Private Fuel Storage Makes Surprise Request of Congress

Private Fuel Storage continues to apply pressure and storm forward:

Using the tactic of promoting money-savings, PFS has asked Congress to provide assistance in its efforts to store nuclear waste in Utah.

Private Fuel Storage has asked Congress to consider allowing the Energy Department to become one of PFS’s clients and move nuclear waste to Utah, or at least reimburse utilities that choose to use the temporary storage site.

The Deseret News Article contains statements from these lawmakers:

The idea surprised Utah’s congressional delegation, which thinks it is a bad idea that most likely won’t go anywhere.

“On more than one occasion, the administration has stressed that PFS is not part of the nation’s nuclear waste policy,” said Sen. Bob Bennett, R-Utah.
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Hill Happenings

Articles in today’s newspapers about state legislature-related News:

Deseret News
Huntsman to travel the state signing bills: Aim is to aid lawmakers who help him on the Hill

Today in history

March 15

1869
First federal women’s suffrage amendment ever introduced in U.S. Congress.

1907
Finland became the first European country to allow women to vote.

1938
Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia

1970
During a second attempt by Native American activists to occupy Fort Lawton, 78 protesters were arrested. They were demanding the City of Seattle give the unused facility back to Native Americans.


Indians demonstrating at Fort Lawton

1993
The United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador concluded that most of the murder and human rights abuses during its civil war had been committed by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government through its various military and security and allied paramilitary organizations.
The Complete Report

15-Mar Activists across Britain stage supermarket protests against genetically engineered foods. (1997)

Carnival of the Green #18

This week’s COTG is hosted by Dirty Greek.
Post categories this week include:

  • Social Issues
  • Food and Nature
  • Green Home and Garden
  • Energy
  • Forest Image Registry Project
  • Miscellanous topics
  • THREE YEARS TOO MANY

    I have been party of the planning committee to organize a series of events this weekend marking the third anniversary of the illegal war in Iraq.

    I will be posting more detailed information here in a day or two. Meantime, viewers can see the events listing at: THREE YEARS TOO MANY.

    Media catches news about “Desert Greens”

    “Desert Greens” is now listed as an officially registered political party at theUtah Elections Office Website.

    Two items have appeared in the media today about the Nationally Affiliated Green Party of Utah‘s news registered political party name Desert Greens. One is published nationally from the Green Party of the United States and the other one locally in the Provo Herald, a Utah County newspaper>

    Read both articles at the Green Party of Utah LJ Forum.

    Hill Happenings

    Articles in today’s newspapers about state legislature-related News:

    Salt Lake Tribune
    S.L. County poised to tack on fee for Corridor land:
    An extra 10 bucks to drive?

    Deseret News
    State spending is surging: Year’s 17.5% jump far outpaces population growth and inflation
    Huntsman hails USTAR: He likens the initiative to U.’s Research Park
    Lobbyists’ favorite tool was food

    Today in history

    March 14

    1879
    Physicist and Peace activist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. The Nobel Prize winner opposed militarism and became a champion of nuclear disarmament. Though he supported the development of the atomic bomb in fear that Germany would develop it first, he warned in a 1944 letter to the Manhattan Project’s Niels Bohr: “When the war is over, then there will be in all countries a pursuit of secret war preparations with technological means which will lead inevitably to preventative wars and to destruction even more terrible than the present destruction of life.”

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    Utah’s New Slogan

    Utah has uveiled it’s new state slogan: “Life Elevated”.

    ohhh……kaaaaay.

    Today in the Salt Lake Tribune Paul Rolly has a piece called“New slogan should slow things a bit”.

    In it he outlines the top 10 alternative slogans discussed amongst his acquaintances:

    Thinking outside the box: In conversations with a few media types, some alternative state slogans were tossed about. Here are the top 10:
    l Land of the Wives
    l The Heterosexual State
    l Ain’t No Monkeys Here
    l No Rich Child Left Behind
    l The Special Session State
    l Home of Orrin Hatch
    l Run, Merrill, Run
    l Where Democrats Aren’t Allowed
    l Bring Your Guns
    l Where the Fish Whirl

    Part of the Plan also has a piece on the new slogan.
    More appropiate would have been: “Utah! Where Ideas Converge Because Difference Of Opinion Is Prohibited”

    Hill Happenings

    Articles in today’s newspapers about state legislature-related News:

    Salt Lake Tribune
    Logic of legislators defies pattern-seekers: Analysis – Legislators focus heavily on the unborn
    Utah lawmakers say e-mail privacy issue will resurface: Officials moved to withhold communications from constituents among other privacy concerns
    School-voucher group hopes to oust opponents–Parents for Choice: The political action committee has a list of legislators it wants to replace with friends
    Despite record surplus, lawmakers cut contribution to open-space fund
    Huntsman hopes hardball works second time around

    Deseret News
    Oly hotel project seeks OK on Hill
    Legislature chips away at GRAMA: 7 bills passed in ’06 to alter records-access law
    Session a mixed bag for Dixie: Area’s lawmakers got funds for flood relief but little for colleges
    Tax distribution measure may hurt several cities
    Will medical-mistakes bill pass judicial muster?