Action Center

  • Action Center

    • Wondering what you can do to close and replace Vermont Yankee?

    Below are ways for you and your community to get involved!

    Write or email Vermont’s Public Service Board

    The Public Service Board regulates nuclear power in Vermont. They are currently hearing Docket 7862 on extending the operating license of Vermont Yankee for another 20 years. They are currently taking public comments. Click here for more information.

    Join the Safe and Green Campaign

    •  Join Safe and Green Campaign’s email list serve to receive notices of up-coming actions, meetings, and public hearings. We only send out information related to the Safe & Green Campaign. Send your email address, name, town and state to safeandgreencampaign@gmail.com
    • Pledge to take action to shut down Vermont Yankee as scheduled. Click on the pledge link 
    • Host a house party for friends who may be interested in forming Affinity Groups and get trained in nonviolent direct action. Contact Bob Bady bobbady@gmail.com
    • Speaking out Invite Safe and Green Campaign to come speak to your transition town or energy committee, church social justice committee, to your college class, and before your city council or selectboard.
    • Create banners, contribute artwork, write letters, and contact elected officials.

    If you want to participate, or if you want more information, please contact:

    Write Letters to the Editor

    • We need dozens of letters published in newspapers every month, all over the region. The pro-nuclear letters have been flooding in. Here is one week of pro-Yankee letters.
    • Still need inspiration? Here are recent letters from our member as examples.
    • Commit to writing one letter. Most newspapers restrict letters to the editor to 250 or 300 words.
    • Write to your local paper or to one of the statewide papers:

    Rutland Herald RH Letters link
    Burlington Free Press BFP Letters link
    Keene Sentinal http://www.sentinelsource.com/

    • Follow-up with a phone call the same day to the Editor of the paper.
    • Send a copy of your letters to the legislators from the area.
    • If you want to write an opinion piece longer than 300 words, contact the editor of the newspaper for their guidelines.
    • If you follow a blog regularly, be sure to comment on pro-nuclear arguments and post your own opinions.

    Send Letters to Your Electric Company

    • One of the most powerful things we can do is demand that our electric utility companies stop purchasing power from Entergy and instead buy electricity from local, renewable electricity suppliers. When you send in your next payment, include a letter requesting they not buy power from Entergy Nuclear.
    • Massachusetts and New Hampshire utilities still have contracts to purchase power from Vermont Yankee. None of the Vermont utility companies have a contract to purchase power from Vermont Yankee after March 21, 2012.
    • Check your utility bill or utility company’s website for renewable options. If you are a CVPS customer, for example, you can purchase “cow power.”

    More Things You Can Do

    Support Local, Renewable Electricity Projects

    • Several renewable energy projects are being proposed in southern VT, western MA and eastern NH.
    • Contact your local regulators and voice your support for these projects.
    • Attend planning and regulatory meetings/hearings regarding these proposals. Show your support and suggest solutions for making these projects better.
    • Supporting local, efficiency and renewable projects is JUST AS IMPORTANT as closing Vermont Yankee.

    Support Legislative and Gubernatorial Candidates

    • While the Safe & Green Campaign cannot endorse candidates, you can!
    • Support candidates that support closing Vermont Yankee and are aggressively pursuing conservation, efficiency and renewable solutions.
    • Contact their campaigns and get involved.

    Educate Yourself and Testify

    • Follow your state’s energy planning process and testify. For example, Vermont held public hearings on their draft energy plan www.vtenergyplan.vermont.gov/
    • There are federal and state hearings scheduled regularly on Vermont Yankee issues, such as evacuation planning.
    • Attend public hearings on nuclear issues, such as emergency planning and evacuation planning, and testify on how it will affect you and alternatives to their plans and regulations.
    • Join Safe and Green Campaign’s list serve and we will send you notices of public hearings. safeandgreencampaign@gmail.com

    Donate to the Safe & Green Campaign

    Mail a check today to: Safe and Green Campaign, PO Box 6052, Brattleboro, VT 05302 or

    Click here Donating to Safe and Green to read more and to donate on-line, or click the yellow DONATE button. Your donations enable us to reach out to the community and provide logistical support for actions. Thank you!

    Safe and Green is a founding member of the SAGE Alliance, a coalition of regional groups and individuals working to close VY through grassroots organizing, education, and nonviolent direct action.