Not until April did the MEQB decide that the proper scope should include behavior outside Minnesota if it occurs because of the line and causes impacts in Minnesota. The fight for a safe and responsible energy future continues raging. But the nice thing about powerlines is that even though the legal system is designed to give power companies what they want, and even though most bureaucrats and politicians don't know the difference between a kilowatt and a megawatt hour, when all is said and done, powerlines still have to cross our land. Henshaw found that alternating electric fields within 100 yards of powerlines increase human uptake of naturally occurring radioactivity, and also of traffic pollutants. Hence the cancer.
Children are particularly susceptible.
The North American Water Office appeal of that abhorrent decision was rejected by Minnesota s indolent and timorous Supreme Court. Prairie Island now has storage capacity to last until 2007. If NSP can ship Prairie Island waste to the Skull Valley Goshute reservation in Utah, Yucca Mountain in Nevada or anywhere else out side of Minnesota by then, Prairie Island will operate until 2013-2014, barring an increasingly likely catastrophic component failure. Opposition to NSP s private dump at Skull Valley remains intense both within the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe and the State of Utah. Mobil Chernobyl legislation to ship waste to a parking lot next to Yucca Mountain in Nevada has been defeated yet again, and as more is learned about Yucca Mountain, the less suitable it is as a repository site.