[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, FORMER SITES: West Valley, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Coalition urges complete West Valley cleanup

By Mark Sommer
BUFFALO NEWS (NY)
September 2, 2009
A coalition urged the public Tuesday to contact state and federal 
officials in the next week to demand full cleanup of the state's largest 
nuclear waste site at West Valley.

Surrounded by about 20 people holding mops, buckets and brooms, speakers 
assembled outside the New York State Energy and Research Development 
Authority offices in the Larkin at Exchange Building in Buffalo. They 
called on the agency and the federal Department of Energy to support the 
complete cleanup of the West Valley nuclear waste site to avoid future 
radioactive contamination of Lake Erie drinking water.

"We all know the West Valley site is in need of a cleanup - not just a 
dustpan cleanup, not a lets-deal-with-it-tomorrow kind of cleanup, not a 
coverup cleanup, not a look-the-other-way kind of cleanup," said Todd 
Gates a Seneca Nation of Indians official.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/otherwny/story/782237.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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