On January 10, 2012, HEAL Utah held a rally in support of Utah’s 2005 ban of B and C class nuclear waste. The ban is threatened by EnergySolutions plan to bring blended waste to their facility in Clive, Utah.
State regulators are allowing the company to begin with their plan while it studies the safety of the disposal of the hotter blended waste.
“Let’s investigate, then legislate, then permit,” says Linda Johnson, speaker and rally supporter. “To permit first is totally backwards.” Johnson also questioned the intelligence of such an action.
According to HEAL Utah Policy Director Matt Pacenza, allowing the blended waste into Utah effectively guts the 2005 ban on B and C nuclear wastes, significantly increases the amount of radioactivity at Clive and make Utah the dumping ground for all of the United States’ low-level radioactive wastes.
Former Member of the Utah Radiation Control Board Patrick Cone urged people to call Governor Herbert’s office and their legislators and oppose the radioactive smoothie that would be dumped in Clive.
“This is a policy issue,” says Cone. “It is unseemly that they subverted this system.”
Among the politicians who have issued statements supporting the 2005 ban and against the blended waste policy are Congressman Jim Matheson, Mayor Peter Corroon and Salt Lake County Council Member Jani Iwamoto.
“We have a legacy of governors who have stepped up,” says Pacenza. It is time for Governor Herbert to do the same.
To contact Governor Herbert, call (801)538-1000.
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