Utah's quiet guys get mad
Lawmakers long for the old — smiling — Jim Matheson.Congressman Jim Matheson, Utah's top Democrat, is seriously honked off at Republican state legislators who are trying to cut a back-door deal with EnergySolutions to import overseas nuke waste to its dump near Tooele. EnergySolutions, which has contributed to virtually every Utah lawmakers, is offering to spit the $2 billion in dumping fees with the cash-starved state.
I am outraged that Utah legislators would even consider allowing our state to become the universal dumping ground for the world's nuclear garbage, and I know most Utahns share my anger.Matheson joins Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman in outrage. Huntsman says:
Our position is abundantly clear. Let's just say that the price the state pays for being a dumping ground lasts forever. The recession will not.The governor is exagerating. The low-level waste EnergySolutions is talking about is only hot for a couple generations of Utahns.
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They will be mad until the price gets up to $1.5 billion. Then they will roll over. This is like the Inbev buyout of Budweiser. At $65/share it was an attack on american patriotism. At $70/share it was a smart deal for shareholders.
Good! We need someone to stand up for the fact that the legislatures are trying to let energy solutions dump waste in our backyard.
Of course, I have also heard that when/if this happens... Larry Miller will sell his land to energy solutions. It is right next door to his property. It was all part of the deal when they changed the name from the Delta Center to the Energy solutions Arena. Delta was going to renew the contract but Miller backed out so he could make a killer deal with Energy Solutions. I call it making a deal with the devil!
The only thing that's more important to our saintly lege than Jeebus and "FAMBLY VAAALLUUEES" is the High and Holy $$. They'd sell their own mothers in a heartbeat, the sanctimonious hypocrites.
so would you RDALE. But nobody wants the old bag.
Glad to see Matheson finally found a spine donor. I hope his transplant continues to provide him with the voice he has shown here, but with other vitally important issues for this country, this state, and his district!! I've voted for him, but wonder at times WHY?
Anony-mouse 10:54 said: "so would you RDALE. But nobody wants the old bag." My mother is long dead, rest her soul; at least she didn't have to sit by and watch while the hypocrite greedy rethuglicans ran the country she loved into the ground. Rethug! ptooey! I spit when I have to say the word.
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