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BREDL Executive Director Janet Marsh stands next to BREDL's mock nuclear
waste cask.
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BREDL Nuclear Campaign
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Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery Rallies
Environmental Justice Campaigners in Georgia
 Dr. Joseph E. Lowery |
Jan. 7, 2012: Today at a church within view of Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle nuclear power plant, civil rights veteran Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery spoke about the issues currently affecting the people this region. In attendance were many local residents from the rural Shell Bluff community in Burke County and many people from the Atlanta area who arrived in a bus chartered by Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions.
More Details: Concerned Citizens of Shell Bluff/BREDL Press Release | Event Flyer
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BREDL comments on Seismic Risk Evaluations
for Operating Reactors
Oct. 31, 2011: The glacial pace of the NRC’s safety and security procedures appears to be wholly unresponsive to reality, which threatens to undermine both the agency’s authority and the safety of the plants it licenses. During the last three years we have seen both nuclear and financial meltdowns. Heedless of events, the NRC continues to gamble with sub-prime safety codes and horizontal acceleration default swaps.
Read BREDL's Comments
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BREDL comments to Blue Ribbon Commission
on America’s Nuclear Future
Oct. 31, 2011: The Blue Ribbon Commission must include steps to avoid disproportionate, adverse environmental impacts on low income and minority populations and impacts on important religious, subsistence, or social practices. Finally, it should address the question of ending the production of dangerous materials which cannot safely be disposed.
Read BREDL's Comments
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Virginia Supreme Court Hears North Anna Case
Oct. 31, 2011: Today the Virginia Supreme Court will hold oral arguments on Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League’s appeal of an environmental permit for Dominion-Virginia Power’s North Anna nuclear power station.
The case centers on a Clean Water Act permit for the North Anna nuclear power station. The Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League first challenged the permit in 2008 and won; the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond concluded that the State Water Control Board’s NPDES wastewater permit for the North Anna electric power plant was “not in accordance with the law.” However, Dominion-Virginia Power and the state Department of Environmental Quality obtained a reversal in the Court of Appeals. Early this year the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League was granted the right to take its case to the state Supreme Court.
View BREDL Press Advisory
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BREDL’s Reply to Dominion Virginia Power and NRC
regarding the Virginia earthquake’s impacts
Oct. 20, 2011: Shirking and sharking, in all their many varieties, have been sown broadcast by the ill-fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil, have been insensibly tempted into a loose way of letting bad things alone to take their own bad course, and a loose belief that if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
Read BREDL's Reply
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NRC Petition Review Board's public meeting
on GE Mark I reactors
Oct. 7, 2011: The NRC Petition Review Board's public meeting on GE Mark I
reactors was held today. The testimony by the nine
presenters opposed the continued operation of the nuclear plants
in the US similar to those that devastated Fukushima, Japan. Blue
Ridge Environmental Defense League’s testimony centering on
TVA’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant.
Read our written testimony.
NRC provided this opportunity to take comments from
co-petitioners to the April 13, 2011 emergency enforcement
petition brought by Beyond Nuclear, a leading national
organization on nuclear power issues. You can read their original
petition at: http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2011/6/11/support-the-beyond-nuclear-petition-to-nrc-to-suspend-operat.html
Today’s speakers’ roster:
Paul Gunter (Beyond Nuclear)
Kevin Kamps (Beyond Nuclear)
Dale Bridenbaugh (former GE engineer and MHB Associates)
Arnie Gunderson (Fairewinds Associates)
Deb Katz (Citizens Awareness Network)
Lou Zeller (Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League)
Randy Kehler (Safe & Green Campaign)
Michael Mariotte (Nuclear Information and Resource Service)
Bobbie Paul (Georgia WAND)
Following today’s meeting, the NRC’s Petition Review
Board may take up to 6 weeks to submit its final decision to the
NRC Executive Director of Operations for the Director's Decision.
The meeting was recorded and will be available to view at the NRC
Webcast Portal at www.nrc.gov
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Historic and potential flooding at
proposed uranium mine
and mill site Coles Hill, Pittsylvania County, Virginia
Sept. 26, 2011: This report indicates that any uranium mill
tailings storage operation in Coles Hill, Virginia would create
high risk of chronic and/or catastrophic release of radioactive
contamination into the aquatic environment.
Read BREDL Press Release
Download BREDL Report with Attachments
Download BREDL Report without Attachments
Download Report Attachments:
Attachment
A – FEMA flood zones and historic flood events at Coles
Hill
Attachment
B – Flood of November 11 & 12, 2009 - Coles Hill, VA
Attachment
C – spring and wetlands at Coles Hill
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