In response to Kevin Trainor - A good public servant will not dismiss concerns about transporting high-level nuclear waste through the metro area as "scaremongering." Nuclear waste transport poses an unprecedented risk to the environment and human health. The short- and long-term affects of an accidental release are highly unpredictable. The scenarios laid out by the Environmental Working Group are based on a medium-risk factor - meaning an accident in the metro area could be less dangerous, or it could be more deadly, than their projections.
At a time when everybody is talking about increasing national security, it is unconscionable that any public official (or candidate) would accept the transport of deadly radioactive materials through a population center as safe, desirable or inevitable. There are no good solutions to the problem of nuclear waste storage. There are some solutions that are less bad than others. Minnesota needs to secure a local waste storage site, away from environmentally and socially sensitive areas (translation: NOT on the Mississippi River floodplain, and NOT on a reservation, as it is now), for above-ground dry casks that can be readily monitored, protected and maintained. And first and foremost, we need to stop generating this dangerous waste by shutting down Minnesota's reactors and reinvesting in diverse, locally-generated, sustainable energy systems. -- Holle Brian Green Party candidate for State Senator, District 62 (612) 822-6593 www.hollebrian.org _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
