01/31/2013
In this long posting
I'm quoting Tarabull's post of 05/14/2010:
Lachlan Cranswick -
Thread #3 [Archive]- Page 2, about 1/2 inch down scroll bar:
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-103784-p-2.html
Note: This article was published on the
global research.ca website, but the original publication shows it was picked up from a publication of
The Canadian. The article is no longer available on The Canadian website, nor does Wayback Machine have it.
(Thank you, tara, for capturing it for us. I believe it
may contain a hint of possibly
why Lachlan was targeted and
when he stuck his head above the barricade.
It is apparent to me that this article is
misleading in showing a date of "Dec 5." without the year.
globalresearch.ca published this article 01/20/2010 - 2 days after Lachlan disappeared but allegedly no report had been made to law enforcement or made public at that time.
The referenced "Dec. 5" and the leaks had to have been in 2008
tarabull 05-14-2010, 04:05 AM
Radioactive Water from Nuclear Plant contaminates Ottawa River
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17104
January 20, 2010
Harper government allows 7,000 litres of potentially carcinogenic waste water to be dumped in major Canadian waterway
The Stephen Harper's government lack of social responsibility on environmental matters has once again surfaced through an immediate public health threat.
A radioactive spill has occurred at the aging Chalk River nuclear reactor west of the nation's capital
after the facility was recently cranked up to double its normal output of medical isotopes, used in diagnosing and treating cancer,
Sun Media has learned.
The Conservative Party handling of this public health threat is grounds in itself to out them through a non-confidence motion.. The reactor
is supplying up to 70% of the world's medical isotopes, and a shutdown
could leave millions of cancer and heart patients in Canada and around the globe without critical treatments.
But the radioactive spill and another ongoing leak at the reactor are bound to spark renewed controversy over the safety of the nuclear facility built in 1958.
An internal report to federal nuclear regulators shows radioactive tritium was released into the air
during the incident at the Chalk River reactor on Dec. 5.
Atomic Energy of Canada officials running the 51-year-old apparently defective reactor reported they managed to contain another 800 litres of contaminated water now being stored in special drums.
The report alleges there was no threat to the health of workers at the reactor, and officials say the tritium released into the air posed no significant danger to the surrounding environment.
***Nonetheless, after a brief shutdown, the reactor has continued to operate at full power, even though Chalk River officials admit they don't know what caused the leak, and say it could happen again.
***
(This had to have referred to Dec. 5, 2008 because in 2009, the year immediately preceding this publication, the reactor had been completely shut-down since 05/15/2009 and on Dec 5, 2009 was not releasing anything because welding was still being done inside the reactor. )
Documents indicate officials at Atomic Energy took four days to report the spill to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.
Even then, the spill proved to be five times larger than what the officials initially reported.
They didn't go out of their way to inform the public, either.
A press release about the brief shutdown of the reactor in December made no mention of a spill, only "unanticipated technical challenges."
Radioactive water leak in the human drinking supply of water
Meanwhile, another part of the reactor has sprung a water leak from a 2.4-inch crack in a weld. That leak has not been repaired since it was first reported more than six weeks ago. Instead,
technicians are simply pumping water into the unit to replace the estimated 7,000 litres a day
spewing from the cracked seam.
(not in 2009 they weren't !)
In answer to written questions from Sun Media, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission said the leaking water from the failed weld has "a very low level of radioactivity" and is not a safety concern.
The water is being dumped into the Ottawa River.
As the Sierra Club documents, since its creation in 1944 as part of the allied war effort to develop the atomic bomb, Chalk River Laboratories has become Canada’s most contaminated nuclear site, threatening the drinking water of millions of Canadians living downstream, including the residents of the nation’s capital, Ottawa.
Aside from its research activities, the site’s operator, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), runs several radioactive waste management and disposals sites, housing Canada’s largest inventory of radioactive wastes, including both solid and liquid low-, medium-, and high-levels wastes. During Chalk River Laboratories early years, radioactive wastes were handled carelessly, leaving widespread radioactive contamination at the site.
AECL has consistently tried to overlook and play down the long-term financial liabilities for cleaning up and decommissioning Chalk River Laboratories, defying the Auditor General for eight years running on the questions of adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles for its future liabilities. AECL has proposed cleaning up Chalk River Laboratories over the next 300 years, estimating the cost of such a clean up at $ 2.6 billion.
The mounting piles of waste at Chalk River should be of concern for all Canadians – the federal government has given AECL $ 17.5 billion over the past fifty years to produce nuclear waste through its program to research and design CANDU reactors. Now, fifty years later, AECL will expect Canadians to pay billions more for the clean up of its research activities at Chalk River with no promise of a total clean-up for another 300 years.
Because AECL is dependent on public subsidies for its survival, it should be the public and not AECL who decide what comes first – AECL’s commercial activities or environmental protection. Isn't it about time to clean up Chalk River nuclear fiasco, along with apparent political economy of government corruption?
(end of article)
Please note paragraph 6 - quote:
" An internal report to federal nuclear regulators....."
We know from studying Lachlan's website that he was extremely safety conscious. Did he become so troubled by conditions at the reactor i
n Dec/2008 and its continuing to be run without regard to them that he took the drastic step of reporting the specifics of the situation directly to the regulators
? This article, imo, leaves the implication that the internal report was not passed up through the channels of hierarchy prior to its receipt by the regulators.
I could be wrong about that.
Was this internal report to the regulators in Dec/2008
when Lachlan stuck his head above the barricade and
why he became a target
????
In March of 2009 the new position of Communications Manager was created and Daniel Banks was assigned to the Neutron Beam Centre unit where Lachlan worked. As I understand it, all communications between scientists and the media had to pass through this Communications Manager's hands for editing, denial or approval and submission to the next higher authority for consideration.
Was this creation of the new 'watchdog' position 2 months later a result of the "internal report to the regulators" in Dec/2008?
How disturbing it must have been for an experienced genius such as Lachlan to have that mediocre 'watchdog' critique his work....the watchdog who described Lachlan's mood and conduct on the last day anyone saw him as, "normal,
as far as that goes". In later reprints of that same statement the last phrase was omitted. I can see why; it speaks volumes!
Incidentally (or co-incidentally ?),
March, 2009 is also the month that S/Sgt Ron Gignac, formerly chief of the OPP station in Pembroke until 12/31/2007, left his position of one year duration (03/2008-03/2009) as Asst Manager of Security at Chalk River Labs
and became a member of the Deep River Police Dept as a constable. At the time of his resignation from OPP at end of 2007, RG's annual salary was $4000 more than that of the DRPD's chief for that year.
RG resigned from the DRPD in late Feb. or early March of 2011 after his 2 year employment there. It was reported at that time that Const. Darin Faris was attending training to fill the position of sergeant left vacant due to Gignac's leaving. Yesterday's search shows that Gignac currently lives in Petawawa.
After reading the above, please post any different perspectives you may have, and/or needed corrections to anything you see is in error.
Thanks all,
dd2
