Song: We Don't Need Nuclear Reactors

As regular readers remember, the Appalachian Power Company's Aaron Walker was talking about building a nuclear reactor in Wise County, Virginia, last year. The position of this web site is that no new power plants should be constructed until every "consumer" account in the Point of Virginia has at least had the right to refuse to become a "producer" account. 

Last winter, I wrote a batch of Antinuke Songs and sent them to a "solarpunk" 'zine. I may have told some people at APCo that Antinuke Songs were being written, too. Anyway, the'zine didn't snap up the songs, which are folk not punk, but APCo personnel now say they've not heard any talk about building new nuclear power plants lately.

Well, that's nice. Now where's my rack of solar cells?

This one is sung to the tune of the "We don't need no education" song from Pink Floyd's "Wall" album. Click here for the original words and video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U (I suppose this one is sort of punk.)

 Hey people, leave these hills alone

We don't need nuclear reactors

We have plenty of sunshine

Round the houses where we're living

Why put our lives on the line

Use sunshine

Don't put our hills on the line

You want nuclear reactors?

Put them in your own back yard

Mountains full of good spring water

Don't need to be cut and scarred

Use sunshine

Don't put our mountain springs on the line

We can build you generators

You can pedal at your seat

If you need more than just sunshine

That's an easy need to meet

Use sunshine

Don't put our neighborhoods on the line

You may not blow up this mountain

You may not blow up the town

Bad enough to smash the atoms

Out on bare unwanted ground

Use sunshine

Don't put human lives on the line