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Consumer, Environmental and Churches join Alliance in proclaiming that: REPEALING CALIFORNIA NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS LAW IS NOT THE ANSWER TO CALIFORNIA’S GLOBAL WARMING


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California Republican Party Unanimously Supports Nuclear Power: In a unanimous Sunday morning vote, hundreds of members of the California Republican Party agreed to work end the state's 31-year ban on the construction of new nuclear power plants. http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20070910005584&newsLang=en

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A Message from Rochelle

California’s Attorney General, Jerry Brown, has titled an initiative being promoted as the solution to global warming as, “Nuclear Energy: Removal of Prohibitions on the Construction of Nuclear Power Plants."

The initiative was release by the secretary of State after California’s after the Attorney General changed the title from an Orange County’s Assemblyman original title of “Zero Carbon Emission and Energy Independence Act.” A coalition of environmental organizations led by the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility and Sierra Club met with the Attorney General’s legal department the previous week to address the shortfalls of this ill-conceived proposal which allow construction of new reactors on our fragile coast and in earthquake active areas of our state. DONATE NOW

Concealed behind the proponent’s wording, the initiative would:

  • Repeal legislation enacted 30 years ago that protects Californians from radioactive waste;
  • Permit construction of nuclear power plants along the coast and in active earthquake zones;
  • Allow for storage of high level radioactive nuclear waste for up to 100 years at the site of new and existing nuclear power plants in the state;
  • Lower the standard for safe disposal of highly radioactive nuclear wastes.

The initiative attempts to make a case for nuclear power as “energy independence” and providing an answer to global warming. Yet nothing could be further from the truth. INITIATIVE AIMS TO REPEAL CALIFORNIA NUCLEAR SAFEGUARDS LAW As you encounter a signature gatherer please just walk on by.

Organizations participating in the coalition against the initiative are recognized as stewards of California’s environment and fighters for consumer protection. They include Abalone Alliance Safe Energy Clearinghouse Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, Bay Area Nuclear Waste Coalition, California Church Impact, Cal-PIRG (Public Interest Research Group), Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technology CEERT, Coastal Law Enforcement Action Network (CLEAN), Ecological Life Systems Institute, Inc., The Ecological Options Network, Environment California, Green Guerrillas Against Greenwash, Local Power, Planning and Conservation League, The Utility Reform Network (TURN), and Utility Consumers Action Network (UCAN).. More organizations will be joining the coalition in the days and weeks ahead as they formalize their opposition to the initiative.

ANR also met with the staff of Speaker Pelosi, Senators Boxer and Feinstein, state legislators and activist organizations in San Francisco the last week of August to gather opposition to the repeal of California’s nuclear safeguard laws. In July we met with California’s first lady’s chief of staff to share information on the initiative and followed up after the title and summary were released.

While our successes grow, we have had little time to replenish our funding. With each success comes the need for more outreach and this requires your help. DONATE NOW

Other ANR projects in August:

ANR is increasing support for all of the above actions and we invite you to join old friends and new supporters in our efforts to limit the production of high-level radioactive waste to no later than current license terms. Offers to help have grown dramatically and for this we are most grateful, but we must expand our staff and become as professional in our efforts as those we oppose. So please join our efforts DONATE NOW and if you have the ability to write letters, make calls, do research or other talents please let us know. We can stop nuclear power’s steamroller in California. We can limit the production of high-level radioactive waste on our coast. And as we near Grandparents Day, we show our children and grandchildren that we are trying as hard as we can to leave a legacy that demonstrates our love. http://a4nr.org/articles/09.09.2007-shirleyvaine

In Peace

Rochelle

"It is worth noting that, in the USA alone, there are an estimated 45,000 sites which are polluted or potentially polluted by radioactive poisons --- according to a report commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1992 (see EPA 1992). Worldwide, there is radioactive pollution from above-ground bomb tests. There is also the radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident in Europe and the former USSR. The fact that humans have already created large amounts of nuclear pollution, adds to the moral argument for allowing no more." http://www.ratical.com/radiation/CNR/YuccaMtnRWRP.html

Rochelle Becker, Executive Director Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
www.a4nr.org
(858) 337 2703

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