On the banks of the mighty Columbia river in WA state is a nuclear reactor facility that produced the majority of nuclear material for our cold-war weapons effort. It has been shut down now for around 20 someodd years, and is the focus of one of the largest super-fund clean up sites in the US. However, since the clean up began IN 1942(!) not ONE DROP of nuclear waste has been removed from the site. Nuclear waste is stored in 500,000-1,000,000 gallon tanks underground and it was released the other day- in the back page of the newspaper- that one of the tanks is leaking.

This facility produced plutonium by a process in which nuclear material rods were dissolved in chemical baths under heat and pressure and then the plutonium was removed from the 'soup' by more chemical processes. The waste material represents the ENTIRE SPECTRUM of radioactive, fissionable isotopes- including cesium and strontium that mimic things like calcium, and once in the body, migrate into bones and tissue unnoticed by the body's defense systems, causing cancer and cell breakdown. The areas around the plant have long been found to have contaminated groundwater and cancer rates are highly disproportionate in the 'downwinder' community.

The material stored in these tanks cannot be used in any other processes. it is waste composed of all the deadly radioactive isotopes mixed in with a chemical soup that is composed of everything from mercury and strong acids to sugars and salt, and everything in between! And it is leaking into our groundwater. This is not a potential disaster, it is an ongoing tragedy. It is overlooked by the media, who made it a back-page story while the horrible tragedy of a bunch of cruise ship passengers having a crappy vacation was extensively covered at the same time.

Apparently, the city in Russia that had a meteorite explode above it is a similar site and was the site of a disaster in the 1950s involving the explosion of a 50,000 gallon tank of similar waste. The 500 square mile area around that site is still uninhabitable and wont support any life.

Relating this to this site- I am posting here because I believe that DMT is trying to tell us the importance of healing this planet. It comes from a geographical area that emanates a large part of Earth's healing energy in the form of botanicals- think of all the disease fighting drugs produced from natural sources only found there. It also is an area that needs our healing attention; but the substance is showing us the true symbiotic nature of life and the fact that our tech is alien to this planet, and we must survive it.

I urge you to write your reps if you live in this area, to write the bastards in DC who uignore this, to write to news agencies and ask why they ignore it, and if you can, to support people who are trying to do something about it, like www.hanfordwatch.org/

Please help, a disaster like what occured in Russia would be an event that could not only wipe out a chunk of the PNW, but the resulting fallout could literally cause an extinction size disaster.

Wonderful. Living 15 minutes from Blaine I am pretty close to that mess. Can canadians stil complain?

The PNW contains some of the most bio dense rainforest on the planet. The densest of the PNW coast rainforst on the central BC coast, the "spirit bear" rainforest is the number one most bio dense temperate rainforest on the planet..it is literally the amazonia of temperate forests.

For this reason alone the US government shoudl get thier act together and protect this whole area from the rainforest of northern california right up through BC to the boreal foreests of alaska. If the this area goes it will effect the rest of the planet. It is a ver important and often overlooked ecosystem. Everyone knows about the amazon but most people dont know about the PNW rainforest.

The idea that humans just let radiation flood our environment this way is pretty saddening.

Terrible, but not at all surprising.

Brought to you by the U S government and General Electric, one of the worlds largest polluters (nuclear and otherwise) who's slogan was, ironically, We Bring Good Things To Life.

http://www.cleanupge.org/gemisdeeds.html

Hanford is leaking? When hasn't it?

Ha really! Well there was atiny article in the Oregonian -on the back page of Metro, sayin that a large, car size hole has been discovered in one of the huge holding tanks for this waste. You are right, like I said, this has been goin on for years, and is the dirty little secret of the PNW. People scream about salmon runs, clearcuts etc, but you hardly ever hear about Hanford.
BTW, I posted this same thing on the shroomery and it resulted in a flame war between a guy who picked apart my post on a semantic level and another dude who fixated on the dmt mention.SAD.

Cynical, but realistic.



Superfund is a joke, to appease the public into thinking industry is actually regulated in regards to pollution of the environment, and the government has the power to make them accountable/clean up the mess.

I get micro alumina sprayed over my rural high sierra town for rain seeding purposes, so the farmers in the valley can suck up more water in their monoculture petrochemical fueled "food" production.

The few who care and know/do anything about these problems are few and far in-between, with very little if any power to do anything about it.

Humans will get what we have coming, it will be painful and slow unfortunately. But balance will be restored.