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Protester Gets Jail Time for Non-violent Protest of Nuclear Plant in Virginia « It’s Getting Hot In Here

Protester Gets Jail Time for Non-violent Protest of Nuclear Plant in Virginia”

It’s getting hot in here 29 Sept 08 Three of the six protesters arrested at the Dominion Resources North Anna Nuclear Power Plant were found guilty of trespassing today in the Louisa County Courthouse. The charges stem from conducting an alternative tour and sit-in at the Dominion Power Nuclear Information Center on August 7th.The judge rejected their defense of necessity and sentenced Paxus Calta to 30 day in jail with 15 suspended……………………..Sue Frankel-Streit and Spot Etal were fined $1,000 with $700 suspended. All three are banned form entering Dominion property for a period of two years. About 20 supporters gathered in front of the courthouse with signs displaying their anti-nuclear message.
“What is a greater harm here? That Dominions nuclear information center was inconvenienced and had to close 30 minutes late or that an untested new nuclear reactor will overheat Lake Anna when it is already getting to over 100 degrees most summers?” asks Paxus Calta, one of those arrested and a member of the People’s Alliance for Clean Energy (PACE) a group of concerned Louisa and Albemarle County residents who want real renewables and efficiency solutions instead of the proposed new reactor.
“Dominion wants to build a dangerous new reactor when it has no place to put the waste for the current two. These plants are already a toxic nightmare and we don’t need anymore in this area,” Says defendant Sue Frankel-Streit. “Dominion and the State are failing to address the problems of climate change and of nuclear toxins. We need a different way to make decisions about energy, because the solutions being proposed are failing to serve the people.”Three other protestors from this action pled guilty last month and were fined $1,250,

Protester Gets Jail Time for Non-violent Protest of Nuclear Plant in Virginia « It’s Getting Hot In Here

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October 1, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | secrets,lies and civil liberties