FBI Agent: Rocky Flats ExNuke Plant Unsafe for wildlife Refuge

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Rocky-Flats-Nuclear.html

FBI Agent: Rocky Flats ExNuke Plant Unsafe for wildlife Refuge
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 2:53 a.m. ET

DENVER (AP) -- An FBI agent who said he was ordered not to discuss his role in a 15-year investigation of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant warned Wednesday against creating a wildlife refuge at the site, saying it would be too dangerous.

Jon Lipsky, who led a 1989 raid on the plant after being tipped off about secret illegal burning of radioactive waste, said he was ordered by superiors to abandon his plans to talk about the investigation at a news conference.

The news conference was called to discuss a report written by former Rocky Flats employee Jacque Brever accusing the Department of Energy of lying about the extent of contamination at Rocky Flats, about 10 miles west of downtown Denver.

The department plans to convert the site into a wildlife refuge in two years after a $7 billion cleanup is complete.

Brever's report said so much radioactive waste was disposed of clandestinely at Rocky Flats that some contaminated areas are not part of the cleanup.<snip>

[StClone]

1. Are they saying

That it is to dangerous for people or wildlife? Wildlife may be already there and exposed unless they are looking to develop it for waterfowl or other habitat improvement that would attract animals.

[papau]

2. I would not fish or hunt there.

:-(

[eleny]

3. Heck - houses have been built so close over the years

It's appalling.

[travisleit01]

5. For people...

I lobbied in Washington DC with these people this past March. Rocky Flats is scheduled to be turned into a wildlife refuge with public access, including use by school kids. That place is tremendously unsafe, and when you hear the coverups as told by Wes McKinley (grand jury foreman) and Jacque Brever (former worker) it sounds like Erin Brockovich.

I pray they don't go through with their plan to open it up... fence it off and be done I say.

[F.Gordon]

4. What a bunch of BS

My 3-Headed, 6-Legged Dog is quite healthy.
:evilgrin: