MEDIA BROADCASTS - Hanford
Watershed
Intelligence Network
Media Awareness Campaign Launched:
Hanford radioactive spill becomes international issue
April 10, 2013
Vernon, BC - The Watershed Intelligence Network is launching a media awareness campaign that will be supplying Canadian and international media with information bulletins about the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
The bulletins will also be sent to community leaders and government representatives in both Canada and the United States so that they can offer comments regarding the situation at Hanford.
“This effort seeks to bring Hanford to the forefront of Canadian media so that journalists and news agencies are better able to report on this event from a Canadian perspective”, said project director Don Elzer.
The radioactive waste site at Hanford is next to the Columbia River which is home to a wild salmon run that feeds British Columbia; the site is about 200 miles from the Canadian border at Osoyoos, it is about 50 miles from the tributaries of the Okanogan River; and is within the traditional territories of First Nations people.
According to Hanford Quick Facts, which was published by the State of Washington Department of Ecology, one million gallons (4,000 cubic meters) of highly radioactive waste from Hanford is currently traveling through the groundwater toward the Columbia River and will reach the river in 12 to 50 years if the cleanup operation is delayed. Hanford has the highest level of radioactive waste of any site in the United States. It produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki in 1945.
The Watershed Intelligence Network provides advocacy and press kit services on behalf of individuals, organizations and businesses that have a concern regarding the environment and the future of the planet. The reference by which this media project is managed is as follows:
The Columbia River is an international waterway. In the wake of the ongoing radioactive spills at Hanford Site in eastern Washington, the governments of Canada and British Columbia must exercise their rights as legal interveners so that they can closely examine, and if need be, take legal action against any possible negligence associated with the spill. They must be present as interveners in order to protect the Columbia River and associated eco-systems and species. By not representing the interests of Canadians and British Columbian’s these governments and their elected officials and employees may be the subject of legal action from citizens and communities.
“Hanford has become an international problem and it has created further questions about how radioactive waste in North America is managed presently and in the future – radioactivity knows no boundaries,” said Don Elzer.
To learn more about this campaign contact Don Elzer
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