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29-Feb-2004
Salvage Logging Is a
Costly Fraud by Dr.
Arthur Partridge
Professor Emeritus,
College
of
Forestry
, Wildlife and Range Sciences,
University
of
Idaho
EPA
Warns Against Much Biscuit Logging Both
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently added
their heavyweight opinions to those urging that
the Forest Service scale back plans to log 518
million board feet of timber in the Biscuit burn
- an amount equal to the entire annual Forest
Service harvest in all of Oregon and Western
Washington
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13-Feb-2004
next time it could be Ebola ..
and the 'dead animals' could be dead people
Do you think it
odd that although this incident took place over
the weekend that you're just now reading of it
in the newspapers, 3 days after the
closing date for comments on this same facility
being made into a Level 4 Biolab?
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10-Feb-2004
Two
items suggested for your immediate consideration
(if you haven't already commented on these matters):
A Biosafety Lab 4 planned for Hamilton on 4th
Street and will be responsible for researching
"dangerous/exotic agents which pose high risk
of life-threatening diseases." (DEIS, 1-5).
Included in the list are: Ebola, Encephalitis,
Marburg Fever, and Mad Cow disease.
If you have already sent in your comments then we
request that you send in a supplemental comment
addressing the following issue:
It is imperative that everyone get on the record
in their comments that the citizens of the
Bitterroot Valley have been illegally denied
information that will allow them to fully and
meaningfully participate in the National
Environmental Policy Act process, and that you
request
an extension of the deadline for comments until
such time that we receive the documents that we
are entitled to by law.
The NIH is illegally withholding that information
and other important documents relating to the
proposal.
In our Freedom Of Information Act request we asked
for all documents and correspondence relating to
the NIH memo that states "The RML campus is
located in rural western Montana, well removed
from major population
centers. The location of the laboratory reduces
the possibility that an accidental release of a
biosafety level-4 organism would lead to a major
public health disaster."
Other talking points on which to comment:
1. No emergency plan included in the Supplemental
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
2. Emergency services support-financial, etc.
3. Released, stolen, or lost agents or toxins are
prohibited from being
made public, stated in Homeland Security Act.
4. Increased use of the incinerator to burn
medical/infectious waste
5. Air pollution analysis
6. Inventory of toxic chemicals proposed to be
used onsite
7. No analysis of the risks posed by an
accidentally infected lab worker.
8.Alternatives - which are absolutely standard in
EIS’s - were not provided.
9.Potential income to the local government from
payroll taxes
10. Solid waste stream expected from the proposed
lab
11. Conflicts between the proposed projects and
the
goals of the Ravalli County Growth policy
12. Noise (and lights?) at nighttime
13. Purposeful release
14. Increase traffic in residential neighborhood
15. Potential target by terrorist
And many more...
Email your comments to
Valerie Nottingham
Orsrmleis-r@mail.nih.gov
By mail:
Valerie Nottingham
National Institutes of Health
9000 Rockville Pike
Bldg. 13, Room 2W64
Bethesda, MD 20892
ACT BEFORE THE MORNING OF
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH AT 10 AM EASTERN STANDARD
TIME
New battle heats up over (nuke) hot waste [if
you don't act on the Hamilton Level 4 Bio lab,
don't be too surprised if Uncle Sam has one of
these installed in Ravalli County, too-
Ed.]
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The
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Rejected
for guns, pilots criticize test One
pilot, a retired Air Force colonel and fighter
wing commander responsible for multimillion-dollar
jet fighters, said he was allowed to carry his
pistol aboard military aircraft. "The
USAF considered me psychologically sound enough to
be directly responsible for nuclear weapons,"
the pilot wrote. "Yet a TSA psychologist has
determined I am unreliable to carry a weapon in my
own airliner."
[Arm
those pilots! We really prefer this approach! -
Ed.]
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