Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 02:18:31 +0200 (MET DST)
From: rolf.martens-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se (Rolf Martens)
Subject: M-G: Committee Save Barsebaeck: Street meeting in Malmoe 07.06


Committee Save Barseb=E4ck: Street meeting in Malm=F6 07.06
[Posted: 08.06.97]

Yesterday we, half a dozen members of the Committee
Save Barseb=E4ck, held a street meeting in central Malm=F6
here in southern Sweden in anticipation of the Swedish
Riksdag's (parliament's) decision next Tuesday 10.06
on the government's proposal concerning energy, which
among other things contains the - rabid and still
flagrantly illegal - suggestion that the nuclear power
plant at Barseb=E4ck not far from here be closed down and
destroyed beginning next year.

We disseminated to passers-by leaflets which had also
served as posters and as a press release and whose text
is reproduced in translation under subject: "Committee
Save Barseb=E4ck: Leaflet in Malm=F6 07.06", and orally,
through me, stated:


"This is the Committee Save Barseb=E4ck calling on you
who're passing by to make your voices heard. It's
needed that ordinary people take action.

Protest against the government's plans to shut off 6%
of all electricity in Sweden!

If the Barseb=E4ck plant is closed down, this would mean
that between 40 and 60 billion [SKR - some 5-7bn USD]
would just be thrown straight into the lake. People in
general would have to pay that of course. It would
mean that the best and most environmental-friendly sort
of power plants would be closed down. Thousands of jobs
would be threatened, directly and above all indirectly.

So we say:

Save Barseb=E4ck!


We're holding a street meeting because Tuesday, the
10, will be a risk-day. This is not the only risk-day
there's going to be this year for electricity in Scania
[the southern province] and in Sweden as a whole, but
it's one of them.

This is because on Tuesday, the Riksdag is to make ONE
decision on Barseb=E4ck. It's concerning the government's
proposal on energy. In it, it's stated that they want to
close the plant down, beginning next year.

If the Riksdag says "yes", which there's a great risk
it will do, this would not only be a mad decision and
dircetly opposed to what a large majority of people in
this country want. It would be illegal too.

We say:

Save Barseb=E4ck!


The plans to close the Barsb=E4ck plant down is something
that concerns everybody. It's needed that people in
general act against them!

We probably don't need to go into how mad these plans
are. Most people already know this.

Help us arrange a big demonstration in the autumn
against a closure of Barseb=E4ck!

Ask your trade union and other organizations you're
members of to protest! Disseminate our posters and
stickers!

We're an independent committee which is trying to
represent what is in the interest of most people in
this matter. We have no connection to nuclear power in
any way or to any party.

We're a small committee too, and cannot achieve all that
much just by our own force. We want to co-operate with
others in favour of what is in the interest of almost
everybody in this matter.

If the Riksdag does say "yes" on Tuesday, then probably
some mass media are going to say that now this question
is settled. But that it will not be, not by a long
stretch.

If the politicians today really want to shut the plant
down, then the Riksdag will have to make another
decision, which will be in the autumn. A new risk-day
at some point, then. The government intends to put
forward a proposal for a new law which would give them
the right to do what they want with Barseb=E4ck. But that
law would be in contravention of the constitution, and
of the European Convention as well.

So the question of Barseb=E4ck by no means is settled and
will not be so for a long while yet.

We say:

Save Barseb=E4ck!

It's needed that ordinary people take action."

[So far the street meeting yesterday in Malm=F6, Sweden]




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