[announce] Nuke loan action & Cobo Hall

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Great chance to meet/learn at Cobo Hall.

Re: Nuclear, solar is now cheaper. Per Amory Lovins/RMI and per Wall Street.


Solar cost is dropping by the day, but nobody is investing in nuclear
because it's true cost is too high. But the public doesn't know that. So
they support nuclear. And Obama is just another politician. So he will
promote nuclear to get re-elected.

Despite cost to generate each unit of nuclear energy, there are government
paid costs not included in solar - long term storage of nuke waste,
liability coverage in case of a disaster, plant decommissioning (careful,
expensive teardown and burial of utility owned plants when their live span
is up). These costs, plus the construction overruns and problems France has
had have all pushed up the real cost of nuclear above solar.

Please tell each other these things. Shift the conversation away from mere
pollution. Get those outside the choir on our side with the new economic
realities. "solar is cheaper".

Mike Cohn

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From: Nuclear Information and Resource Service <nirsnet at nirs.org>
Date: Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 2:07 PM
Subject: Correction: House Comm to consider $36 B in new nuclear loans
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*CORRECTION!!!!!*

*HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE TO MEET THURSDAY AFTERNOON--JUNE
24--TO DETERMINE
FATE OF $9 BILLION CONSIDER $36 BILLION IN TAXPAYER LOANS FOR NEW NUCLEAR
REACTORS*

*LAST CHANCE TO ACT AND MOBILIZE!*

June 22, 2010

Dear Friends,

We've just learned that the House Appropriations Committee has scheduled a
meeting at 1 pm on Thursday, June 24, 2010, to consider the FY 2011 energy
appropriations bill. *The Obama Department of Energy has asked for $36
Billion in new taxpayer loans for nuclear reactor construction in this
bill--not just the $9 billion we reported on earlier.*

This is your last chance before this meeting to act and tell your House
members clearly: No More Nuclear
Loans<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Lhw3tQcvezjCNkWEzAMwBNO2kJ5jTu8T>!
Note: We have changed the letter going to House members, so this letter is
new.

And it's all of our last chance before the meeting to spread the word and
mobilize all our friends, relatives and colleagues to take action too.
Forward this e-mail or just send them this link they can use:
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=3179

*So **please send a letter to your House
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*, and especially if your Representative is on the Appropriations Committee
(list below), please call him/her as well with the same message: No More
Nuclear Loans! Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121.*

Please act before Thursday afternoon.

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*Important Workshops at the US Social Forum this week!*

After you've sent your letters and made your phone calls, please join us on
Thursday June 24th at the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit @ Cobo Hall.  Beyond
Nuclear, Coalition for a Nuclear-Free Great Lakes, Don't Waste Michigan &
Nuclear Information and Resource Service will provide the four workshops
listed below.  National and International experts will be presenting.  Great
Lakes troubadour Victor McManemy will begin each workshop with a song to
open our hearts and minds and remind us why we are in this struggle.  Hope
to see you in Detroit.

Please see U.S. Social Forum webpage at
http://www.ussf2010.org/register<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dk8QSpsQliJVrl5%2BYubu%2FNO2kJ5jTu8T>
for registration information.  Registration provides access to over 1,000
workshops and events from June 22-26th.  Please mention the above
organizations when registering for a reduced rate.  Please mark your
calendars and plan to attend. Please share this email and workshop
notification.

*Nukespeak in the Great Lakes Basin - An Overview (10:00-11:00 am, Cobo Hall
Room W2-67)
*
The Great Lakes basin hosts every aspect of the nuclear fuel chain, from
uranium mining and refining, to nuclear reactors, waste facilities and
nuclear weapons production facilities. Radioactive materials are regularly
shipped between these sites. Each stage of the nuclear fuel chain has its
own enormous radioactive waste problem. In addition, routine emissions of
radioactivity from these sites add to the degradation of the world's largest
surface freshwater ecosystem. A major accident at any one facility could
have a devastating impact on the entire Great Lakes basin. Even if a
catastrophic accident is avoided, these nuclear hot spots will have to be
isolated and monitored for many generations to come. This workshop will
provide an Overview and the History of Nuclear Power / Nuclear Weapons, how
they were sold to the public and will provide avenues of legal and political
remedy.

*Uranium Mining Impacts on the Great Lakes & Beyond (11:00-12:00 noon, Cobo
Hall, Room W2-67) *

Uranium Mining Impacts on the Great Lakes & Beyond will examine the
contamination and chronic threat posed to the indigenous peoples by mining,
milling, processing of uranium. This workshop focuses on uranium mining and
refining. Each stage of the nuclear fuel chain has its own enormous
radioactive waste problems. On the North Shore of Lake Huron, Elliot Lake
uranium mines and tailings; Blind River refinery; and Espanola uranium
tailings threaten the Lake Huron. Uranium refineries at Port Hope have
caused the harbor to be contaminated at high levels. There are proposed
uranium mining operations in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that will
threaten streams and the Lakes. Around the world indigenous peoples have
been displaced from their ancestral lands and contaminated by uranium
mining. This workshop will work to inform and then to empower people to take
action to stop uranium mining, and refining in the Great Lakes basin and
beyond.

*Reactorspeak - Nuclear Reactors in the Great Lakes Basin (1:00-2:00 pm,
Cobo Hall, Room 02-39)*

This workshop will examine the health, environmental and economic threat of
nuclear power while pointing the way to alternative and renewable energy.
The Great Lakes basin is ringed with nuclear power plants in the watershed
andair-shed. These existing reactors chronically pollute the watershed and
air-shed with radioactive isotopes and with other chemical releases under
NPDES permits. Beyond this chronic slow contamination is the potential for a
catastrophic nuclear disaster threatening 20% of the world's surface fresh
water. The Great Lakes are threatened again with plans to build additional
reactors on both the U.S. and Canadian side fo the border. This workshop
will examine the dire consequence of a nuclear accident and will empower the
audience to act to prevent additional reactors and to shutdown the existing
reactors.

*Nuclear Waste - Forevermore - Now What?  (2:00-3:00 pm, Cobo Hall, Room
02-39)*

Nuclear power threatens our environment, economy and democracy with nuclear
waste, long lasting and deadly. Learn how to stop it!  Nuclear power is not
the answer to climate change because it is dirty, dangerous, expensive.
Nuclear power threatens our environment, economy and democracy.  The whole
fuel chain makes nuclear waste that is long lasting and deadly. We have no
way to isolate it for as long as it is hazardous/radioactively dangerous.
This workshop will examine the ways that nuclear waste threatens us and what
to do about it. When possible, examples will draw on Great Lakes basin
situations.  Nuclear waste threatens us all especially lower income
communities. this workshop will be brainstorming, requesting feedback on
existing knowledge and ideas on how to convey complex threats along with
action steps. Presenters will be advocating clean alternatives to dirty old
energy schemes.

Thanks for all you do,

Michael Mariotte

Executive Director

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

nirsnet at nirs.org

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House Appropriations Committee members:

*Democrats*
David R. Obey, Wisconsin, Chairman
Norman D. Dicks, Washington
Alan B. Mollohan, West Virginia
Marcy Kaptur, Ohio
Peter J. Visclosky, Indiana
Nita M. Lowey, New York
José E. Serrano, New York
Rosa L. DeLauro, Connecticut
James P. Moran, Virginia
John W. Olver, Massachusetts
Ed Pastor, Arizona
David E. Price, North Carolina
Chet Edwards, Texas
Patrick J. Kennedy, Rhode Island
Maurice D. Hinchey, New York
Lucille Roybal-Allard, California
Sam Farr, California
Jesse L. Jackson, Jr., Illinois
Carolyn C. Kilpatrick, Michigan
Allen Boyd, Florida
Chaka Fattah, Pennsylvania
Steven R. Rothman, New Jersey
Sanford D. Bishop Jr., Georgia
Marion Berry, Arkansas
Barbara Lee, California
Adam Schiff, California
Michael Honda, California
Betty McCollum, Minnesota
Steve Israel, New York
Tim Ryan, Ohio
C.A "Dutch" Ruppersberger, Maryland
Ben Chandler, Kentucky
Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida
Ciro Rodriguez, Texas
Lincoln Davis, Tennessee
John T. Salazar, Colorado
Patrick J. Murphy, Pennsylvania

*Republicans*
Jerry Lewis, California, Ranking Member
C.W. Bill Young, Florida
Harold Rogers, Kentucky
Frank R. Wolf, Virginia
Jack Kingston, Georgia
Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, New Jersey
Todd Tiahrt, Kansas
Zach Wamp, Tennessee
Tom Latham, Iowa
Robert B. Aderholt, Alabama
Jo Ann Emerson, Missouri
Kay Granger, Texas
Michael K. Simpson, Idaho
John Abney Culberson, Texas
Mark Steven Kirk, Illinois
Ander Crenshaw, Florida
Dennis R. Rehberg, Montana
John R. Carter, Texas
Rodney Alexander, Louisiana
Ken Calvert, California
Jo Bonner, Alabama
Steven C. LaTourette, Ohio
Tom Cole, Oklahoma

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