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48 ORGANIZATIONS REFUTE PRESIDENT BUSH'S CLAIM THAT NUCLEAR POWER IS A "RENEWABLE SOURCE OF ENERGY" For Release: January 26, 2005 Contact: Ken Bossong 202-293-2898, x.201; 301-588-4741 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) 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 Next