Green | June 29, 2009 | 11 comments

Al's Journal : What's Next

source: http://blog.algore.com/2009/06/whats_next.html

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Blog update from Al Gore:

I want to personally thank every single one of you who wrote, called and emailed their member of the House of Representatives in favor of the American Clean Energy and Security Act. Those supporting the status quo are sure double their efforts in the Senate to try and stop this legislation so our work it far from over.

To give you a picture of what we are up against, ExxonMobil has already spent more than $9.3 million lobbying Congress this year. However, I know we can succeed. That’s why, if you haven’t yet, I encourage you to join the Alliance for Climate Protection today by clicking here: http://www.climateprotect.org/

President Obama was absolutely correct when he stated:

"We cannot be afraid of the future. And we must not be prisoners of the past. Don’t believe the misinformation out there that suggests there is somehow a contradiction between investing in clean energy and economic growth. It’s just not true."

We need to carry this message to the Senate. Our actions will determine whether this historic bill becomes law.
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11 comments // Al's Journal : What's Next

  • futuregen
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      futuregen  

    • The only thing I disagree with is column B (no action) and climate change turns out to be false. He states "everyone will be happy" and puts a smiley face there. Actually that is not what would happen (or is happening now) because of pollution. Everyone is getting sick, stressed out from a polluted environment affecting the food chain, water supplies and the air we breathe. That smiley face should be changed to an unhappy face because even if we take no action on how we generate electricity, etc, extinction will follow. Just another doomesday scenario. So for all you naysayers about climate change, we still have to stop polluting. You have no right to stick radioactive gas up my nose and radioactive particles in my water that will lodge itself in my lungs, bones, muscles, thyroid (etc) and give me cancer. You have no right to give everyone asthma and pollute the waterways. Why can't you care about others for once? You can still make your almighty dollar, just change the industry to something clean and life sustaining. Thank you IN ADVANCE.

    • 2 years ago
  • ras_menelik
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  • Solarlife
  • futuregen
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    • plusaf:

      WakeUpPeople responded: "The director of global warming from this CEI group has personally received $612,000 from ExxonMobile, and his organization Frontiers for Freedom has received $857,000. He's a sellout, not an expert."

    • 2 years ago
  • ras_menelik
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  • futuregen
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      futuregen  

    • Pickens was on Coast to Coast AM last night. He says to get off foreign oil using natural gas. He advocated nuclear power, reprocessing nuclear rad waste, the GE smart grid and has purchased GE wind turbines (I believe he has a lot of stock in GE and appeared to be a spokesperson for them). He did advocate solar (probably GE solar panels) and wind. He is buying (or has bought) the land over Texas aquifers. He advocates polluting the environment through more nuke power that dumps radionuclides into our water while he buys up all the good water. He said he's 81 and feels he is an environmentalist.

      This is the kind of thing we must be careful of, a PLAN that is downright scary, holding carrots out to the environmentalists (solar and wind) while stabbing us in the back (nuclear and the smartgrid which WILL be used to spy on you more than you realize)... just making money for those already rich. He said his bill passed the House and will be considered in the senate along with HR 2454. The rich always have ulterior motives - money, greed and control.

    • 2 years ago
  • futuregen
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    • I'm not sure of the date this was posted.

      "The Nonsense of Congress

      Senate Energy Committee approves dangerous resolution

      The Senate Energy Committee voted yesterday to approve a “Sense of the Congress Regarding the Strategic Role of Nuclear Energy.” But local critics of nuclear power say it is more non-sense than sense; and it could lay the groundwork to turn Illinois into a de facto high-level radioactive waste (HLRW) storage dump for the region.

      There is nothing sensible about this vote. We have written Senators Durbin and Burris asking them to reject this document – which could turn Illinois into the de facto Yucca Mt. of the Great Lakes.

      The seven-page document has two main features: one which declares that Congress finds that nuclear power is essential for our energy future and to fight to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; the other calling for research into reprocessing of spent nuclear reactor fuel, and creating regional centralized HLRW storage sites until such time as the federal government builds an acceptable, safe and permanent disposal site for the HLRW. The Obama Administration recently terminated funding for the flawed proposed Yucca Mt. site in Nevada, leaving the US with no active disposal options.

      It is breathtaking – and quite alarming -- how many errors and unsubstantiated assertions the Senators were able to assemble in so little space in support of nuclear energy. The document pulls fabricated ”findings” out of thin air about nuclear power’s ability to influence greenhouse gas emissions and the wishful thinking about dangerous reactor fuel reprocessing. NEIS has sent a detailed critique of these largely unsubstantiated highly contestable ‘findings’ to both Illinois Senators.

      What concerns NEIS the most though is how this lofty-sounding yet totally empty rhetoric begins to position Illinois as a future location for the centralized storage of High Level Radioactive Waste. The Sense of Congress calls for the establishment of centralized spent fuel and HLRW storage facilities. Because Illinois is centrally located, has great rail capacity, and already has a huge volume of HLRW, it would stand out as a front runner in the selection process, to minimize the amounts of waste transported for storage.

      Illinois would not only have to shoulder the burden for the HLRW Exelon’s reactors have generated; it would likely have to safeguard thousands of tons of HLRW coming from other states and nuclear utilities. We already have expressed deep concerns for the nearness of reactors and HLRW pools to O’Hare Field post-911. Adopting this Sense of Congress would in effect make Illinois a de facto Yucca Mt – and the way Congress works – indefinitely.

      Our Critique of the Sense of Congress

      Comments on the Critique

      Our Letter to Senators Dick Durbin and Roland Burris

      Our press release on this matter.'

    • 2 years ago
  • JanforGore
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    • It depends on what the definition of "clean energy" now is to them. "Clean coal? Nuclear? Natural Gas? Hydropower during a drought? Mr. Gore I am sure knows that this administration supports clean coal even though his Alliance has ads against it while this bill gave them concessions. I am sure he also knows that the Dept. of the Interior also gave permits to speculate for uranium in the Grand Canyon. Why then has he not commented on this? This is the crux of the "clean" energy they are talking about. Surely he must know that, so why does he keep speaking as if that isn't part of it when even we know it is? What happened to 100% renewable energy in 10 years?And again, 17% reductions in emissions by 2020 is pathetic. I sure hope he will call on the Alliance to call for much stricter limits in the Senate. If not, then the whole premise of this bill is moot.

    • 2 years ago
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