Back in 1979, I went to the legendary No Nukes concert where Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash, Jackson Brown and many other musicians performed to 100,000 people to raise awareness of the dangers of nuclear fuel. (That’s nukeUlar to President Bush.) Thirty years later, they’re spreading the very same message – this time via a YouTube video and a MoveOn.org awareness campaign.
That’s because Congress is poised to sign a clean energy bill allocating increased funds to the development of solar, wind and other alternative energy sources. But there’s one sentence in the bill that would allocate more than 25 BILLION dollars in tax subsidies for the building of new nuclear plants.
Building new atomic reactors in an age of terror threats is beyond scary, and the toxic waste from nuclear power threatens our health and our planet. We already have better alternatives than nuclear plants. Building more nuclear plants makes no sense. Please, please sign the petition to remove the tax break for the nuclear industry from the energy bill. Contact your Congressional representatives. DO Something!
Musicians Band Together for No Nukes Redux as New Nuclear Plants Loom
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Tags: , Alternative Marketing, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash, MoveOn.org, no nukes, No Nukes Concert 1979, NukeFree.org
Tags: , Alternative Marketing, Bonnie Raitt, Graham Nash, MoveOn.org, no nukes, No Nukes Concert 1979, NukeFree.org
This group should be applauded for their efforts, but they and others need to do a lot more.
The other MAJOR piece of the puzzle that needs some serious attention, is the wrongful license renewal of America’s 104 aging plants such as Entergy’s Indian Point. Said plant is leaking strontium 90 into the Hudson, Tritium is causing greatly elevated levels of various cancers in the area around the plant, including New York City, as well as significant parts of Connecticut and New Jersey.
Let’s hope that Bonnie and Jackson Browne intend to take a stand soon on the License Renewal Issue.
It’s reasonable for any private citizen to question legislation and its value. But if you’d like a realistic picture of the US nuclear industry from someone who’s actually immersed in it every day, see http://RadDecision.blogspot.com . Rad Decision is a novel and it’s free to online readers. (It’s also in paperback). Stewart Brand, founder of The Whole Earth Catalog has said “I’d like to see Rad Decision widely read.”
Sherwood – it’s not up to Bonnie Raitt et al – it’s up to all of us.
If you think that’s an area that needs attention, contact your representatives in Congress, write letters to the editor of mainstream media, comment on more blogs, etc, etc.
the future is up to all of us!
James – I would normally decline to publish a comment that is such obvious self-promotion, but your book does look interesting.
Thanks. I figure it’s got good information no matter where you come down on the issue, it’s free with no site advertising, and I don’t get any royalties from the paper version either. So it’s self-promotion without self-enrichment, at any rate. Thanks for passing it through.
In November 1972, a Southern Airways jetliner was hijacked. Over the course of several days, the hijackers forced the pilots to fly to several cities. Along the way, they threatened a forced dive-bombing into a nuclear plant. Fortunately, this did not happen.
The plane’s final destination was Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers thought they’d find freedom from the oppression they believed they lived under in the United States. They couldn’t have been more wrong. They were immediately arrested and imprisoned in 4×4 cells.