[CPEO-MEF] Utahns oppose "Divine Strake" test

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Crowd fights Strake
Hundreds pack hearing to oppose plans for Nevada test

By Joe Bauman
Deseret Morning News (UT)
January 25, 2007


Hundreds of Utahns attended a public hearing Wednesday night — the 
governor, professors, activists, politicians and grandmothers — some 
near tears, many angry, and nearly all of them opposed to the planned 
Divine Strake explosion.

A state official estimated that by the second hour of the three-hour 
state hearing, between 250 and 275 people were present, with 75 offering 
statements for the record. Their subject was the explosion of 700 tons 
of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, proposed by the Defense Department for 
the Nevada Test Site.

The session was the second of two called by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. in 
response to the federal government's refusal to hold hearings on the 
subject. Instead, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the National 
Nuclear Security Administration had "public information" meetings where 
experts answered questions and a court reporter took oral comments.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650225909,00.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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