Nuclear waste train through Germany Wednesday
German source:
http://www.ahaus-online.de/index_cm.asp?page=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eahaus%2Donline%2Ede%2Fsites%2Fnews%2Fnews%2Ddetail%2Easp%3Fid%3D34981596
The activists in the industrial Ruhr region and the neighbouring Münsterland area bordering on Holland say the Castor casket containing the waste will come from the power stations Stade near Hamburg and most likely also Grohnde on the Weser River south of Hanover.
They give the likely route as Bielefeld-Hamm, Paderborn-Soest-Hamm and then Lünen-Waltrop-Recklinghausen-Duisburg. Via Münster is also a possibility. All these areas are densely populated.
The activists claim that every Castor casket contains significantly more radioactivity than an Hiroshima bomb.
A demonstration is planned by the railway line in Waltrop on Tuesday, 14 December, from 6 p.m. against “nuclear waste tourism through Europe”.
Waltrop also lies at the southern motorway route for the planned nuclear waste transports from Dresden to Ahaus, more than 600 km from east to west Germany. These have been postponed until after May ( http://germany.indymedia.org/2004/11/99412.shtml).
The demo will begin at the Kiepenkerl-Brunnen in Hagelstrasse in the pedestrian mall. From there the protesters will move to the old railway station (alter Bahnhof) directly by the transport route. “We’re knotting a net against the Castors” is the motto.
Anti-nuclear initiatives from the Münsterland are supporting the demonstration, with protesters expected from within a radius of hundreds of kilometres.
The groups are protesting in particular against the silence of the state government of North-Rhine Westphalia, consisting of Social Democrats and Greens, against these nuclear transports.
German and French anti-nuclear activists are still in uproar about the death last month of 21-year-old French protester, Sébastien Briat, killed in Alsace by a waste train he was trying to stop.
That train carried 12 Castors from La Hague to Gorleben, a village in north Germany, for storage, guarded by thousands of police along the way and opposed by thousands of demonstrators, especially along the last 20 kilometres by truck.
Germany has a contract with France to take back German waste processed in La Hague and a similar one with Britain for German waste treated in Sellafield.
For the full English coverage of this year’s Gorleben campaign on German IndyMedia see http://germany.indymedia.org/2004/11/99450.shtml.
They give the likely route as Bielefeld-Hamm, Paderborn-Soest-Hamm and then Lünen-Waltrop-Recklinghausen-Duisburg. Via Münster is also a possibility. All these areas are densely populated.
The activists claim that every Castor casket contains significantly more radioactivity than an Hiroshima bomb.
A demonstration is planned by the railway line in Waltrop on Tuesday, 14 December, from 6 p.m. against “nuclear waste tourism through Europe”.
Waltrop also lies at the southern motorway route for the planned nuclear waste transports from Dresden to Ahaus, more than 600 km from east to west Germany. These have been postponed until after May (
http://germany.indymedia.org/2004/11/99412.shtml). The demo will begin at the Kiepenkerl-Brunnen in Hagelstrasse in the pedestrian mall. From there the protesters will move to the old railway station (alter Bahnhof) directly by the transport route. “We’re knotting a net against the Castors” is the motto.
Anti-nuclear initiatives from the Münsterland are supporting the demonstration, with protesters expected from within a radius of hundreds of kilometres.
The groups are protesting in particular against the silence of the state government of North-Rhine Westphalia, consisting of Social Democrats and Greens, against these nuclear transports.
German and French anti-nuclear activists are still in uproar about the death last month of 21-year-old French protester, Sébastien Briat, killed in Alsace by a waste train he was trying to stop.
That train carried 12 Castors from La Hague to Gorleben, a village in north Germany, for storage, guarded by thousands of police along the way and opposed by thousands of demonstrators, especially along the last 20 kilometres by truck.
Germany has a contract with France to take back German waste processed in La Hague and a similar one with Britain for German waste treated in Sellafield.
For the full English coverage of this year’s Gorleben campaign on German IndyMedia see
http://germany.indymedia.org/2004/11/99450.shtml.
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Ergänzungen
Statement by Münster area groups:
“From 2008 the worked-over atomic waste is to be transported ‘back’ among other to the Ahaus interim storage.
“If the Red-Green state government wants to prevent atomic transports to Ahaus it must now also clearly protest against the atomic waste transports to France.
“Their only purpose is to prepare for late storage in Ahaus and Gorleben.
“But by remaining silent and looking away the state government is just trying to sit out the explosive issue. That is unacceptable.
“We expect the NRW state government at last to make clear statements on the atomic transports through NRW and the exit from the Ahaus storage depot.
“It is again evident that the state government is not addressing atomic policy and so negligently endangers people along the railway lines used and in the western Münsterland region.
“We will persistently continue our protests against the failed atomic policy in NRW and to struggle for the immediate exist from atomic energy.”
Signatories: Kein Atommüll in Ahaus; Aktionsbündnis Münsterland gegen Atomanlagen; Widerstand gegen Atomanlagen (WIGA) Münster; Münsteraner Bündnis “Stoppt Atomtransporte!!”
NRW state government ignoring open letter
"Despite a clear pledge that there would be an answer, it is still awaited. The state government did not anser earliert letters, either.
"For the anti-atomic initiatives this is yet another sign that there is no systematic course in the atomic policy of the Red-Green state government.
"There is no clear concept in Düsseldorf within the coalition on how to begin the atomic exit in the Münsterland.
"If the public pressure gets too big, as in Ahaus (site of an interim waste storage hall), small concessions are made but no long-range political direction is recognisable.
"That is why the opponents of atomic power expect binding answers to their questions of October:
"Why can't the state government say clearly that it will completely stop storage in the interim depot in Ahaus?
"Why can't the state government publicly reject the massive extension of the Gronau uranium enrichment plant?
"Anyone who wants the atomic exit should implement these minimal aims without delay."
More information, in German, at www.bi-ahaus.de.
Two demonstrations are being called for next week:
Waltrop, 14 December, 2 pm, against planned rail haulage of waste from north Germany through NRW to La Hague, France, due to pass through east Westphalia, the Ruhr area and southern Münsterland in the early hours of 15 December.
On 19 December, 2 pm, at the Ahaus waste depot (Zwischenlager Ahaus)the next Sunday Stroll, on the 10th anniversary of Sunday Strolls. The anniversary will be celebrated.
Contact:
Felix Ruwe (BI Ahaus)
Matthias Eickhoff (Wiga Münster)