Re: THIS MAY BE OF INTEREST!

["declark" <declark@gateway.net>]

Ruth, I think your posting was quite appropriate.  And it opened some useful
dialogue with others concerning this topic, too.  Thanks.  Don Clark

declark@gateway.net

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-----Original Message-----
From: Weiner, Ruth <rfweine@sandia.gov>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 10:33 AM
Subject: RE: THIS MAY BE OF INTEREST!


>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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>>
>>********************************
>>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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