Why Did Christie Whitman Fail to Mention 22 EEOICPA Cancers?
The Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Act of 2000 covers about 400 contaminates sites, including BNL, which became a Superfund site in 1988. But, in violation of President Clinton's Executive Order 13179, BNL and their contractors/partner failed to notify us in 2001 as Clinton ordered. Additionally, BNL managers destroyed documents to conceal environmental crimes; some of which are discussed in Welcome to Shirley. Too late for hundreds of workers and nearby residents, an EEOICPA Petition was filed to make BNL a Special Exposure Cohort (SEC). (I recently filed one for Grumman; a BNL partner on clandestine nuclear weapons/propulsion projects.) In 2010, 10 years after Congress passed the EEOICPA, BNL workers and/or their survivors were finally notified and began collecting millions in benefits -- including $150,000 in death benefits for 22 types of EEOICPA cancers. The BNL website cited in the review by misguided "FPGAEngineer" fails to mention the EEOICPA, as does...
WAKE UP AMERICA
This book (video)should be required reading for every student before they graduate from high school.
It's politics as usual. Unfortunately it is just the tip of the iceberg
The next reading requirement should be "A GOOD DAY HAS NO RAIN" by Bill Heller
The officials watching over us use the same excuses.
If anyone wonders why we have such high cancer rate, they can start with these two episodes.
THE MOVIE THAT CONVINCES US TO SHUT DOWN PILGRIM NUCLEAR
A brilliant, well-researched and accessible account of the dangers and collateral damage from this awful energy source. We must stop the present disasterous course being followed by Obama's adsministration and shut these plants down before another Fukushima can happen---right here in Massachusetts at Pilgrim Nuclear ....and 'Yourtown, USA".
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