The proposal to put nuclear energy into East Bay Community Energy’s power mix was defeated in April, but it’s back! Join the Local Clean Energy Alliance, first in a webinar, then at the EBCE directors’ meeting to tell them: No nukes!
In April, the board voted 10-5 against a proposal to accept PG&E’s offer of nuclear energy from its Diablo Canyon power plant, after 64 community members spoke out against accepting it.
However, EBCE staff has once again proposed accepting PG&E’s nuclear energy. This time the issue is being framed as using relatively low-cost nuclear energy to rescue EBCE’s Brilliant 100 product (100% carbon-free), which some East Bay cities lean on to reduce their city’s GHG emissions.
For decades California communities have been fighting back against Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant and its many risks. In indigenous desert-rural communities, people are resisting the mining of uranium and the dumping of nuclear waste. Join us for a very special webinar panel on the battle against nuclear energy—a false solution to climate change that derails us from a just transition to clean renewable energy.
First, hear from a panel of activists and experts who have been fighting and winning victories against nuclear power in their communities. Then show up (via Zoom) to tell the board (once again) to reject this false and dangerous solution.
WEBINAR: FROM EAST BAY, CA TO NEW MEXICO, COMMUNITY POWER AGAINST NUCLEAR ENERGY
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2020, 6 PM
Speakers:
Leona Morgan is a young Diné activist and organizer, from the Navajo nation fighting uranium mining and nuclear dumping in New Mexico
Jill Zamack of Mother’s For Peace a longtime anti-nuke movement group in San Luis Obispo, home of PG&E’s Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant
Robert Gould President of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility and Board Member of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Dan Hirsch retired Director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at the University of California, Santa Cruz and President of the Committee to Bridge the Gap, a 50-year-old nonprofit organization focused on nuclear issues.