RE: THIS MAY BE OF INTEREST!

["Weiner, Ruth" <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

For those who don't know, the WIPP (or W.I. P. P.) is the Waste Isolation
Pilot Plant, a proposed repository for defense-generated transuranic waste.
The site is a salt bed in SE New Mexico, about 20 miles from Carlsbad.  EPA
approved certification for the site last summer and the project awaits NM
state certification under RCRA.  WIPP has been under investigation and
construction for more than 20 years and is now ready to open and accept
waste.  The WIPP has a web page at http://www.wipp.carlsbad.nm.us/wipp.htm

where you can get a lot more information -- I have only tried to give a very
brief summary.

I hope my posting wasn't inappropriate for RADSAFE.  My reasoning was that
(a) a number of HPs and members of HPS (like me) have been employed on parts
of the WIPP project, (b) WIPP has been a primary focus for anti-nuclear
activity, which is becoming more vicious as the opening approaches, and (c)
the "another business against WIPP" campaign affects the entire community in
which we all work.

Clearly only my own opinion

Ruth F. Weiner
Sandia National Laboratories 
MS 0718, POB 5800
Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
rfweine@sandia.gov
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Watts [mailto:wattsa@oak.cats.ohiou.edu]
Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 11:13 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Re: THIS MAY BE OF INTEREST!


What is W.I.P.P.?

>Ruth,
>
>Here in Los Alamos we have a store called Cotton Tails that also has a
>branch in Santa Fe.  Here in Los Alamos they do not have posted anti-nuke
>signs etc., but in Santa Fe they do.  I questioned why they did not have
>them posted in Los Alamos and the owner said that she would loose business.
>I told her that either she believed in something or she didn't and that she
>lost my business just because I felt her to be two faced.
>
>It would not surprise me in the least if the Albuquerque Wild Oats did not
>have a clue that they were on the list, and that it was completely done by
>the Santa Fe Wild Oats market because of the strong anti-WIPP etc.,
>feelings coming from many Santa Fe people.
>
>Sherry
>
>
>>Dear RADSAFERs,
>>
>>We have received a list from Citizens for Alternatives to Radioactive
>>Dumping (CARD) with the heading
>>
>>		ANOTHER BUSINESS AGAINST W.I.P.P.
>>
>>and Wild Oats Market, 6300 San Mateo NE in Albuquerque (where I had been
>>shopping) is on this list. The list does say that stores listed display a
>>pink sign with the above legend, and I have never seen such a sign at that
>>particular Wild Oats. However, the listing indicates clearly to me that
Wild
>>Oats Market doesn't want my business or, at least, if they knew that I
both
>>supported opening the WIPP and had worked on it, they wouldn't want my
>>business.  There is a sort of "hate" aura about this.
>>
>>I called Wild Oats  and yesterday got a return call from Wild Oats in
Santa
>>Fe.  The gist of the call was that several years ago they had indeed
>>supported another anti-WIPP group, CCNS, and that such support was given
>>after polling their employees and getting a lot of phone calls and mail
from
>>customers. I was promised a copy of a letter from Wild Oats legal
department
>>stating their position, but the individual I spoke with did not paraphrase
>>or state that position for me.  I was asked what I wanted Wild Oats to do
>>and I responded that they should get their name off the list.  I also said
I
>>would not shop there any longer as long as they had not repudiated the
>>position represented by the listing, and I would inform as many colleagues
>>as I could of their position.  So that's why this RADSAFE posting.  I also
>>suggested that for a food market to take a clearly political stance would
>>alienate some people and could possibly result in loss of customers.
There
>>was a lot more to the conversation, but this is the important part.
>>
>>I have not heard from Wild Oats since the call yesterday or received a
copy
>>of the legal letter.  By contrast Keller Farm Stores (a local market)
>>responded immediately and faxed us a copy of their letter asking to be
>>removed from the list.  Note that I am not asking for support for the
WIPP,
>>but asking only that Wild Oats not advertise its opposition.
>>
>>Wild Oats (Alfalfa Markets in some places) has stores in many states. They
>>have a web page listing their stores; the URL is http://www.wildoats.com.
>>
>>cc: Sandy Valencourt, Wild Oats Market
>>
>>Clearly only my own personal opinion.
>>
>>Ruth F. Weiner
>>Sandia National Laboratories
>>MS 0718, POB 5800
>>Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
>>505-844-4791; fax 505-844-0244
>>rfweine@sandia.gov
>>
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>
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>Sherry W. Jones, NMSM
>Los Alamos National Laboratory
>P. O. Box 1663, MS E524
>Los Alamos, NM 87545
>Phone (505) 665-2712
>Fax: (505) 665-8997
>E-Mail: swjones@lanl.gov
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>IF PEOPLE FROM OUTER SPACE ARE REALLY WATCHING US, SHOULDN'T WE BE ABLE TO
>HEAR THEM GIGGLING?
>
>
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