{news} Urgent: No nuke waste on Native lands! Please help by signing nat'l group letter to U.S. NRC by Sunday, March 13.

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(This came to my inbox.  Apparently it was sent to the CT Green Party website.  --Ed Dubrule, secretary)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Kevin Kamps 
To: Kevin Kamps 
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 2:00 AM
Subject: Urgent: No nuke waste on Native lands! Please help by signing nat'l group letter to U.S. NRC by Sunday, March 13.


Dear Anti-Nuclear Friends and Colleagues in Connecticut,

 

I'm writing you about a critical environmental justice matter of great urgency. Culminating a seven-year process, a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Licensing Board on February 24, 2005 ruled in favor of granting a license to the proposed Private Fuel Storage (PFS) high-level radioactive waste dump targeted at the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation in Utah. 

 

Opening of this dump would initiate the transportation of thousands of casks of high-level radioactive waste across the U.S. by truck, train, and barge, putting millions of people in jeopardy of a Mobile Chernobyl from an accident or terrorist attack (to see how close such routes would pass by you, go to http://www.ewg.org/reports/nuclearwaste/find_address.php.) 

 

In addition, the Skull Vally Goshute community is already surrounded by toxic industrial and military facilities, such as U.S. Army nerve gas incinerators and storage, the Dugway Proving Ground for chemical/biological/radiological weaponry, and the Hill Air Force Base/Utah Test and Training Range, the single biggest emitter of gaseous chlorine in the U.S. (Magnesium Corporation on the Great Salt Lake), a "low" level radioactive waste dump, hazardous waste dumps and incinerators, etc. Adding high-level radioactive waste to this toxic mix is blatant environmental racism. 

A national, group sign-on letter at http://www.nirs.org/alerts/02-24-2005/1 , urging the NRC Commissioners to reject the PFS license application, will be sent to the NRC Commissioners next Monday, March 14. Please sign on to this letter, by sending your name, title (if any), organization, city and state to kevin at nirs.org  by 5 pm Eastern time, Sunday, March 13 at the very latest. 

We currently have about 20 Native American groups (including Skull Valley Goshute tribal opponents to the dump targeted at their community), 20 national U.S. groups, over 150 regional/state/local U.S. groups, and a dozen international groups signed onto this letter. If you'd like to see the full list of those groups already signed on, let me know. 

The groups signed on from CT thus far include:

Andrea Wells
Bethlehem Bytes
Bethlehem CT

Sal Mangiagli, board member with the Citizens Awareness Network
CT Chapter, Haddam CT

The Connecticut Coalition Against Millstone 

Nancy Burton

Redding Ridge CT 

Peg Ryglisyn, Connecticut Opposed to Waste, Broad Brook, CT

Mitzi Bowman, Coordinator

Don't Waste Connecticut

New Haven, CT 

 

Barbara Backman

PACE (People's Action for Clean Energy)

Canton, CT

 

We're very thankful for their support!

Please consider signing your group onto this important letter aimed at preventing radioactive racism - the dumping of high-level atomic wastes from giant nuclear utilities on a tiny Native American community. And please spread the word to other, kindred spirit groups which might also sign on. Thanks for your help! 

---Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Information & Resource Service, Washington, D.C., 202.328.0002 ext. 14, kevin at nirs.org , www.nirs.org 

 

 
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