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
your House member here.
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
your House member here.
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
nirsnet@nirs.org
www.nirs.org
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