A-Infos (en) Ward Valley Press Release

["Dave Cull" <dcull@island.net>]

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>COLORADO RIVER NATIVE NATIONS ALLIANCE
>Fort Mojave * Chemehuevi * Quechan * Cocopah
>Colorado River Indian Tribes
>500 Merriman, Needles, California  92363
>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FEBRUARY 11, 1998
>SHOWDOWN IN THE DESERT: INDIAN NATIONS VOW TO DEFEND WARD 
VALLEY FROM
>FURTHER DESECRATION AND A NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP, U.S. DEPT. OF 
INTERIOR
>THREATENS TO EVICT OCCUPATION
>PRESS CONFERENCE AND SPIRITUAL CEREMONIAL ACTION
>THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1998, 12 NOON AT WARD VALLEY
>Contact:   Stephen Lopez, Fort Mojave Indian Tribe,
>(760) 629-4591, Save Ward Valley Coalition (760) 326-6267
>Needles, CA.  -- On Thursday, February 12, 1998 at 12 noon, the five Indian
>Nations of the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance and many supporters
>will gather at Ward Valley to announce their determination to defend sacred
>Indian land against further desecration and the proposed nuclear waste
>dump.  The Tribes and supporters will gather hours before the expiration of
>a fifteen day "closure order" issued January 29th by the US. Department of
>the Interior.  A face-off is expected Friday, February 13th, as the Indian
>Nations and supporters will defend Ward Valley with peaceful, dignified and
>direct protest.
>The Colorado River Native Nations Alliance of the Fort Mojave, Chemehuevi,
>Quechan, Cocopah, and Colorado River Indian Tribes, along with
>environmental activists, are assembling on the site of a proposed nuclear
>dump at Ward Valley in anticipation of the attempt by the Department to
>close the area and commence drilling.  Testing by state and federal
>governments would desecrate sacred Indian lands and destroy critical
>habitat for the threatened desert tortoise.
>The Indian Nations are furious that the Interior Department totally ignored
>tribal and environmental concerns and has breached its fiduciary
>responsibility to protect their environmental and trust resources.  "The
>Tribes have opposed the dump since the beginning, and we can tolerate no
>further damage to Ward Valley," said Steve Lopez, spokesperson for the Fort
>Mojave Indian Tribe and the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance.  "We
>demand that President Clinton uphold Environmental Justice Executive Orders
>and stop the dump now."
>Governor Pete Wilson and the nuclear industry plan to bury long-lived and
>highly dangerous radioactive wastes, mostly from nuclear power plants, in
>shallow unlined dirt trenches above an aquifer, eighteen miles from the
>Colorado River.  U. S. Ecology's similar nuclear waste dump in Beatty,
>Nevada, has already been found to be leaking severely. Ward Valley is 22
>miles west of Needles, California, off the Water Road exit from Interstate
>40.
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Michael D. Wallace
Department of Political Science
University of British Columbia
phone:(604)822-4550, fax:822-5540

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