[CPEO-MEF] Hanford waste ballot initiative

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

I-297 would restrict new Hanford waste

Backers seek thorough cleanup; foes call proposal 'unnecessary'

By LISA STIFFLER
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
October 18, 2004

Supporters of Initiative 297 state their case simply: Nuclear waste is 
bad, and it's really bad to have it leaking into the soil and 
groundwater near the state's largest river.

If passed by a majority of voters, I-297 will stop the federal 
government from importing and dumping new radioactive and chemically 
dangerous waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation until existing messes 
are cleaned up.

The measure on the Nov. 2 ballot also includes rules to prevent the 
government from ducking the thorough cleanup of giant underground waste 
tanks that have leaked harmful chemicals into the ground at the 
sprawling Eastern Washington site.

"It's in everyone's interest to do more cleanup, as the initiative would 
ensure," said Gerald Pollet, executive director of the Hanford watchdog 
group Heart of America Northwest and leader of the Yes on I-297 campaign.

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for the entire article, see
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/195675_hanford18.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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