The Email from the Clinton Campaign on Yucca

[wyldwolf]

Tonight, Hillary discussed the records of Sens. Obama and Edwards on Yucca mountain:

CLINTON: Well I voted against Yucca Mountain in 2001. I have been consistently against Yucca Mountain. I held a hearing in the environment committee, the first that we've had in some time, looking at all the reasons why Yucca Mountain is not workable. The science does not support it. We do have to figure out what to do with nuclear waste. You know Barack has one of his biggest supporters in terms of funding, the Exelon Corporation, which has spent millions of dollars trying to make yucca mountain the waste depository. John was in favor of it twice when he voted to override President Clinton’s veto and then voted for it again. I have consistently and persistently been against Yucca mountain and I will make sure it does not come into effect when I'm president.

ALL OF HILLARY'S CLAIMS ARE SUPPORTED BY THE FACTS

One of Sen. Obama's biggest donors is the energy giant Exelon:

Exelon is the sixth largest donor to Sen. Obama's presidential campaign and the fourth largest career donor to Obama’s federal campaigns. Exelon employees have donated over $269,100 to his federal campaigns and over$194,750 in 2008.

Exelon's CEO is a key advocate for storing nuclear waste at Yucca:

Exelon CEO John Rowe calls Yucca mountain project ‘linchpin’ to solving waste problem and building new plants. "So what does Exelon Chief Executive Officer John Rowe want? Fortune magazine, in a May 15, 2006, article titled 'Meet Mr. Nuke,' details Rowe's call to solve the waste problem before additional nuclear power plants are built. "We have to be able to look the public in the eye and say, 'If we build a plant, here's where the waste will go,' " Rowe told Fortune. The Yucca Mountain Project is the 'linchpin' to solving the waste problem and building new plants.”

Exelon has spent millions lobbying to open up Yucca mountain:

In 2002, Exelon spent $2,172,000 dollars on lobbying the federal government on issues including 'Yucca Mountain Project Management'

In 2003, Exelon spent $2,864,400 dollars on lobbying the federal government on issues including 'Yucca Mountain Project Management'

In 2004, Exelon spent over $1,000,000 dollars on lobbying the federal government on issues including 'Yucca Mountain Project Management'

In 2005, Exelon spent $1,815,000 dollars on lobbying the federal government on issues including ‘the Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain Project.’

In 2006, Exelon spent $1,329,014 dollars on lobbying the federal government on issues including ‘the Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain Project.’

In 2007, Exelon spent $1,732,321 dollars on lobbying the federal government on issues including the ‘Yucca Mountain National Interest…’

Sen. Edwards voted twice to open-up Yucca mountain to nuclear waste storage:

Sen. Edwards voted for and against Yucca Mountain in 2000; in 2002, he supported Yucca Mountain again. "In February 2000, Edwards voted against a bill calling for nuclear waste storage in Nevada by the year 2007. But after President Clinton vetoed the bill, Edwards changed course and voted to override the veto. In July 2002, Edwards voted for President Bush's designation of Yucca Mountain as the site of a nuclear waste repository."


Supportive links here:
http://facts.hillaryhub.com/

[itsrobert]

1. Thanks, HILLARY PLAYS GOTCHA POLITICS

You are so right. America is tired of that type of crap.

[wyldwolf]

2. I think you forget where this debate was held.

[Evergreen Emerald]

17. the issues are not off limits. What criteria would you use to vote

if you did not use their records?

[durrrty libby]

3. She was very impressive. No doubt about it. One just needs to

look around at the venom on The DU to know how great she was

[Rock_Garden]

4. Libby, you nailed it.

[GalleryGod]

16. Hillary Would be Great: As Chancellor of the Exchequer in the UK.

Here....she'll be a mere technocrat, struggling with Reid & Pelosi, whilst The Hil Whisperer (WJC) offers advice off-stage.

[TheFarseer]

5. It's gotta go somewhere

Where did she want it? Of course she can't be for putting it anywhere because that wouldn't fit into her strategy of pandering to everyone. Where do you think it should be if Senator Edwards is so wrong about this?

[wyldwolf]

6. how 'bout in your neighborhood?

[Tellurian]

9. Good answer!

I did a cursory paper on Yucca Mtn in 98'. The catastrophic effect the heavily toxic waste material is having on children coming down with leukemia is 100x worse than the Love Canal debacle. A map of the area shows the possibility of nuclear waste leaching into the underground water supply north of the mountain trending south into populated areas. The Yucca Mtn area is unfit for human habitation.

Very little ado being made now that Nuclear waste is being transported to played out underground mines between the state line of the Texas panhandle and the New Mexico border. Read the announcement in a Texas newspaper a few years ago. Sad..

[TheFarseer]

12. way to dodge the question n/t

[wyldwolf]

14. way to dodge the answer

[FrenchieCat]

7. Did Obama vote for Yucca?

Guess she can disenfranchise voters, but talk about ethanol....I mean, Yucca Mountain, and it's all good?

Wonder if she's gotten any donations from lobbyist, and what that means? :eyes:

[wyldwolf]

8. Hey Frenchie, I issued you a challenge in one of your bomb throwing threads...

Did you accept it?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4074469&mesg_id=4074799

I had a feeling your 'new attitude' was shallow.

[FrenchieCat]

10. I do the work that I want to do......

and since my threads asking about Hillary's national security credentials are routinely ignored, I'm not sure why I should be working for you.

But thanks! :hi:

[wyldwolf]

11. yes, we know.

[GalleryGod]

18. Nice Sig line. See mine please.

[Maribelle]

13. The difference between Hillary and Obama on the Yucca project is huge.

Hillary requested that the the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hold its first meeting on the Yucca repository once democrats took back congress. Then she went to the meeting and delivered a stinging message against the project, which clearly indicated the project would be scuttled if she was elected president.

Obama sent a letter.

[Tellurian]

15. Obama's letter was probably close to his opine and support of Clean Coal..

The usual: "If new technology can sequester the hydro-carbons in a cost efficient way to satisfactory emission standards.." yada, yada, yada.. If past experience is an indicator of the future. The government has thrown mega millions at the coal industry for the last 100 yrs and hasn't gotten any further than they did at the turn of the 20th century.. Funny, how many congresscritters support this total waste of money as if some miracle is going to make coal the new green fuel.

I'd rather see the money spent turning coal into diamonds. At least we'd have something tangible to look at at the end of it all.

[peoli]

19. POLITICS OF FEAR