All in fun,
Jim
--- In Know_Nukes@y..., Norman Cohen <ncohen12@h...> wrote:
>[http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Know_Nukes/message/1176]
01/15/02
For Immediate Release:
NOTE: SORRY FOR CROSS-POSTINGS. FORWARD FAR AND WIDE!
Hydro Watchdog Group PullThePlug on Hoover
Releases Dam Sabotage Report:
Calls for Changes or Shutdown of US Hydro Plants
The Alliance for Worldly Environmental
Truce (All WET) has released a
report from the Scientific Union of Confused Spindoctors (SUCS)
that details
the vulnerabilities of American hydro plants to sabotage. This
report is
being released as part of All WET's petition to the Creek Slime
Protection
Commission (CSPC) for the immediate shutdown of Americas hydro
electric dams
until security upgrades and changes in water storage are in place.
The report, written by Les Neuron,
Hydrodynamic Safety Engineer
for SUCS, "focuses on two main areas: drownings, radioactive releases,
and
health effects associated with hydric acid, a dangerous chemical
used at all
hydroelectric facilities and even nuclear plants. According
to Neuron, the
hydro plants are "vulnerable to sabotage. The water storage pools
at most
dams are located above-ground. We would like to see these
catastrophes
waiting to happen moved under ground". The pools would be less
vulnerable to
an air or ground attack that would lead to loss of water, and a
radioactive
release of tritium, Neuron said.
Penny Watthour, hydro plant employee, added
that "dams work on a
principle of gravity, and they would be entirely useless underground
in most
locations..." before being interrupted by Mr. Neuron who said "Don't
believe
a word of it. These pundit apologists of the dam dinosaur
industry skew all
of their numbers to support their paychecks!"
In addition, Neuron states that America's hydro
plants are "not
adequately protected against sabotage from the air or ground involving
a
fire in more than one room or area with the concurrent disabling
of
emergency equipment during an earthquake that occurs on the third
Friday
full-moon of a year during a month beginning with M".
Originally, the All WET Campaign sent a letter
on September 17th 2001 to
CSPC Chairman, Al G. Greene, requesting the following: That CSPC
close all
US hydro plants; that there be an immediate security upgrade; that
the
plants' defenses be upgraded to withstand a jet crash similar to
the 911
events; that three ham and sausage pizzas with extra cheese and
a six pack
of Mountain Dew be delivered within 30 minutes to All WET's headquarters.
US Federal Regulation 10.C.F.WE.CARE.2 petitions are
the only way that
citizens and watchdog groups can ask the CSPC to implement rule
changes at
nuclear plants.
Commented Norm L. Naught, Coordinator of the
All WET Campaign, "We have
many additional security concerns about outdated, dangerous, expensive
dams
besides the two issues mentioned by SUCS."
The letter of September 17th was prompted by
the receipt of information
that none of the nation's dams, nuclear power plants, pipelines,
bridges,
skyscrapers, oil refineries, sports stadiums, or 7-11 convenience
stores
could withstand a jet crash. "Nuclear power plants already
have enough
opposition groups fighting for money. We decided to try to
closing all the
nations 7-11s", Neuron said, "but, thankfully, at our last meeting
someone
realized that we wouldn't have anywhere convenient to buy Mountain
Dew, so
we opted for the hydro plants."
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