November 22, 2000
To: The U.S. Delegation to the COP6 Climate Change Negotiations
The Hague, Netherlands
The following environmental, consumer, religious and other organizations are writing to support your new recognition of the problems of nuclear power. As David Sandalow of your delegation has said repeatedly, "safety, waste disposal, non-proliferation, costs and public acceptance" are all serious problems.
While recognizing the problems, however, the U.S. delegation has not yet addressed them. We believe it is time for the U.S. to take the lead and to support—and even propose—the explicit exclusion of nuclear power from the Clean Development Mechanism, from Joint Implementation provisions, and from every part of the Kyoto Protocol.
Nuclear power, for the reasons stated by Mr. Sandalow and because the nuclear fuel chain produces both greenhouse gas and radioactive emissions, is not suitable as a means of addressing climate change.
We believe global warming is a serious issue that requires a concerted international effort to address. For that reason, we are hopeful that the COP6 negotiations will produce implementation mechanisms for the Kyoto Protocol that are strong and will effectively reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
However, we also believe that it would make no sense to trade one environmental disaster for another. Therefore, we would be unable to support ratification of the Kyoto Protocol if it supports nuclear power. We believe our colleagues in many other countries would hold this position as well.
We ask you then to do everything in your power to ensure that nuclear power is excluded from the Kyoto Protocol.
Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Washington, DC
Gene Karpinski
Executive Director
U.S. Public Interest Research Group
Washington, DC
John Passacantando
Executive Director
Greenpeace US
Washington, DC
Francis MacGuire
Friends of the Earth International
Wenonah Hauter
Executive Director
Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy & Environment Program
Washington, DC
Susan Shaer, Executive Director
Women's Action for New Directions
691 Massachusetts Ave.
Arlington, MA 02476
Craig Butler
Executive Director
Fund for New Priorities in America
171 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Ed Smeloff
Executive Director
Pace Law School Energy Project
White Plains, NY
Kyle Rabin
Nuclear Energy Policy Project Director
Air & Energy Program Associate
Environmental Advocates
353 Hamilton Street
Albany, NY 12210
Bonnie Raitt
Artistic Resources In Action Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
David N. Pyles
New England Pollution on Nuclear Pollution
P. O. Box 545
Brattleboro, VT 05302-0545
Debby Katz
Executive Director
Citizens Awareness Network
Shelburne Falls, MA
Kalynda Tilges
Nuclear Issues Coordinator
Citizen Alert - Las Vegas
P.O. Box 17173
Las Vegas, NV 89114
Dr. James A. Boland
Director
Peace Resource Center
Wilmington, OH
Tom Marshall
Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice Center
P.O. Box 1156, Boulder, CO 80306
Barbara Wiedner
Director
Grandmothers for Peace International
Elk Grove, CA
Harvey Wasserman
Citizens Protecting Ohio
735 Euclaire Ave.
Bexley, OH 43209
Bernice Kring
Citizens Along the Roads and Tracks (CART)
Sacramento, CA
Laura Kathryn Dvorak
Students for the Environment
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware
Jim Warren
NC WARN
Waste Awareness and Reduction Network
PO Box 61051
Durham, NC 27715-1051
Marylia Kelley
Tri-Valley CAREs
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment)
2582 Old First Street
Livermore, CA 94550
Tom Seery
Julie Enslow
Peace Action Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI
Lorraine Krofchok
Grandmothers for Peace International, Sacramento Chapter
Sacramento, CA
Deborah Bors
Alternative Press Center
Baltimore, MD
Ann Harris
We The People
305 Pickel Road
Ten Mile, TN 37880
George Crocker
Executive Director
North American Water Office
P O Box 174
Lake Elmo MN 55042
Bruce A Drew, Steering Committee
Prairie Island Coalition
4425 Abbott Avenue South
Minneapolis MN 55410-1444
Glenn Carroll
Coordinator
GANE - Georgians Against Nuclear Energy
Atlanta, GA
Lloyd Marbet, Director
Don't Waste Oregon Caucus
Portland, OR
Barbara Hickernell
Alliance to Close Indian Point
Box 669
Ossining, NY 10562
Michaelann Bewsee
Arise for Social Justice
718 State St., rear
Springfield, MA 01109
Jonathan Mark
Post Cassini Flyby News
P.O. Box 1999
Wendell Depot, MA 01380
Bob Darby
Food Not Bombs
Atlanta, GA
Sandra Gavutis
Executive Director
C-10 Research and Education Foundation, Inc.
44 Merrimac Street, Newburyport, MA 01950
Rita Kilpatrick
Executive Director
Georgians for Clean Energy
427 Moreland Avenue, NE, Suite 100
Atlanta, GA 30307
Chris Williams
Executive Director.
Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana
5420 N. College Ave., Suite 100
Indianapolis, IN 46220
Jean Grossholtz
People Against Corporate Takeover
10 Jewett Lane
South Hadley, MA 01075
Dee Berry
Darla Duggan
Greater Kansas City Green Party
Kansas City, Missouri
Robert C. Anderson
Peace Video Project / Kalamazoo Area Coalition For Peace & Justice
3819 Devonsire Ave
Kalamazoo, MI 49006-2703
Fred Elmer
Green Technology Committee,
Atlantic Chapter, Sierra Club
Ithaca, NY 14850
Dr. Charles Mercieca, President
International Association of Educators for World Peace
NGO, United Nations (ECOSOC), UNDPI, UNICEF, UNCED & UNESCO
P.O. Box 3282, Mastin Lake Station
Huntsville, AL 35810-0282
Jan Provost-Chairman
Northland Chapter of Grandmothers for Peace
2614 North 22nd St.
Superior, WI 54880
Liane Casten
Chair
Chicago Media Watch
Chicago, IL
Chuck Johnson
Director
Center for Energy Research
5031 SE Haig St.
Portland, OR 97206
Buffalo Bruce
Board Chair
Western Nebraska Resources Council
Chadron, NE
Mr. Bernie Lindberg, Chair
Mankato Area Environmentalists
310 Cherry Street
Mankato, MN 56001
Dave Kraft
Nuclear Energy Information Service
P.O. Box 1637
Evanston, IL 60204-1637
Daianna Rincones
Students for Ecological and Environmental Development
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL
Frank C. Subjeck
Acting Director
Airwaterearth, Org.
Lake Havasu City, AZ
Susi Snyder
Shundahai Network
PO Box 6360
Pahrump, NV 89041
Michael J Keegan
Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes (CNFGL)
P. O. Box 331
Monroe, MI
Corrine Carey
Don't Waste Michigan (DWM)
Grand Rapids, MI
Keith Gunter
Citizens' Resistance at Fermi Two (CRAFT)
P. O. Box 463
Monroe, MI
Malgorzata Polak
Co-President
League of Environmental Awareness and Protection
Lake Forest College
555 N. Sheridan Rd.
Lake Forest, IL 60045
Michael Welch, Office Coordinator
Redwood Alliance & REEI
PO Box 293
Arcata, CA 95518
Terry Lodge
Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy
316 N. Michigan St., Ste. 520
Toledo, OH
Kay Cumbow
Citizens For a Healthy Planet
15184 Dudley Road,
Brown City, MI 48416
Laurence T. Beahan
Sierra Club, Niagara Group
5 Darwin Drive
Snyder NY 14226
Susan B. Griffin, Coordinator
Chenango North Energy Awareness Group
345 Center Road
So. Plymouth, New York 13844
Mary Olson
Nuclear Information & Resource Service Southeast
P.O. Box 7586
Asheville, NC 28802
Paige Knight
President
Hanford Watch
Portland, Oregon
Terry R. Miller
Lone Tree Council
4649 David Ct.
Bay City, MI 48706
Elizabeth Forest
Kalamazoo Green Party
8180 s.2nd Str.
Kalamazoo, MI.
S. (Ziggy) Kleinau, Regional Director
Great Lakes United
Buffalo State College, Cassty Hall
1300 Elmwood Ave.
Buffalo, New York, 14222
Kevin Petajan
West Allis Community Media Center
1964 South 86th St.
West Allis, WI 53227
Francis U. Macy
Center for Safe Energy
2828 Cherry Street
Berkeley, CA 94706
Judi Friedman PACE Peopl'es Action for Clean
Energy, 101 Lawton Rd., Canton, CT 06019
Ashley Collins
Environmental Program Associate
Citizen Action/Illinois
28 E. Jackson, Suite 605
Chicago, IL. 60604
Betty Schroeder, Chair
Arizona Safe Energy Coalition
Tucson, AZ 85713
Patricia Birnie, Chair
GE Stockholders' Alliance
Tucson, AZ 85713
Environment Committee
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Philadelphia, PA 19107