In a short letter sent today to the White House, nearly 50 environmental, business, anti-nuclear, sustainable energy, and energy policy organizations disputed a recent statement by President Bush that nuclear power is a “renewable source of energy.”
The groups said simply that nuclear power, and “for that matter, oil, coal, and natural gas,” are not renewable sources of energy but instead are “environmentally polluting and non-renewable.”
They added that the primary forms of renewable energy are “biofuels, biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind.”
The full text of the letter and list of signing organizations follows.
January 26, 2005
President George W. Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500
Dear Mr. President:
In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, you were quoted as saying that nuclear power “is a renewable source of energy.” Please be advised that nuclear power is not a renewable source of energy. For that matter, oil, coal, and natural gas are also not renewable sources of energy. Nuclear power and fossil fuels are environmentally polluting and non-renewable sources of energy. The primary renewable sources of energy are biofuels, biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, and wind.
Sincerely,
3EStrategies
(Cylvia Hayes, Executive Director)
info@3estrategies.org
Alliance for Affordable Energy
(Micah Walker Parkin)
mwalker@all4energy.org
Arizona Solar Center, Inc.
(Daniel Peter Aiello, Chair)
J2EnvArch@aol.com
Arizona Solar Energy Association
(Chuck Skidmore)
cskidmore@scottsdaleaz.gov
Bob Lawrence & Associations
(Bob Lawrence, President)
boblaw424@aol.com
Burlington Electric Department
(Mary Sullivan, Communications Coordinator)
MSullivan@burlingtonelectric.com
Chesapeake Climate Action Network
(Mike Tidwell, Director)
Mwtidwell@aol.com
Citizen Power
(David Hughes, Executive Director)
hughes@citizenpower.com
Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin
(Charlie Higley, Executive Director)
higley@wiscub.org
Clean Air Council
(Thurman Brendlinger)
brendlinger@cleanair.org
Colorado Energy Group
(George Burmeister)
COEnergyGroup@aol.com
Colorado Renewable Energy Society
(Kimberly Peterson, Secretary)
kimberly_peterson@yahoo.com
Donald Aitken Associates
(Donald W. Aitken, Ph.D.)
donaldaitken@earthlink.net
EORenew (Eastern Oregon Renewable Energies Non-profit) (Jennifer Barker) info@solwest.org
Eco Living Fellowship, Inc.
(Dr. Michael Skelly, Sr., President)
ecoliving@yahoo.com
Energy Innovation
(Steve Chadima)
steve@energyinnovations.com
Environmental Resources Trust
(Alden Hathaway – Director, EcoPower Programs) ahathaway@verizon.net
Friends of the Earth
(Erich Pica)
EPica@foe.org
Global Green U.S.A.
(Matt Petersen)
mpetersen@globalgreen.org
Global Possibilities
(Casey Coates Danson, President/Founder; Carolyn Ward, Managing Director) casey@globalpossibilities.org
Greenpeace
(John Coequyt, Jim Riccio, Nuclear Policy Analyst)
jim.riccio@wdc.greenpeace.org, john.coequyt@wdc.greenpeace.org
Hawaii Solar Energy Association (HSEA)
(Rick Reed, President)
sunearth@lava.net
Local Government Commission
(Judy Corbett)
jcorbett@lgc.org
Local 103 I.B.E.W.
(Martin E. Aikens, Business Agent)
Maikens@ibew103.com
Maine Solar Energy Association
(Richard Komp PhD. President)
sunwatt@juno.com
Mainstay Energy
(Hoyt Hudson, CEO)
hoyt.hudson@mainstayenergy.com
MD-DC-VA Solar Energy Industries Association
(Peter Lowenthal)
Plowenthal@seia.org
Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy
(J. Drake Hamilton, Science Policy Director)
hamilton@me3.org
North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association
(Richard/Lonna Harkrader)
harkrader@mindspring.com
Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships
(Susan E. Coakley, Executive Director)
scoakley@NEEP.org
Northwest Energy Coalition
(Nancy Hirsh)
nancy@nwenergy.org
Nuclear Information & Resource Service
(Michael Mariotte)
nirsnet@nirs.org
Quality Solar
(Claudia Wentworth)
claudia@qualitysolar.net
Redwood Alliance
(Michael Welch)
mwelch@redwoodalliance.org
Renewable Energy Long Island (RELI)
(Gordian Raacke)
Gordian@RenewableEnergyLongIsland.org
RENEW Wisconsin
(Michael Vickerman, Executive Director) mvickerman@renewwisconsin.org
San Luis Sustainability Group Architects
(Ken Haggard)
slosg@slonet.org
Solar Energy International (SEI)
(Johnny Weiss, Executive Director)
johnny@solarenergy.org
The Stella Group, Ltd.
(Scott Sklar, President)
solarsklar@aol.com
SustainableBusiness.com,
(Rona Fried)
rona@sustainablebusiness.com
Sustainable Energy and Economic Development (SEED) Coalition (Karen Hadden, Executive Director) karen@seedcoalition.org
Vermont Energy Investment Corporation
(Beth Sachs)
BSachs@veic.org
Voices Opposed To Environmental Racism
(Donald Keesing)
donaldk@nirs.org
The Vote Solar Initiative
(David Hochschild)
david@votesolar.org
Windustry
(Lisa Daniels, Executive Director)
lisadaniels@windustry.org
Wisconsin Energy Conservation Corporation
(Janet Brandt, Executive Director)
jbrandt@weccusa.org
Wisconsin Green Building Alliance
(Constance A. Lindholm, Executive Director) connielindholm@wgba.org
Women in Sustainable Energy (WISE)
(Kimberly Peterson)
kimberly_peterson@yahoo.com
