[OKC] FW: Sierra Club Brings Baltimore Anti-Nuke Activist to Speak Nov 8 at Bethany Library

[Shauna Struby]

From: Jody Harlan & Tim Wagner [mailto:hwinc at cox.net] 
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 1:18 PM
Subject: FW: Sierra Club Brings Baltimore Anti-Nuke Activist to Speak Nov 8
at Bethany Library

 

Sierra Club Cimarron Group is sponsoring a presentation by anti-nuclear
activist Cathy Garger from Baltimore, MD at 7 p.m. on Nov. 8 at the Bethany
Public Library. Please see the media release and calendar item below and
attached flier for details. The Oklahoma legislature seriously considered
five nuclear bills during the last legislative session. Gov. Henry vetoed
one of them, or we might be funding the $5-12 billion nuclear plant building
cost in advance for a 10 year period. We need to rally now to stop nuclear
legislation from coming back during the next session. This meeting is the
first step. Thanks for getting the word out. Please come if you can.

 

In addition to the OKC presentation (see media release below and attachments
for details), anti-nuclear activist Cathy Garger will speak at 2:30 p.m. on
Nov 7 at the Stillwater Regional Library, 1107 So. Duck. The Tulsa talk is
at 6 p.m. on Nov 9th at the Kendall-Whittier Library located at 21 S, Lewis.
I believe the Carrie Dickerson Foundation is promoting both those events.
Marilyn McCollough is their contact at 918-284-0728. These presentations
were scheduled first. Gwen Ingram encouraged the Sierra Club's Cimarron
Group to also book an OKC presentation. Please forward to friends who might
be interested.

 

Jody Harlan, Vice Chair

Sierra Club Oklahoma

405-354-3189  cell 405-326-3600  hwinc at cox.net

 

Visit Sierra Club on the web at http://oklahoma.sierraclub.org/

 

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For Immediate Release

October 29, 2010

Contact:  Jody Harlan, Chapter Vice Chair,  405.325.3600  hwinc at cox.net


 


 


Sierra Club Hosts National Anti-Nuclear Expert Cathy Garger Nov 8 at Bethany
Library


 

BETHANY, OKLA ¾  Anti-nuclear activist and educator Cathy Garger from
Baltimore, Maryland will speak about the impacts of nuclear contamination on
human health and environment from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at a "Stop the Nukes in
Oklahoma" seminar on Monday, Nov. 8. 

 

Garger's presentation will be sponsored by the Cimarron Group of the Sierra
Club at the Bethany Public Library, 3501 N. Mueller, located four blocks
south of N.W. 39th Expressway. The event is free and open to the public, but
donations will be accepted to assist with Garger's travel expenses.

 

"People are shocked to find out that the majority of new nuclear reactors
have been designed for use with surplus, weapons-grade plutonium fuel,"
Garger explained in a telephone interview from her Maryland home. "Nuclear
proponents try to promote these facilities as oh so safe and clean because
they are 'recycling' spent nuclear waste, when actually the reactors are a
horrid disaster just waiting to happen."

 

"We will also explore pollution dangers created by 12 existing nuclear
reactors and three additional proposed reactors within the Chesapeake Bay
Watershed, which encompasses six states and Washington, D.C.," "We will look
at the resulting impacts upon human health, Bay vitality, and our local food
and water supplies and cover the basics of the havoc ionizing radiation
creates within the plant and animal kingdoms.


Oklahoma does not currently have any nuclear facilities, in large part due
to the efforts of Carrie Barefoot Dickerson. She was a farm wife from
northeast Oklahoma who won a nine-year battle to educate the public and
stopped construction of the proposed Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant near
Inola in 1982. The Carrie Dickerson Foundation in Tulsa continues her work.

 

"In spite of a continuing resistance to nuclear power development in
Oklahoma, at least five pro-nuclear bills received serious consideration by
the legislature during the 2010 session," explained Vicki Rose, chair of the
Cimarron Group of the Sierra Club. "Gov. Brad Henry had the courage to veto
one nuclear bill that otherwise would have become state law."

 

"One bill that was defeated would have required utility rate payers to foot
the $5 to $12 billion nuclear plant construction costs in advance for
nuclear plant construction expected to take 10 years," Rose said. 

 

For more information about the "Stop the Nukes in Oklahoma" seminar, call
405-354-3189, email hwinc at cox.net or visit http://oklahoma.sierraclub.org/

 

 

Calendar

 

Monday, Nov. 8, 7 -8:30 p.m. "Stop the Nukes in Oklahoma," by anti-nuclear
activist and educator Cathy Garger from Baltimore, Maryland. Sponsored by
the Cimarron Group of the Sierra Club at Bethany Public Library, 3501 N.
Mueller. Open to the public. Free. Donations will be accepted. 

 

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