The Sham Of Nuke Power

For those of us working to shut down Vermont Yankee, we know we're up for a fight. We're up against a well-financed corporate PR machine that has already been placing misleading ads in newspapers across Vermont. We wanted to share with our readers the following article about this tactic of false advertising and let you know that VPIRG and our partners in the Safe Power Vermont coalition will be working hard to counter this disinformation with the facts that Vermonters need to make a well-informed decision on how to secure Vermont's clean AND SAFE energy future!

The Sham Of Nuke Power & Patrick Moore
Opinion: Harvey Wasserman
February 28, 2007
From: http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/7/2007/1502

Vermont, like too many other places with nuke reactors, was recently disgraced by an industry-sponsored visit from Patrick Moore, who claims to be a "founder" of Greenpeace, and who is out selling nuclear power as a "green" technology. The two claims are roughly equal in the baldness of their falsehood. But the impacts of the lies about Vermont Yankee---like so many other reactors---are far more serious. Read the full article here.