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WASHINGTON -- January 26 -- 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 ###
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