[NukeNet] Join the Nuclear Power Pushback Campaign--LTE for you to send

[Michael Mariotte]

Nuclear Information and Resource Service

6930 Carroll Avenue, #340, Takoma Park, MD 20912

301-270-6477; nirsnet at nirs.org; www.nirs.org <http://www.nirs.org/> 

 

July 29, 2008

 

Dear Friends:

 

We're launching a new Nuclear Power Pushback Campaign to counter the
pro-nuclear, dirty energy propaganda that is so prevalent in the media
these days. But we can't do it alone, we don't have money for big TV or
newspaper ads nor unlimited staff to monitor every broadcast, newspaper
and blog. As always, your participation will make the difference.

 

Over the next few months, we'll be submitting letters to the editor to
numerous publications, helping you write letters to go under your name,
writing op-eds and sample op-eds for you to submit, posting and
advertising on blogs, putting up new YouTube videos, contacting
reporters directly, and a lot more.

 

Below is a sample letter we hope you'll submit to your local newspaper,
blog, magazine or any other outlet you think is appropriate. Please use
your name, and feel free to change it however you like. John McCain is
continuing to talk up new nuclear power and dirty energy (most recently
yesterday in Bakersfield, Calif.), and he thinks that's a winning stand.
We need to push back against that type of dangerous energy thinking and
remind the public that nuclear power is a failed energy technology that
doesn't deserve resurrection.

 

We hope you'll take this action, and will also let us know when you see
an article in your local media that deserves a reply. While we hope you
will often reply to such articles on your own, perhaps using information
gathered from NIRS website, we'll try to help you craft a reply as often
as possible.

 

One resource you might want to use is False Promises, NIRS recent book
countering nuclear industry propaganda on safety, economics, sustainable
energy, radiation and health, and more. You can download it for free on
NIRS website (www.nirs.org <http://www.nirs.org/> ) or you can buy a
printed copy for $15 (including postage and handling). If you want bulk
copies, contact us.

 

Thanks for all you do! No Nukes! (and our apologies if you received this
more than once today, we're using a couple different e-mail lists
today).

 

Michael Mariotte

Executive Director

 

Sample Letter to the Editor

 

Dear Editor,

 

Senator John McCain is calling for an energy policy right out of an
industry textbook from the 1970s: more offshore oil drilling and more
nuclear power. Offshore oil drilling, while posing a clear threat to our
beaches and coastlines, wouldn't produce any oil for 20 years, would be
the proverbial drop-in-the-bucket given rising world oil demand, and
would do nothing to help us meet current high prices at the gas pump. A
more far-reaching oil policy would be to accelerate and strengthen new
vehicle mileage standards. Since burning oil is a chief cause of the
climate crisis, this would be a two-fer: less demand means we'd be
paying less at the pump and also spewing less carbon into our
atmosphere.

 

Because of nuclear's skyrocketing costs, by the time any new atomic
reactors could be built, solar power will be cheaper than nuclear. Wind
power already is cheaper-and is the fastest growing energy source in the
world. Combine those with geothermal, energy efficiency technologies,
smart electrical grids and distributed generation-none of which produce
radioactive waste or offer the threat of atomic meltdown or terrorist
attack--and you get a 21st century energy policy that will provide us
with safer, cleaner and cheaper electricity, without carbon emissions,
than nuclear power.

 

Going back to the 1970s might be a nostalgia trip for some. As an energy
policy, the days of disco, polyester, oil spills and nuclear accidents
should be left behind for good.

 

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You can help support the Nuclear Pushback Campaign on our secure website
here.
<https://secure.campagne-online.com/registrant/donate.aspx?EventID=2927&
LangPref=en-CA>  Your tax-deductible contributions will help us buy blog
ads, monitor and respond to the media, and help turn around the current
energy debate! Please make a donation of $5, $10, $25 or any amount you
choose-your donations will be put to good use!

 

And if you haven't done so yet, don't forget to sign the statement on
nuclear power and climate at www.nirs.org <http://www.nirs.org/>  (but
please don't sign more than once!). If you've already signed, please ask
your friends and colleagues to sign! 

 

We've passed 7750 7830 7930 8,130 8,330, 8400 signatures, let's get to
10,000! And just let us know at nirsnet at nirs.org if you want more paper
copies of the statement to gather signers at events, concerts,
conferences, etc. We're adding paper signers as fast as we can (but seem
to be always a few hundred behind....).

 

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