Jill Claybrook is the president of Public Citizen (www.citizen.org), a national, non-profit, public interest organization whose motto/purpose/mission is "Protecting health, safety and democracy".The group offers membership and their publication at their main site.
The article below is the "President's View" from the March/April edition.
Administration, Congress Are Wrongly Promoting Nuclear Energy
At the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference, a global ministerial-level gathering held in early March in Washington, D.C., President Bush stated “We’ve got to get off oil. … [O]ur dependence on fossil fuels like oil presents a challenge to our environment. When we burn fossil fuels we release greenhouse gases. The concentration of greenhouse gases has increased substantially.”
That’s pretty amazing, coming from a guy whose administration has scoffed at the notion of conservation and stifles administration staffers who talk openly about the dangers of climate change.
The problem is what Bush said next.
“I believe developing nations ought to be encouraged to use nuclear power,” he said. “I believe it will help take pressure off the price of oil, and I know it’s going to help protect the environment.”
He also claimed that nuclear power is safe and should be expanded in the U.S. with the help of a federal risk insurance program and loan guarantees for nuclear power plant developers.
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