GNAT sums it up nicely.
“DHS must realize at this point that the whole concept of this lab needs to be revisited. The consequences of the accident scenarios are so catastrophic that I can’t imagine any public official is going to be reassured that the benefits outweigh the risks.”
Read their press release below or download a [...]
Archive for June, 2008
27 Jun
GNAT:Responds to the NBAF’s DEIS
25 Jun
Lawson to Price: Did you read the Patriot Act?
Surprise, Price nevers answers the question. At a massive 342 pages, the Patriot Act violates at least six of the ten original amendments known as the Bill of Rights—the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments—and possibly the Thirteenth and Fourteenth as well. He should just admit it he didn’t read it. Moreover, I wonder [...]
23 Jun
The Long awaited NBAF DEIS is Out
The long awaited Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) was finally released, but folks as usual with the Bush Administration they release something important on a Friday with the hope that no news media outlets will pick up the story. WRAL didn’t let this story slip by.
The report itself is no surprise to Granville Non Violent Action Team (GNAT) says GNAT’s [...]
22 Jun
CDC uses duct tape after possible bioterror bacteria leak
Source: The Altanta-Journal Constitution
CDC action at germ lab questioned
Duct tape used to seal door inside Atlanta facility after possible leak of bioterror bacteria last year.
By Alison Young
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/22/08
At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s new $214 million infectious disease laboratory in Atlanta scientists are conducting experiments on bioterror bacteria in a [...]
21 Jun
Analysis: New report on bio-war lab danger
By SHAUN WATERMAN (UPI Homeland and National Security Editor) Middle East Times
WASHINGTON, June 20 (UPI) — Although the risks of an outbreak from a proposed new U.S. secure bio-defense and agricultural disease research lab are very low, the consequences would be worse at one of the mainland sites officials want than on the island where the [...]
20 Jun
Study: Moving virus research could be costly
By TED BRIDIS, Associated Press Writer - News and Observer
WASHINGTON – An outbreak of one of the most contagious animal diseases from any of five locations the White House is considering for a new high-security research laboratory would be more devastating to the U.S. economy than from the isolated island laboratory where such research is now [...]
20 Jun
SGWASA permit challenged
Last evening at a Public Hearing in Raleigh, the National Pollution Discharge Elimination Systems (NPDES) permit(s) for Southern Granville County Water and Sewer Authority (SGWASA) and several other dischargers who have consistently failed to meet permit requirements and water quality standards were challenged by the Neuse River Foundation as will as several residents from Butner.
Clean Water NC has [...]
18 Jun
Broken Laws, Broken Lives, the report
Now we have documented medical evidence that the Bush administration has committed war crimes, and in this instance the claims of abuse and torture may not be so easliy dismissed by Bush and his co-conspirators. Physicians for Human Rights, an advocacy group based in Cambridge, Mass released today, the most extensive, comprehensive report to date on the treatment of former terror suspects. [...]
