Hi Tony, I think you were supposed to include the link to the petition. -------------------------------------- Gay Nicholson, Ph.D. President Sustainable Tompkins 309 N. Aurora St. Ithaca, NY 14850 www.sustainabletompkins.org 607-533-7312 (home office) 607-220-8991 (cell) 607-272-1720 (ST office)
g...@sustainabletompkins.org On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Tony Del Plato <tonydelpl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Friends, > > Governor Andrew Cuomo is moving forward with a plan to bail out old, > unprofitable nuclear power plants upstate to the tune of nearly $8 billion. > And he wants New Yorkers to pay for that bailout on their electricity > bills. > > The governor says this move is about preserving jobs and fighting climate > change, but we know better. Our state deserves clean, affordable and > renewable energy. Governor Cuomo’s plan is like subsidizing the > horse-and-buggy industry while Henry Ford is rolling cars off the assembly > line. Nuclear energy is not our future -- it’s dirty, expensive and > dangerous. > > Sign our petition to tell Governor Cuomo we don’t want another expensive > tax on our electricity bills to subsidize a dying nuclear industry. > > [ SIGN THE PETITION ] > > If we don’t act now to stop the Cuomo Tax, billions of dollars from hard > working New Yorkers will go straight to nuclear plant owner Exelon, a > Chicago-based Fortune 100 company with annual revenues over $34 billion. > That’s one of the reasons why more than 50 groups have joined together to > halt this disastrous plan. > > I know we can win this fight and lead New York into a 21st century > renewable future. Our work to defeat the Cuomo Tax starts with this > important petition: > > Add your name to the petition to stop the Cuomo Tax and end the nuclear > bailout. > > Thank you, > > Your Name Here > > [ SIGN THE PETITION ] > > -- > > *“Hope is not the optimism that things will turn out right. Hope is the > soul’s deep orientation to what is right, no matter how things turn out.”** > -Vaclav Havel* > > > For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ If you have questions about this list please contact the list manager, Tom Shelley, at t...@cornell.edu.
