 Sandia and Los Alamos National
Laboratories
Our labs have had the mission
of designing and maintaining the United States’ nuclear weapons arsenal for
more than sixty years. Both labs have
played a significant role in out nation’s security. New Mexico’s labs have also provided thousands of jobs and
currently employ almost 20,000 people.
America’s leadership in science and technology is in no small part due
to out labs and the New Mexicans who work there.
New Challenge for New Mexico and the United States
Recent events nationally and
internationally have confirmed the need for a new approach to national
security, one that is more long-term and comprehensive in scope. New Mexico is committed to promoting
renewable energy. We now ask the labs
to support those efforts by helping to create the new security needed for the
twenty-first century.
A New Role For the Labs
To meet the challenge of
creating new security for our country, we ask out labs to tackle head-on two
monumental efforts:
·
To create greater energy
independence for the United States. By reducing our reliance on unstable
foreign oil, energy independence will also create thousands of new jobs in
renewable energy and provide new technology that will help keep our air
breathable and out water drinkable.
·
To clean up radioactive and
chemical contaminants in our water supply and landfills that threaten
precious groundwater resources. Unique to New Mexico and other weapons
facility states, this new national security also means using the labs’ technology
to clean up waste and contaminants caused by years of nuclear weapons
production and waste storage and disposal by Sandia and Los Alamos National
Laboratories. This contamination
threatens current and future drinking water supply.
We Can See The Future
By
redefining the mission of our national laboratories and utilizing their
scientific and human resources, we can turn New Mexico into the center of the
country’s renewable energy industry; create thousands more high-wage jobs;
move the United States into a new era of safe and clean energy production
independent of foreign oil; and clean up the dangerous toxins in out water,
soil, and air that threaten the health and safety of New Mexico’s families.
We
need Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories to take leadership today by
prioritizing the technology to create renewable energy and clean up our
contaminated water supply. Our labs
can once again take the lead in creating a more secure America, and a more secure
New Mexico.
New Mexico SEES
New
Mexicans for Sustainable Energy and Effective Stewardship (NM SEES) is a
nonpartisan, statewide organization of civic leaders, scientists, academics
and citizens. Our purpose is to
promote renewable energy technology and hazardous waste clean up for New Mexico,
and the national laboratories’ mission and leadership role on those vital
interests.
New Mexico SEES seeks to
create exemplary public participation; high standards for state enforcement
of waste clean up; and a shift at our national labs from nuclear weapons
programs towards renewable energy and waste clean up.
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