[WestMALocals] new nukes on the horizon (if we subsidize them!)

[kate harris]

Date: 10 Jun 2005 14:44:32 -0000
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       1. Dominion CEO Holds Out for Government Nuclear Power Subsidies
            From: Mike Ewall <catalyst at actionpa.org>
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Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:19:47 -0400
From: Mike Ewall <catalyst at actionpa.org>
Subject: Dominion CEO Holds Out for Government Nuclear Power Subsidies

NukeNet Anti-Nuclear Network (nukenet at energyjustice.net)

 From the Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ) recent action 
bulletin:

***Dominion CEO Holds Out for Government Nuclear Power Subsidies***

A spate of new nuclear reactors are being proposed - the first to be built 
in America in the 25-plus years since the tragic Three Mile Island meltdown 
in Pennsylvania.  They are only the tip of the iceberg, according to the 
Bush Administration's energy bill now moving through Congress.  Closest to 
approval are two new nuclear reactors being proposed by Dominion (parent 
company of Dominion Virginia Power) at the North Anna Power Station in 
Louisa County, Virginia.  At Dominion's annual shareholder's meeting, on 
April 23rd, CEO Thomas F. Farrell II announced that the company will not 
move forward with the new reactors at North Anna without federal
subsidies.  The estimated cost of constructing the new reactors is $1.3 
billion, and Dominion wants about half of that amount to come from DOE 
funds earmarked to develop and build new nuclear reactors.  Farrell's 
statement underscores the fact that nuclear power is not only 
environmentally unsustainable but economically unsustainable as well, 
without heavy government tax breaks and subsidies to help make it profitable.

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NOTE FROM MIKE: Please contact your senators and urge them to filibuster 
the energy bill!  It will be coming to the floor in the next two 
weeks.  See http://www.energyjustice.net/energybill/ for links and 
background info.

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