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Proposal ID662
Proposal2012 Platform amendment proposal: Nuclear power - GA
PresenterPlatform Committee Sponsored by GPGA
Floor ManagerTamar Yager
PhaseClosed - Adopted
Discussion05-08-2012 - 05-20-2012
Voting05-21-2012 - 05-27-2012
Presens QuorumTwo Thirds of Active Accredited States/Caucuses
Consens QuorumTwo Thirds of Yes and No Votes

Background

The loan guarantees advanced by the Obama administration to enable the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors are an abuse of public resources for private profit, targeting the same sacrifice zones as previous nuclear plant construction and exhibits the same environmental racism in public and private policy making which has so long characterized the nuclear industry.

Proposal

That Platform 2010 of the Green Party of the United States, in Chapter III, related to "Ecological Sustainability", in Section C., related to "Nuclear Issues", is amended by striking paragraph 10., which reads:

10. We oppose public subsidies for nuclear power, including Price-Anderson insurance caps and stranded cost recovery bailouts.

and inserting in its place, the following:

10. We oppose public subsidies for nuclear power, including Price-Anderson insurance caps and stranded cost recovery bailouts. We oppose federal loan guarantees to enable the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors.

Resources

IMPLEMENTATION: Approval of this proposal will amend the 2012 Draft Platform, to be presented for approval at the 2012 Presidential Nominating Convention

CONTACT: Jan Martell, co-chair, 919-682-2472, ninth.st@frontier.com
Bruce Hinkforth, co-chair, 262-569-1370, bhinkforth@milwpc.com
Section editor: Michael Canney, alachuagreen@gmail.com

References

2010 Platform: http://www.gp.org/committees/platform/2010/index.php
Proposition 636: http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=636




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