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November 23, 1998
Important! Please sign onto this letter by December 5 asking Governor-elect
Gray Davis to stop the proposed Ward Valley nuclear waste dump. We expect to
get over 200 signatories. Please reply to swv1@ctaz.com and forward to other
groups. Thank you for your support.
P.S. (Nov. 24) Here is what we are after. We would like to take the letter to a meeting that has been scheduled for Dec. 7 and present it to Davis. The letter as it stands we would like to have as many organizations signed on as we can possibly get. We would like individuals to maybe change the wording a bit to reflect your individuality, then e-mail, fax, or snail mail to Davis. Those individuals that have already sent your name to this office, I will compose a letter very similar to the one we sent out and include you all on it. I will also forward your messages on to Davis.
Office of the Governor Elect Gray Davis 980 9th St., Suite 1800 Sacramento, CA 95814
Ph. 916/322-9060 Dear Governor-Elect Davis: We are a broad coalition of Sovereign Tribal Governments, environmental and social justice groups, indigenous environmental networks, international non-governmental organizations, cancer survivors, scientists, physicians, and other concerned citizens all opposed to the proposed nuclear waste dump at Ward Valley. This project has plagued the Wilson administration for the last eight years and has attracted growing public opposition. The Spring 1998 occupation of the site by Native Americans and environmental activists coupled with the analysis by state Democratic leaders concluding that the proposed method of land acquisition violates state law, has indefinitely delayed the federal review of the project. The dump threatens contamination of area aquifers and the Colorado River, source of water for over 22 million people. It would destroy critical habitat for the threatened desert tortoise and desecrate sacred ancestral land for five Native American tribes. Economic analyses of the proposed project have concluded that the dump would be financially unviable. The 1998 Congressional Research Service report found that the vast majority of waste slated for Ward Valley would come from nuclear power plants. The National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) of the Environmental Protection Agency resolved that the dump project would violate environmental justice mandates and recommended that EPA act to end the project. We strongly urge you to stop this ill-fated project once and for all. Withdraw the state of California's request for the land and cease the state's legal actions regarding Ward Valley. Protect our precious water resources, uphold environmental justice, and ensure that the California taxpayer would not be burdened with the astronomical clean-up costs of a leaking dump.
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