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NUCLEAR POWER PLANT THREATENS THERMAL POLLUTION IN LAKE MICHIGAN 
A nuclear power plant under construction near Zion threatens Lake Michigan with thermal and nuclear pollution, 
according to a complaint filed in circuit court by United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of 
America and lakeshore property owners. 
Commonwealth Edison’s Zion Nuclear Complex, scheduled for completion in 1973, will be returning the water 18 to 
20 F. degrees hotter than the lake temperatures. This will accelerate the growth of algae, and deplete the water’s oxygen 
carrying capacity. The suit charges Commonwealth Edison with refusing to install a safe system for the protection of the 
lake. 
Chicago Sun-Times 9/24/69. 
Conservationists are finally making themselves heard. The December issue of the Illinois Rural Electric News carries 
this report: 
“Technical difficulties and opposition of conservationists are delaying 46 of the nation’s new power plants, equally 
divided between conventionally fueled and nuclear generating stations. This is the recent testimony by Federal Power 
Commission Chairman John Nassikas before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Another witness, A.E.C. Chairman 
Glen Seaborg, cautioned that ‘‘unsubstantial fear-mongering’’ and ‘‘hysteria’’ are contributing to the possibility of 
widespread power failures in the future.” 
He maintained that such hysteria is unjustified. ‘“The environmental problems associated with nuclear energy are 
manageable,’’ he said. “With good planning and work we can have safe, clean and reliable nuclear power, as much of it as 
we will need.”’ 
But the F.P.C. Chairman, Mr. Nassikas, testified seriously, ‘‘We are in the midst, perhaps only on the threshold, of a 
rising tide of public opposition toward environmental acceptibility of new electric facilities.” 
PRE-CONVENTION TRIP TO PRAIRIE CHICKEN BOOMING GROUNDS — May 1 
Reservations should be made now for those who wish to use a blind for observing the prairie chickens’ booming 
on the Bogota sanctuary. Birders must be in the blinds by 4:00 a.m. and remain there until 7:00, so as not to 
disturb the chickens. 
Visitors usually stay overnight in Newton or Olney (stop and see the famous white squirrels and visit Robert 
Ridgeway’s Bird Haven) and there are comfortable motels in both towns. 
|.A.S. members who wish to see the prairie chickens, (and the other species of grassland birds that occur on the 
sanctuaries) should write to: J. W. Galbreath, 14 Bonanza Dr., Centralia, Illinois 62801. 

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ALLERTON PARK IS NOT SAVED YET 
The problem of Allerton Park is not yet resolved. The Army Corps of Engineers is still ‘studying’ things, refusing agreement 
to a solution when they met in the fall with the City of Decatur, the University of Illinois, and Governor Ogilvie. 
And the state has modified its original proposal with a new plan calling for 626 foot level (instead of the original 621). 
This would bring some of the ‘permanent’ pool within the park and cause permanent damage by flooding for extensive 
periods. The State has also reduced its proposed ‘greenbelt’ along the lower Sangamon from 22,000 acres to 10,000 acres. 
This is a sad thing to do to Abe Lincoln’s Sangamon River. Do we really need a dam? 
Alice Palmer, Chairman 
State Affairs Committee 

