WIPP shipment through Albq. NM

[Steven Dapra <sjd@swcp.com>]

Jan. 9



	A WIPP truck passed through Albuquerque today taking a load of transuranic

waste from the Nevada Test Site to the WIPP site near Carlsbad, NM.

According to an article in the Albq. Journal, one of the freeway overpasses

had "about a dozen protesters and a similar number of reporters" waiting

for the truck to go by.  A television news helicopter pursued the truck as

it went through Albuquerque, and its passage through the entire width of

Albuquerque - 15 to 20 miles - was broadcast live at about 11:00 a.m.

(They pre-empted Jerry Springer and soap operas for a WIPP truck??)



	A City Councilor called a news conference this morning to "discuss his

efforts to stop the shipments."  He plans to introduce a memorial at the

upcoming City Council meeting "seeking council backing to get the shipments

diverted away from Albuquerque."



	To its credit, on its 6:00 news this afternoon, a local television

stations noted that there are other far more dangerous cargoes that pass

through Albuquerque every day, and that the safety-minded protesters say

nothing about these shipments (gasoline, propane, etc.).  (I was told this

by a friend of mine, I did not see the broadcast.)



Steven Dapra

sjd@swcp.com



















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