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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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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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