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S 2895 Tha R ural D evelopm ent
and A n cie n t F o re st C o n se rva tio n
Act. •"XOduced by Senator* Brock
Adam» <D WA and Patrick Leahy
( 0 VT) i t designed to restore the
health and prodm tv ity of Northwest
forests and to ensure long l * m *O
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rural development assistance to
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m ent A ct of 1992 introduced by
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B u r n i n g I l a n f o r d ’ s R a d io a c tiv e W a s te :
From Land to
tru t-th r Iw bh the L 5 Ek*partmrnt
of I nt-rgv it A if ha» used national
saxunty av a rationalv lor shrouding its
nuclear w capm s lacitilv al tin- Hanford
reservation in W ashington slate from
public scrutiny and aciountahiiitv Work
ers, nearby residents and c ittzvns were
never io ld thai environm entally d«-struc
liv e practices in clu d in g inlenlhinal re­
leases c»r radioactive and losic
contaminants at th r H anford site were
leading Io raducac h e r conlam inalhin cit
the Colum bia River and area groundwa
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rials in grapes and irrigalcsl allalfa
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Runs Out
In January, TIME magazine an­
nounced that H was bow ing to p m -
sure Irom Greenpeace supporters
who had w ritten Io request that it
switch from chlonne-Neached to
chlorine tree paper Greenpeace
p ublicly commended TIM E (or the
move Hut in August, a TIME repre­
sentative adm itted toG rw npeace
that il nevrr intended to keep its
promise
T1MI Inc is the largest p u b lish ­
er in the- V *» Every year chlorine-
bleached paper used by TIME
results in (he d u m ping of over
•se, HX) [siuiuls ol persislenl p o llu t­
ants mto N orth American waters
sky <weeNKA<&
dear weajxms p n slu ctu in at IL m lo rd
has ended Hut a pro,swal by (.Tieinical
Waste Management IL hem Waste) the
w o rld s largest hazardous waste dis
jxisaI firm , to b u ild ih re r giant incinera­
tors at Ihe site lor the purpose of
burning tin- waste w o u ld continue I la n ­
ia rd s legacy eg p o llu tk in and sax ns y
L b e m W a s te has in tx l Io site similar,
often lucrative, commercial waste mein
eralots in Kettlensan t ilv . California,
and Emelle Alabama, but com m unity
opposition slopped lx>th profmsals
Meanw hile Ihe com|Mnv s existing in
ctru-rator in L bn ago has txx-n shut dow n
indefinitely fo llo w in g an explosion m
tha- k iln and allegations that the com
pany had illegally burned radioactive
waste and mislabeled tu rre ts ol hazard
ous waste stored on the site
A l H anford. Chem 5Vaste is h o jie lu l
that the problems that have plagued it in
Ihe past w ill be solved by an unusual
landlord tenant relationship Hcxause
W ashington slate leases Ihe H anford
land Im m Ihe IX>E the stair w o u ld act
as both regulator and landlord to L h e m
Waste a potential conllict ol interest
A nd the DOE. eager to clean up its tacit*
ify . is like ly to be supportive of L hem
Waste assuming that role As a result
L ite m Waste hopes lo gel Iasi track a p ­
proval from the state and federal govern
m rn ts w ith a m in im u m ot public
scrutiny and proceed w ith construction
of a lucrative three incinerator complex
that w o u ld b um toxic and raduuctive
waste Im m H anford and from other
lX ) t weapons facilities and from pri
vale, out ot stale industries
Though touted as a cleanup*
method, me irw ration w ould only make-
Ux aI and regional contam ination -al­
ready at record levels worse according
to Greenpeace toxics campaigner Margie
K elly Incinerators create a la n d lill in
the sky, e m ittin g huge quantities ot
heavy metals, in clu d in g lead and user
cury, plus thousands of com bustion by
products, like dioxin, w hn h may he
more toxic than the- o riginal chemicals
Incineration of radioactive waste w ould
spew a dditional highly toxic substances
such as tritiu m , carbon-14. icxline iso-
topx-s d io xin and countless oilier, as yet
unknow n, radioactive and carcinogenic
substances d o w n w in d
■xc ic-nlists at la w re tie e Liverm ore Na
luma I I a lsira to rv in l.ivennore, L alitor
ma regx l«xl a sim ilar radioa> live amt
tn»K waste incine,ator proposal in 1**O.
stating We view incineration as a viola
tion of llie cardinal p rin cip le of radioac
five waste treatment namely , containing
radioactivity rather than spreading it
The prefect was cameled
L itizens and farmers w ho lice do w n
w in d Irom the projswcxl incinerator
have vow ed to lig h t the I hem Waste
proyxwal 55 ith support from the p ib lic
Greenpeace ami dozens ol other com ­
m unity groups are pressuring tin- stale
to refuse Io lease the land to L hem
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