West Texas nuke waste dump gets go ahead
Image via WikipediaIn a move decried by environmentalists, state regulators decided late Thursday to schedule a vote that could allow three dozen states to dump radioactive waste in Texas.I blame Harry Reid. If he were not blocking the Yucca Mountain site, there would not be a need for the West Texas site. The approval does show taht Texas is big enough to work around the environmental wackos and find a safe place to store industrial nuclear waste. This is a lot safer than storing it on site and it will be much easier to keep it secure and away from terrorist.
The Texas Compact Commission set a Jan. 4 meeting to decide whether to expand how much low-level radioactive waste could be processed at a dump in remote Andrews County, in far West Texas. The announcement came as environmentalists and critics on the commission accused regulators and a politically connected company of rushing the proposal past Texans who are too focused on the holidays to even notice.
The public comment period on the proposal ends Sunday. The timing could also be designed to get support from two commissioners from Vermont, which has an agreement to deposit waste at the facility.
"It's too much, too soon, too fast," said Bob Gregory, a commissioner who opposes the expansion plan. "This whole thing is absurd. Why are we having a comment period at midnight on the day after Christmas?"
Michael Ford, chairman of the commission, said the rule has been under review for more than a year.
"We've been working on this rule for 16 months," Ford said. "That does not meet my definition of rushed."
Waste Control Specialists, whose majority owner is Dallas billionaire and political donor Harold Simmons, wants state regulators to approve its proposal to allow low-level radioactive waste at its West Texas dump site from three dozen states. As it stands, the compact site can only get waste from Texas, Vermont and the federal government.
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Andrews County is in red on the map above.
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