And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 06:41:51 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Akwesasne - no to plutonium Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.aches-mc.org 807-622-5407