Paul Rolly wrote a great article on Sunday, (read it before it disappears), featuring a silly one liner from Steve Creamer which should stick in the minds and craws of all Utahns and make them demand answers for how this man got permission to exploit us. I challenge anybody to find one out of a hundred people in this state, (not including contributors to this blog), who wouldn’t be stunned to find out that years before Mr. Creamer got the contract to bring increasingly dangerous radioactive waste here, (through a corporation which had to change it’s name to Energy Solutions because the previous name became associated with corruption), he convinced some of Utah’s great leaders to approve projects here which turned out to be some of the most costly and outrageous failures to date.

In Sunday’s column, which illuminates the seriousness of Utah losing any media which would hold our leaders to account – a very real prospect these days – Rolly goes after a local program on K-TALK radio called “Red Meat Radio” saying:

Red Meat Radio’s hosts are Sen. Howard Stephenson and Rep. Greg Hughes, both R-Draper, who claim they are “setting the record straight” while actually promoting a narrowly constructed right-wing spin. They provide a scary insight into what would happen if the mainstream media ever goes out of business, as they admittedly wish for, and elected politicians become their own press watchdogs.

Rolly then goes on to recount Creamer’s comment on the program and the subject of this post:

…he boasted that his hazardous waste repository in Tooele County was so safe you could put the dirt from there into your grow box.

The article continues with:

…when a Tribune reporter accurately quoted Creamer’s claim on the program, EnergySolutions’ P.R. machine strongly complained, because she should have known that Creamer meant the dirt would be safe in 100 years, even though he didn’t say that.

Steve Creamer should be more careful about inflaming the outrage of the natives here. I’m happy to use this opportunity to illuminate the unwillfully ignorant or just plain too-young-to-know residents of this state.

From The Utah Division of Archives and Records Service:

In an attempt to improve the interstate, UDOT resurfaced a section of I-15 near Salt Lake City with a synthetic cement called syncrete (1989-1990). Syncrete proved to be less than the superior surface it was advertised to be, and the freeway surface began crumbling shortly after the project’s completion. In the end the UDOT tore out the syncrete and admitted that the experiment had been a failure.

That episode cost Utahs taxpayers many millions of dollars and damaged many cars, but Creamer also ruined the 1989 New Years celebration for some very unlucky Southern Utahns.

From Heal Utah:

On New Year’s Eve, 1988, the $23.5 million Quail Creek Dam failed, sending a 12-foot high wall of water over part of Washington County. The dam failure killed livestock, flooded homes and apartments, destroyed bridges, ripped out roads, deposited silt on farmland, and ultimately wreaked $12 million dollars in damage. Steve Creamer’s engineering firm, Creamer & Noble, engineered the earthen dam.

Obviously Creamer is the perfect choice for any Utah disposal project that will inpact our childrens, childrens, childrens…bleak future.

If any of this garbage is so safe that you can sprinkle it on your breakfast cereal, (and I’m positive I heard some jackass say that), sprinkle it on the breakfast cereal, in the home town, of the people who produce, and benefit from it.