[Corporations] ACTION ALERT: No More Nuclear Waste in Wisconsin!

[Alice McCombs]

NO MORE NUCLEAR WASTE IN WISCONSIN!

February 9, 2004

Please distribute

Tomorrow morning the Energy and Utilities Committee, will vote on a bill 
(Assembly Bill 555) that will put people and the environment at risk from 
nuclear waste and unfair energy prices. The bill does away with the common 
sense law that prevents nuclear plants from being built in Wisconsin unless:

   -- there is a federal nuclear waste repository open that can dispose of 
nuclear waste; and

   -- the cost is economically advantageous for ratepayers.

We need your help. Please take a moment to call your State Representative 
and ask her/him to vote no on AB 555. Let them know that you support clean, 
safe power, not risky, expensive nuclear power. To find your legislator s 
contact information, go 
to:  <http://www.legis.state.wi.us/waml/>http://www.legis.state.wi.us/waml/ 
or call
1-800-362-9472.

Nuclear power is not safe. Transporting nuclear waste on our highways and 
railroads puts human health and the environment at risk. One accident at a 
nuclear power plant or on the highway could devastate a community and 
destroy Wisconsin s tourism economy. Nuclear power plants and nuclear waste 
storage can also provide a target for terrorists. Wisconsin s nuclear power 
plants and waste storage are located near Lake Michigan; more than 35 
million people rely on Lake Michigan for drinking water.

Nuclear power is not clean. Nuclear power plants generate nuclear waste, 
one of the most toxic substances on earth. Nuclear waste must be stored for 
thousands of years longer than any government or civilization has lasted 
and there is still no good solution for dealing with nuclear waste. Why 
create more radioactive waste when there is no good solution for the waste 
we already have?

Nuclear power is not cheap. The federal government subsidizes the nuclear 
industry to the tune of billions of dollars each year. One major accident 
at one of Wisconsin s two nuclear plants would cost between $40 and $50 
billion dollars in property damage. According to WE Energies, the utility 
that owns the Point Beach nuclear plant in Wisconsin, it would cost more 
than $2 billion to build a new nuclear plant.

Sign the petition! No more nuclear waste in Wisconsin: 
<http://www.cleanwisconsin.org/>www.cleanwisconsin.org.

For more information: 
<http://www.cleanwisconsin.org/campaigns/nuclear/index.html>http://www.cleanwisconsin.org/campaigns/nuclear/index.html 
or www.wnwd.org

Contact your State Representative, and, if you have time, also call your 
State Senator. For their contact information, please go to 
<http://www.legis.state.wi.us/waml/>http://www.legis.state.wi.us/waml/ or 
call 1-800-362-9472.

For more information or to have your name taken off our e-mail list, please 
contact <mailto:info at cleanwisconsin.org>info at cleanwisconsin.org or call 
(608) 251-7020.

  Mining Campaign Director &
Local Issues Coordinator

Clean Wisconsin

(formerly Wisconsin's Environmental Decade)

Southern Regional Coordinator
Wisconsin Stewardship Network
122 State Street Suite 200
Madison, WI 53703
(608) 251-7020
(608) 251-1655f
<http://www.cleanwisconsin.org>www.cleanwisconsin.org
<mailto:schmidtc at chorus.net>schmidtc at chorus.net


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