Conejo Post

From reading emails of the Rocketdyne Information Society, a Yahoo Discussion Group, it seems like Christina Walsh and William Bowling have ruffled a few feathers in their quest to start a new Community Action Group (CAG) to get involved with the Rocketdyne cleanup.  (Please see previous post of 1-23 for more information.)

Some other groups or individuals active in the efforts to clean up the Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL) site may not  want Walsh’s and Bowling’s organization, the American Cancer Museum of Education (ACMELA) and the folks that back them, to have more weight in the dialog between community, state and federal agencies, and the current landowner, Boeing.   This is an opinion on my part, and I would love to be dissuaded from it, because I think there is room for as many community activists as possible in the effort to remove and/or mitigate toxics at the old rocket testing site.

One reason I believe this is that the Conejo Post received a comment to the blog’s 1-23  Rocketdyne CAG post, that we decided not to publish.  It contained three negative comments about ACME that were not backed with facts, had a non-existant email address as a reference, and originated from a site that makes the source anonymous.  If someone is dealing in facts, why all the subterfuge?

 I support Walsh and Bowling and hope that the Department of Toxic Substances (DTSC) approves the formation of their new CAG soon.  My plea to everyone involved is, “Let’s all work together!  This is a group effort to make the SSFL site as safe as possible!” 

Posted by Janna Orkney