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- From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
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- Subject: NEWS: So. California Freeways Carry Anti-Nuke Dump Messages
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- Date: 25 Jan 1993 01:49:36 GMT
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- [Greenpeace Press Release from Environet -- Redistribute Freely]
-
- SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FREEWAYS CARRY ANTI-NUKE DUMP MESSAGES
- Activists Hang Banners on Overpasses Throughout Southland Friday
-
- LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 (GP) -- On Friday morning, Southern
- California freeway overpasses will carry more than commuter
- traffic: messages to Gov. Wilson protesting the state's plans
- to build a radioactive waste dump in the Mojave Desert.
-
- Activists opposed to the Ward Valley "low-level" nuclear dump
- will hang banners on Friday, Jan. 22, from ten overpasses in Los
- Angeles, San Diego, Orange County, San Bernardino, and the San
- Fernando and Antelope Valleys, urging Wilson to scuttle plans
- for the dump, which would deposit radioactive waste in unlined
- trenches 20 miles from the Colorado River. The banners will
- read, WILSON: STOP YOUR NUCLEAR DUMP. DON'T IRRADIATE OUR
- COLORADO RIVER. (Locations follow this release.)
-
- The dump has drawn fire from Native American nations, activist
- groups, and politicians from California and Arizona who cite
- potential contamination of the river and area aquifers. The
- Colorado serves as a source of drinking water for over 15
- million U.S domestic and agricultural water consumers in
- California and Arizona.
-
- In Mexico, the river furnishes drinking water to the main border
- towns of Baja California as well as agricultural water for the
- Mexicali Valley. Last month, the Baja California Congreso de
- Estado, or state legislature, formed a commission to investigate
- the dump proposal, and concluded it "should not be authorized
- until scientific, social and ecological groups from both
- countries . . . analyze the contamination risks considered to
- be dangerous to health and the environment."
-
- "The state officials in Baja have now joined tens of thousands
- of Californians who have made clear their opposition to this
- threat to all our health and safety," said Sherry Meddick,
- Greenpeace radioactive waste campaigner. "It's time for Pete
- Wilson to get the point: He must stop gambling with the future
- of this region and instead protect the public and the river that
- runs through it."
-
- ####
-
- LOCATIONS OF ANTI-WARD VALLEY FREEWAY BANNERS
- FRIDAY, JAN. 22
-
- Burbank: 5 South at Burbank Boulevard
-
- Downtown Los Angeles: 110 South at 6th Street exit
-
- Hollywood: 101 East at Wilton
-
- Lancaster: 14 South at M Street
-
- Orange County: 5 South at Lake Forest
-
- San Bernardino: 215 at Orange Show Road
-
- Santa Clarita: 14 West at Sand Canyon
-
- San Diego: 8 East at Mission Center Road
- 163 South at Robinson Road
-
- Vernon: 110 North at Vernon
-