[Peace-discuss] Fwd: VICTORY! No nuke loan guarantees in final bill

[Paul Mueth]

--- On Thu, 2/12/09, Barbara kessel <barkes at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Barbara kessel <barkes at gmail.com>
> Subject: Fwd: VICTORY! No nuke loan guarantees in final bill
> To: "Paul Mueth" <paulmueth at yahoo.com>
> Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 7:31 PM
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Jay Mittenthal <mitten at life.uiuc.edu>
> Date: Feb 12, 2009 5:42 PM
> Subject: Fwd: VICTORY! No nuke loan guarantees in final
> bill
> To: Buz Bailey <mbbailey at uillinois.edu>, Hugh
> Bridgeford
> <hughfb at hotmail.com>, Don Chenowth
> <dwchenoweth at att.net>, Ann Donovan
> <ann.donovan at yahoo.com>, Charlotte Green
> <chgreen48 at yahoo.com>,
> Barbara Kessel <barkes at gmail.com>, Tracy
> Satterthwaite
> <tsatterthwaite at gmail.com>, Cam Satterthwaite
> <csattert at uiuc.edu>,
> Merlin Taber <m-taber at uiuc.edu>, Bobbi Trist
> <bstrist at gmail.com>, John
> Gilpin <john.b.gilpin at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:36:28 -0500 (EST)
>  From: Nuclear Information and Resource Service
> <nirsnet at nirs.org>
> 
> 
>  Nuclear Information and Resource Service
> 
>  February 12, 2009
> 
>  Dear Friends,
> 
>  VICTORY! YOU DID IT!
> 
>  Late last night, we got word that the $50 Billion in
> taxpayer loan
> guarantees for new nuclear reactors and "clean
> coal" plants has been
> stripped from the final economic stimulus bill!
> 
>  Your actions made a huge difference.
> 
>  To recap, you:
> 
>  *sent more than 7,600 letters to your Senators in one week
> 
>  *sent more than 3,000 letters to your Representatives in
> the House in
> three days
> 
>  *sent more than 1100 letters to Senate Majority Leader
> Harry Reid
> just yesterday afternoon (unfortunately, most letters to
> House Speaker
> Nancy Pelosi were blocked; we'll work on that problem
> with our
> Congressional database service).
> 
>  *made thousands of phone calls to your Senators and
> Representatives
> 
>  *brought needed attention to the issue through your blogs,
> letters to
> the editor, your Facebook and Myspace pages, and much more.
> 
>  The final bill should be voted on in the House later
> today, and in
> the Senate probably tomorrow. The final bill almost
> certainly will
> pass, and there will be no amendments on this final bill,
> so the
> taxpayer money for the dirty and dangerous nuclear/coal
> industry will
> stay out of the bill.
> 
>  Take a moment to celebrate today!
> 
>  But make no mistake: the nuclear industry and its
> Congressional
> backers will try again, and sooner rather than later. Two
> days ago,
> for example, they began a new push to have nuclear power
> declared a
> "renewable" energy source in Senate Energy
> Committee Chairman Jeff
> Bingaman's (D-NM) upcoming Renewable Portfolio Standard
> bill, which is
> intended to increase renewable energy production in the
> U.S. (although
> first indications are that the bill is much weaker than it
> should be).
> This is likely to become a major issue in March.
> 
>  And there will be new efforts to set up a federal
> "clean energy bank"
> to finance nuclear reactors with taxpayer dollars in the
> coming weeks
> and months.
> 
>  In other words, we'll have to stay vigilant and
> active, and continue
> growing this movement if we are to attain the safe, clean,
> nuclear-free, carbon-free energy future our nation and
> planet needs.
> 
>  You have now proven your effectiveness, but we can and
> must do even
> more. President Obama's campaign was successful in
> large part because
> of the support of a constantly growing number of ordinary
> people,
> taking action and making small donations, that built into
> an enormous
> political force. We are taking the same approach: in the
> past three
> months, NIRS contact lists have grown by more than
> one-third--a key
> element of today's success. Let's continue building
> this movement!
> 
>  Please make a small donation on our secure servers so we
> can continue
> our outreach and build on this success. Your support is
> gratefully
> appreciated and every penny is used as wisely as possible.
> 
>  And from all of us at NIRS: THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO!!!!
> 
>  Michael Mariotte
> 
>  Executive Director
> 
>  Nuclear Information and Resource Service
> 
>  nirsnet at nirs.org
> 
>  www.nirs.org
> 
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