For three years Cape Codders have urged NStar to refrain from spraying herbicides under the power lines because the toxic chemicals will filter into our sole-source aquifer. Who wants to drink water that contains traces of endocrine disruptors? Not I. Perhaps the recent decision to leave the 15 Cape towns off the YOP is evidence the executives at the utility company have been influenced by the outcry?
If you feel encouraged by these two unexpected developments and would like to add your voice to the outcry regarding another issue of critical importance to Cape Cod, join the nuclear safety rally on Sunday, March 11, anniversary of the disaster in Japan. The march starts at 1 pm at Lobster Pound, 252 Manomet Point Road in Plymouth. Should you be unable to come demonstrate but desire to protect Cape Cod from an accident similar to Fukushima all the same, take the time to write your senators after reading the Natural Resources Defense Council press release. Wellfleet is directly opposite Plymouth, and the woman in the above photo could be looking out, thinking of the nuclear reactor on the other side of Cape Cod Bay. The prevailing winds blow from the west. The owners will not close down this forty-year old plant by choice. We must make them, so please sign the NRDC letter. Thanks to movement at Campbell’s soups and possible movement at NStar, I like to think closing down Pilgrim is possible.
Protest of this type is new to me, although I was a member of the generation that stopped the war in Vietnam. Is protest a part of your regular agenda? Do you stand up for what you believe? What's your take on the petitions that are circulated? Do they make a difference?
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Kerry Dexter · 676 weeks ago
as to protest and how it is done -- I think we each have our own callings on what issues move us and where to put our energy. it's good to choose such actions by committment *to* something, as you do here, Alexandra, rather than just anger. anger might start the fire, but connection and reason and justice and hope must sustain it.
off my soap box on that now...
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Jane Boursaw · 676 weeks ago
I do stand up for things I believe in, but my time and energy is fairly limited, so they have to be something I *really believe in for me to carve out time for it. But I also think we can make small changes in our lives that ultimately result in standing up for what we believe in a small way. And if our children also glom onto that and take it into *their lives, then it has a snowball effect.
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