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Stop subsidies of Nuclear and Coal! Oppose the "Clean Energy Bank"
"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names" - Chinese Proverb
We forward this Emergency Action request from our colleagues at NIRS. They alert us to the fact that our "friends" in Washington are preparing to give away the store again at a magnitude to dwarf even the give-aways of the past 6 months -- unlimited loans guarantees, for so called "clean" coal and "safe" nuclear. If you liked having your pockets picked by the likes of AIG and TARP and GM -- you will simply love what Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman and Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) have in mind for the polluting energy interests. (see below)
It is important to call things by their proper names. But unfortunately, the camel's nose of euphemism has long been under the DC tent flap: first it was "jumbo shrimp." Then came things like "smart bombs" and "collateral damage" and " military intelligence." Now it's come to "clean coal" and " safe, cheap nuclear power." Well, there is no such thing. It is time for your boot to land squarely on the camel's nose.
It is urgent that you take action on the NIRS Alert below today and tomorrow. But please take liberty to strengthen even their message! Tell Pelosi and Reid that, if this passes, and you are a Democrat, you will leave the party. If you are a Republican, threaten to join the party. And if you are independent -- you have nothing to lose, so pull out all the stops!
These people are acting again with impunity, because they have the power. But -- we have the will; and it is time we take their power away. There must he consequences for continued incompetence and duplicity. And only we can exact those consequences. Time for camel training. Have at them!
Stay well, do great things -- like TODAY!
Gratefully,
--Dave Kraft, NEIS Director--
"...Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
-- Frederick Douglass --
THIS IS IT FOLKS! EITHER WE STOP THE "CLEAN ENERGY" BANK OR WE GET DOZENS OF NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS WE CAN WIN THIS ONE: ACT NOW! May 14, 2009 Dear friends, We've asked a lot of you this past several months. As the Obama administration has moved into power, the pace of activity has increased; we know that. So we don't waste your time asking you to take actions that aren't meaningful. And right now, we're asking you to take the most important action of the year. Write your House member and Speaker Nancy Pelosi now. And then forward this message to everyone you can think of. Write Speaker Nancy Pelosi here. We should have figured it out earlier, but we didn't. The section in the bill was so obscure we all missed it. But the "Clean Energy Bank" legislation sponsored by Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman and Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA) includes UNLIMITED taxpayer loan guarantees for construction of new nuclear reactors. Not $50 Billion, or $100 Billion. UNLIMITED! In other words, under the guise of a clean energy program, the nuclear power industry could get taxpayer money to build as many reactors as they wanted, regardless of their cost, regardless of their projected default rate. That's just unacceptable. We need to act on this as loudly and clearly as possible. Write your House member and Speaker Nancy Pelosi now. And then forward this message to everyone you can think of. Write Speaker Nancy Pelosi here. PLEASE forward this Alert to everyone you can think of. In 24 hours, we generated more than 3,000 letters in opposition to the pro-nuclear Murkowski amendment to the Senate energy bill. That's pretty good for one day, and we thank everyone who wrote (the Murkowski amendment has not yet been considered, it will likely come up next week). But we need to generate at least 10,000 letters to Pelosi and House members to stop this fake "clean energy" bank. Please help everyone you can think of to send letters now by forwarding this Alert. Phone calls to House members would be very effective too: 202-224-3121. A NIRS blog posting on the "clean energy" bank is available here. It provides a lot more background info on this issue. You have our permission to re-post this everywhere and anywhere you want. Please do so. This really is it folks. The effectiveness of our actions now will determine our energy--and quite possibly our economic--future. There is just no reason for inaction; let's all do everything we can. Pass the word; send an e-mail to your friends, forward this Alert everywhere. Put in on Facebook and MySpace. Twitter it. Blog it. Print this and take it to meetings. Do whatever you can. We can't let this stand. And please send a few dollars our way. Every tax-deductible contribution you make enables us to reach more people, to expand our efforts, to build on what you already are doing. We simply can't do this without your support, so please contribute here. We need thousands and thousands of people responding to this Alert; please act, please do everything you can to expand our reach. Thanks for all you do, Michael Mariotte Executive Director Nuclear Information and Resource Service |
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