People’s Alliance for Clean Energy (PACE) is a locally-based, regionally-focused non-profit organization promoting sustainable and environmentally friendly energy for Central Virginia. PACE endorses and promotes conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy as central to a program to help the economy grow, to make America safer, and to protect the environment.
PACE was formed in 2002 following Dominion’s proposal to build two more nuclear power plants at Lake Anna in Louisa County. With the support of and in coordination with Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL), Sierra Club, Public Citizen, and others, PACE has intervened in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s processes as well as local and state venues to promote clean, safe, and economical alternatives to the massively toxic and expensive nukes.
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YES! CONSERVATION
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YES! ENERGY EFFICIENCY
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YES! RENEWABLE ENERGY
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NO NEW COAL PLANTS!
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NO NEW NUKES!
- Proliferation of nuclear arms
- Accumulation of radioactive wastes
- Up-front carbon dumping in construction
- Long lead time
- Uneconomical
- No storage for existing, much less future waste
- Current water conditions at Lake Anna already in violation of the US Clean Water Act
- Radioactive and chemical pollution by the mining and milling process
- CFC production and excessive energy consumption by the enrichment process
- Security issues, terrorist target
- Routine releases of carcinogenic and mutagenic gases into the air and tritium into the waste
Support PACE with contributions of your time and enthusiasm (help with one project or attend a meeting) or money for education, legal interventions, research, etc…<>
