- Nuclear Waste Dump by Liora Leah
20 y
1,916 3 Messages Shown
Blog: Mother Earth Heals
Feds approve nuclear-waste dump on Utah tribe's land
On Friday, the Bush administration approved a controversial $3.1 billion plan for a massive temporary radioactive-waste dump on a Utah Indian reservation -- a win for nuclear-power interests. A private firm and the sovereign Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians struck up the agreement for the repository, so the plan has evaded the kind of public review and political debate that's kept the proposed nuclear-waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain in stasis. The Utah facility could come online by 2007, and might ultimately hold about 40,000 tons of spent reactor fuel. The poverty-stricken Goshutes are themselves divided over the plan: some see it as a great moneymaker, but at least one faction says it will dishonor sacred sites and obliterate the tribe's culture. Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. (R) says the state will sue to stop the dump from being built, and environmental groups stand firmly behind him.
straight to the source: The Washington Post, Shankar Vedantam, 10 Sep 2005
straight to the source: MSNBC.com, Associated Press, 09 Sep 2005
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- Enough to shed tears over. by JeSuisButterfly
20 y
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:( We have one in Washington, 30 minutes from where I'll be living. My mother and her fiancé works there to maintain it - the Hanford site. The company once dumped pounds upon pounds of nuclear waste into the natural waterways, and now all of our beautiful lakes and rivers are contaminated. Naturally, it traveled to the sea, and the ucky stuff can be found all along the Oregon coast. The leaves and berries of plants that grow by lakes and streams tested positive for mercury.. and the animals, as well. A Watchdog group visited a town 15 minutes from us to check the dust found in attics - it was 7 points above the accepted radioactivity level. The company just shrugs and replies to the anger with, 'We're safe enough.'
How many other places are in the same predicament? How many are worse off? [Or are they all the same because whether it's ten pounds or 10,000 pounds, it's all bad?]
It is a sad, sad thing how we humans taint the natural beauty of Earth. How much energy do we use to complete the projects and ideas that are spurred on by greed? What if we used that same amount of energy to clean up Earth and correctly care for the BEings that live upon Her?
I am sorry, Great Mother Earth. :(
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- Re: Enough to shed tears over. by Liora Leah
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| I agree, it is sad, and more than sad, a national trajedy and disgrace. Mother Earth will cleanse herself, though, and that is what She's doing now with all of the "natural disasters"--they're not "disasters" in Her eyes! Love, LL
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