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OCCUPY takes on nuclear power

Occupiers disrupt Fermi 3 meeting, Fox Toledo.com,  15 Dec 2011, by Sharia Davis, MONROE, Mich. (WUPW) – Hopes of DTE Energy building a third Fermi nuclear reactor plant in Monroe County won’t happen without a fight. 

As the public meeting at Monroe County Community College to discuss the Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Fermi 3 nuclear plant in Monroe started with DTE and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a group of protesters made it a little difficult for the NRC to get its point across. 

Several demonstrators belonging to Occupy Toledosaid building a third nuclear plant is dangerous. Minutes into a hearing, about 10 of them chanted the dangers of building a reactor. READ: Michael Leonardi Occupy Toledo statement 

“The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in our eyes, just gives a green light to industry to put profit and production ahead of the safety and citizens of this region,” said Mike Leonardi of Occupy Toledo.

December 16, 2011 - Posted by | opposition to nuclear, USA

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