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LiveDaily Interview: Graham Nash

  November 3, 2008 – Graham Nash: “The nuclear snake is raising its head once again. Thirty years ago, we took a stand against nuclear power, making people aware of: the dangers of nuclear power; the people who mined radioactive substances who were dying of lung cancer; the transportation of nuclear waste; the fragility of nuclear waste; all the things that may have not been covered up but certainly haven’t been covered enough in the media. This country is 230 years old and we’re trying to control nuclear waste that will be around for thousands of years. It’s just insanity.
So, we started to bring awareness to the problem, and we’ve been fighting ever since. And recently, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt and I found out about a sentence in an energy bill that would make taxpayers fund this industry no Wall Street firm will ever invest in, and will never insure. The only way they can exist is if they have public money to do it. So we launched nukefree.org, we got an Internet campaign going, and we got about 130,000 signatures to present to Congress to get that clause out of the energy bill. Then it just comes back again as a clause in a global warming bill. They want to rip off the public for billions and billions of dollars…………………….Here’s what’s going on: John McCain wants to build 45 new nuclear power plants. And when asked recently about what he would do with the nuclear waste his answer was “let’s put it in a third world country.” [Washington Post, May 28, 2008 from Reno, NV: McCain: “I can push for some place internationally where we can ship nuclear waste and have it stored.”]

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November 4, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics