[NukeNet] Support musicians acting to stop new reactors; new info on loan guarantees/energy bill

[Michael Mariotte]

NUCLEAR INFORMATION AND RESOURCE SERVICE

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October 12, 2007

 

Dear Friends,

 

There are two major developments we want to tell you about regarding
loan guarantees for new nuclear reactors and the pending energy bill in
Congress:

 

First, we're happy to tell you that Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Graham
Nash, Keb Mo, Ben Harper and other artists have joined the effort to
stop the loan guarantees in a major way. They've set up a new website,
www.nukefree.org <http://www.nukefree.org/> , and there you can sign a
petition against the use of your tax dollars for new nuclear reactors.
Please do so right now <http://www.nukefree.org/> . They've also remade
the classic Buffalo Springfield song, For What It's Worth, and you can
watch that on their website, on youtube, or from NIRS website,
www.nirs.org <http://www.nirs.org/> . 

 

Second, we have learned that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has given up on
the idea of setting up a House-Senate conference committee to formally
address the differences in the House and Senate energy bills. Instead, a
more informal process will be used. Both Pelosi and Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid apparently want a final energy bill completed by
November 1. That will be difficult to do in the little remaining time,
and it means that some of the more controversial provisions in the two
bills may be dropped entirely. We need to make the loan guarantees as
controversial as possible.

 

So after you've signed the petition at www.nukefree.org
<http://www.nukefree.org/> , please call your Senators and
Representative (Capitol Switchboard, 202-224-3121), and tell them: no
taxpayer subsidies for nuclear power. Please call even if you've called
before. Ask your friends and colleagues to call. This is the time to
take action!

 

You should add that Congress should not cut itself out of the loan
guarantee process-the Senate version of the bill would give full power
to the Department of Energy to issue the guarantees, decide who gets
them, and how much they should get. This is a job Congress has to stay
on top of. The Nuclear Energy Institute already has said it wants the
nuclear industry to receive $50 billion in taxpayer guarantees over just
the next two years. When that kind of money is at risk, Congress has to
accept responsibility, not merely turn it over to the Energy Department.


 

Thanks for your help!

 

Michael Mariotte

Executive Director

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

nirsnet at nirs.org

 

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Contributors of $60 or more will receive a free copy of Bonnie Raitt's
CD, Souls Alike, as our, and her, way of saying THANK YOU!

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