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January 2007 _____________________________________________________________ Contents Include: Nevada and Utah
events _____________________________________________________________ Nevada and Utah events Join with others to publicly oppose Divine Strake at these public events
_____________________________________________________________ Urgent Action Needed Now! Support Dine and Hopi Communities in Stopping Massive Coal Mining Plans - Massive mining plans underway at Black Mesa, Arizona have serious environmental, social, and human rights impacts. Send a letter today to the Office Of Surface Mining, asking them to extend the critical deadline to allow impacted communities adequate time to prepare their input on stopping a destructive coal-mining project. Read more >>> Dine (Navajo) traditional elders blockade power plant site - Sithe Global & DPA are proposing to build the Desert Rock power plant, a 1,500 MW Coal Fired plant in the Four Corners area on the Navajo Reservation. Dine supporters and community members have blockaded the road leading to the construction site. They are elderly women and youth, and they have been camped out on the road over night since mid December! Read more >>> United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - On November 28, 2006, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples suffered a major setback in the United Nations General Assembly. The declaration was supposed to be voted on by the General Assembly after being adopted by a strong majority of the Human Rights Council in June. Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ The National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nevada Site Office (NNSA/NSO) has released, for public comment, the Draft December 2006 Revised Environmental Assessment, for the Large-Scale, Open-Air Explosive Detonation Divine Strake at the Nevada Test Site. Public comments can be mailed, faxed or emailed. The deadline is January 24, 2007 Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ The Department of Energy (DOE) has released a Notice of Intent to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) for a massive reorganization and refurbishment of the nuclear weapons complex. This giant shift in operations is being offered as a supplemental environmental impact statement to the 1996 Stockpile Stewardship and Management PEIS in an attempt to mask the scale of the proposed changes. Take action and add your voice. Public comments are due by January 17, 2007. Read more >>>
The Department of Energy (DOE) intends to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership initiative (GNEP PEIS) Public Comments will be accepted through April 4th, 2007 Read more >>> Send a letter to congress -from NIRS (Nuclear Information Resource Service) - This December we got wind of what appears to be a new "centralized interim storage" site (AKA parking lot dump like PFS and the Yucca "waste acceptance" swindle, and the MRS before that) under the guise of GNEP (Global Nuclear Energy Partnership). This plan has all the signs and signals of being able to "roll" with or without GNEP as a cover -- though they would still need Congress to change the law... the same law we helped stop changes in throughout the 1990's -- the Nuclear Waste Policy Act...and so is addressed to Congress. Read more >>> _____________________________________________________________ Friends of the Earth blocks British nuclear submarine
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