And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/25/99 The USA exrel James Stone vs Rockwell Int'l False Claims Rocky Flats Case opening statements started on 2/22/99. The testimony primarily focused on three key environmental crimes areas that were also focus areas of the USA vs Rockwell FBI case from 1989. The CLOSING arguments are scheduled for this coming Monday, March 29, 1999 at the Denver Federal Court house in Judge Match's 2nd floor court room. These charges included mismanagement of wastes such as "pondcrete, & saltcrete" from the Solar Evaporation Ponds, Spray Irrigation of radiotoxic wastes onto lands that sheeted off to US waters and travelled offsite to public drinking water supplies, and Sewage Treatment Plant problems associated with contamination, rad & chemical wastes, and biologically "killing" some of the holding ponds at RF. The list of witnesses include luminaries such as former DOE Secretary Admiral James Watkins, who testified to DOE's indignation in Rockwell not running Rocky Flats correctly. He testified about problems he was familiar with at Savannah River, Chernobyl, Three Mile Island - and that when he got around to looking at Rocky Flats, he couldn't believe the mess. One item leaving the greatest impression on the Admiral was the problem of the accumulation of more than 6 bombs - worth of Pu (plutonium) in the ducts at Rocky Flats to make 6 bombs. This still hasn't been resolved more than 10 (ten) years later. He is currently working on preventing further ocean dumping of radioactive contaminated materials. ...Speaking of the Wolpe Congressional investigation into what went wrong with the ill-fated plea agreement on the USA vs Rockwell case, the following list of witnesses in the Stone case reads like a who's who of names we could fill in the blanks with, for the Congressional Record that came out of the Wolpe deliberations. (The standard disclaimer of this statement being my opinion applies here.) Of course, some of these names are just witnesses to what happened at RF, and will be familiar to long time Rocky Flats activists: Earl Whiteman, George Setlock, Gary Potter, Frank Blaha, Bill Weston, Bill Rask, Ed Naiman, Bill Romatowski, Rick Gaskin, Delores Kreig; Long, Kelar, Fanner, Sattler, Henry, Cypher, Tegler, Juarez, Swenson, Johnson, Schlag, Dnadinali, McGuenhan, etc. What you may have missed: *There was an "anonymous" request to the Court of Apppeals to block attempts to access records from the USA vs Rockwell Grand Jury to impeach witness testimony. *Reboxing of pondcrete and saltcrete waste blocks (recall: consistency of mayonnaise, didn't set up, triwall cardboard boxes collapsing) went on well into 1997, at a cost of over approximately $12 million taxpayer dollars. *Some DOE/Rockwell representatives bragged about how much they did out there, went all over the RF facility talking to people, inspecting, but never wrote anything down. (sound familiar?) *An angry letter from Rockwell plant manager Dominic Sanchini illustrated the deep rift between Rockwell and DOE. *Testimony regarding the spray irrigation (Clean Water Act violations that Rockwell plead guilty to in 1991, was reported to FBI by EIN director Susan Hurst in 1986) discussed massive runoff to Woman Creek that were enhanced by tire tracks forming a ditch for the water to run down - this was known to Rockwell, but was not reported to DOE. This water ran offsite to Standley Lake, public drinking water supplies for the cities of Westminster, Northglenn, and Thornton - northern suburbs of metro Denver. Some of these Stone case witnesses had to be repeatedly reminded of previous testimony when their memories seemed to flag a bit. Some of these were witnesses were environmental managers, some were foreman and supervisors. It should be noted that although Rocky Flats contractors have changed from DOW to Rockwell to EG&G to Kaiser-Hill, the faces have remained the same. Some have left the immediate employ of the main contractor with fat VSP's (volunteer separation packages) to come back in through the revolving door as higher paid consultants and subcontractors. I will post an update on the closing remarks as soon as possible. Paula Elofson-Gardine Executive Director Environmental Information Network >From the Fallout Zone of Rocky Flats VCR ALERT - Jon Caldara's "Independent Thinking" show on KBDI Channel 12 (PBS) on April 2, 1999 at 7:00 P.M. in Denver will feature a discussion on Rocky Flats with Jon Caldara, Paula Elofson-Gardine (EIN) and Pat Etchart, DOE RF PR spokesman. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ideas on how we can improve ONElist? http://www.onelist.com Check out the Suggestion Box feature on our new web site ------------------------------------------------------------------------ DOEWatch List --- Subscribe online: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/doewatch"We have discovered the most terrible bomb in the history of the world. It may be the fire destruction prophesized in the Euphrates Valley Era, after Noah and his fabulous Ark. 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