[North-NV-Greens] [usgp-dx] Fwd: Join in Yucca licensing mttg call-in; plus Energy bill update

Mon Jun 13 22:40:19 PDT 2005

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>From: Michael Mariotte <nirsnet at nirs.org>
>Date: Jun 13, 2005 3:47 PM
>Subject: Join in Yucca licensing mttg call-in; plus Energy bill update
>To: owen.broadhurst at gmail.com
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>Attend important Yucca Mountain/Mobile Chernobyl licensing proceeding
>meeting Wed., June 15 at 10 a.m. The dial-in number for the meeting is
>888-333 0879 and the passcode is 301292 followed by the "#" sign. RSVP
>in advance with Belinda Wright at DOE's law firm, telephone
>804-788-8581, e-mail --  bwright at hunton.com.
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>Dear friends and colleagues concerned about radioactive waste and its
>transportation through your communities:
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>According to the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Feb. 2002 Final Environmental
>Impact Statement for Yucca Mountain, 45 states plus the District of
>Columbia have high-level radioactive waste truck, train, and barge
>routes targeted to run through them. Despite this, the federal
>government has kept these communities almost entirely in the dark
>about the potential impacts of this transport.
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>Presently, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, despite the lack of
>applicable EPA regulations for Yucca Mountain and the recent
>revelations of falsified data, is rushing full steam ahead to set in
>stone the ground rules that will apply to the 3- to 4-year long Yucca
>Mountain licensing proceeding. DOE hopes to certify its full document
>collection in the near future, and then apply for a license to NRC
>early next year. This could have a major effect on cities and
>communities along the proposed waste transportation routes! The rules
>being set now could effectively limit the ability of many communities
>and public interest organizations to become involved in the licensing
>process and have their concerns addressed.
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>Facing this possibility, we need to strongly remind DOE and NRC that
>communities and organizations around the country are as concerned as
>ever about the problems with the Yucca Mountain site, the
>transportation of highly radioactive waste that will result if this
>dump opens, and the present push to relicense old--and build
>new--nuclear reactors, which will only make these problems worse. An
>important meeting is taking place this week on Wednesday, June 15 at
>10 a.m. EDT, at the law firm of Hunton & Williams (DOE's law firm),
>1900 K Street NW., 12th Floor Washington, DC. To keep rules from being
>set up that would effectively preclude meaningful public and
>city-county involvement, people expressing concern need to be present
>at this meeting!
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>If you cannot attend in person, please attend this meeting by phone.
>Please also spread the word to other concerned groups and communities
>across the US. It's important that we not only have the DC based
>groups present in the room, but as many as possible of our community
>and grassroots allies present on the phone!
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>To attend in person, or to take part by phone, please RSVP as soon as
>possible to counsel for DOE via Ms. Belinda Wright, telephone
>804-788-8581, e-mail --  bwright at hunton.com  Please include: (a) Name
>of person desiring to attend;  (b) organizational affiliation, if any;
>(c) daytime phone number;  (d) e-mail address; (e)  mailing address;
>and (f)  statement as to whether the person intends to participate in
>person, or desires to participate remotely in the event that
>electronic facilities can be made available [we have requested more
>than once that phone lines be made available for those unable to
>attend in person]. The dial-in number for the meeting is 888-333 0879
>and the passcode is 301292 followed by the "#" sign.
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>If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. We'll be
>pulling together talking points for the meeting in advance, which we
>will share with everyone via email.
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>       Thanks.
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>       Melissa and Kevin
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>Melissa Kemp
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>Policy Analyst, Nuclear Energy and Waste Critical Mass Energy and
>Environment Program Public Citizen
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>p: 202.454.5176
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>f: 202.547.7392
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>mkemp at citizen.org
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>www.citizen.org/cmep
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>Kevin Kamps
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>Nuclear Waste Specialist
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>Nuclear Information and Resource Service
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>p: 202.328.0002
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>f: 202.462.2183
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>kevin at nirs.org
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>www.nirs.org
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>Energy Bill Reaches Senate Floor-Act NOW!!
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>The Senate will be taking up the energy bill this week: it's time to
>turn up the pressure!
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>The exact sequence of events is unknown, and, in fact, so are the
>amounts and types of subsidies for nuclear power that will be in the
>bill. The McCain-Lieberman climate change bill has one set of
>subsidies, and that bill likely will be voted on as an amendment to
>the full energy bill. (An analysis of these subsidies, prepared by US
>PIRG, is available on NIRS' website, www.nirs.org). In addition, the
>Senate Finance Committee will consider nuclear subsidies as well, and
>these are likely to be added to the energy bill.
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>While the legislative process is complex, the message for you is
>simple: Please call your Senators and tell them No Subsidies for
>Nuclear Power. Capitol Switchboard is 202-224-3121. Two toll-free
>numbers that seem to work are: 1-888-355-3588 or 1-877-762-8762.
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>When you've finished calling, please ask your friends and colleagues
>to call as well. It will really take the combined voices of all of us
>to defeat the nuclear industry.
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>Then, you can send an e-mail to your Senators by going to
>http://www.nuke.retro.com. Enjoy the Mark Fiore animation, and then
>click on the link to the action page.
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>Finally, if you haven't yet signed the Petition for a Sustainable
>Energy Future, please do so now, at http://www.nirs.org and forward it
>to your friends too.
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>Thank you for all of your help and activism!
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>Michael Mariotte
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>Executive Director
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>Nuclear Information and Resource Service
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>nirsnet at nirs.org
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