Senate Energy Committee to Vote on Mobile Chernobyl Part II.
Likely Vote Date: February 12, 1997.
Let's kill this in Committee and save ourselves a lot of work!
ACTION: CALLS TO FULL SENATE ARE NEEDED -- But we are focusing especially on Senate Energy Committee members Graham of Florida, Campbell of Colorado, Bumpers of Arkansas (now lead Democrat on the Committee), Dorgan of North Dakota, Johnson of South Dakota, Ford of Kentucky, Landreau of Louisiana, Bingamin of New Mexico, and Akaka of Hawaii. If you live in one of these states, please call your senator today! Calls now to other Senate offices will show that we mean business, so call your Senators and ask them to 1) oppose S 104 and 2) if they aren't on the Energy Committee to talk to the Senators who are and urge their opposition.
Message: Vote NO on S 104 -- The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1997 sponsored by Craig of Idaho. See 'Background' for talking points.
These Senators (with 2 exceptions) voted against the identical bill in Committee and on the Floor of the Senate last summer. Please call and thank them, and ask them to maintain their opposition by voting against S 104, both in Committee and on the Floor. Bob Graham (D-FL.) is newly back on the committee, but last summer he voted with us on cloture and then flipped and voted for the bill on final passage. Campbell of R-Colorado voted with the Mobile Chernobyl sponsors in committee last time, but then switched his vote on final passage. If these two vote against S 104 in Committee, and all the others remain firm, the sponsors will not be able to move the bill out of Committee. This is a worthy goal.
ACTION: Think of everyone you know in the target states. Ask them to call the target Senators and tell them to vote NO on S 104. Think of everyone you know who might know someone in those target states. It's worth a few bucks in long distance to mobilize an UNPRECEDENTED number of calls from people in FL, CO, AR, ND, SD, KY, LA, NW and HI to their senators, THIS WEEK. This is do-able.
Background: The nuclear utilities are looking for a bail out. They want the taxpayer to take the high-level nuclear waste form 40 years of commercial nuclear power operation. They want us to take it now, before there is a permanent program in place to handle the waste. They want to send it in dry containers to sit on a parking-lot style surface facility next to the one site that is being studied for a permanent facility. This will undercut what little scientific credibility is left in the waste program. We call it "Mobile Chernobyl" because implementation of this program will trigger the largest nuclear shipping campaign ever. The waste will be in motion for a minimum of 30 years, traveling millions of shipment miles through 43 states. 50 Million people live within 1/2 mile of the shipping routes. STOP A MOBILE CHERNOBYL TODAY.
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