Desperately Seeking Subsidies
Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Ralph Nader
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In a fast-paced show, Ralph welcomes back former Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner, Peter Bradford to update us on the 10th anniversary of the nuclear meltdown in Fukushima. Then Public Citizen’s, Alan Zibel, joins us to tell us how we taxpayers amazingly are still subsidizing the fossil fuel industry. Ralph answers listener questions and debuts a feature on his website called “Reporter’s Alert.”
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:05.5 | Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting way too long. |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. |
| 0:15.8 | My name is Steve Scroban, along with my co-host, David Feldman. |
| 0:18.8 | Hello, David. |
| 0:19.8 | Hello, Steve. |
| 0:20.8 | And the man of the hour, Ralph Nader. |
| 0:22.6 | Hello, Ralph. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello, everybody. |
| 0:24.6 | We've got a great show for you today. |
| 0:27.1 | We recently marked the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. |
| 0:33.0 | When poor government oversight and corporate negligence joined forces with the tsunami |
| 0:39.0 | and created a unique disaster, it was both natural and man-made. |
| 0:43.6 | The immediate impacts of the explosion and meltdown were devastating, but what about the |
| 0:47.9 | long-term effects? |
| 0:48.9 | What have clean up efforts accomplished so far is the contamination contained. |
| 0:54.9 | First of all, we'll be asking our first guest today, Peter Bradford, a former member |
| 0:58.1 | of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and that's just the first part of the show. |
| 1:02.0 | And the second part, one industry that's gotten a lot of relief from the U.S. government |
| 1:06.5 | lately, is the fossil fuels industry. |
| 1:09.2 | A recent report from public citizen details how dirty energy companies have been double-dipping |
| 1:15.1 | and even triple-dipping into COVID relief programs since the earliest days of the pandemic. |
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