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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 06:41:51 -0400
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Akwesasne - no to plutonium
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No plutonium, say Mohawks
By Frank MacEachern Standard -Freeholder CORNWALL 9/10/99
AKWESASNE ‹ Akwesasne will use every means possible to
prevent fuel containing plutonium from Russian nuclear warheads from being
shipped through its territory said Mike Mitchell Grand Chief of the Mohawk
Council of Akwesasne,(MCA). "The diplomatic option is my preferred option,"
Mitchell said Friday. "It's going to be a series of steps: political,
legal...and right down to human resistance." He didnąt say what type of
resistance that would be or whether it has been formulated yet. The
announcement by Ottawa last week that the federal government wanted to use
Cornwall as the port to unload plutonium from Russian nuclear weapons
caught local officials off guard. The fuel is to be tested at Atomic Energy
of Canada Ltd., (AECL), laboratories at Chalk River, northwest of Ottawa.
The testing, to take two years, will assess the suitability of Candu
technology to dispose of surplus plutonium from dismantled nuclear
warheads. Ottawa sees the plan as a way to support disarmament. Each
shipment for the test burn contains 120 grams of
plutonium, an amount similar in size to a pair of AA batteries. About five
kilograms are needed to make a bomb. The first shipment is expected before
the end of the year. The governmentąs plan was unanimously rejected Friday
at a special meeting of the MCA. Mitchell said they will be meeting with
representatives of the
Kahnawake Mohawk Reserve south of Montreal early next week to discuss the
issue. The ship carrying the fuel has to pass Kahnawake on its way to
Cornwall. The surprise announcement that Cornwall would be the port through
which the plutonium would be brought into Canada "was a bomb and all of a
sudden it was there and there was nothing we could do about it." But he
said they will be mobilizing support within Akwesasne as well as with
Cornwall and any other community to stop the shipment. He also plans on
discussing the issue with Phil Fontaine, Chief of the Assembly of First
Nations. On Wednesday in Cornwall, local representatives met with
government officials to be briefed on the plan. But Mitchell
said that meeting didnąt satisfy his concerns and left him even more
skeptical of the plan. He said the officials said the shipment was safe at
the same time as they were telling local politicians that there would be
extensive security measures surrounding the shipment.
"Let Us Consider The Human Brain As
A Very Complex Photographic Plate"
1957 G.H. Estabrooks
www.angelfire.com/mn/mcap/bc.html
FOR K A R E N #01182
who died fighting 4/23/99
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