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Jun 29

Newsletter: June 29, 2012

󰀍PC News Update: June 29, 2012 → Bonnie Raitt Concert Supports Effort to Retire Pilgrim / More Groups Letters to USFWS/NMFS/CZM / Plymouth Nuclear Committee Official Speaks / Rally & Call on Gov Patrick; 5 New Groups Sign-on / Support “Pilgrim 14″ on July 11 / Member in Action: Sara Altherr / Sierra Club Publications Feat. Pilgrim

Jun 15

Newsletter: June 15, 2012

󰀍PC News Update: June 15, 2012 → Entergy Locks Out Local Workers / June 7 Rally & Hearing / Cape Downwinders / Member in Action: Alex Mansfield / Our River Herring / In The News

Jun 01

Newsletter: June 1, 2012

󰀍PC News Update: June 1, 2012 → It’s Not Over ‘Til It’s Over / Read the New NRC License / June 7 Rally: NRC “Safety Orders” Are Nothing But ‘Band-Aids’ for Pilgrim / EPA and DEP AWOL on Entergy’s “Scram” and Shut down on May 15 / Member in Action: David Agnew / In The News

May 18

Newsletter: May 18, 2012

󰀍PC News Update: May 18, 2012 → Groups Tell NRC Entergy’s License Should be Denied Until Cape Cod Bay Pollution Stops / Pilgrim Protest Rally on Sunday 5/20 / Plymouth Votes to Ask NRC to Suspend Relicensing of Pilgrim Reactor; 59 to 41 Percent / Harwich and Dennis Voters Pass Articles on Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station / Member in Action: Anna Baker / Blog Post from WDCS: Plymouth Is Where NO NUKES Meets SAVE THE WHALES / Entergy, Workers Back to Negotiations at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station; Contract Extended Until May 25 / Radio Interview “Sounds of Dissent” (WZBC 90.3 Boston) with PC and Beyond Nuclear

May 11

Newsletter: May 11, 2012

󰀍PC News Update: May 11, 2012 → Entergy License Update / Union Workers at Pilgrim Vote to Strike / Our Water: Entergy’s Pollution of Cape Cod Bay Must Stop Say Groups / In the News / Upcoming Events

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May 22

Cape Codders Vote to Close Pilgrim

14 Cape Cod Towns pass a public advisory question to close the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station.

CAPE COD, MA – The results are in and Cape Cod residents have spoken. Last night Falmouth, Yarmouth, Brewster, Orleans and Harwich voters passed a public advisory question to call on Governor Patrick to request the Nuclear Regulatory Commission uphold their mandate to close the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station because the public safety of Cape Cod cannot be assured. The success of this campaign had already been achieved in Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Chatham, Dennis, Mashpee, Bourne, and Sandwich. Barnstable will be the last Town to conclude the campaign when Barnstable voters speak at the ballot box this fall.

Last October, Massachusetts Emergency Management Director Kurt Schwartz informed Cape Cod residents if a nuclear accident occurred at Pilgrim they will be “in harm’s way” of a radioactive plume. Cape Codders would be relocated because their properties will be so contaminated with radiation and therefore uninhabitable. The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March, 2011 has displaced over 160,000 people from their homes indefinitely. Tom Setzer, an NRC official confirmed at an NRC open meeting last month in Plymouth a catastrophic nuclear accident just like Fukushima could happen at Pilgrim.

Cape Cod voters were clear by voting yes to close Pilgrim. Arlene Williamson, spokes person for Cape Downwinders stated “The risks of a nuclear accident increase every day the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station continues to operate”.

The 41 year old facility has experienced nine automatic shutdowns just this year for leaking valves, leaking pipes, pump failures, power outages and most recently last Monday a fire broke out when turbine auxiliary pumps failed.

Cape Downwinders co-founder Diane Turco, stated “The Pilgrim reactor is recognized by Cape Cod voters as an ongoing imminent threat to their health and safety”. The people of Cape Cod have spoken and now request Governor Patrick, as the Chief Public Safety Officer for the State of Massachusetts, to take action and call on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to close the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station in Plymouth.”

May 22

‘Rally at the Reactor’ ends happily with 10 arrests

󰀃Frank Mand, OCM 󰀍Source (WickedLocal.com) →

PLYMOUTH — Maybe it’s a matter of perspective. For Plymouth residents, the nuclear plant in their backyard is nothing new. But cross the Canal and the attitude changes. Sunday’s “Rally at the Reactor” took place in Plymouth but was a production of the Falmouth-based anti-nuclear group Cape Downwinders. And, when it was over, every one of the 10 protesters arrested that afternoon in Plymouth reside, at least part of the time, on Cape Cod.

May 09

Worst Week Since Fukushima: 4 Major Setbacks In 3 Days Are Latest Stumbles For U.S. Nuclear Power Industry

Reverse Renaissance? Experts Point to 6 Reactors on the Chopping Block and Passage of Anti-Industry Florida Law; Beleaguered Industry’s Woes Start With Bad Economics … and Go Downhill From There. WASHINGTON, May 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ – Call it the “renaissance in reverse.” Not only is…

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Newsletter: April 2013

󰀓PC News Update: April 12, 2013 → Cape Downwinders Ballot Initiative / Case for Expedited Transfer of Spent Fuel to Dy Casks / Save Our Bay Flotilla / Ira Wood on Pilgrim / Marshfield Town Meeting To Vote on Nuclear Advisory Committee

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