Post by bodiless on Mar 16, 2014 14:02:03 GMT -5
I am copying the article here, read in the Longview News Journal today,(but it is NOT in the online version):
LUBBOCK--Texas officials in the nation's least populated county want to store used fuel from the state's four reactors--and possibly from other sites--in a business venture they believe could bring jobs and billions of dollars to the region.
Loving County Judge Skeet Lee Jones said he's met with elected officials at the local, state, and federal level and all are supportive of the effort to build a site that would store spent nuclear fuel rods in Far West Texas.
"When we first mentioned it, there was a little hypertension," Jones said of the county commissioners' reaction when the subject was broached about a year ago. "After we learned how it'd be taken care of, the benefit of having one is much greater than the risks involved"
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UGH time to write some letters to some commissioners if they haven't all been bought up yet. A quick search through local archives produced this: (much to my surprise)
Nuclear waste project withdrawn
Monday, November 21, 2011 4:00 am
EL PASO — Community opposition has deterred an Austin company from building a nuclear material storage site in Hudspeth County.
Judge orders hearing on Texas nuclear waste dump
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 5:41 pm
AUSTIN — A judge has ruled the state's environmental agency should have held a hearing about potential harm to residents prior to licensing a West Texas radioactive waste dump.
Texas site begins taking low-level nuclear waste
Friday, June 7, 2013 4:00 am
ANDREWS (AP) — Republican mega-donor Harold Simmons’ remote hazardous waste dump in West Texas began accepting low-level radioactive material Thursday from a federal lab in New Mexico — the latest step in Simmons’ vision of a site that accepts all types of waste.
Judge orders hearing on West Texas nuclear waste dump site
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 4:00 am
AUSTIN (AP) — A judge ruled Tuesday that Texas’ environmental agency should have held a hearing about potential harm to nearby residents prior to licensing a remote radioactive waste dump owned by a top Republican contributor — and ordered that such a hearing now take place.
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Texas company could bury first nuclear waste in April
Monday, March 19, 2012 9:00 am
LUBBOCK — Trucks carrying low-level radioactive waste from 38 states will likely be rolling along Texas highways as early as April, bound for permanent burial at a dump near the New Mexico border.
Nuclear waste transport across Texas likely to begin in April
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:00 am
LUBBOCK — Trucks carrying low-level radioactive waste from 38 states will likely be rolling along Texas highways as early as April, bound for permanent burial at a dump near the New Mexico border.
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Radioactive waste expansion passed
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:00 am
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would allow a West Texas nuclear waste facility to import materials with greater radioactivity from other states while encouraging the export of lower-level materials out of Texas.
Lawmaker resurrects radioactive waste bill
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:00 am
AUSTIN (AP) — A Republican lawmaker resurrected a radioactive waste bill on Tuesday that once signed into law would allow a West Texas storage site to accept more hazardous materials from out of state.
Radioactive waste bill faces opposition
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:00 am
LUBBOCK (AP) — People living nearest to a radioactive waste dump site in West Texas would be barred from challenging the company operating the facility under a bill that opponents say further caters to the business.
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Activists protest nuke waste plan for Texas
Friday, December 24, 2010 12:00 am
AUSTIN (AP) — In 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.
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FIRST I'VE HEARD OF THIS
LUBBOCK--Texas officials in the nation's least populated county want to store used fuel from the state's four reactors--and possibly from other sites--in a business venture they believe could bring jobs and billions of dollars to the region.
Loving County Judge Skeet Lee Jones said he's met with elected officials at the local, state, and federal level and all are supportive of the effort to build a site that would store spent nuclear fuel rods in Far West Texas.
"When we first mentioned it, there was a little hypertension," Jones said of the county commissioners' reaction when the subject was broached about a year ago. "After we learned how it'd be taken care of, the benefit of having one is much greater than the risks involved"
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UGH time to write some letters to some commissioners if they haven't all been bought up yet. A quick search through local archives produced this: (much to my surprise)
Nuclear waste project withdrawn
Monday, November 21, 2011 4:00 am
EL PASO — Community opposition has deterred an Austin company from building a nuclear material storage site in Hudspeth County.
Judge orders hearing on Texas nuclear waste dump
Tuesday, May 8, 2012 5:41 pm
AUSTIN — A judge has ruled the state's environmental agency should have held a hearing about potential harm to residents prior to licensing a West Texas radioactive waste dump.
Texas site begins taking low-level nuclear waste
Friday, June 7, 2013 4:00 am
ANDREWS (AP) — Republican mega-donor Harold Simmons’ remote hazardous waste dump in West Texas began accepting low-level radioactive material Thursday from a federal lab in New Mexico — the latest step in Simmons’ vision of a site that accepts all types of waste.
Judge orders hearing on West Texas nuclear waste dump site
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 4:00 am
AUSTIN (AP) — A judge ruled Tuesday that Texas’ environmental agency should have held a hearing about potential harm to nearby residents prior to licensing a remote radioactive waste dump owned by a top Republican contributor — and ordered that such a hearing now take place.
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Texas company could bury first nuclear waste in April
Monday, March 19, 2012 9:00 am
LUBBOCK — Trucks carrying low-level radioactive waste from 38 states will likely be rolling along Texas highways as early as April, bound for permanent burial at a dump near the New Mexico border.
Nuclear waste transport across Texas likely to begin in April
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:00 am
LUBBOCK — Trucks carrying low-level radioactive waste from 38 states will likely be rolling along Texas highways as early as April, bound for permanent burial at a dump near the New Mexico border.
1 image(s)
Radioactive waste expansion passed
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 4:00 am
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would allow a West Texas nuclear waste facility to import materials with greater radioactivity from other states while encouraging the export of lower-level materials out of Texas.
Lawmaker resurrects radioactive waste bill
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 4:00 am
AUSTIN (AP) — A Republican lawmaker resurrected a radioactive waste bill on Tuesday that once signed into law would allow a West Texas storage site to accept more hazardous materials from out of state.
Radioactive waste bill faces opposition
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 4:00 am
LUBBOCK (AP) — People living nearest to a radioactive waste dump site in West Texas would be barred from challenging the company operating the facility under a bill that opponents say further caters to the business.
1 image(s)
Activists protest nuke waste plan for Texas
Friday, December 24, 2010 12:00 am
AUSTIN (AP) — In 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.
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FIRST I'VE HEARD OF THIS