ML20059E052
| ML20059E052 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Claiborne |
| Issue date: | 12/27/1993 |
| From: | Marrs V AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC |
| References | |
| RTR-NUREG-1484 NUDOCS 9401100226 | |
| Download: ML20059E052 (3) | |
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for birth defecte and other illnesses, im==diate area, much less in nead>y reason our facility is so well accept II8sner or two., paeshes away in is because people have taken time to j
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...s I against, Suppisemental Fuela Inc. 'Jto drift down on them,"Sallivan Street dents also are scared to speak out firr.
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ponents of Lou 6 steam Basegy Serviece' *
!s going to aseaft of the Claiborne pla' nt
, :.4 plans to buik!'a urn 4 shinent Toney Jahrriton = ' --- for$.
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pl:nt in centrailClaiborne Parish.
l But while South L'onimians protests I Homer-based Citizens Against No-ainee it was announced more four -
have spread frqm rural plant site clear Trask, agrees. Herseid protestain. yeare ago. The 60 or ao members of' af4C41ff have turned to the national me,'
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the proposed laulsCna plant planta that eque=9
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l Residenta of the North louisiana un-have that gatform of er giana yet to., tag =mdar tactxs with more public2:ed,
incorporatedienesteenttice of' Forest work fhan, Johnston sad."Thipeople resuha. About 65 of them have formed a l
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Resic ents claim plants discriminate in se ecting sites sy culms HEYEN handling lant with.
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Residents of four small com-application is being
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two in North considered by the munities leuisitna, two more in state Department of to locate plants that res cents say South - are fighting sum,the lar Eavironmentai coukt be aangerous.
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borne Pariak's Center Springs Officials with both protest plans to build potent!alty haz-ardus plants near their communttles.
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Grove and their sites are with-I b e r v il1 e in predominantly black commu-Alfred heads Neighbors Assist-
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nities, but der-that race was a ing Nei hbors, a group of about Gabriel and factor in tJ site selections. 65 peo who have orgamzed to T m repn Cerville, envi.
Louisiana largy officials have fight Supplemental Fuels.
Jr. to arrange environmente ronmenta1 said they chone Claibome, in A sinaar Homer-based group, justice hearings throughout th part, because it has a low risk of Citizens Against Nuclear Trash, state. The rogram is being f recism is not a buzzword but tornadoes and its ground is sta-has been battling louisiana En. nanced wi
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"These plants should be
^E822C7-deal with ev-t an Mary Boyd also noted the spread out equally," Alfred said.
But Jose Rodriguez said a~
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'" e "They say Altrod state's enterprise rene program.
DEQ Secretary Kai Midboe this study and debate won't re lace the pond where everyon the land is which has been offering tax in-said he is unaware of disenmi. pinhed when he moved i cheaper. The only thing that centives to industries for more nation in the department's per.
makes land cheap in a black than a decade, mit-granting procedures.
- 1f Carville about 25 years ago.,
community is racism,"
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"The very policy encourages there has been willful discrimi. half-dozen plants have bee built amund the area in the pp Gabnel resident leroy Alfred development in economically nation, we' want to know be.
said from the kitchen table of disadvantaged areas?
cause we will correct it.-
quarter-century.
his brick home one of few in the Said plemental Fuels at.
Midboe said his department 7ow the fishing hole doesn area dominated by small wood-torney B Treeby: "The envi. has called on representatives of even have birds around it an; freme homea. *A cotton field is a ronmental racism issue in local industries and citizens' more, he said, cotton field?
Iouisiana is just misplaced. gmups to meet on a regular be-
"Everything is dead now. Yo Supplemental Puels Inc. is try-They never studied it. They just sis to study the issue.
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ing to erect a hazardous waste-assumed it exists?
And he's hired Frank Alexis that?
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