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Friends in the News
Jun. 5th, 2007 12:18 amTonight I got an extra notice from a friend about this San Francisco Bay Guardian article on "Nuclear Greenwashing". When Patrick Moore was in Fresno to talk up new nukes for that city, local opponents printed up some non-NEI informative fliers on the visiting lecturer. Then they dressed up nicely to hand the fliers to folks coming in to hear him speak. Saul Alinsky would have approved.
Nuclear Greenwashing - San Francisco Bay Guardian [printer-friendly version]
"Only the Columbia Journalism Review has drawn the further connection that Hill and Knowlton has been paid $8 million to help the NEI spread the word that the nukies have the silver bullet for solving global warming. Hill and Knowlton knows a little something about pushing dangerous products. The company created the tobacco industry's decades-long disinformation campaign about the effects of smoking. Veterans of that campaign then helped ExxonMobil try to bury the truth about global warming."
"Mothers for Peace is fond of noting that existing security measures aren't what you'd call foolproof. During a recent earthquake, 56 of 131 sirens in the San Luis Obispo area — designed to alert residents of a possible accident at the plant — didn't go off because the power was out and they aren't backed up by generators or batteries.
When Mothers for Peace and the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility brought the failure to the attention of the NRC, the agency said that nothing is perfect and that the sirens over the course of 1,000 hours worked 99 percent of the time.
'Except the five hours you'd actually want them to work,' David Weisman of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility said."
Nuclear Greenwashing - San Francisco Bay Guardian [printer-friendly version]
"Only the Columbia Journalism Review has drawn the further connection that Hill and Knowlton has been paid $8 million to help the NEI spread the word that the nukies have the silver bullet for solving global warming. Hill and Knowlton knows a little something about pushing dangerous products. The company created the tobacco industry's decades-long disinformation campaign about the effects of smoking. Veterans of that campaign then helped ExxonMobil try to bury the truth about global warming."
"Mothers for Peace is fond of noting that existing security measures aren't what you'd call foolproof. During a recent earthquake, 56 of 131 sirens in the San Luis Obispo area — designed to alert residents of a possible accident at the plant — didn't go off because the power was out and they aren't backed up by generators or batteries.
When Mothers for Peace and the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility brought the failure to the attention of the NRC, the agency said that nothing is perfect and that the sirens over the course of 1,000 hours worked 99 percent of the time.
'Except the five hours you'd actually want them to work,' David Weisman of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility said."
