Attorney General Healey, you just won millions of dollars for the Commonwealth on the VW Mitigation Trust. In your testimony to the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) about what to do with the millions you just won for MA, you did not mention Pilgrim. Couldn't you mention nuclear power, as you did fossil fuels, solar and wind?
Do you all tell your children and grandchildren that nuclear power is clean, green and renewable? "It's just a lie and we've had plenty", borrowing from Holly Near in "No More Genocide."
Would you be willing to live near a nuclear power plant, getting the radiation from the plant 24/7? Would you want your children and/or grandchildren to live near a nuclear power plant?
Do you tell your children and grandchildren that radioactive waste lasts hundreds of thousands of years, even millions of years and there is no place to store it? Is that the legacy you want to leave to our children, grandchildren, their children and more than seven generations out into eternity?
Do you tell your children and grandchildren that the NRC is funded for the most part by the owners of the nuclear power plants, as it says here and here.
Would any of you want to be the person who must tell parents and grandparents that their child has leukemia or another form of cancer?
Cornelia Sullivan asks this, "How would you like to be the parents or grandparents in agony watching your children or grandchildren dying from leukemia or another form of cancer?"
In an op-ed on 5/10/2014 in Cape Cod Today Mary Lampert, founder and director of Pilgrim Watch, and co-chair of the Town of Duxbury's Nuclear Advisory Committee, writes, "Study: Increase in radiation-linked cancers around Pilgrim" "Tobacco Science" versus fact." "A review of Massachusetts Cancer Registry data shows that Plymouth (from 2002-2009) has a statistically significant increased level of leukemia, at a 95% probability level. This means that there is, at most, a 5% chance that the difference between the observed and expected cases of leukemia is due to chance. There also is a statistically significant increased level of prostate cancer, another radiation linked disease.
"For the previous two decades, the Massachusetts Cancer Registry shows the "footprints" of radiation linked disease (leukemia, thyroid cancer, multiple myeloma and prostate cancer) in the seven towns most likely to be impacted by Pilgrim - Carver, Duxbury, Kingston, Marshfield, Pembroke, Plymouth, and Plympton. The Cape is downwind from Pilgrim much of the year. It, along with southeastern Massachusetts, has the highest cancer rates in the state. There has not yet been a study to determine if radiation emissions from Pilgrim are the missing variable to explain the high cancer rates there.
"A major case-control study by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in 1990 (MDPH) found a four-fold increase in adult leukemia the closer one lived to or if one worked at Pilgrim. Pilgrim did not like the results and cut a political deal allowing it to appoint a second peer review panel to re-review the study and write a report. Even Pilgrim's hand-picked panel concluded that, "The original study team adhered to generally accepted epidemiological principles" [And] "the findings of the study cannot be readily dismissed on the basis of methodological errors or proven biases" [and last]"the association found between leukemia and proximity to the Pilgrim nuclear facility was unexpectedly strong".
"Spin-doctors cannot raise the dead or make the sick well. If the dead and sick with radiation-linked diseases are significantly more prevalent near Pilgrim than in communities distant, the conclusion seems obvious."
I add to Lampert's words: The situation can only have become worse in the intervening years from the study until now, with more cases of leukemia and other cancers.
PLEASE, HEAR MY CRIES FROM MY HEART. THANK YOU
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