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Our Tax and Budget Choices, Including Subsidies, Can president’s message Honoring Our Founder: David cies and tax breaks are deeply embedded in the belief that we have to live within our means. The cover story Brower’s Centennial Year on the Earth Budget, as well as updates on our trade “Thank God for Dave Brower; he makes it so work describe some of our activities to promote broad easy for the rest of us to be reasonable.” based reforms to tax, budget and trade policy. - Russell Train, EPA Administrator under President Nixon. We are also continuing our fight against genetically As an environmental studies major at Western Michi- modified organisms being introduced into the envi- gan University, I had as part of my curriculum the as- ronment. Brower once said, “It is absolutely impera- signment of reading John McPhee’s book “Encounters tive that we protect, preserve and pass on this genetic with the Archdruid.” “Encounters” is a series of nar- heritage for man and every other living thing in as ratives first written for the New Yorker Magazine that good a condition as we received it.” The story on our places David Brower in Glenn Canyon, Glacier Peak efforts to stop the introduction of genetically engi- Wilderness and Cumberland Island neered mosquitoes describes how we with three men seeking to dam, mine are working to preserve this heritage. and develop the locations. “Encoun- You will read about our campaign ters” is on my annual reading list efforts to shut down the San Onofre because of the clarity of vision and nuclear reactors in California. Brower strength of conviction Brower dem- made opposing the construction of onstrates throughout his dialogues nuclear reactors a major campaign ef- with his opponents. fort for Friends of the Earth, and more Brower’s environmental activism than 40 years later we continue to lead and leadership helped create a na- the environmental community in the tional and global movement. As the fight against dangerous nuclear power. first executive director of the Sierra In many ways, David Brower’s Club, he helped to propel the Sierra centennial celebration is less about Club to national prominence. After Brower himself, and more about the the Sierra Club, he founded Friends living legacy that is the green fire fu- of the Earth in the United States, eling environmental activism in the which became the seed in the cre- United States and beyond. Brower once said, “We are ation of the Friends of the Earth International network, to hold fast to what we believe is right, fight for it, and which is now the world’s largest grassroots federa- find allies and adduce all possible arguments for our tion of environmental organizations with groups in 76 cause. If we cannot find enough vigor in us or them countries. He also founded the Earth Island Institute to win, then let someone else produce the compromise. and nurtured the creation of the League of Conser- We thereupon work hard to coax it our way. We be- vation Voters. Brower was the key incubator of the come a nucleus around which the strongest force can modern environmental movement here and abroad. build and function.” We need to more fully embrace His thinking and vision resonates today at Friends his vision, his tenacity and uncompromising nature of the Earth. Brower once said, “… to fail to conserve as we battle to protect our planet for the children and is grand larceny, grand larceny against children. Eco- environment to come. nomic growth as presently practiced is stealing from Sincerely, children, in a sophisticated way.” The impact of eco- nomic growth on the environment has gotten worse. Our efforts to reform or eliminate the root economic Erich drivers of environmental destruction such as trade poli- 2 Friends of the Earth Newsmagazine Summer 2012 Newsmagazine Volume 42, Number 2, Summer 2012 www.foe.org President’s message …………………………. 2 Declaration of support for the End Polluter Ecobites ……………………………………………. 3 Welfare Act .……………………………………. 10 California nukes on shaky ground ………. 4 Victory for cleaner cruise ships ………... 12 Cover story: Earth Budget …………………. 6 GE mosquitoes in the Keys ………………. 13 Injustice in La Oroya ………………………… 14 ecobites Honoring David Brower: Our new space in California Our California office recently relocated to the David Brower Center in Berkeley, a fitting move to mark the centennial of Friends of the Earth founder David Brower’s birth in July of this year. We’re excited to work alongside dozens of other groups working for environmental and social justice issues in this green, LEED Platinum mixed-use space. Also home to its own gallery space, the Cen- ter is currently hosting a memorial exhibition called Thinking Like a River: Art, The lobby of the Brower Center. Advocacy, and the Legacy of David Brower. For more information on the space Photo credit: Tim Griffith. and upcoming events, visit the Brower Center website at www.browercenter.org. Fighting against the Keystone XL rubber stamp We delivered more than 117,000 signatures from Friends of the Earth and CREDO Action activists to the Environmental Protection Agency the day after the Army Corps of Engineers rubber-stamped TransCanada’s federal permit application to build the Keystone XL pipeline’s southernmost section through Oklahoma and Texas. In solidarity with activists taking part in public hearings and protests around the country, we demanded EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Dirty Fuels Campaigner Kim Huynh and intervene to call for a thorough environmental review of the pipeline. Read the activists protest in front of the EPA. blog post and media coverage at www.foe.org/fast-tracking-keystone-xl. Stopping Shell’s plans to drill the Arctic We partnered with Oceana, the Center for Biological Diversity, Ocean Conservancy, and Alaska Wilderness League and gathered more than 18,500 signatures from our activists alone to stop Royal Dutch Shell from drill- ing and potentially destroying the Arctic Ocean as early as this summer. The remote location and icy conditions would make containing disastrous spills even harder, endangering a delicate, endangered ecosystem that’s home to several communities who depend solely on the ocean for survival. Read the blog post and sign the petition at www.foe.org/arctic-drilling. Summer 2012 Friends of the Earth Newsmagazine 3 nuclear California nukes on shaky ground: The impacts of both the Fukushima accident and The four-decade long campaign to stop the radioactive leak at San Onofre have galvanized San Onofre and secure California’s community members into speaking out. “Supporters of nuclear power are dwindling because people are paying renewable energy future attention and they do not like that Edison is putting their health, safety and property at such a perilous By Damon Moglen and Kendra Ulrich risk,” said Patti Davis, who lives a few miles from the reactors. “So many local folks were clueless about San Ask a surfer, beachcomber or community member Onofre. Now, thanks to the outreach of groups like San in San Clemente what the area was like 40 years ago Clemente Green, San Onofre Safety, ROSE, Friends and they might not remember a time when the San of the Earth and others, people can tell you all about Onofre nuclear plant didn’t loom over the otherwise [the problems with] nuclear reactors.” scenic beach. Yet even then, in the 1970s, Friends of the Earth was fighting the nuclear industry in South- Despite widespread concerns, Edison announced a ern California, raising concerns around building a plan in March to restart the reactors as early as June. nuclear plant in the middle of earthquake fault zones. We jumped into action, generating nearly 4,000 let- Today, with more than 8.3 million people living within ters from our online activists in California to Senators 50 miles and millions more within radioactive fallout Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) and Dianne Feinstein (D- range, the consequences of an accident would be even Calif.), asking them to use their oversight authority greater. with the Nuclear Regulatory Committee to ensure that the reactors remain shut down. Back then, we intervened to try and stop the con- struction of the two reactors because of earthquake Our pressure campaign soon paid off. The accident risks. Later, in the 80s and 90s, we rallied against the and uncertainty surrounding the safety of bringing plant’s radioactive and thermal discharges and their the plant back online prompted a wider investigation. impact on Pacific marine life. Fast forward to the pres- Friends of the Earth commissioned Fairewinds, a ent: Friends of the Earth has led an intensive campaign nuclear engineering consulting firm, to write three over the past six months to keep San Onofre shut reports that remain the only publicly available techni- down after an accident in January. cal documentation on the steam generator problems Earlier this year, the two nuclear reactors at San at San Onofre. Onofre went offline after a burst pipe leaked radia- One of the reports demonstrated how major de- tion from one of the steam generators located inside sign changes in the replacement generators installed the reactor building. These steam generators are used between 2009 and 2010, including the addition of to circulate highly pressurized water from the reactor hundreds of extra tubes inside the generators, likely core, which in turn produces steam that powers the caused severe wear on the steel tubes. Wear and tear electrical turbine. that should have resulted only after decades of use Just as we had in the past, we reached out to local occurred in less than two years. We shared the reports citizens groups and others to work together to ensure with the NRC, Sens. Boxer and Feinstein and made safety at the plant.
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