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On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:58:58 -0800, "Toni Hawryluk" wrote:

> 
> The Columibia River 'runs' past Hanford - although some leaks
> 
> into ground water were pooh-poohed (*not* a pun) the fears of 
> 
> fouling the Pacific Ocean (the Columbia empties into the Pacific) 
> 
> and West Coast salmon/other fisheries all the way up to Alaska 
> 
> helped to *start* the clean-up - so "the government" - guess who -
> 
> is attempting even more poisoning/killing.
> 
> 
> 
>
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap11-30-185727.asp?t=apnew&vts=113020041920<http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap11-30-185727.asp?t=apnew&vts=113020041920>
> 
>  
> 
> Justice Department to fight Hanford initiative in court
> 
> By SHANNON DININNY
> ASSOCIATED PRESS
> 
> YAKIMA, Wash., Nov. 30 - The government plans to ask a judge to overturn a
> Washington state initiative that bars the Energy Department from sending
> radioactive waste from other states to the Hanford nuclear site until waste
> already there is cleaned up. 
>        The measure is scheduled to take effect Dec. 2. 

"...shipped elsewhere for long-term disposal?" There was a proposal (it's 
still
pending, I believe) to ship nuclear waste to Yucca Mountain, via a very
circuitous route that would bring it into California (right through our 
Barstow
area) and back out again - unnecessarily, of course. Odd - and frightening - 
that
all the materials, elements, and 'equipment' that accompanied the planet as it
came fresh from the factory somehow are able to recycle and adapt themselves 
in a
lovely and harmonious way, but the 'things' we humans have invented 
(progressing
ourselves to death) cannot now be gotten rid of. They may, instead, get rid 
of us!

Sandy 

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