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hi. my name is denise duffield. it s okay, thank you. i am the mom who started the chains dot or petition that now has over 6000 signatures for the folding of the santa susana field lab. you re going to hear a lot today. we ve got a lot of facts. we know the facts. we are all intelligent people here. but i think what is lacking is courage to do the right thing. and so, i wanted to bring you my daughter, my daughter is a two-time cancer survivor at nine years old. can you do it? would you like to go to disneyland today? okay, let s go to disneyland! oh, yeah! are you coming? i m coming too. she earned all these beads during her cancer treatment program. each bead represents something different. for example, red represents when she had a blood transfusion black when she got booked with a needle, yellow for inpatient state, white for chemotherapy. this is what you earned the first month. i d like to share with you what she s earned over the last two times fig ....
Suffer from neuroblastoma did sue boeing, and it settle. and as part of that settlement, will we re no longer allowed to talk to the media, or get involved. if you have a child with cancer, it s very expensive. i know one mother in particular, have i talked to recently, said the family is bankrupt caring for their daughter. so i can understand, if i was one of those mothers, why they might have went with that agreement. and now, several years later, we are seeing new cases of pediatric cancers that are near the site. [inaudible] the report which came out in 2006, that landmark study ended up showing that there is no linear threshold that any level, any level of radio nuke like exposure of that background had an inherent increased risk of cancel cancer. ....
A former environmental aide of the state epa. and the former chief lawyer of the dtsc have all switched sides and worked on behalf of boeing to kill a full cleanup of santa susana. the santa susana laboratory is a complex cleanup. it costs a lot of money. and anytime it costs a lot of money, there s going to be politics at play. that leads to delay. in 2007, there was a consent order signed between the dtsc and the responsible parties that did not establish much of a cleanup standard. it was very weak and it was exactly what boeing wanted. it is based off of people being on the site very infrequently. that would result in 98% of the contamination not being cleaned up. people who live near santa susana do not live in recreational areas. they live in residential areas. all through the 2000s there ....
Was an effort to require a full cleanup. then state senator sheila kuehl who represented the area introduced bill after bill. workers and neighbors have become sick and too many have died. it s time to require full and complete cleanup. i ask for your aye vote. in 2007, she finally got her legislation through. believe it or not, under schwarzenegger there was an actual serious effort to clean up that site. but after governor brown came to office, things shifted very dramatically. boeing, however, went to court to overturn the law and through some exceedingly troubling action by the brown administration, that lawsuit was lost. within five weeks of jerry brown being sworn in in 2011, a secret stipulation was entered into between the state and boeing in that lawsuit. the state of california actually stipulated that they would not contest any material ....
We have very, very strong evidence that the first group of mothers whose children suffered from retinoblastoma did sue boeing and did settle and as part of that settlement were no longer allowed to talk to the media or get involved. if you have a child with cancer, it s very expensive. i know one mother in particular i talked to recently who their family is medically bankrupt now caring for their daughter. so i can understand if i was one of those mothers why they might have went with that agreement. and now several years later, we re seeing new cases of pediatric cancers that are near the site. exposes you to some increased risk of background of cancer, particularly for pregnant women and children. the beer 7 report which came out in 2006, that landmark study ended up showing that there is no linear threshold, that any level, any level of radionucleide exposure above ....