Accelerated cleanup at Hanford? Faster, cheaper?
by Paige Knight, May 30, 2002

Leave waste in many of the tanks and put up a fence? How can a fence prevent lethal waste from ruining our Columbia River? If you want answers to these questions, if you want to stand up for this region and speak of what you hold dear about life in the Pacific Northwest, please join us for the annual Hanford budget meeting -- only this time there is no budget -- just plans that fly in the face of the Tri-Party Agreement to cleanup up Hanford.

This is a crucial time for river-lovers, fish-lovers, and all of us who treasure living near the Columbia to let our voices be heard. Without your voice, decisions will be made to undo the progress we are beginning to see. We have been promised a waste treatment plant, we are nearing the start of construction, and again it is beginning to look like the decisions of the recent past will hit the shredder.

When: June 4th, Tuesday evening from 7 to 10 p.m.

Where: Oregon State Office Bldg., 800 NE Oregon St. near the Lloyd Center in Portland.

For more information contact HANFORD WATCH @503-232-0848 or the Oregon Office of Energy @ 1-800-221-8035.