Ex-FBI Agent Charges Feds With Radioactive Coverup at Rocky Flats

Ah, the environment: Liberal domain of stewardship, coveted by cash-greedy conservatives industry-wide; the resource they most love to waste.

According to an article in Grist Magazine (online), it seems that the developing of Colorado's ex-nuke site, Rocky Flats, into a wildlife-refuge will leave it scalding hot but you - eager for a respite of natural trails and wildlife - weren't supposed to know that, ever.

Now why would the Department of Justice seal records of this 1989 case to avoid such information being known?

What concerns attorney Balkany the most is that the Rocky Flats cleanup could be used to fuel the myth that nuclear waste can be safely handled. "I believe the main goal of the DOJ and the nuke industry at Rocky Flats is greenwashing. It helps both nuclear power and the nuclear-weapons industries to convince people that industries and government can deal with their waste in a safe way," she said.

This could be of particular interest to the Bush administration, given that just last week, in President Bush's first newspaper interview since his reelection, he told The Wall Street Journal of his hopes to spark a nuclear-power renaissance, glorifying nuclear power in ways that many would deem delusional: "I believe nuclear power answers a lot of our issues," he said. "It certainly answers the environmental issue." He later added: "It's a renewable source of energy." Who's ever heard of renewable energy that creates cancer-causing waste?

"Just watch," said Brever. "They're going to hold up Rocky Flats as the nuclear-waste success story, the flagship. It's going to happen all over the country: Washington is going to make nuclear-waste dumps into plutonium playgrounds."

Next stop, Nevada?