Hearings on Federal Plans to Make Hanford a National Radioactive Waste Dump and Abandon Existing Contamination - In Hood River on Tuesday 2/9 and in Portland on Wednesday 2/10
Hosts Celeste Carey and Cecil Prescod interview Gerald Pollet, Executive Director, Co-Founder & Attorney for Heart of America Northwest, a 16,000 member citizens group: providing research and leading organizing, legal and lobbying efforts in the region and nationally for cleanup of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation; protecting the Northwest and Columbia River from the threat to resume using Hanford as a national radioactive and radioactive hazardous waste dump; and, working for a safe and clean energy future to reduce global warming without creating more nuclear waste.
For 25 years Gerry Pollet has been organizing on Hanford, environmental and peace issues, and political campaigns in Washington. Gerry has lobbied, written major legislation at federal and state level, and testified to Congress. He will talk about the movement to stop use of Hanford as a national radioactive waste dump and to oppose USDOE's plan to abandon the contamination leaked from the High-Level Nuclear Waste Tanks as it spreads rapidly towards the Columbia River.
Tuesday February 9
06:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Meeting: Hood River TC & WM EIS Public Hearing
Location: Columbia Gorge Hotel 4000 Westcliff Drive, Hood River, OR, 97031
Wednesday February 10
06:00 PM - 10:00 PM - Meeting: Portland TC & WM EIS Public Hearing
Location: Double Tree @ Lloyd Center 1000 NE Multnomah Street, Portland,
OR, 97232
Check out Heart of America's website, www.hoanw.org , for a Citizens' Guide to the Energy Department's (USDOE's) proposals for Hanford and the impacts to health and the Columbia River.
The risk from truck shipments of radiaoctive waste will hit home for KBOO listeners, as well as the long term contamination of the Columbia from plans to dump more waste at Hanford, and USDOE's plan NOT to cleanup High-Level Nuclear Wastes that have leaked.