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To: backhoe;All
The opposition to Yucca Mountain is getting VERY active. I live in NW Indiana and we had people going door to door the other night asking for donations for their cause. Two organizations are named in their pamphlet.

Public Citizen--www.citizen.org/cmep and Nuclear Information & Resource Service--www.nirs.org. I didn't talk to them, but wish I had the opportunity to ask them just exactly what their solution might be. Their pamphlet doesn't suggest any viable alternatives.

8 posted on 06/16/2002 8:40:14 AM PDT by scholar
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To: scholar
My empirical guess is that there are elements of the old Nuclear Freeze, Anti-ABM, generic anti-nuke, and others who just fear and despise anything nuclear spearheading much of this.

These folks always need a cause celeb to rally around & give them something to chatter about, rail against, and do...

9 posted on 06/16/2002 9:00:26 AM PDT by backhoe
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To: scholar
Let's take those names you have & go hunting....

http://www.tray.com/
http://www.opensecrets.org/
http://www.issues2000.org/
http://www.activistcash.com
http://www.consumerfreedom.com

Public Citizen and Nuclear Information & Resource Service

Darn it, gotta run!

11 posted on 06/16/2002 9:32:52 AM PDT by backhoe
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