Somebody in D.C. loves Utah
Obama during a Utah campaign stop.Give a Democratic administration an inch and the next thing you know, they're half-way down the road to socialism — cleaning up radioactive waste that was perfectly fine piled on the banks of the Colorado River for decades.
Energy Secretary Steven Chu is using federal stimulus money to tidy up uranium mill tailings near Moab, which threaten to leach into the Colorado.
Congressman Jim Matheson, who is starting to learn it's can actually be good to be a Democrat, is delighted:
This is good news on two fronts. First, it adds to the Department of Energy's budget to accomplish the long-overdue remediation of the project. Secondly, it means my deadline for completion of the cleanup by 2019 is being backed up by the resources necessary to meet it.Even Obama policy chuckhole Sen. Orrin Hatch thinks pumping pink-tainted stimulus money into the cleanup is not a half-bad idea:
The people of Moab have put up with this problem far too long, and I'm encouraged the Energy Department is now stepping up in a major way to eliminate this menace.
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Of course, it would have been nice if the uranium industry could have been made to pay to clean up their mess (though we'll take the feds' money, of course). We should all remember this, however, when other industries complain that requiring them to post cleanup bonds will drive them out of business. The prospect of a toxic cleanup (of something like the lovely new waste evaporation ponds near Cisco) seems faraway now. It won't be so abstract in thirty years.
Of course the Democrats should clean it up....it was under the leadership of the Democrats that the mess was made in the first place......this form of Obama love is akin to US Steel dumping hazardous waste next to the colorado for 70 years, and then Glen praising US Steel when they decide to finally clean it up.....its cool for Moab but 70 years too late.....As a Utahn, I am not as excited as you Glen about "feelin the Obamalove"!
1badassmistakeamerica lives up to his/her moniker.
The mill was built during Eisenhower's administration and operated into the Reagan era.
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