ML19331A685

Requests Permission for Limited Appearance on Behalf of Mi State Chapter of Us Labor Party

ML19331A685
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Issue date:	02/21/1977
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2 U.S. Labor Party P.O. BOX 1972 e NEW YORK. N.Y.10001

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Dear Sir:

co g On behalf of the Michigan state chapter of the U.S. Labor Party, I requestthe right to make a limited appearance in the matter of the Consumers Power Co. (Docket #50-329 and 50-?30).

This request is pursuant to the regulations of the Nuclear Regu la tory Commission Sec. 2.715 l The Michigan chapter of the U.S. Labor Party has fielded candidates for pubile office since 1973, in the general ciection l this past November, the Michigan Labor Party ran a presidential candidate with of ficial ballot status, as well as a senatorial candidate, congressional candidates in every district, and candidates for many state offices. We have numerous members and supporters in the Midland area, and Midland, Michigan is the hometown of our 1976 vice presidential candidate R. Wayne Evans.

As the official state chairman, I maintain that we have an overwhelming interest in the outcome of this hearlag.

Our party has developed an au t ho r i ta t ive political and scientific approach to energy policy. Our work in the energy l

field has included helping to initiate the Fusion Energy Founda t ion , an organization with a significant following in the international scientific community. Our national party organization is presently engaged in lobbying efforts in the Congress and various state legislatures to ' pass legislation to f ac il i ta te expanded energy production.

l It is the Labor Party's contention that a limited appearance

' by party spokesmen is of crucial importance to the affected population in Michigan and to the United States population generally. We have prepared our testimony in consultation with sta f f members of the Fusion Energy Foundation. We respectfully l submit our testimony to be read into the record of this hearing.

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(.' W (i Q Kenneth Dalto f [ Michigan State Chmn.

I U.S. Labor Party

. ~ The Fusion Energy Foundation is submitting this testT[

• without any further delay is vitally necessary More many as an interested party in the decision on whether tol generally, we will demonstrata the conservation delay the construction on the power and steam generat-- argument to be fundamentally a fraudulent one, whose ing nuclear power plants at Midland Michigan.  ! aim is to maneuver courts and regulatory commissions The key issue being argued here is whether the con- into the position of enforcers of profoundly destructive struction of this plant or for that matter any electrical  : l energy policies. which endanger the very existence of the generating plant. Is necessary at this time. The principleJ : United States. .

argument used in favor of a delay in construction and in'... y

• The argument of the intervenors can be simply stated.-.

fact in favor of a cancellation of the prciect by the inter ;.. -

They argue that the Federal Energy Agency and cther venors is that energy conservation policies will eliminate: - x

. regulatory agencies have committed themselves to-the demand for the' power to be produced by the Midlandl .

plant. In the July 1976 decision of Washington D.C.i 3.: policies of energy conservation aimed at decreasing the Circuit Court of Appeals Judge David Bazelon inI. energy utiilzation'per unit of production in industry. In Ju ... addition, they argue that the price of energy, and electri.

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"the alternative of conservati vs."NRC,'on"dge must be considered Bazelon ini ruled

. city that[ will rise very sharply ~ over the next few -

in particular, the construction of the plant, and remanded the matter of.! , years. The combmation ot these governmental policies-and price increasing will therefore lead to a sharply-the Midland permits to the NRC for the present set of reduced rate of energy utilizettien in the nation as a whole ,

hearin ts.

As tnis testimony wl!! demonstrate, the.re can b. . bea.- and in Michigan m partict.lar. or at least a sharply -

soNtely no question that the construction of this plant . reduced rate of energy grow th. Therefore, the in.

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page-2 Anthony'Z. Roisman, Esq.

Natural.Rescu'rces Defense Council-917 - 15th Street , N.W.

- Washington ~, D.C. 20005 Joseph Gallo, Esq.

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.. Isham, Lincoln & Beale 1050 - 17th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20036

, David J. Ross3, Esq.

R. Rex Renfrow, III, Esq.

Isham, Lincoln & Beale One First National Bank Plaza-Chicago, Illinois 60603 Ms. Mary Sinclair

-5711 Summerset Street -

Midland, Michigan 48640 Mr. Steve Gadler, P.E.

2120 Carter Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55108 t

Grace Dow Memorial Library

- 1710 West St. Andrew Road

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. - r' tervenors argue, there is no harm in de cclay or aven; process leads us to exhaust the present day resources cancellation ut the Michigan project. i still more rapidly necessitating the deve!cpment of still-Even in de face of it, this is a highly circulari hi;he- technologies.

argument. The intervenors are anticipating future:

These are the considerations which determine the governmental policies and economic developmants! necessary rate of energy growth. Energy use per unit:

assuming that their--advocated -policy--of-energy l production must continually tend to increase as societyi restriction will be carried oat. Their argament amounts j progresses, since it is this increase which allows forl to no more than the assertion of the truism that if j higher labor productivity and, higher standards of living ;

generation plants are not built energy censumption will- and the necessary more rapid technological innovatices.

not rise - and this therefore justifies de decision not to! Encrzy density is empirically very closely related to build the plants!

• l  ! abor productivity. Given this relationship, and the fore-They Sus argue that if m..y generating capacity is not; going explanation of the necessity to develop new forms added, the price of electricity will rise and the amount l of technology the necessary rate of growth can be .

consumed will not rise. If the government decides to : calculated. .

limit the rate of growth of energy supplies by raising fuel .

It can ha' demonstrated that any attempt *.o either prices, then again the results of such a policy willindeed ! lower the. standard of living, or labor prcductivity or the be the restriction of energy growth. But conversely. if the per unit use of energy, will inevitably lead to a self.

government does not take the advice of the intervenors '

feeding destruction of our society's ability to survive.

and allows the construction of large numbers of new' Dreps in standard of liying leading to declining generating plants and does not impose taxes on fuels. it is productivity and still furder deterioration of con-eq '"Y assured that energy consumption will grow.

sumption, will culminate in a general collapse of the At ments based on future government ::olicy economy and the environment which in our epoch is predictions. predictions which preempt the legislative directly dependent on human intervention for its powers of Congress, cannot possibly lead to any useful- maintenance.

conclusions as the need for additional energy. Is it thenl the case that prediction of energy growth rates are j Calculating Cur Energy Needs purely subjective and can have no rigerous scicatific We can positively state that the immediate con.

basis? Absdutely not. The !cvel of energy growth rate t sequence of the implementation of the energy con-necassary for the survival of the U.S. economy and its servation policy prepcsed by the cited FEA guidalines..

cpulation can u quita accurately calculated. Likewise, would necessarily be a fall in labor productivity and consequences of not achieving such a growth rate can be j standard cfliving.

accurate!y predicted. Second, we can apply thess general principles in ac.

tually calculating the necessary energy growth rate for Basic Principles of Energy Use l the United States as a whole and .'.tichigan in particular.

The principles upon which accurate prediction of! . The energy resources problem is extremely well' (nergy needs are based are not complex. Any population. { known. The world as a whole and the U.S. in particular in order to survive, requires a definable per capita rate now rely predcminantly on oil and natural gas as energy .

of material consumption - so much food c!cthing.' resources. These resources ar'e" limited. If world con. I housing, and so on.This per capita rate of consumption is '

sumption for one year is referred to as W. and U.S.

not arbitrary, nor is it in general equal or anywhere near, energy consumption for one year as U. then world oil and -

the mere physical subsistance level. Instead, it is{ gas reserves amount to only about 60 30 W. and U.S. oil determined by the average level of productive techi and gas reserves amcunt to only abcut 50 U. It is clear' nology in society at a given time. In other words. for ai that a transition to some new energy scurce is necessary

_ given level of technology. a definite type and amount ofl in the coming decades. The problem posed is to exhaust skilled labor is required, and the production of suchi the current energy resources in such a way as to prepare skilled labor in turn requires a definite level of material! for that transition before world oil and gas reserves run I culture. For example, it would be foolish to expect a out. s starving Indian peasant to be able to work productively Over t! e long term, there is only one alternative

• In a modern machinery factory in the U.S. or for that energy so tree that can supply future energy needs peasant's children to obtain the necessary skills for controlled thermonuclear fusion power. Fusion is the:

! similar jobs. unless the standard of material con , ~only source of energy which can be considered essen.'

! sumption of the family as a whole was rcised to some-: tia!!y unlimited for the foreseeable future, with world:

I thing comparable to that of the U.S. worker actually: reserves e f d.aterium, the basic fusion fuel, in ocean:

em played in such skilled machining and related jobs. water havmg an energy content of at least 10 billion W.

Nor is the level of technology as measured by average ~Sotir energy, the only other proposed !cng term;

! abor productivity, arbitrary. The level ;f productivity of' alternative, cannot be seriously considered because it labor, or ;er capita proaction. is most directly related involves a tremendous dmp in energy density throughput to the !evel of per capita, consumption. - i which involves ~a similar tremendous drop in labor i If our society is to survive. It must advance. Anyjiven! productivity.' "- - -

!evel of technology tend,s to exhaust the relatively, finite! In addition, only fusion power can provide the basis for recources available to that techology. The exploitation! processing of raw materials by plasma process (process l of present-day resources ruuires the deve!cpment of: based on the use of extremely high temperature icnized new resources, new technologies. high:r labor producti-: gases). Only such ::!asma processing wi!! =ake possible vities, and thus higher per capita consun:; tion. This the exploitation of low-grade mineral cres. . ores which

fou . ding fathers' right to provide the United States of is the case of Brazil, where energy conservation prac.

.imerica with the Institutions necessary to scientific. tices have !cd to the substitution of primitive agriculture '

industrial. and cultural progress.- , for intensive, energy-rich farming. and the substitution of charcoal for coal in steel manufacture. The result of '

. Yet even more profound would be the cifcets of such this " conservation" has been the destruction of some' zero energy growth " conservation" policies on the global"- -- 100.000 sqare miles of Ama:en and adjacent forest areas.

cavironment. The stagnation or continued centraction of! leading in turn to the creation of a self feed:ng drought.

the U.S. economy and U.S. export capabilities will! cad to . The large-scale changes in global weather circulation.

much more severe contraction of energy resources and' patterns induced by this drought has !cd to the creation of use among developing sector nations dependent mainly: drought condition in the U.S. West and this wintar s on U.S. capital ' goods exports. Conservation practices, severe and energy-costly cold spellin the East and Mid.

West. Such ecological disruption can only be expected to carried have. had out in these devastating countries ecological will, and consequences in fact become which already! more severe as energy flows in the economy. and .

are reflected back on the U.S. The most striking example i ,thus i.: the ecology as a whole, decrease.

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( UNITED STATES OF A:tF.RICA

! NUCLE /iR REGULATORY COM:11SSION In the !!atter of )

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i Docket No.(s) 50-329 CONSU:ERS PO'. ER COMPANY )

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(Midland Plant , Unit Nos. 1 and 2)

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVTCE I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoingcompiled document by 0

' upon ench person desi;;nated on the of ficial service list  ;

the Of fice of the Secretary of the Cor.,ission in this proceedin;; 2- i. .

' accordance with the requirements of Sect, ion'2.712 of 10 CFR Part Rules of Practice, of the Suc1 car Regulatory Com:nission's Rules and Regulations.

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! CONSUMERS POW.R COMPANY ) Docket No. (s) 50-329 l ) 50-330 j (Midland Plant, Units 1 and 2) )

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Frederic J. Couf al, Esq. , Chair =an 1 Ato=Ic Safety and Licensing Board

! U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Co= mission Washington, D.C. 20555 l

1 Dr. Ee=cth A. Luebke James A. Kendall, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Currie and Kendall U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 135 North Saginaw Road Washington, D.C. 20555 Midland, Michigan 48640' Dr. J. Venn Leeds, Jr. Judd L. Bacon, Esq.

10807 Atwell Consumers Power Company 8

Houston, Texas 77096 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Office of the Executive Legal Director Counsel for NRC Staff William J. Ginster, Esq.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Merrill Building, Suite 4 Washington, D.C. 20555 Saginaw, Michigan 48602 Myron M. Cherry, Esq. Miltcn R. Wessel, Esq.

One IBM Plaza Dow Chemical Chicago, Illinois 60611 4 Little Lane Whit 9 Plains, New York 10605 Harold F. Reis, Esq.

Lowenstein, Nev=an, Reis & Axelrad Honorable Curtis G. Beck 1025 Connecticut Avenue, N.W. Assistant Attorney General Washington, D.C. 20036 State of Michigan Seven Story Office Building l Honorable Charles A. Briscoe 525 West ottawa Assistant Attorney General Lansing, Michigan 48913 l State of Kansas Topeka, Kansas 66612 Lee Nute, Esq.

Michigan Division Irving Like, Esq. The Dow Chemical Company Reilly, Like and Schneider 47 Building 200 Weat Main Street Midland, Michigan 48640 Babylon, New York 11702

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50-329, -330 page 2 l Anthony Z. Roisman, Esq.

Roisman, Kessler and Cashdan i

1025 - 15th Street, N.W.

i Washington, D.C. 20005 l David J. Rosso, Esq.

l R. Rex Renfrow, III, Esq.

j Isham, Lincoln & Beale j 1050 - 17th Street,' N.W.

t Washington, D.C. 20036 8

I Caryl A. Bartelman, Esq.

l Isham, Lincoln & Beale l

One First National Bank Plaza Chicago, Illinois 60603 Ms. Mary Sinclair 5711 Summerset Street Midland, Michigan 48640 Mr. Steve Gadler, P.E.

2120 Carter Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55108 Grace Dow Memorial Library 1710 West St. Andrew Road Midland, Michigan 48640 i

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