Safe and Green Campaign

5.23: NRC Open House ACTION ALERT

SGCEditor — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:29:10 +0000

Wednesday May 23rd, 5:30-8:30pm, Brattleboro Union High School: The NRC is coming to town to hold an “Open House” and “Public Meeting” about their GREEN LIGHT 2011 safety assessment of VT Yankee. Click here for the NRC’s PR and link to the report.

Take a look at our VY timeline for 2011 : tritium, strontium-90, radiated fish, flipped switches, an “Oops!” evac siren, a busted cooling pump and more. All in a year that included an earthquake, flood, a tornado in the neighborhood, and Fukushima.

Let’s pack their open house, ask the hard questions about safety, and show them how the People’s NRC holds a public meeting. Safe & Green Campaign has a plan. Please, email us today safeandgreencampaign@gmail.com to get the details and take some action.

Knocking on the Devil’s Door

SGCEditor — Sat, 05 May 2012 03:59:16 +0000

Join the Marlboro Magpie Affinity Group on Friday, May 11, 2012, 7 pm at Marlboro School, Route 9, Marlboro VT

“Knocking on the Devil’s Door: Our Deadly Nuclear Legacy.”

This film tells the story of the nuclear industry and the catastrophic accidents at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima. Features Helen Caldicott, Vandana Shiva, Harvey Wasserman, and others. Learn why nuclear power leaves an enormous carbon footprint and is an unsustainable form of energy for our future. Tell your friends and neighbors. Everyone is invited. Contact Susan and Woody: woodyandsusan@gmail.com

Generosity Take Many Forms

SGCEditor — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:22:47 +0000

Safe and Green is supported in many ways. People give gifts of their time, skills and money so we can keep on doing what we do. It is humbling and inspiring, to be the recipient of such generosity. Two donations just arrived which were especially moving.

A $100 check was enclosed with a copy of the donor’s letter to the IRS. We wanted to share his letter with you: click here. Thank you, Aaron!

The National Priorities Project (NPP) contributed $300 “in honor of three of their departing board members: Vijay Prashad, Michael Klare, and Larry Wittner. Normally, they thank and celebrate departing board members with gifts to those members, but this year, in light of what’s going on with Vermont Yankee and the work all of us have been doing, the gift to them is a donation to Safe and Green.” Please support NPP and visit the NPP website for info federal tax priorities. Nifty way to see where your personal income tax dollars go.

The Solar Rollers 34th Tour

SGCEditor — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:16:44 +0000

The Solar Rollers are back in action!

They’ve been spreading the good news — Turn on the Sun! Turn off the Nuke! — since their first ride to Seabrook in 1978.

Click here to read all about it then grab your gear.

Vigil in Solidarity with Hanford

SGCEditor — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:31:38 +0000

In solidarity with Vermont Yankee, Occupy Portland held an event to support our huge CD of March 22nd. Now it is our turn! Here is a link to our event at VT Yankee, held in solidarity with Hanford, Wasington – a site which stores more than 53 million gallons of high level radioactive waste as well as housing an active nuclear power plant.

4.14 Rally Update

SGCEditor — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 13:29:21 +0000

Unite to defend democracy!

VT Governor Peter Shumlin and Attorney General William Sorrell

will join US Senator Bernie Sanders at the April 14th rally in Brattleboro. Show your support of the State of Vermont’s resolve to stand up to the Entergy Corporation’s arrogance and intimidation! Join us at noon on the Brattleboro Common.

3.30 VT Senate Comm. Hearing on Post-VY Economy

SGCEditor — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 21:18:15 +0000

On Friday March 30, 2012, Senators Vincent Illuzzi, Peter Galbraith and Bill Doyle, members of the Senate Econmic Development Committee, along with Senator Jeanette White, held a Hearing at the Vermont Agricultural Business Education Center in Brattleboro. Reports were given by the Windham Regional Commission,the Southeast Vermont Economic Development Strategy Planning Group (SeVEDS), and Post-Vermont Yankee Task Force and testimony was taken from groups and individuals. The public comments can be read here: SEDHGA Hearing

No Nukes, Mr. President!

SGCEditor — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:36:09 +0000

Safe & Green protested President Obama’s support of nuclear energy. Read our story here.

March 2012 & Beyond

SGCEditor — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:22:31 +0000

REFLECTIONS ON MARCH 22

[[Show as slideshow]]“This is what a nuclear free movement looks like”

We’ve collected stories from the Occupy Entergy HQ for the Day, here at Reflections on 3.22 (posted at our Action Center.) If you want to share, email vypledge@gmail.com with your (brief) story and photos. Selected press & blog links to 3.22 coverage can be found on our Action Center 3.22 page, at our YouTube page and our Facebook page.

MARCH 24th: National Day of Solidarity with Vermont!

Across the country from Oyster Creek on the New Jersey coast to Portland, Oregon, communities gathered at nuclear reactors to stand in solidarity with Vermont and the rest of New England to send a message: Vermont Yankee must close now. In New Orleans, the “New England National Guard” wrapped the Entergy HQ sign in crime scene tape.

Oyster Creek, NJ: Activists were not welcomed

Clever signs by FitzPatrick friends of VT

Davis Besse Supports Vermont!

84 supporters of Nuke Free Monadnock @ VY

Powerful words at VY Vigil 3.24

Murtha & PSB Decisions

SGCEditor — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 03:43:29 +0000

Judge Murtha issued an injunction prohibing the state from closing VT Yankee until the appeals court makes its decision. Further, “Judge J. Garvan Murtha ordered Monday that state law can’t be used to prevent Vermont Yankee from storing highly radioactive nuclear waste at the plant after its initial license expires on Wednesday. It needs to store more waste to keep running. The state board [PSB], meanwhile, shot down each of the arguments by lawyers for Vermont Yankee owner Entergy Corp. as to why it should approve continued operation and waste storage, and then said it would do so anyway because the federal court told it to.” Read more at the Burlington Free Press