One Utah

The bill presented to the Utah legislature to allow Envirocare to double its size by empowering the legislature to override Governor Huntsman’s opposition to Envirocare’s expansion is the wrong idea at the wrong time. Whatever the balance of power between the legislature and the governor, Envirocare is already in the catbird’s seat.

With paid (redundant) lobbyists elected to the legislature, and other groups favoring the money-making and money-grubbing bunch who inhabit Capitol hill, Utah-style, the last thing we need is special legislation helping Envirocare along its way to establishing Utah as the nuclear waste dump of choice for the entire United States. Our money, their pockets. For a few thousand years’ half-life (the lifetime of the so-called “depleted uranium” now buried in our State) under “class A” categorization. Like my microwave, ya.

Is this whole state for sale? Where is the public outrage? The united efforts of politicians after big bucks who yet want to be on the “right side” of the nuclear waste issue to center on the Goshute plan, is an outrage. Anybody seen a lobbyist for the Goshutes on Capitol hill?

The Governor is opposed to enlarging Envirocare. He’s right. I oppose Envirocare’s continued presence in our state, let alone their expansion, for their pollution of our land, our water, our air, and our politics. The bill to give the legislature power to override the governor on the issue of Envirocare’s expansion is a classic example of the wrong law at the wrong place in the wrong time.

Ed Firmage
Salt Lake City, Utah

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