NL Contamination in
Colonie, NY:
Press
conference, site videos
Rough
clips from Dec. 5, 2007 press conference
and visit to NL Industries site
Documentary
sketches were filmed by Wes Rehberg
(c) 2007 Wild Clearing
Featured here is a 6-minute video sketch
of a visit to the NL Industries site in Colonie, NY, with a
Community Concerned about NL Industries organizer and a former resident
found to be contaminated by depleted uranium The organizer is Tom Ellis
and the former resident is Tony Ciarfello.
If you can't play the
video
sketch below, a Google version is available at
our DU blog (click) where you'll also be able to view a video
of the 48-minute press conference outlining the findings. A
higher-resolution version of the press conference is viewable on this web page.
SUMMARY: A
biological study by Randall Parrish of the NERC Isotope Geosciences
Laboratory in the UK and others has detected depleted uranium and in
one case
enriched uranium in former workers and those who lived and worked
nearby the Colonie, NY, NL Industries plant, where depleted uranium
munitions cores were produced decades ago. To read the "Science and the
Environment" article on the research, click
here.
The video
sketches here will be edited as part of the documentary, yet under
production,
called "Contaminated Forever"
To view other documentary preview clips, basically rough as well, visit this web page ...