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January 5, 2024
Four upcoming events in Santa Fe: a) volunteer mtg Monday, Jan 8, 11 am; b) City Council mtg Jan 10, 6 pm; c) study session re new LANL power line Jan 11, noon; c) public meeting re power line, 4 pm
(Previous letter, (01/01/24): Discussion in Santa Fe tomorrow, Tuesday 1/2/24, 6 pm, St. John's United Methodist Church; other meetings this month; "Call for Sanity" and City of Santa Fe resolution status
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Good afternoon!
We hope you are all doing well, and a warm welcome to the new people on this list!
"Local" resistance to the new nuclear arms race is visibly building. As you know, the U.S. cannot even pretend to conduct such a race without the plutonium warhead core ("pit") factory at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), so I (Greg) have put "local" in quotes.
- We will have a volunteer work meeting in the Community Room of the Main Public Library in Santa Fe (145 Washington Ave., map) from 11 am to 3 pm Monday, January 8. We will be working on recruiting endorsers for the "Call for Sanity, Not Nuclear Production." Come one, come all! Bring a cell phone if you have one, otherwise a pen! As of this writing we are up to 147 businesses and organizations and 692 individuals.
- Please come to the Santa Fe City Council meeting at City Hall (200 Lincoln Ave., map) on Wednesday, January 10, at 6 pm to show your support for a City resolution opposing all pit production at LANL. After the 1/1/24 installation of new city councilors, only Jamie Cassutt remained to support the original resolution. Previous citizen testimony and displays of interest at the City Council have really made a difference.
These two good articles will give you an update on most recent developments:
We have met with the Mayor and will be meeting with councilors Cassutt and Castro soon. See the above articles for more on how that is going. We are pleased with the increasing attention on Santa Fe's plight. That attention -- local, national, and international -- is likely to increase. We all can help.
- On the next day, Thursday Jan. 11, we will have a noon study session in Santa Fe, location TBD but probably Chomp (505 Cerrillos Road, map), re LANL's proposed new transmission line across the Caja del Rio. THEN, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is hosting a public meeting about this power line at 4 pm at Santa Fe Community College (6401 Richards Ave., map).
It seems most people don't know that this power line, part of LANL's effort to double its electrical supply capacity, is all about nuclear weapons. We will send out more information and talking points about the power line in the coming days. In the meantime see:
- Energy officials grant more time to comment on LANL power line plan, Scott Wyland, Santa Fe New Mexican, with comment by me (Greg), Dec 28, 2023 (click on the logo to go to original)
- Public Meeting, Supplemental Comment Period Announced For Proposed LANL Transmission Line Upgraded Project, DOE/NNSA news release, Dec 27, 2023
- Critics, delegates call for more time to comment on power line," Scott Wyland, Santa Fe New Mexican, with several excellent comments at on line, Dec 23, 2023
- Scoping comments on the proposed EA for the Electrical Power Capacity Upgrade Project (EPCU) at LANL and the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF), LASG, May 21, 2021
Opposition to this unnecessary power line is widespread but that doesn't mean it won't be built. It will take more than public comments to stop it, yet it certainly can be stopped.
If you can go in person on the 11th, it would be important to do so even if you know little or nothing about the proposed power line.
More soonest, and best wishes to all,
Greg
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