Where are the Anti Nuclear Voices? Greenpeace Traitor Moore Speaks in Vermont!

I learned yesterday morning that J. Patrick Moore, an individual reported to have been a founder of GREENPEACE was in my town 1-30-07 being feted at a party at the Brattleboro Museum.

I have since learned that today, 1-31-07, he is to have an audience at the Brattleboro Reformer newspaper. I do not know if any opposing voices were present outside the Brattleboro Museum. All the known activists were informed. Of the dozen people who were called I saw not a trace of one when I drove by the museum at 6 pm. However I did see a hired police cruiser.

In the morning of 1-30-07 Moore spoke to the Vermont legislature on behalf of his new found beliefs that nuclear is the answer to global warming and climate change. According to the Barre Montpelier Times Argus he does not change his tune up here in VT from his spiel in less green states. Wait – how can VT call itself green when 1/3 the electricity is from split atoms leaving radioactive waste for thousands of generations?

Dr. Helen Caldicott knows nuclear is not the answer to climate change, as does former Nuclear Regulatory Commission member Peter Bradford. Nuclear is not sustainable. No one knows how to dispose of the waste. If nuclear were to be a climate change solution a new reactor would need to be built so often and so frequently, it basically leads one to the same argument the nuclear industry uses to discourage renewables.

Resting on his fame as one of the founders of Greenpeace, Dr. Moore now lobbies on behalf of the nuclear industry, under the guise of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition.

1-31-07– the NRC is in Brattleboro on the issue of the Generic Environmental Impact Statement that paves the way for the extension of the operating license for the reactor past its 40 year lifespan. Meanwhile Drs Deutch and Moniz, professors at MIT behind the renowned 2003 Future of Nuclear Power study, state that reactors have a life span of approximately 50 years. Entergy is pushing Vermont Yankee towards a 60 year mark if they win the extension. Worse yet is the idea that once they are into the license extension the NRC fully expects the reactors to seek yet another 20 year extension.

The recent attempt at the nuclear relapse, renaissance, re-traumatizing depends on the now ignorant and scared public who haven’t the memory for Chernobyl or for Three Mile Island. Instead we have a public that likes its energy wasting abilities. We have generous Entergy corporations and clones creating new infrastructures for further energy wasting in the form of Christmas lights which surely will be used to needlessly brighten the town for shoppers throughout the year.

And to quote Green Nuclear Butterfly where are the people willing to show up to counter Entergy and the industry?

On 1-31- 07 the NRC will hold two environmental impact hearings in the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro. The room holds hundreds of people. I will be surprised if 60 residents show up opposing Entergy in both meetings combined. Is this the dragon eating its own tail ? Possibly.

Until people get concerned enough to show up and stop the nuclear relapse, the relapse will not be halted. Until there is a bad enough accident people will believe the tripe spoken by the likes of J Patrick Moore, that nuclear and its highly toxic residues can save us. It is a lie.

Even the real experts Deutch and Moniz of MIT, (also used to promote the nuclear agenda) have stated that nuclear has too many unresolved issues to be the solution to climate change.