"Help Decommission Indian Point Safely" on YouTube. Just make 2 phone calls!

[Sally Jones]

Dear Peace Action friends,

Here is a great 4 minute You Tube to watch to share to prepare you to make 2 phone calls to ask your NY State Assembly and NY State Senator to support legislation to create a New York State Decommissioning Oversight Board that will supervise cleaning up Indian Point Nuclear Power facilities. We all fought to close them now we have insist that they get cleaned up meticulously and carefully.

Please share.

Sally

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From: marilyn elie <eliew...@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 9:47 PM
Subject: Watch "Help Decommission Indian Point Safely" on YouTube. Just make 2 phone calls!

https://youtu.be/SEZ6WAnAxpk.  This is a four minute video. The print version is below.

Dear Anti Nuclear Friends,

This is a request for your help in the safe decommissioning of Indian Point.  

It is urgent that you call your NYS State Assembly member and your NYS Senator right away and tell them that we must have a New York State Decommissioning Oversight Board to supervise cleaning up Indian Point.  Billions of dollars will be spent on this mammoth project and it has to be done right. Chances are your representative has not heard about this yet, especially if you live outside Westchester or Rockland.  When you call ask to speak to the member or staff on their environmental committee. 

The bill will be introduced soon by Assembly member Sandy Galef and New York State Senator Peter Harckham.  Your representive will have to read it, of course. However, if they know their constituents are pushing for it, they are more likely to vote in favor.

If you want more information you can find it in the toolkit posted at www.ipsec.org.  if you want information in depth go to the toolkit on the Clearwater website at www.clearwater.org. where you will find more documents.

To find the name, phone number and email of your Assembly member or your NYS Senator.  Just ask google "Who is my New York State Senator (Assembly member)."  You will get a list of several easy to follow links.

Want to do more?  Call and ask for an appointment to visit their office and talk directly. You don't have to go alone. Ask for help and a knowledgeable person from our core group will come with you.

This is important and urgent. Budget hearings come up January 23 and legislators must know this bill has support before then.

Take action NOW!

In Solidarity,

Marilyn Elie

A few more details for those that want them without following a link:

There is a decommissioning trust fund that is 2.1 billion dollars.  Holtec, the company that is on track to do the work, has just published its first cost estimate which is 2.3 billion dollars. They claim that accrued interest will make up the difference.  Frankly, it is entirely possible that it will cost a lot more if they do a clean and thorough job and it is the taxpayers that  could be left holding the bag.

Holtec is a company with a crooked history.  The World Bank banned them for 10 years. There was a bribery case in NJ where they wanted to build a factory. The list goes on.  We need another company and if we end up stuck with this one they must be strictly suppervised.