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Pat Marida action alert re: HB 104 in Ohio
December 21, 2020 Action alert from Patricia Marida of the Ohio Sierra Club Nuclear-Free Committee:
SOS, tell Ohio senators NO on HB 104, the radioactive taxpayer giveaway. Ohio Senate Energy & Public Utilities Committee meets Tues with ONLY HB 104 on the agenda
HB 104 is the only item on the Senate Energy and Public Utilities Committee agenda for tomorrow. They aren’t taking testimony. This is the ONLY committee meeting on that day. It was not voted on at their meeting last week, the politics of why I am not sure. I was not expecting this today. I don’t think the chair would hold this extra meeting if the votes were not there to pass it.
So it is important to contact ALL the senators with your message. You can copy them all in one email. Their addresses and talking are points below.
mccolley@ohiosenate.gov; Gavarone@ohiosenate.gov: maharath@ohiosenate.gov; coley@ohiosenate.gov; huffman@ohiosenate.gov; lehner@ohiosenate.gov; wilson@ohiosenate.gov; blessing@ohiosenate.gov; thomas@ohiosenate.gov; hackett@ohiosenate.gov; fedor@ohiosenate.gov; huffman@ohiosenate.gov; manning@ohiosenate.gov; johnson@ohiosenate.gov; craig@ohiosenate.gov; kunze@ohiosenate.gov; Peterson@ohiosenate.gov; eklund@ohiosenate.gov; brenner@ohiosenate.gov; schaffer@ohiosenate.gov; williams@ohiosenate.gov; obhof@ohiosenate.gov; antonio@ohiosenate.gov; dolan@ohiosenate.gov; yuko@ohiosenate.gov; burke@ohiosenate.gov; roegner@ohiosenate.gov; sykes@ohiosenate.gov; schuring@ohiosenate.gov; hoagland@ohiosenate.gov; hottinger@ohiosenate.gov; obrien@ohiosenate.gov; rulli@ohiosenate.gov
HOUSE BILL 104 In 10 pages reduced from 34, House Bill 104 lays out obligations for the state that include:
- creating a new government agency, an Ohio Nuclear Development Authority that would be answerable to no one, not even the governor;
- creating a new state lending authority;
- allowing for eminent domain;
- allowing Ohio to take ownership of radioactive waste from Davis-Besse and Perry for the purpose of recycling it. Reprocessing has been a disaster everywhere in the world where it has been tried, and could create billions in liability for Ohio if radioactive contamination spreads by leaks or accidents.
The bill benefits one organization, and that is eGeneration, a small thorium-promoting company near Cleveland.
THANKS VERY MUCH!
Pat