Word: westigard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under a baking 80 degree sun Winona La Duke - Westigard '80, a Native American activist, told the crowd that "what's happening here at Draper Labs has been going on for a long time--we'd been here 40,000 years, and we didn't take uranium out of the land. It took the military industrial complex to do that...
...begun to fund "alternative energy systems," it can only be concluded that they are mere token efforts. They do not make TVA's overall record any less troubling. In this case, "Power to the People" is being generated at too high a price. Winona La Duke Westigard...
...Westigard rightly points out that TVA still depends on coal and nuclear power for most of its energy. However, while I did not intend to imply that the TVA had ceased to rely on environmentally unsound sources of energy, I do stand by my contention that the new directors appointed by President Carter, David Freeman and Richard Freeman, are attempting to restore to the TVA some of its more people-oriented goals, along the lines of the land reclamation projects of the 1930s. (I did not contend in the article that the TVA had evidenced any commitment to the land...
...Westigard states incorrectly, I believe, that TVA is planning 17 new nuclear power plants. There are six currently under construction, but Dawn Ford, chief of the citizen's action office, noted yesterday that they were all begun before either of the Carter appointments were made. There are no additional plants planned. David Freeman, who has labeled the plan for a nuclear breeder reactor a "turkey," has also called for a reassessment of TVA's reliance on nuclear power...
...government is just trying to sell the Indians out," Winona LaDuke Westigard '80, a member of the Logiabwa tribe, said yesterday, adding that the Indians should not have to pay for something that is already theirs...