Reply #96: You keep repeating the same crap.... and ignoring the facts. [View All]

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I see you can still site no source.

"Maine and Vermont both planned to ship their waste to the dump under an agreement signed by the states in 1993. Sierra Blanca was rejected based on a decision by the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission after the site was agreed upon."

Agreed upon by whom? The agreement to move the waste was made long before the site was designated in texas, and rejected in texas when it was found that they lied about the safety. Then another site in texas was selected, and OK'ed.

So I fail to see how Dean had any role in the selection of sierra blanca, the lying about the safety, or the designation of the new site.

"Nuclear waste dumps are a terrible way to store waste - all burial sites leak," said Lea Terhune, head of the Vermont Sierra Club. "What Vermont Sierra Club supports is storing the waste above ground, in a secure facility at Vermont Yankee."

And the above ground facility in vermont was not only not big enough, it was right next to a major water source.

"Here is the kicker. Dean said, "This is not a big issue. Texas has the responsibility to site this (nuclear waste dump) and they will." "

And? This was Texas' responsibility. And nice selective quoting there...you left out the first half of that quote. Typicaly dishonest dean bashing.



MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Efforts will continue to find a site in Texas to ship Vermont's low-level radioactive waste, despite the rejection of one location by a state panel there, Gov. Howard Dean says.

Dean rejected calls by some anti-nuclear activists that Vermont should take care of its own waste, storing it above-ground at the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant in Vernont.

"We have much too much moisture in the ground and too much rain," Dean said. "This is not a big issue. Texas has the responsibility to site this (nuclear waste dump) and they will."


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Public Service Department Commissioner Richard Sedano said, however, that the state had studied the Vermont Yankee location and decided it was not the place to store waste.

Before the Texas agreement, Vermont had its own Low-level Radioactive Waste Authority, which spent more than $3 million in three years designing a dump and trying to find a community that would host it.

The Vermont Yankee site was ruled out because of wetlands and its location on the Connecticut River. Three Vermont towns expressed some interest in hosting the dump but eventually decided they did not want it. The state abandoned its search for a site in Vermont after it signed the agreement with Maine and Texas.