[Sviannouncements] Fwd: QUICKLY HELP oppose Sequoyah nuke plant license extension

Tue Apr 30 23:11:53 EDT 2013

If you've read the previous email, you may be interested in following through with a formal Declaration of Standing. Please consider doing so if you are within the effected area (see attached map). 

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> From: Charles White <conscious.lightbeing at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: QUICKLY HELP oppose Sequoyah nuke plant license extension
> Date: April 30, 2013 6:38:39 PM EDT
> 
> It seems I foolishly forgot to attach the needed files. Here they are! The deadline is tommorrow. I hope you can help!
>  
> Best,
>  
> Chuck
> 
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 2:24 PM, Charles White <conscious.lightbeing at gmail.com> wrote:
> Friends,
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> I am sending this to you because I know that all you or someone you know have home residences within the 50 mile radius they describe below. Please read further for more info. It would BE GREAT if you could send in the letter for standing and pass this on to others from your home areas who might also do this for us. I am cc'ing Gretel of BEST/MATRR and Sandy with BREDL in case you have any other questions. THANKS! DEADLINE IS MAY FIRST, 2013!
>  
> -Charles White
>  
> We have an urgent action for members who live WITHIN 50 MILES of the Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant, which is 18 miles north of Chattanooga. If you (and/or friends) are concerned about a 20 year extension to the operating license, we hope you will sign the enclosed Declaration of Standing, which authorizes our parent organization, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL) to represent you (as a member) in contesting this 50% extension of the plant's 40 year design-life-span. Many nuclear engineers consider the ice-condenser design of Sequoyah and Watts Bar to be the most dangerous of all reactors for several reasons, not least of which is the thin containment walls which become brittle with age (to save money, they are only half as thick as other reactor containment walls). 
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> To add your name as a concerned citizen, please open the enclosed PDF <50-mile map Sequoyah.pdf> file to see if you (or friends) live within the radius. If you do, please make sure your membership is current (see below), print the Declaration of Standing, fill in your name, address, date and signature, then either scan and email, or FAX, or mail it to arrive by May 1, 2013 (MayDay) to:
>  
> BREDL
> PO Box 88 
> Glendale Springs, NC 28629
> Email: BREDL at skybest.com
> Fax: 336-982-2954
> 
> 
> We really need your show of support for this action, so now is the time to renew or become a bonafide member of BEST/MATRR, which is our local TN Valley chapter of the 50 chapter Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League – so you automatically become a member of BREDL, too. Membership fees are on a sliding scale for affordability, beginning at $5, but we send $20 per member to BREDL each year, so if you can afford $20 or more, please pay accordingly and we will certainly put it to good use, as volunteers working to keep our valley energy safe and clean. Please pay your tax deductible membership via PayPal from our Donate page @ http://donatejoinbestbredl.blogspot.com
> or mail a check to:
> BEST/MATRR
> c/o G. Morgan, Treasurer
> P.O. Box 241
> Scottsboro, AL 35768
> 
> We have worked tirelessly this spring: spearheading the Fukushima Fallouts in March, keeping our radiation monitoring project going strong, finding scientists for our advisory board, speaking and presenting evidence at NRC meetings for Browns Ferry safety violations as well as Sequoyah relicensing, speaking at the TVA board meeting, providing an information booth for multiple Earth Day events in the valley, and also questioning misinformation at colleges at presentations by a pro-nuclear lobbying group (NEI) in a propaganda program called Clean Energy America @ http://www.cleanenergy4america.org. Lately, there has been a push by nuclear industry lobbying groups and proponents (including the new TVA CEO) to claim that nuclear fits in the category of 'clean energy and renewables', which it certainly does not. In fact, both Websters and Random House Dictionaries define the word "clean" as "free from pollutants" and "not radioactive", so we are fighting this New Speak propaganda as you can read in our new Letter to the TVA.
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> We thank you for your continued interest and support, and for all the good you do.
> 
> BEST wishes,
> Gretel
> 
> Gretel Johnston 
> for BEST/MATRR
> best at matrr.org
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> Bellefonte Efficiency & Sustainability Team (BEST)
> Mothers Against Tennessee River Radiation (MATRR)
> 
> MATRR.org - Because It Matters
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> Encls: <50-mile map Sequoyah,pdf>, <Standing declaration_Sequoyah_blank.pdf>
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