Published: November 23rd, 2011 at 12:24 am ET
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Ballot Initiative to Close Nuclear Plants Gets Go-Ahead for Signature Collection, San Clemente Times by Stacie N. Galang, Nov 22, 2011:
California’s Secretary of State approved a ballot initiative November 18 that seeks the closure of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station and the Diablo Canyon plant.
The initiative was filed by Ben Davis Jr. [who] drafted this and an earlier petition that led to the closure of the Rancho Seco power plant in June 1989.
As drafted, the latest initiative parallels existing state law prohibiting the creation of new nuclear plants until the federal government finds a solution to dispose of radioactive nuclear waste and reprocess spent fuel rods. If enacted, the initiative would essentially shut down the state’s two remaining nuclear plants by stopping them from creating additional waste until a federal solution arrives. [...]
Davis has until April 16, 2012 to collect the 504,760 needed signatures to allow the initiative to go the voters in the fall presidential election. He expected to start the signature drive after the Thanksgiving weekend.
Published: November 23rd, 2011 at 12:24 am ET
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Wowww!
California enenewsers…
Find out how you can help with gathering the 504,760 signatures needed!
Good luck!
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hey Mack – gotta link for that?
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Contact information for Ben Davis, Jr. (he’s collecting the signatures) —>
Ben Davis, Jr.
[Admin: Sorry no phone number requested]
bendavis54 (at) gmail.com
Everyone here from California, contact him and ask how you can help.
Here is a link to the original initiative:
http://ag.ca.gov/cms_attachments/initiatives/pdfs/i987_11-0042_(nuculear_power).pdf
This is going to take hard work and everyone getting involved as MUCH as they can, not sitting back and letting someone else do the work.
Right?
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Here’s a list of California’s elected officials.
If you want, email them and politely tell them that you support the initiative to close down the nuclear power plants in California:
http://electedlist.com/California.html
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Excellent Mack!! Wow! Do you think I could write them, too, though i’m in Germany?
As radiation respects no borders….
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I don’t see why not. Just state that you are from Germany because as you said radiation respects no borders.
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One MORE reason why these 2 nuclear plants should be shut down.
California is along the “Ring of Fire” where 90% of earthquakes occur.
http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Pacific_Ring_of_Fire.png
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Best of Luck to California with their initiative
If it doesn’t pass, beware because you could end up with MORE nuclear power plants….
“California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore on Tuesday vowed to continue his efforts to repeal a state law banning new nuclear power plants…”
http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/25541
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I interviewed Ben Davis, Jr. on the Nov. 22 Nuclear Hotseat Podcast. Tons of great info, straight from the source.
Here’s the direct download link: http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/NuclearHotseat-23–11-22-11.mp3
It will be up on iTunes within 24 hours: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/nuclear-hotseat-hosted-by/id458213762
I’ll continue to cover this issue closely. To get all the news, sign up on the Nuclear Hotseat group page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/NuclearHotseat/
Let’s do this thing!
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Auntie Nuke – Downloaded the interview and ready to listen to it shortly. Great job you’re doing!
Quick request…can you make your Facebook page available for everyone to see? A lot of folks don’t “do” Facebook anymore so they won’t be able to see the content and how they can help. Thank you.
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UPDATE —>
Ok, listened to the interview with Ben Davis, Jr.
So far he has reserved a domain name called:
http://www.californianuclearinitiative.com
It’s not up-and-running yet, but he said it will be soon.
Here’s how it’s going to work:
1. The petition will be on the website
2. You download the petition and print it out
3. You go out and get signatures of registered voters
The petition cannot be signed on-line!
4. After you get signatures, you’ll mail them to Ben Davis, Jr.’s post office box.
This is my understanding, anyway. Clear instructions will be on the website.
http://lhalevy.audioacrobat.com/download/NuclearHotseat-23–11-22-11.mp3
(interview with Ben Davis, Jr. begins @ about a third of the way in on podcast)
Auntie Nuke is a great interviewer, by the way. Sharp!
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Thanks, Mack! I’m going to use your summary about Ben on my FB Nuclear Hotseat site. Well done! (I’m not financially set up to have transcripts made as of yet.)
Meanwhile, I didn’t quite track what you were saying about making my FB page available for anyone to see. Can you not go there?
Here’s the link: http://www.facebook.com/groups/NuclearHotseat/
Does that do it? If not, let me know more specifically what you mean.
BTW, if you’re in CA, there’s going to be a one-day free seminar on Nuclear Power and the Media at SF State University on Saturday, Dec. 3 at Burk Hall. Lots of speakers and networking. Don’t know if it’s going to be recorded, but I’ll be interviewing the organizer, Steve Zeltzer, on next Tuesday’s Nuclear Hotseat. 4 pm Pacific time, phone: 712-432-1100; PIN (access code): 324564#. Live Q&A. Join us! — Auntie Nuke.
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Hi Auntie Nuke – When I click the Facebook link, I get a log-in prompt saying “You must log in to see this page.”
You might have to set your Facebook settings to “everyone” ?
Thank you for the info on the meeting and next podcast. I re-posted it on the Enenews “FORUM: Upcoming meetings, gatherings, & demonstrations about energy issues.”
Definitely post your upcoming podcasts on Enenews as a reminder to everyone!
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We have a lot of educating to do as well as getting signatures. Right now votes are 355 in favor of shutting them down & 479 in opposition to shutting them down. Not good! With low MSM coverage many people still do not know about Fukushima.
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Oh Mah Gawd!
This is some good news
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California will get the ball rolling just like they did with the legalization of marijuana!
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Yeah, unfortunately it’s still not legal…we tried, though. but the feds are cracking down on it lately. It’s too bad, a lot of the dipensaries are very professional.
I love California though, because they are on the forefront of things like this. Sonoma County is a GMO-free county, no GMO’s can be grown there.
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I’ll glaly sign any petition and vote for any measure that closes them down.
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Gladly…
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That’s great, but for this to pass, it’s going to require that everyone gets involved.
Contact Ben Davis Jr. and find out how you can help.
Ben Davis, Jr.
[Admin: Sorry no phone number requested]
bendavis54 (at) gmail.com
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I wish I’d live in California
lol
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“enoughalready45″ had some good ideas on how non-California residents can help.
Here is one idea enoughalready45 posted that everyone can do:
“Start looking for articles in California Newspapers and post comments encouraging Californians to end nuclear in their state.”
If anyone has any more ideas, post them here.
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Hi Mack, as I’m in Europe, do you think you from the US could post links to those articles every now and then? Hard to find them all from here, but I’d love to comment!
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If you live in a state that has an initiative process, get a petition going. Contact Ben, get a copy of his wording – which is better than the wording the Attorney General put on the ballot (this will be the nature of our battleground come November). Start it in your area, if you can.
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the list of states http://www.cusdi.org/stateswithinitiatives.htm
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Hallelujiah!
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Ancient Granny proverb:
Count chickens after eggs hatch.
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Oh please, oh please, oh please.
Let it be yes.
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Too good to be true?
Let’s hope not.
We should get similar going in Texas, even tho our Nukes are few and far ‘between.
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Well, as the recent WH petition against nuclear not even made it to 5000 signatures and therefore failed, I’m not too optimistic. We’ll see hardcore pro-nuke lobbying in full force! They will “fight for jobs”, “California needs the taxes”, “nuclear is green”,….all this BS will come to the table.
I love the initiative, but I hope they are prepared.
Because if this goes wrong it will have been the last anti nuke initiative for a long time, I’m afraid.
Well, until the next meltdown, that is (so probably not too far in the future).
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GO CALIFORNIA
Show them how it’s done.
PLEASE
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Hi B&B – I understand your skepticism, and I share it to a large extent, too. However, please keep in mind that the petition was started by this extremely busy housewife and mom, and I barely touched on a few places in trying to spread it around in my spare time (which was literally a few minutes a day, most days). There was no planning, and I made a number of mistakes along the way. I really don’t think the petition is any kind of a real representation of how the public feels about nuclear power.
This is exciting! Regardless the outcome, this will be an awesome opportunity to educate the public about nuclear power!!!
Let us all give thanks (and then get busy)!
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+1
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You’re right Erin, let’s be optimistic. If it HAPPENS, it could be the first nail in the coffin of the US nuke program….and the California people seem to be quite energetic folks!
But if i see this right, the 504.000 signatures would only be the first step? It would just allow the topic to be discussed politically?
So it could still be stopped?
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Yes, the signatures would only get the issue on the ballot, and even if California voters pass the measure, I believe there are ways the opposition could still fight it to some degree.
The great part, though, is that the whole time this measure is in play, the media will be more willing to cover the issue. Instead of waiting for new nuclear news to come out so we can write letters to editors, op-ed’s, etc., we will now have a ton of election coverage to add to the mix.
The discussion is OPEN! I believe this all but guarantees it will be discussed widely.
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Education is the key to getting this passed. We need to develop our talking points, spread them far and wide, and get ready for a really intense ride.
Don’t wait until the new year; let’s ask for signatures on the petitions as our holiday presents! The gift that keeps on giving…
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Everyone in the USA knows someone in California. Contact everyone you know there and get them to support Mr. Ben Davis. Start looking for articles in California Newspapers and post comments encouraging Californians to end nuclear in their state. This initiative has great implications for other states in the USA. Here in Illinois we have a moritorium on new nuclear but the existing nuke plants are still running. We already have the most stored nuclear waste but we just keep adding to it.
Chernobyl, Fukushima, Illinois??
GO NO NUKE CALIFORNIA!
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The nuclear waste issue is the most logic defying aspect of this whole matter
Its like the nuclear military industrial complex is your house guest who has worn out his welcome…he shits in your toilet then breaks the handLe trying to flush…a little while later he needs to go again so now its filled up and starting to stink…then he’s gotta go again but you tell him not to because it can’t be flushed but he tells you not to worry his brother is good at fixin stuff and he’ll take care of the problem…so in the meantime he barges right past you and shits some more…this keeps happening and his brother never shows…now the shit’s running out the door into your carpeted hallway and this guy says “Well, duh, here, I have some paper bags and I’ll just fill them up with all the eXtra shit and we’ll pile them up right here on your carpet till I can figure out what to do next.”
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@whoopie hope I made you laugh this AM…I know it’s the best medicine so I’m diggin deep to find what little humor there may be in all of this.
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I loved it. Cracked me up!!!
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made me laugh, thanks!
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LOL! May I copy this for atttribution? May I copy this for non-attribution? Too good an example not to share far and wide… Thanks!
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Excellent idea. Anyone else have any ideas how non-California residents can help?
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Wow! Would this work in New York State? I live in western NY, down wind from now-closed West Valley Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant. YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE the number of people in this area with cancer, or MS. Would love to see the boiling water reactors in NY closed.
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Awesome! Get rid of those death machines. I used to work and live in San Clemente. Now mahbe my friends over there won’t get sick. I don’t think our loving government and media alerted them to all of the radiation from fukushima though.
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11/23 Aqua Chernobyl – Fukushima Update 2011/11/23
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMzQuOnZIZA&feature=uploademail
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Pretty important imo:
11/23 Nuke Test Samples in a Suitecase – Sunday Mirror UK via Dave Whyte
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/nuke-test-samples-in-a-suitecase-sunday-mirror-uk-via-dave-whyte/
Decades of horror stories and official lies, which laid the groundwork for today’s nuclear industry.
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Unfortunately, I can’t read the newspaper article.
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Well basically I only READ his post too. Oh well.
Way OT I watched Hugh Grant testify yesterday on CSpan about the Phone Hacking in the UK by Murdock empire. I was so proud of Hugh taking part to bring that asshole down. RM in Hot Water and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
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It just loooked like an interesting article…I wonder if any of his family had health problems after that.
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One time shot – see if this works
(wont make a habit unless Admin okays it)
Media separating the responsibility for nuclear crises.
AC posted this originally.
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Oops. Didn’t work Here’s the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yxYIPEPlg28
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OK it did work. Doesn’t this put more bandwidth on your server Admin? I’d hate to see you go down again. WE NEED YOU UP AND RUNNING.
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That is good news for California and all of those who live down wind.
Now if we can just get the California Department of Health and the EPA to recognize the fact that we’ve had proven amounts of fallout that are affecting our dairy supply and other parts of the food chain, that would be even better.
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Hooray! I pray we can get California Nuke-FREE. ChasAha I agree with you.
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Jerry Brownose won’t buck the FEDs ever so he will VETO it if he gets a chance.
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VOTES NEEDED ONLINE ASAP: http://taxdollars.ocregister.com/2011/11/23/poll-would-you-vote-to-shut-down-san-onofre/139673/
They are trying to get the jump on the agenda by reinforcing the Attorney General’s office prejudicial wording about the economic impact. If I didn’t know any better, “I” would not vote to close them down, either. Totally unbalanced. Please – go and vote ASAP.
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Done, Auntie Nuke, hope others are still up to help out.
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AND Comment on the article! Link enenews and explain the dangers of nuclear power! Educate people who may read the article.
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Okay – I tried to post something about an online poll being taken about shutting down San Onofre that frames the CA anti nuclear agenda in the most frightening, negative way possible… and ENE told me it was a duplicate post. Huh? I posted about it on Facebook, not here… and they’re blocking me? So not cool…
It is at this url; I’ll separate things that should not be separated so it doesn’t kick into a system. Just close up all the spaces: http:// tax dollars. ocregister.com /2011/11/23/ poll-would- you-vote- to-shut- down-san-onofre/139673/
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One last time tonight: I got a “this is a duplicate post and we will not post it” message. Then I posted the previous message, only to find that the first one did get up. Sorry for the duplication. Boomer Luddite here…
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Tar sands industry eyes California
http://www.truth-out.org/tar-sands-oil-producers-eye-california/1322082289
Will they ever ever ever stop? Protesting could very well be a fulltime job these days….
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Hi Pallas – If you’re in California and you’re willing to help gather signatures, please contact:
Ben Davis, Jr.
(916) 833-7894
bendavis54@gmail.com
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Join California Against Nuclear Power & help me to work with legislators & policy makers to stop Nuclear Power. http://www.facebook.com/groups/315704371776383/
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