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One of those dedicated, anti-Shoreham activists was Green Party of Suffolk chair Roger Snyder. The Green Party was founded in opposition to nuclear energy and weapons.
As a reporter for a Long Island weekly in the 1980s, Grossman covered the relentless band of anti-nuclear activists who packed government hearings and filed repeated suits against granting an operating license to Shoreham.
“I saw with my own eyes how LILCO’s lawyers and the scientists from Brookhaven National Laboratory worked hand in hand in court to save Shoreham,” Grossman said.
via Work of activists helped prevent Fukushima-style cluster of nuclear reactors on Long Island.
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[…] Of course, the Green Party opposes nuclear power. The Green Party’s founding sprung from Germany’s anti-nuclear movement. Locally in Suffolk County, many heroes (and sheroes) of the anti-Shoreham movement have enrolled in the Green Party. In fact Green Party of Suffolk Chair Roger Snyder is a hero of the anti-Shoreham movement. […]