[Sustain] Urgent Public Comment Needed Against Yucca Mt Nuke Storage

[Eric Brooks]

http://www.fogcityjournal.com/news_in_brief/pr_infoshop_news_yucca_mtn_071231.shtml


  Dept of Energy moves to turn Yucca Mountain
  into nuclear waste repository


    - Native Shoshone tribe in imminent danger


    - Public comment period deadline January 10

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      December 31, 2007

Public hearings have not been well attended, statements mostly in favor 
of the plan to put all of the nuclear waste in the country in this one 
sacred place. Activists were told that if we do not go on record with a 
statement, we will have no legal recourse later on.

Local papers & media spin have recently stated that opposition to the 
nuke dump had dropped of since the passing of Corbin Harney. The nuclear 
reps are confident to the point of acting like it's a done deal.

WE KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE! LETS PROVE THEM WRONG! TAKE ACTION & MAKE YOUR 
COMMENT NOW!!

Yucca Mountain is sacred to the Shoshone as an herb gathering site, for 
rituals, and as a part of their stories. Yucca Mountain is known in 
Shoshone language as Snake Mountain. Indeed it looks like a snake. It is 
said that the snake was headed north when it froze where it is. Further 
more it is said that it will move again and "flip around". Geologists 
say that there are thirteen different fault lines running through it.

Citizens can make an oral statement at the scheduled public hearings or 
fill out a form and mail it in to EIS Office U.S. Department of Energy 
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Mgmt, 1551 Hillshire dr. Las Vegas, 
NV, 89195-7308 or by e-mail at EIS_Office at ymp.gov 
<mailto:EIS_Office at ymp.gov>. EIS_Office at ymp.gov 
<mailto:EIS_Office at ymp.gov> HERE ARE TALKING POINTS: 
http://www.h-o-m-e.org/Yucca/index.htm

"The eyes of the elders are on us. The fate of the unborn is rolling 
toward the cliff, the voice of Corbin Harney is ringing in my ears: It's 
on your shoulders now...".

Request info from Bear Dyken: mdyken at goldrush.com 
<mailto:mdyken at goldrush.com>.

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