One Utah

I note that John McCain’s brief (three hour) trip allowed only a short version of his “speech,” given now for three years, raking in half a million dollars for the campaign, and a long talk with Steve Creamer, owner-head of the only private nuclear dump in the United States, and the only company with the [...]

It is apparent that Utah is for sale. Our state is the only state in the Union now identified as being willing to continue as the nation’s nuclear dump site, and now the world’s site as well, without protest and defensive acts by our political leaders.
What will Virginia do with its nuclear leftovers? It doesn’t [...]

Everybody loves Utah’s national parks, and being lucky enough to live in Utah means we have time to appreciate equally amazing wildlands in between the parks. The week before last, I went to visit the backcountry south of Canyonlands and north of Natural Bridges.
About 150 years ago, the Deseret News called this part of [...]

Today, the Utah Senate voted 23-6 in favor of Senate Bill 155, exempting EnergySolutions from the oversight of the Legislature, the Governor, and Tooele County for any nuclear waste expansion on its current dumpsite.
SB 155 carves out exemptions to state law specifically for EnergySolutions so that the company can undergo massive expansions without getting the [...]

After sixteen pages of ads and some news of various sensibility, the Salt Lake Trilbune with its new ownership, informs us that EnergySolutions wants to add 83 feet of nuclear material…..That’s eight stories high, folks, all above ground, better to reach and to serve you. Through your water, in your air, and in the ground [...]

After sixteen pages of ads and some news of various sensibility, the Salt Lake Trilbune with its new ownership, informs us that EnergySolutions wants to add 83 feet of nuclear material…..That’s four or five stories high, folks, all above ground, better to reach and to serve you. Through your water, in your air, and in [...]

This is amazing. I wrote this post a month ago.
Looks like I was pretty pissed when I wrote it. (I hate war and death). These talking-points-parrots…It’s SO un-original anymore.
So apparently (or serendipitously) someone in Eastern Idaho (probably googling Hitler) alerted this editorial writer (probably members of the same brotherhood) for The Davis County Clipper that [...]

If you are reading this post, you’re probably old enough to have developed some level of hardened cynicism. But you are also an exception at some level because you are reading this post.
You probably also know that Orrin Hatch makes decisions based exclusively upon what will get him re-elected. He is after thirty years possibly [...]

Background
Private Fuel Storage L.L.C. (PFS) plans to build and operate a for profit, centralized, away-from-reactor, high level nuclear waste facility for up to 40 years on the Skull Valley Band of the Goshute Indian Reservation. This site is less than 50 miles from downtown Salt Lake City. In February, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued [...]

When: Friday, April 28 at 12 p.m.

Where: State Office Building Auditorium
(North building at the Utah State Capitol, first floor)
Why: To raise public awareness and say “No Way!” to high-level nuclear waste storage less than 40 miles from the Wasatch Front. Join elected officials and community leaders in encouraging Utahns to write the Bureau of [...]

Dear Concerned Citizen,
A matter of statewide importance is being brought to our attention regarding a proposed temporary holding facility for 44,000 tons of nuclear waste. Private Fuel Storage LLC (PFS) plans to build and operate a high level nuclear waste facility for up to 40 years on the Skull Valley Band of the Goshute Indian [...]