[CPEO-MEF] Activists bid for Lawrence Livermore (CA) management contract

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Submitted by Marylia Kelley <marylia@earthlink.net>:


Group files longshot bid for control of lab
Anti-nuclear activists, partners want Lawrence Livermore to focus on 
peaceful pursuits

Keay Davidson
San Francisco Chronicle
October 8, 2006


It's a classic David versus Goliath standoff.

A band of nuclear disarmament advocates, college educators and 
wind-energy developers is positioning itself to go up against a 
consortium led by the University of California and the politically 
powerful San Francisco-based Bechtel Corp. for control of one of the 
nation's top nuclear design labs.

The band, which includes longtime advocacy group Tri-Valley CAREs, 
acknowledges it has little chance of outbidding the UC-Bechtel group for 
management rights to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which has 
been run by UC for more than half a century. But it plans to press ahead 
anyway.

The U.S. Department of Energy has given all comers until Oct. 27 to 
submit their contract bids.

"We do not believe the Department of Energy is going to choose our bid. 
But that isn't how I define 'winning,' " said Marylia Kelley, one of the 
Bay Area's best-known critics of the lab. She runs Tri-Valley CAREs 
(Communities Against a Radioactive Environment), an activist group that 
in its 23 years of existence has won widespread respect for its serious 
and studied approach to its work.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/08/BAGS3LL5A21.DTL&hw=Livermore&sn=002&sc=880

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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