CHOICEPOINT - California's Water & Radioactive Waste - updated
Channel: eon3
Date: 2015-12-25

In 1989, a small group of Californians –including Phil Klasky, Ward Young, Rachel Johnson, Pam Dake and EON Co-Director Mary Beth Brangan - helped begin a movement to stop a planned nuclear waste dump at Ward Valley in the Mojave Desert near the Colorado River.

It would have endangered the water supply of Arizona, Southern California and Northern Mexico.

Considered by many a hopeless cause, the movement grew to include scientists, environmentalists and the region's Native American tribes.

After a ten-year battle, and the powerful involvement of Native American tribal organizers, a judge’s ruling in 1999 brought an end to the planned dump.

This film - produced in 1992 & re-mastered from an archival copy - tells the story of that successful movement’s beginning.

Its analysis of nuclear waste issues is as relevant today as when it was first released.