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

[Morton K. Brussel]

A pyrrhic victory?  --mkb


On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:51 AM, Paul Mueth wrote:

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