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Thousands of Utahns Comment to BLM

Thousands of people sent in their comments to the BLM during a public comment period to oppose proposals to build a rail route or a loading facility to service the proposed high-level nuclear waste storage site, Private Fuel Storage (PFS) in western Utah. I sent in my early last week.

The State of Utah alone filed over 40 pages of documentation and legal arguments against the proposal.

Here are two articles I found today:

Utah attacks PFS nuclear waste plan: State joins thousands in sending comments to BLM

BLM swamped with comments on N-waste

ACTION ALERT: STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE

I have posted here in the past couple of weeks my involvement in the planning of an action to Stop the Divine Strake. I am releasing the Action Alert today for an International Day of Action at the Nevada Test Site on Western Shoshone Land on Sunday, May 28. People will be at the event from all over the country.

Here are the details:
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Last day for public to comment to BLM on Nuke Waste Transport

Today is the last day the public can offer comment to the BLM on whether or not Private Fuel Storage should be allowed a right-of-way to transport high-level nuclear waste across public lands into Skull Valley.
Read Jen’s Green Journal’s reminder and her letter to the BLM.

“Divine Strake”

I get a lot of questions about the meaning of the term “strake” as in the Divine Strake” test scheduled for June 2 at the Nevada Test Site.

Global Security has these definitions:
Divine: Having the nature of or being a deity. Of, relating to, emanating from, or being the expression of a deity: sought divine guidance through meditation. Being in the service or worship of a deity; sacred. Superhuman; godlike. Supremely good or beautiful; magnificent: a divine performance of the concerto. Extremely pleasant; delightful: had a divine time at the ball. Heavenly; perfect.

Strake: A device for controlling air flow over an aircraft. A strake is also a part of a boat or ship used for generally the same purpose in water rather than air. It is a strip of planking in a wooden vessel or of plating in a metal one, running longitudinally along the vessel’s side, its bottom or between them on the turn of the bilge.

More information on this test
Shundahai Network
Utah Independent Media
The Nuclear Information Project
Weapons Test or Divine Provocation? – Washington Post article
Test Blast In Nevada: A Nuclear Rehearsal – ZNet
Divine Strake,The Pentagon to set off bunker buster bomb in Nevada – Global Researcher
Nevada State Clearinghouse Notice List 2006
“Divine Strake”and the talk of a nuclear attack on Iran – Disarmament Activist

STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE!

Nuclear Waste in Utah

Here are some recent articles on the nuclear waste issue in Utah:

  • Senators Hatch and Bennett are asking the BLM to prevent Private Fuel Storage from building the transfer facility.
  • The BLM has received more than 4,350 mostly negative letters, e-mails, postcards and faxes as it considers whether to grant access across public land to the nuclear waste storage facility in Utah.
  • LDS Church Issues Statement on Nuclear Waste here,
    here, and here.

  • Blogswarm hits the paper

    Well finally:

    Anti-nuclear-waste rallies held in state Capitol and cyberspace

    Stop the Divine Strake Test

    I recently published a post about my involvement in the planning of an international day of action at the Nevada Test Site on Memorial Day Weekend. Plans are developing quickly and a press release will be going out next week. Organizations and individuals from all over the U.S. and the world are siging on to the coalition for this action.

    I will publish the details sometime next week but know that the actionw will take place all weekend May 27-28, with the key day of action being Sunday, May 28th at the Peace Camp across the highway from the entrance to the Nevada Test Site, about 45 miles away from Indian Springs, NV (about an hour from Vegas).

    STOP THE DIVINE STRAKE!

    Local Media Responds to Nuclear Waste Issue

    Kudos to Utah Bloggers in the No Damn Way Blogswarm Day yesterday. I have added more bloggers links to my post yesterday on the blogswarm – thanks to many of you who kept updates coming in! I have also created a new link on my left sidebar, Utah Blogswarms, since I think this will become a trend.

    It appears that we created a ripple effect!

    Today’s Deseret News has not one, but TWO front page articles on nuclear waste:

  • Opinion on nuclear waste in Utah? Speak up: State officials urge Utahns to say ‘no way’ to PFS plan
  • Nuclear waste recycling is costly, foes say

    Other media outlets’ website items on the issue:
    KSL Channel 5 Community Comment Board

    Of course I attribute the nuclear waste articles to Utah’s Bloggers’ Blogswarm.

  • More articles on Nuke Waste in Today’s News

    Utah leaders rally against proposed nuclear waste storage site
    Hunstman, Hatch Rally Opposition To Waste Site
    Utahns Asked to Voice Opinion on Nuclear Waste
    Utah leaders rally against proposed nuclear waste storage site

    No Way Blogswarm Day: No Nuclear Waste Storage!

    Last night I posted about today’s “No Way Blogswarm Day “
    Here are the blogsters, so far, that are participating and who have posted about nuclear waste:

    NO DAMN WAY Blogswarm Day – April 28, 2006

    UTAH IS NOT A NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPING GROUND!