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.

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

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 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.

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

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