Op-ed in the Star-Telegram, written by Peggy Hendon and Linda Hanratty.
Peggy Hendon is president of the League of Women Voters of Tarrant County. Linda Hanratty is the group’s environmental chairwoman.
See Beyond Nuclear's public comments, posted at our Repositories website section.
See the backgrounder, "WIPP History: The Forever WIPP Expansion & the New Shaft Permit Modification," dated July 20, 2020, posted at the CCNS (Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety) website.
The WIPP site is only 16 miles from the proposed Holtec/ELEA highly radioactive waste consolidated interim storage facility (CISF). And just 40 miles from there, is the Waste Control Specialists national "low" level radioactive waste dump, and propsed CISF, in Andrews County, west Texas, immediately upon the New Mexico border at Eunice. This attempt to turn the majority minority State of New Mexico, and the majority Hispanic and Native American southeast of NM, into a national radioactive waste sacrifice zone, is an outrageous environmental injustice. Learn more about the CISFs at our Centralized Storage website section.
ComEd customers in Illinois have filed a class action lawsuit to demand at least $150 million compensation
Commonwealth Edison customers have filed a civil racketeering class action lawsuit (RICO) against Illinois Speaker of the House Michael Madigan, (pictured in 2013) Commonwealth Edison Company, ComEd’s parent Exelon Corporation, and others, including former executives of ComEd. The Plaintiffs seek in excess of $150 million from the Defendants, an amount they were forced to wrongfully pay to ComEd for delivery of electricity.
The suit also seeks to exclude Madigan from any legislative activities involving electricity matters affecting Commonwealth Edison and Exelon, and for Madigan to be prevented from continuing to Chair the Democratic Party of Illinois and “running it as a corrupt organization”. ComEd has already admitted it paid bribes to associates of Madigan in return for favorable legislation. Read more.
Ohio’s high-profile bailout of nuclear plants is just one of several questionable schemes between lawmakers and energy companies.
Ireland, Nigeria and Niue commemorated Hiroshima Day by ratifying the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). This means the Treaty needs just 7 more ratifications to reach the necessary 50 to become international law. The Treaty will enter into force 90 days after the fiftieth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession has been deposited.
The Treaty was adopted on 7 July 2017 by the United Nations conference to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons, leading towards their total elimination, held in New York from 27 to 31 March and 15 June to 7 July 2017.
The TPNW includes a comprehensive set of prohibitions on participating in any nuclear weapon activities. These include undertakings not to develop, test, produce, acquire, possess, stockpile, use or threaten to use nuclear weapons.
The Treaty also prohibits the deployment of nuclear weapons on national territory and the provision of assistance to any State in the conduct of prohibited activities. States parties will be obliged to prevent and suppress any activity prohibited under the TPNW undertaken by persons or on territory under its jurisdiction or control.
The Treaty also obliges States parties to provide adequate assistance to individuals affected by the use or testing of nuclear weapons, as well as to take necessary and appropriate measure of environmental remediation in areas under its jurisdiction or control contaminated as a result of activities related to the testing or use of nuclear weapons.
August 12, 2020