Subject: Re: [Homestead] geography/science - and writing history
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 20:30:17 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 19:58:58 -0800, "Toni Hawryluk" wrote:
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> The Columibia River 'runs' past Hanford - although some leaks
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> into ground water were pooh-poohed (*not* a pun) the fears of
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> fouling the Pacific Ocean (the Columbia empties into the Pacific)
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> and West Coast salmon/other fisheries all the way up to Alaska
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> helped to *start* the clean-up - so "the government" - guess who -
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> is attempting even more poisoning/killing.
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> 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>
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> Justice Department to fight Hanford initiative in court
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> By SHANNON DININNY
> ASSOCIATED PRESS
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> 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!