2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 26 Jan 2007 01:01:34 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Utahns oppose "Divine Strake" test
 
Crowd fights Strake
Hundreds pack hearing to oppose plans for Nevada test

By Joe Bauman
Deseret Morning News (UT)
January 25, 2007


Hundreds of Utahns attended a public hearing Wednesday night — the governor, professors, activists, politicians and grandmothers — some near tears, many angry, and nearly all of them opposed to the planned Divine Strake explosion.

A state official estimated that by the second hour of the three-hour state hearing, between 250 and 275 people were present, with 75 offering statements for the record. Their subject was the explosion of 700 tons of ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, proposed by the Defense Department for the Nevada Test Site.

The session was the second of two called by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. in response to the federal government's refusal to hold hearings on the subject. Instead, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and the National Nuclear Security Administration had "public information" meetings where experts answered questions and a court reporter took oral comments.

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For the entire article, see
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650225909,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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