“Nuclear Waste + Native Lands= Environmental Racism”
-Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Everything’s a native land. Does that mean that nobody can ever do anything anywhere, because almost every square inch of inhabitable land on the planet (except, obviously, Antarctica) has been stolen from someone at some point? NIRS staff even own houses built on land stolen from Native Americans in the 18th and 19th Centuries.
And no, there is no “racism” in selecting a repository site that is suitable for a repository–the racism is on the part of 19th Century governments forcing Native Americans to live in areas suitable only for nuclear waste repositories.
That said, Yucca Mountain is not a good idea. It’s suitable for a geologic repository, but we don’t need one. The industry wants to get nuclear waste off its hands, because it is unfair to expect them to store it all while the fossil fuel industries can dump everything they make into our air and water. The answer, we think, is to tell everyone to store their waste or put it to good use–or not make it in the first place.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day, Conspiracy, Fuel Cycle, Waste
Posted on May 10, 2007 by Stewart Peterson |
