senators today and tell them no nukes!<br><br>
Thank you,<br><br>
Don<br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Subject: Act now to stop nuke
amdts to Senate climate bill<br>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 16:49:42 -0400<br>
From: "Michael Mariotte" <nirsnet@nirs.org><br>
To: <done7777@sbcglobal.net><br><br>
<div align="center"><font size=4>SENATE CLIMATE CHANGE BILL COULD GIVE
BILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO THE NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY<br>
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YOUR CALLS NOW CAN STOP THIS, AND HELP PAVE THE WAY FOR CLEAN, SAFE AND
AFFORDABLE SOLUTIONS TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS<br>
</font></div>
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May 12, 2008<br>
<br>
Dear Friends:<br>
<br>
The Lieberman-Warner climate change bill is slated to come to the Senate
floor the week of June 2-6, 2008.<br>
<br>
<b>Without even explicitly mentioning nuclear power, the bill would be
the largest giveaway to the nuclear power industry eversome $500 billion
worth.<br>
</b> <br>
<b>And if that weren’t enough</b></font>, we expect one or more
amendments to be submitted to give even more billions of taxpayer dollars
to the nuclear industry; further reduce public participation in nuclear
issues; and speed the development of new radioactive waste sites over
public opposition.<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times"> <br>
We need to stop this nuclear nonsense, and your voices need to be
heard.<br>
<br>
Even our friends in the Senate, like Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), say they
are not receiving enough phone calls on this issue. <b>They, and we, are
urging you to <u>call</u> your senators now and demand that they
<u>oppose any nuclear provisions or amendments to the Lieberman-Warner
bill</u>.<br>
<br>
</b>Your calls are especially important because the nuclear industry is
actively lobbying to obtain more taxpayer dollars, and they have far more
resources to do so than the environmental movement.<br>
<br>
<b><u>Please call your Senators today: Capitol Switchboard:
202-224-3121</u></font>.<br>
</b><font face="Times New Roman, Times"> <br>
And activate e-mail lists, phone trees, myspace and facebook sites, and
any other networks you have. We need to get as many of your voices to the
Senate as possible.<br>
<br>
Some background information on the Lieberman-Warner bill, and some of the
nuclear provisions now being talked about, is below.<br>
<br>
First, we all know that election campaigns take huge sums of money, and
we know that many of you have been contributing to your candidates this
year. But issue campaigns, like this one, require resources too.
<u>After</u> you’ve called your Senators, please consider making an extra
$30 donation (or $300 or $3,000, if you can!)in honor of NIRS’
30<sup>th</sup> anniversary this yearon our secure website
<a href="https://secure.campagne-online.com/registrant/donate.aspx?EventID=2927&LangPref=en-CA">
here.</a><br>
<br>
</font>Background information on Lieberman-Warner Bill (S. 2191)<br>
<br>
<font face="Times New Roman, Times">According to an aide to Senator Joe
Lieberman (I-CT), the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill scheduled to
be debated on the Senate floor during the first week of June “would be
the most historic incentive for nuclear in the history of the United
States."<br>
<br>
The cap-and-trade carbon emissions system that the bill would establish
would both make utility investments in carbon-emitting technologies like
coal and gas less economically competitive by putting a price on carbon,
and would also create a fundtotaling as much as $500 Billion over the
next four decadesthat could be used for nuclear power investment.<br>
<br>
There are many problems with the proposed legislation, not the least of
which is that its emissions reductions targets fall far short of what
science now says is necessary to avoid a climate catastrophe. In fact,
the global carbon emissions reduction of 80% by 2050 called for by the
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Global Climate Change
translates into a 95% reduction in U.S. emissionsor essentially a
carbon-free energy economy. But at best, the Lieberman-Warner bill would
reduce emissions about 60-70% by 2050, and perhaps not even that
much.<br>
<br>
Nuclear amendments that have been discussed on Capitol Hill may include
some, or even all, of the following:<br>
<br>
*more money for taxpayer loan guarantees for new reactors<br>
*more money for “risk” insurance if reactors are delayed because of
interventions or other licensing problems<br>
*establishment of “interim” storage sites for high-level radioactive
waste<br>
*speed-up of Yucca Mountain licensing<br>
*further restrictions on public participation in reactor licensing<br>
*money for training nuclear engineers<br>
*money for training skilled workers (like welders)<br>
*money for security guards and improvements<br>
*money for Hardened On-Site Storage<br>
*money to build new factories to manufacture large reactor
components<br>
*money for new transmission lines<br>
*money for transformers<br>
<br>
We need safe, clean, fast and affordable solutions to the climate crisis.
Nuclear power meets none of those criteria. Your actions now can make a
real difference!<br>
<br>
<u>Please call your Senators today: 202-224-3121</u></font>, and alert
your colleagues, co-workers, church groups, PTAs, and all of your friends
and ask them to call too! And please call both of your senators no matter
where you think they may stand on the issue: we need to create a better
sense in the Senate that people care about this issue.<br>
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Thank you for all you do. Together, we can stop the nuclear industry’s
misguided notion that climate change legislation is their opportunity to
have an atomic Christmas in June!<br>
<br>
As always, if you have questions or comments, don’t hesitate to contact
us.<br>
<br>
Michael Mariotte<br>
Executive Director<br>
Nuclear Information and Resource Service<br>
<a href="mailto:nirsnet@nirs.org">nirsnet@nirs.org</a><br>
<a href="http://www.nirs.org/" eudora="autourl">www.nirs.org</a><br>
301-270-6477<br>
<br>
</font><font size=2 color="#FF0000">This is <u>NIRS’ 30<sup>th</sup>
anniversary year</u>: Help kick off our next 30 years, and our work to
build a nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future, with your most generous
contribution possible. Please make your tax-deductible donation
<a href="https://secure.campagne-online.com/registrant/donate.aspx?EventID=2927&LangPref=en-CA">
here</a>.<br>
<br>
And if you haven’t done so yet, don’t forget to sign the statement on
nuclear power and climate at
<a href="http://www.nirs.org/">www.nirs.org</a> (but please don’t sign
more than once!). If you’ve already signed, please ask your friends and
colleagues to sign!<br>
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</a>The Hegelian/Marxist goal is emancipation. Marx said it best in
1843:<br><br>
"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 <i>species-being</i> (<b>politically
accountabe to the whole</b>); and when he recognizes and realizes his own
power as <i>social</i> powers, so that he no longer separates this
<i>socia</i>l power from himself as <i>political </i>power."<br>
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