> Here are two articles related to Atomic waste on the Mescalero Apache
> reservation. They are reprinted without prior permission.
> DOE This Month, November 1991 Vol.14 No.11
> U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, D.C.
> page 4, DOE Briefly
>
> ... Others rejected the proposal as political suicide. "Look at
> the Three Mile Island deal," said Kesley Edmo, council chairman of
> Oklahoma's Shashone Bannock tribe. "We're not going to have
> anyone ship nuclear waste onto our reservation," he told LeRoy.
About the last message -- there was one error in the news story--
Kelsey Edmo is the Chairman of the Shoshone Bannock tribe located in Idaho
not Oklahoma.
There has been more local news about the Mescalero Apaches. They have named
three sites for possible storage and I believe all three are off reservation.
There is some talk about trading lands. The tribe wants control of the
facility. so we'll see how far this goes! We in New Mexico think the Waste
Isolation Pilot Project which is slated to store military nuclear waste, is
one nuclear waste project too many for this state. We don't need another!
The Governor has repeatedly come out against the Mescalero activities in this
regard.
Ellen Kemper