Nuclear Waste Storage Proposal Faces Stiff Opposition

As reported by KUNM's Melorie Begay, re: the NRC's public comment meeting in Albuquerque.

Leona Morgan of NISG (Nuclear Issues Study Group) is quoted in the coverage:

Leona Morgan said as an indigenous person, she sees the project as an example of environmental racism. It directly affects people of color and low-income people and it’s not fair, she said, that the state’s most vulnerable populations should be have to live with the waste facility. 

“Just because people want to get rid of the waste where it’s at, doesn’t mean it’s okay to bring the waste here and to put everyone in danger along the way,” she said...

Leona Morgan said she did not consent. “The railroad just also happens to pass by two of our sacred mountains so the transport impacts to cultural resources is one of my main concerns.”