Winds of Change Newsletter, February 2006     See sidebar for table of contents

OVEC’s Annual Meeting and Spaghetti Dinner Fund-Raiser

5 p.m. April 22, St. Cloud Commons, 17th St. W., Huntington, WV
$5 suggested donation, but all are welcome

Bring your appetite and join us April 22 for a family-friendly evening of great food, entertainment, and camaraderie. It’s OVEC’s annual meeting and spaghetti dinner fund-raiser!

Meet other OVEC members, tell us what is on your mind, nominate someone – or yourself – for the OVEC board and help us recognize our outstanding volunteers. And, enjoy some authentic Italian cuisine prepared by Eric Fout.

We’ll have live music, activities for the kids and a virtual flyover of mountaintop removal sites – for those who are up for viewing the devastation on what will otherwise be a fun spring evening.

If you can, please bring a dessert to share. Mark Your Calendar – Save the Date – Join Us!

They Say Nuke Like It’s a Good Thing

According to the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, the Bush administration plans to announce a $250 million initiative to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, a first step toward reversing a 1970s policy that rejected reprocessing as too dangerous to pursue.

That’s part of Bush’s effort to jump-start the nuclear-power industry. Under the plan, the US would take spent radioactive fuel from foreign countries and use a new process to reprocess it here.

The Bush proposal, tentatively called the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, would give U.S. vendors, such as General Electric Co., opportunities to sell nuclear-power reactors and nuclear fuel to developing nations.

Thomas B. Cochran, a nuclear physicist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, called the new reprocessing technology “uneconomical, unreliable, unsafe and unworkable.”