Boulder's former Deputy Mayor Lisa Morzel
Here's part of the video of the May 3, 2011 Boulder, Colorado City Council meeting when they gave up their longtime resistance to the proposed Jefferson Parkway and gave their go-ahead to start plowing up the dirt at Rocky Flats, the former town-sized nuclear bomb factory 8 miles South of Boulder, in trade for a deal for more open space land.
Then-Deputy Mayor Dr. Lisa Morzel, a volcanologist working for the USGS, misrepresents what the background level of plutonium is in our area.
Dr. Morzel says "Background levels are 35 picocuries [per gram of soil]" It's easy to find online (or from any expert) that the real background level is .04 picocuries (for example, see here, under 3. Rocky Flats.) She says this to misleadingly show that the federal government's claimed cleanup level of 50 picocuries per gram is almost to background level, when it is actually 1250 times higher! (50 divided by .04)
Both Dr. Harvey Nichols and Dr. Leroy Moore, likely the most knowledgeable people in the world about Rocky Flats, asked Dr. Morzel for a correction, but she refused to do anything until I made this webpage. She claims she finally made a correction late during a council meeting about a year after this lie, but angrily refused to tell us which meeting and at what time so that we can confirm that from video.
The truth is crucial, because these plutonium particles are the optimum size (down to tenths of a micron, at least) to stay in the air and be distributed beyond the weapons plant (even without the Flats' regular 80 MPH winds, dust devils and occasional tornadoes) and to be possibly inhaled and retained in people's lungs. Plowing through this dirt is a reckless gamble. Cancer would be a likely risk for many road workers, and possible downwind in the Denver metro area.
It's impossible to detect Plutonium with a Geiger radiation meter under field conditions as compared to in the lab. See here. So nobody can know what radiation levels exist where they're digging down.
It's not too late to stop this atrocity! Just a few days ago the town of Superior, just downwind of Rocky Flats, filed suit for a real Environmental Impact Statement. I urge anyone in the world -as you are all potential victims- to contact the Boulder City Council and demand they redo their decision on the basis of actual science, not lies: council@bouldercolorado.gov Or call them:
Mayor Matt Appelbaum- 303-499-8970
Deputy Mayor Lisa Morzel- 303-815-6723
Suzy Ageton- 303-442-5726
Macon Cowles- 303-638-6884
Suzanne Jones- 720-633-7388
George Karakehian- 303-218-8612
Tim Plass- 720-299-4518
Ken Wilson- 303-999-1931
The movie No Water to Waste is about the whole development plan, especially the water element. The Plutonium part starts 20 minutes in.
For background here is the complete, uncensored Rocky Flats Grand Jury Report
Plutonium was a rare trace mineral on earth until it was first produced in quantity by mankind in 1945, expressly for more efficient atomic bombs. It can burst into flame on contact with air and is a heavy metal poison as well as being highly dangerous when in direct contact with mammalian tissue. A single particle lodged in the lungs will radiate the cells next to it for the rest of one's life; after decades cancer is likely.
If the City Council wants to make the same decision, with the deadly health implications, they should do it on the basis of facts, not ignorance or faith in federal misinformation. Remember that far less egregious lying in the so-called "Climategate" emails was a main factor in the public turning against climate science, and the US blocking a treaty to stop climate catastrophe. Millions will die as a result.
This is just one reason why I've come to regard Boulder as a world center of greenwashing. More to come...
The truth is crucial, because these plutonium particles are the optimum size (down to tenths of a micron, at least) to stay in the air and be distributed beyond the weapons plant (even without the Flats' regular 80 MPH winds, dust devils and occasional tornadoes) and to be possibly inhaled and retained in people's lungs. Plowing through this dirt is a reckless gamble. Cancer would be a likely risk for many road workers, and possible downwind in the Denver metro area.
It's impossible to detect Plutonium with a Geiger radiation meter under field conditions as compared to in the lab. See here. So nobody can know what radiation levels exist where they're digging down.
It's not too late to stop this atrocity! Just a few days ago the town of Superior, just downwind of Rocky Flats, filed suit for a real Environmental Impact Statement. I urge anyone in the world -as you are all potential victims- to contact the Boulder City Council and demand they redo their decision on the basis of actual science, not lies: council@bouldercolorado.gov Or call them:
Mayor Matt Appelbaum- 303-499-8970
Deputy Mayor Lisa Morzel- 303-815-6723
Suzy Ageton- 303-442-5726
Macon Cowles- 303-638-6884
Suzanne Jones- 720-633-7388
George Karakehian- 303-218-8612
Tim Plass- 720-299-4518
Ken Wilson- 303-999-1931
The movie No Water to Waste is about the whole development plan, especially the water element. The Plutonium part starts 20 minutes in.
For background here is the complete, uncensored Rocky Flats Grand Jury Report
Plutonium was a rare trace mineral on earth until it was first produced in quantity by mankind in 1945, expressly for more efficient atomic bombs. It can burst into flame on contact with air and is a heavy metal poison as well as being highly dangerous when in direct contact with mammalian tissue. A single particle lodged in the lungs will radiate the cells next to it for the rest of one's life; after decades cancer is likely.
If the City Council wants to make the same decision, with the deadly health implications, they should do it on the basis of facts, not ignorance or faith in federal misinformation. Remember that far less egregious lying in the so-called "Climategate" emails was a main factor in the public turning against climate science, and the US blocking a treaty to stop climate catastrophe. Millions will die as a result.
This is just one reason why I've come to regard Boulder as a world center of greenwashing. More to come...
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