The EPA may Kill You with Radiation
April 5, 2011, Submitted by: Ken Tweet
A very harsh headline, I know. But their current proposed actions will translate to that reality in the longer run. The EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, an agency who’s supposed reason for being is to protect the environment and the people that live within it, are trying to pull a fast one on the American public.
Similar to other government agencies who simply and boldly ‘adjust’ their numbers to suit their purpose, so too will the EPA attempt to change the numbers with regards to radiation exposure.
Our wonderful government… if the unemployment numbers don’t look good, they blatantly change the way the unemployed are counted, a methodology that has changed quite a few times over the years to keep the ‘official’ number looking lower than it actually is.
Our wonderful government… if the Consumer Price Index, inflation, is beginning to look higher than it should, they simply remove certain key categories from the measurement so that the ‘official’ number looks lower than it really is. After all, who actually is affected by food and energy prices, right?
Our wonderful government… if the radiation levels in the air, food, and water across the U.S. might increase due to a seemingly unstoppable radioactive fallout from Japan, they simply raise the ‘acceptable’ numbers so that they can continue to copy-and-paste the same summary response on their Japan Nuclear Emergency webpage of daily updates, which read, “EPA’s RadNet radiation air monitors across the U.S. show typical fluctuations in background radiation levels. The levels detected are far below levels of concern.”
Just move along folks – nothing to see here – keep spending and consuming – nothing to worry about…
According to PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility), the new standards would drastically raise the levels of radiation allowed in food, water, air, and the general environment.
PEER, a national organization of local, state, and federal employees who had access to internal EPA emails, claims that the new standards will result in,
- 1000-fold increase for exposure to strontium-90
- 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for exposure to iodine-131
- 25,000-fold rise for exposure to radioactive nickel-63 in drinking water
- Allow long-term cleanup thresholds thousands of times more lax than previous
Collapsenet, who first reported the details of the new EPA action, said,
Under long-established EPA policy, in conformity with long-accepted international standards on “acceptable” amounts of radiation, these proposed changes would increase the permissible amounts of radiation to levels where…
25% of those exposed to these “new acceptable levels” would develop cancer based on the EPA’s own numbers.
Once the EPA publishes the changes in the Federal Register, it is a done deal. EPA deliberations are not discussed in public or debated in Congress.
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Just do not use the “new acceptable levels” with the EPA for anything. Hopefully though they will give the public the correct numerical levels of contaminates of something and not just tell everyone it is within “acceptable levels”. As long as we know the honest totals of something, we can use the old levels or levels that are considered safe in European countries and what we learn is safe on this web site and other responsible web sites as guidelines and then do not buy products that you might think are unsafe.
As I have said on many other posts, I do not feel that this Japanese disaster is the problem. Anyone outside 1000 miles from the plant are not going to likely have many problems. What I am worried about is that the EPA has these higher levels of acceptance of poison that are going to start to affect us in the US from what the good guys can do to protect the workplace and from food processed here that has been infected from natural forms of radiation right here in this country. Forget radiation from Japan, the US has all sorts of non-disaster sources of radiation that would now be okay for everyone to ingest and be exposed to. Also what are other non-radioactive sources of toxins are going to be raised to “higher safety levels” like pesticides.
I think that EPA and those in government feel that a potential disaster from radiation is very possible and they want the level of “safety” to be raised as high as possible. A higher level of acceptance of radiation means that the radius of evacuation would be less during a disaster. It sure is easier to move 10 miles of people out from some radiation calamity than it would be to move 50 miles of people out.
This is why this web site and others that search out the truth and attempt to give out truly safe and unsafe figures for what everyone needs to know is so valuable. This allows you, me, and everyone else to use their own discretion during the BAD TIMES that seem to be in some sort of continuous cycle that is not ending anytime soon for this world.
The problem with us not using the new “standards” is that corporations, will use them in the spirit of caveat emptor and with the understanding that they have contributed to successfully establishing a nation of amnesiacs. So no tuna for me unless it’s on the shelf now. Living in the Northwest I continue to be stunned by the lack of understanding of the impact of nuclear waste being dumped in the ocean on our fishing industry hear. So the EPA, one of many Eunuchs created of late by our Oligarchy, is just acting ahead of the curve to make legitimate dangerous goods soon to be in a supermarket near you. The decline and fall of the American Empire is not a pretty site. All hail Caesar. That glow above your head may not be a halo. Invest in Rogaine. Peace be upon you.
Unfortunately I agree with the frightening prospect of corporations using the new acceptable standards for radiation. What I meant was not using the new stardards for your own personal information. Just wait until those new standards apply to a whole spectrum of toxins, like what is sprayed for bugs on so called “organic” food. Makes you want to go somewhere far away, like a nice island and grow everything yourself.
Quick question, does EPA already raised radiation safe level? or just planning to raise?