The Green Party of Colorado expresses healing thoughts and sincere wishes to the citizens of Japan for recovery from the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear consequences.
The party also shares our continued, longtime position with the state, nation and world that nuclear power is an unnecessary risk that always has the potential to lead to tragic disaster. The Green Party is the only political party among the top four parties in Colorado that consistently opposes nuclear power, in favor of less risky, more sustainable solutions such as wind and solar power.
The Japan tragedy comes at a time when Colorado is seriously considering new nuclear power generation near Pueblo, and when the national government is contracting for new nuclear power facilities. The Green Party urges our government leaders to change course and end future consideration of nuclear power.
The National Green Party Platform, 2004 version, page 31, states:
“We oppose public subsidies for nuclear power, including Price-Anderson insurance caps, and stranded costs recovery bailouts, the development and use of new nuclear reactors,plutonium (MOX) fuel, nuclear fuel reprocessing , nuclear fusion, uranium enrichment and the manufacturing of new plutonium pits for a new generation of nuclear weapons.”
2010 Colorado Green Senate candidate Bob Kinsey wrote: “The Obama budget is wrong on all these accounts and Pueblo would be wrong in approving a new nuclear power plant in their city(using the subsidies in the Obama budget). Nuclear Power creates un-disposable nuclear waste that is nearly bomb grade fissile material, can be attacked by terrorists creating Chernobyl like disasters, and most simple, is not cost competitive with sustainable and non-polluting energy systems. Colorado Greens should do all they can to convince fellow citizens and local government entities that a a new nuclear power plant in Pueblo, new uranium mining extraction and processing, or as our own Senator Udall has unwisely proposed, the development of ‘Small’ Modular Reactors are irresponsible choices.”
References:
(http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/science/earth/13nuke.html?_r=2&ref=energy-environment<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/science/earth/13nuke.html?_r=2&ref=energy-environment>)
