Spending billions of dollars to build another nuclear power plant at
Calloway would drain funds that are desperately needed for developing
alternative energy like solar, wind and geothermal. Nuclear power would
shoot up utility bills of low income people who can least afford to pay
them. The theme of the 18th annual Great Green Pesto Feast will be
“Affordable Green Energy or Catastrophic Nukes?”

The event will start at 6:00 pm, Saturday, September 13, 2008 at Grace
United Methodist Church, 6199 Waterman (at Skinker). Pesto Feasts of the
Gateway Green Alliance have become well-known for the wide variety of
vegetarian food, including: Great Green Walnut Pesto, Sharp Lemon Pesto,
Cinnamon Pesto, Vegan Pine Nut Pesto, No Nut Pesto and Tomato Pesto.

Susie Parker is Outreach Coordinator for the Gateway Greens. She will
describe how she was forced out of her home because she could not pay a
$8000 utility bill.

Currently, Missouri residents have some protection due to the 1976
passage of Proposition 1 that prevents power companies from billing
consumers for a plant which is not providing energy (including a nuke
under construction). That effort was coordinated by Kay Drey of Beyond
Nuclear, who is worried by lobbyist efforts to overturn the state law.
Kay Drey will introduce Pesto Feast keynoter Harvey Wasserman, who will
speak on “Stop Energy Price-Gouging by Winning a Green-Powered Earth.”

Harvey Wasserman has written extensively on how nuclear plants create
excess heat in their surrounding ecological niche, increase greenhouse
gases during their fuel cycle, and are too dangerous for private
insurance (they exist by forcing taxpayers to foot the bill for disasters).

He is author of /SOLARTOPIA! Our Green-Powered Earth/ and numerous other
books on energy, the environment, US history and stolen elections. He
has served as senior advisor to Greenpeace USA and edits the
NukeFree.org web site. He teaches history at two colleges in central
Ohio and speaks frequently on energy and the environment.

According to Harvey Wasserman “The phony gas crisis and across-the-board
energy theft bankrupting the nation is the product of a century-old
campaign by big business to monopolize our energy supplies. We have the
green technology to make every household and every business in America
energy self-sufficient. But from the automobile to electric power
generation to agriculture and manufacturing, the major corporations have
denied us green technologies. The time to turn that around is NOW!”