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Environmental activist pushes nuclear energy By Cathy Martin THE DAILY CARDINAL
Self-proclaimed “sensible environmentalist” Patrick Moore opened the UW Energy Hub Conference Friday by advocating nuclear energy, calling it the most effective way of reducing carbon emissions and consumption of fossil fuels. Although he was a founding member of Greenpeace, Moore left the organization, feeling his colleagues created policies based on sensation rather than science. He is now a co-chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, a pro-nuclear energy association. “Nuclear energy is one of the most important, beneficial energy technologies for the future of this world, and we need to go down that road,” Moore said. With a nuclear moratorium up for repeal in Wisconsin in January 2009, Moore said the state government needs to remove
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“the barrier to nuclear energy which has been erected here.” Moore used France as an example of the potential success of a nuclear-energy industry. “Nuclear energy is one of the most important, beneficial energy technologies for the future of this world.” Patrick Moore co-chair Clean and Safe Energy Coalition
“France produces 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power. [It is] clean, cost-effective and safe,” Moore said. He said wind and solar power are unrealistic long-term solutions, as they are expensive and unreliable. “You cannot run hospitals … moore page 3
Lawton outlines state’s goals to promote renewable energy Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton spoke about Wisconsin’s role in preserving the environment and growing the renewable energy industry Friday at the UW Energy Hub Conference. As a keynote speaker, Lawton said Wisconsin has a collective set of moral principals toward the environment and a history of environmental protection, citing former Wisconsin Gov. Gaylord Nelson,
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who founded Earth Day, and John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club. She said the state is taking several steps toward renewable energy, including research and new innovative practices. According to Lawton, Wisconsin is one of the United States’ leading ethanol producers and leads the country in production of lawton page 3
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Participants in traditional Native American garb join in the Honoring Our Veterans Pow-Wow at Memorial Union Sunday. Wunk Sheek, the UW-Madison Native American student organization, organized the event.
County 911 center admits errors in handling calls before homicide By Abby Sears THE DAILY CARDINAL
In a report released Friday, Dane County officials acknowledged that errors occurred at the 911 Center when handling calls before a Nov. 3 death, the second time this year the center committed a fault related to a Madison homicide. The investigative report from Dane County Public Safety Communications said the 911 Center made three errors before Mark Gregory Johnson, 37, was found dead in Lake Edge Park on Madison’s east side last week. The center failed to dispatch police after receiving two calls about a noise disturbance in the park that led to a fight and
Johnson being beaten to death. The 911 Center also came under fire after the April 2 homicide of UW-Madison junior Brittany Zimmermann, when then-911 Center Director Joe Norwick admitted that a dispatcher made an error by not returning a call made from Zimmermann’s cell phone or sending police FALK the day of her death. In a memo sent to Public Safety Communications Center Interim Director Kathy Krusiec, Dane County Executive Kathleen
Falk said one of the biggest issues facing the 911 Center is properly dispatching the 85 police, fire and medical emergency services throughout the county. “I am concerned that communicators’ need to continually weigh these different rules sometimes hinders their ability to make ... timely decisions.” Kathleen Falk county executive Dane County
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SigEp members bike to Indiana to raise money for hospital By Alyssa Connolly THE DAILY CARDINAL
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Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton spoke about Wisconsin’s role in the emerging renewable-energy economy at the UW Energy Hub Conference Friday.
Members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity biked 412 miles to Bloomington, Ind., this weekend to raise money for the American Family Children’s Hospital in their 17th annual Tour de Touchdown. Bikers carried a replica of the football used in Saturday’s game against Indiana University on the trip. Badger football head coach Bret Bielema signed the replica before the fraternity left. “The bikers [had] the ball in a backpack and they [biked]
relay-style with a car following them,” said Mike MacKay, cochair of Tour de Touchdown. Other members of the fraternity showed their support for the bikers by joining them in Bloomington for the football game. “More than 30 SigEps went down on Friday to hang out with the Indiana SigEp chapter, and then we went to the game with them the next day,” MacKay said. The bikers rode to south Beloit, Wis., Wednesday and continued the journey the next
day. The bikers traveled around Chicago to Lafayette, Ind., where seven additional bikers joined the group to finish the ride into Bloomington. Will Dorsch, a fraternity member and biker, trained with other bikers by running and biking two weeks prior to the trip. He said the fraternity had an “incredibly successful journey.” Sigma Phi Epsilon held a kickoff barbeque Wednesday before the trip, where several children from the Children’s sigep page 3
“…the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting and winnowing by which alone the truth can be found.”