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DaLittle Kitty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-19-09 09:30 PM
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Progress Energy Crystal River Public Meeting W/Nuke Regulatory Commission "Very Educational"
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Less Regulator And More Facilitator (Progress Energy) Updated at 8:30 PM

Run time: 08:18
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPKxz3dVDq4

Posted on YouTube: March 18, 2009
By YouTube Member: StopProgressEnergy
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Posted on DU: March 19, 2009
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Reasonably straight forward questions posed to the officials apparently are too hot to handle ... in public and so an NRC official (THE MODERATOR) watch closely and LISTEN EVEN MORE CLOSELY... directs/volunteers one of his NRC colleagues to speak to Robert outside the public meeting thus preventing the discussion/answers to Robert's questions from being documented on the Federal Record.

If I were Robert I would have demanded that my question be answered ON THE OFFICIAL RECORD!

A court reporter documented every word spoken... in this meeting.

NEXT, John Russell citizen and 2008 District 5 Congressional Candidate makes some very important points as well that will appear on the Federal Record.

Principle point made by Mr Russell being that building additional nuclear power plants will be a disaster of monumental proportion from an economic standpoint in particular when you consider that our global competitors are going in exactly the opposite direction policy wise...

Nuclear energy in addition to all of the other negatives (Huge Capitol Cost, Long Time Horizons for Construction, Declining and increasingly costly sources of fuel, costs of nuclear waste storage/processing that span by some estimates, nearly incalculable time-frames measured in centuries not years or decades.)

John Russell diplomatically points out the wrong-headedness of building more nuclear power plants at a time when far less costly and far more economically dynamic means of generating electricity are within our grasp.

Russell goes on to point out the fact that nuclear is neither clean, green or economical.

In 2008 Germany installed 3,000 megawatts of solar power generation capacity. In the event that the proposed Progress Energy Levy County Florida Nuclear Power Plant is built at a price-tag measured in the tens of $billions of dollars and taking perhaps a decade to construct... it will in the end be capable of producing 3,000 megawatts of electricity.

Now which policy would represent the better policy economically? So where will America be economically speaking compared to Germany for example after we waste 10-15 years building a Dinosaur as Russell contends vs Germany choosing to enter the New Energy Age as Russell denotes.

The reason behind this effort is to "secure" the monopolistic power of the utility industry for the next 50-100 years rather than democratizing power generation through a distributed power generation system.

This IS ... POWER politics in its purist form!

It is up to we the citizens to stand up for our own future economic and employment opportunities by opposing the STRONGARM tactics of the Utility Monopoly.. which is in reality somewhat more of an oligopoly nationally but as we all are painfully aware for each of us our power company is our ONLY choice for electricity irrespective of where we live and therefore realistically speaking these are local monopolies.

Please join www.fare.org

visit www.johnrussellforcongress.com ...for more information on energy policy.
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vinylsolution Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-20-09 01:21 PM
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1. Of course, solar power....
.... would never work in Florida. Ask any local Republican.





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MissPuddy Donating Member (110 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-22-09 03:57 PM
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2. Nuclear energy...a pay day for Progress and out-of-state contractors
It takes 15 yrs. to build a plant at OUR expense...It won't create jobs HERE either..They will import the labor
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imdjh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-29-09 03:08 PM
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3. Progress Energy got their 30% rate increase, that's all they care about nt
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