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Tom Klein
Assistant Business
Manager,
International Brotherhood of Boilermakers,
Iron Ship Builders, Blacksmiths, Forgers and Helpers
March 29, 2005
The Indian Point Energy Center is
very important to the working men and women of New York. It
provides more than 1,400 permanent jobs directly and helps to
ensure a dynamic regional economy with additional jobs in the
construction and other trades.
We need the low-cost, safe, clean, and reliable energy that
Indian Point provides for our homes, our subways, our hospitals,
and to help us work. We cannot cower to the fears that have
been drummed up by anti-nuke naysayers for the past 30 years
about nuclear power. Closing Indian Point would amount to a
regressive tax hike on working men and women as electric bills
would significantly increase in a state whose electricity costs
are already quite high.
As New Yorkers we should always maintain the highest standards
of safety and economic opportunity. That is why New York AREA’s
mission to support existing and new sources of power generation
is so important, because we should be pursuing energy and economic
policies that provide for new job growth, not reductions in
current high-skilled, high-paid employment in our region.
We need more energy, not less, in New York.
Tom Klein
Jerry Kremer
Norris McDonald
Ann Van Buren
Paul Vitale
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