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 The four activists arrested yesterday during Douglas's speech have a statement:
"We respectfully call on Sen. Leahy and Gov. Douglas to use the taxpayer funded federal stimulus money to close Vermont Yankee (VY) nuclear power plant and replace its power with energy efficiency programs and renewable energy.
The Vermont Legislature will decide whether to allow VY to continue operating after 2012. Please contact your legislators and ask them to vote to close VY, and make a donation and/or volunteer for www.vtcitizen.org or www.vpirg.org
The nuclear waste generated by VY is so deadly that it must be guarded around the clock for the next 1 million years, according to the National Academies of Science. An accident or act of sabotage at Yankee could kill thousands of people.
If New Englanders took the money they now pay Entergy Corp. of Louisiana for electricity from VY and instead spent it on energy efficiency programs, VY could be closed, consumers' electricity bills would go down, and there would be a net increase in jobs. That's according to a study by Amory Lovins, published in the journal Nuclear Engineering International.
We also stand in solidarity with the movements for marriage equality, democracy (campaign finance reform), and universal health care, all of which Jim Douglas has vetoed or said he will veto."
We also got a photo from the event, courtesy of Mike Granger:
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"No guts, no glory."
Bette Davis