Feds plan nuke waste depot on Indian land

[lovuian]

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=eb46fb4fb50c9976

A controversy concerning radioactive waste storage has developed at the Goshute Indian Reservation in Skull Valley, Utah.

The dispute involves a Nuclear Regulatory Commission plan to create the nation's only private nuclear waste storage facility on the Indian reservation, located near an Air Force bombing range, The Christian Science Monitor reported Thursday.

The plan is being opposed by Utah's entire congressional delegation, the state's governor and various environmentalists.

"Our position is this represents public policy at its absolute worst," Mike Lee, general counsel to Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. told the Monitor. "What these people want to do is take spent nuclear fuel and put it above ground in casks in a valley that's located 40 miles immediately upwind from Utah's only population center. To make matters much worse, this aboveground, open-air facility lies immediately under the low-altitude flight path of 7,000 F-16s a year en route to a bombing range," he said.

But the chairman of the reservation, Leon Bear, has been seeking ways to support his tribe and saw the project as a source of badly needed income.
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I wonder how the pro Bush Utahians feel about Bush now... :rofl:

[RoyGBiv]

1. Side-bar ...

Just how bad do one's circumstances have to be to court a deal in which an open-air nuclear waste storage facility will be built on your land? Every time I turn around and am nothing actively thinking about it, something like this comes along and makes the case made in _A Little Matter of Genocide_ seem all the more plausible.

[Erika]

2. W's done great at socking it to the reddest states

He knows they would vote R if Hitler or Satan was on the ticket.

[Mythsaje]

3. And for some reason this reminds me

of the movie "Thunderheart."

[shadowknows69]

4. Just in case we didn't screw the natives enough

in the 16th-20th centuries

[kineneb]

5. time for American Indians to stand up for their rights

Are not reservation lands sovereign? Time for the locals to meet them at the "boarder" and keep the waste out. Haven't we done enough to the Indians? It worked for a while at Alcatraz, and now the place is a park.

[Toots]

7. It sounds like the Indians are accepting money for doing it.

They are not the ones complaining..:shrug:

[goforit]

6. This man is satan.