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RE: WIPP shipment through Albq. NM
Right on, Ruth! And we should all feel some responsibility for the fact
that the most effective statements made by anti-nukes come right from
reports produced by people in the nuclear community, vastly overly
conservative statements justified as "prudent." As Stalin put it, we are
paying our adversaries for the rope to hang ourselves.
Ted Rockwell
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RuthWeiner@AOL.COM
Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2004 10:28 AM
To: William V Lipton; "Stabin, Michael"
Cc: Steven Dapra; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: WIPP shipment through Albq. NM
In a message dated 1/13/2004 8:51:59 AM Eastern Standard Time, William V
Lipton <liptonw@DTEENERGY.COM> writes:
>BTW, if I'm missing something, here, please let me know, but I do not see
>how the Albq. hearing will accomplish much more than allowing the public to
>let off steam. DOT preemption powers are well-established. An "I know
>better than you." presentation will accompish nothing more than
reinforcing
>public concerns.
Well, they certainly "let off steam" in the form of an endlessly repeated
series of fabrications and distortions, interspersed with throwaway sarcasm
and insults directed at DOE, Sandia, Los Alamos, Fernald (Fernald??), the
Nevada Test Site, Yucca Mountain, etc. Nothing pleasant or remotely
courteous or truthful about these folks. Moreover, the City Council clerk
skipped over my name (I was the only speaker against the memorial) and
announced the public hearing at an end without recognizing me, though I had
signed up in plenty of time and was not the last speaker on the list. I
believe it was deliberate. Yes, I have written to the City Council about
this. I also wrote a long letter about TRU waste transportation, which I
will post if there is an interest.
I am only writing this because I believe that the public policy problem is
far more serious even than I thought. I tried to tell Councilman Gomez
(author of the anti TRU transportation memorial) that his memorial was based
on erroneous information (exactly the words I used)and he responded "that's
a matter of opinion." Well, science is not a matter of opinion. For
example, the facts that the TRUPACT-II meets the standards of 10 CFR Part 71
Subpart E, and that contact handled TRU waste is not very radioactive
(because the half-lives involved are pretty long), and that stable hydrogen
is not radioactive at all are not "matters of opinion."
Folks, we have got to meet the lies head-on and expose them for what they
are. All DOE has bought itself by pandering is more trouble. It gives
credibility to the lies. What I went through last night was absolutely not
fun (and unlike the professional anti-nukes there, I don't get paid to go to
hearings!) Had I not been alone in my opposition, the clerk might not have
skipped over me (yes, I was asked, when I signed up to speak, was I for or
agaisnt). Please, please, go to these hearings and meetings, speak up,
write to your elected representatives. Yes it is time consuming. No it is
not fun. I don't do it because I enjoy it -- I too have better things to do
with my time -- but because I feel a responsibility.
Suppose the clerk had skipped over an anti-nuke without allowing him or her
to speak? Do you suppose that person would have politely passed a note to
his or her council representative and then gone home and written a polite
letter, without any sarcasm or insults, to the City Council, as I did?
>
>
Ruth F. Weiner
ruthweiner@aol.com
505-856-5011
(o)505-284-8406
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