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The Free Lance-StarArrests made in nuclear protests
Protest at Lake Anna ends with six arrests
Date published: 8/8/2008
BY ELLEN BILTZ AND RUSTY DENNEN
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The protest, which the group said was a peaceful sit-in at the station's visitors center, ended in six arrests by the Louisa County Sheriff's Office, Olson said.
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Nuclear Watch South, along with groups Blue Ridge Earth First and Rising Tide North America participated in the protest in an attempt to send the message of awareness about the effects nuclear power can have on society, including waste production and increased water temperature, Olson said.
She added that the protest is timely because of Dominion's intention to add a new nuclear reactor at the power station.
"Building new nuclear power reactors is the wrong idea," she said. "We wanted to make that point."
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Read more:
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2008/082008/08082008/401246
It's good to see people becoming more active on this issue.
One of the protestors wrote on his blog:
“You’ve done this twice before, I have problems also with Dominion’s nuclear stuff, but why do you have to break the rules?” the magistrate from Orange County was angry, referring to my two prior US trespassing offenses at the Exelon Headquarters outside of Chicago and Vermont Yankee reactor complex.
“This is not the only thing I do to try to stop this reactor. I am a Dominion stock holder, I go to every shareholders meeting and talk with senior management about the problems with this proposal. I write letters to the editor, I lobby the county supervisors, I work with organizations which lobby in Washington…”
“Good, so why do you have to break the rules?” He interrupts exasperated.
“Because these things are not effective enough. It is like Martin Luther King fighting for civil rights.”
more:
http://butthedevil.blogspot.com/2008/08/breaking-daddy-out-of-jail.html
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