Dept of Energy moves to turn Yucca Mountain
into nuclear waste repository

- Native Shoshone tribe in imminent danger

- Public comment period deadline January 10

Corbin Harney, spiritual leader for the Western Shoshone, stands in front of a mock-up
of a nuclear waste cask at the Sawyer State Office Building before a hearing on the draft environmental impact statement for a proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.
Photo courtesy Steve Marcus, Las Vegas Sun

From Infoshop News

December 31, 2007

Public hearings have not been well attended, statements mostly in favor of the plan to put all of the nuclear waste in the country in this one sacred place. Activists were told that if we do not go on record with a statement, we will have no legal recourse later on.

Local papers & media spin have recently stated that opposition to the nuke dump had dropped of since the passing of Corbin Harney. The nuclear reps are confident to the point of acting like it's a done deal. WE KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE! LETS PROVE THEM WRONG! TAKE ACTION & MAKE YOUR COMMENT NOW!!

Yucca Mountain is sacred to the Shoshone as an herb gathering site, for rituals, and as a part of their stories. Yucca Mountain is known in Shoshone language as Snake Mountain. Indeed it looks like a snake. It is said that the snake was headed north when it froze where it is. Further more it is said that it will move again and "flip around". Geologists say that there are thirteen different fault lines running through it.

Citizens can make an oral statement at the scheduled public hearings or fill out a form and mail it in to EIS Office U.S. Department of Energy Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Mgmt, 1551 Hillshire dr. Las Vegas, NV, 89195-7308 or by e-mail at EIS_Office@ymp.gov. EIS_Office@ymp.gov HERE ARE TALKING POINTS: http://www.h-o-m-e.org/Yucca/index.htm

"The eyes of the elders are on us. The fate of the unborn is rolling toward the cliff, the voice of Corbin Harney is ringing in my ears: It's on your shoulders now...".

Request info from Bear Dyken: mdyken@goldrush.com.

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