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….which most Utahns, including myself, do not want and will do whatever it takes to see that it doesn’t happen, according to a Deseret News Poll, most Utahns would want PFS specially taxed.

However it has already been determined by a federal court that such taxes are deemed “unconstitutional”.

PFS is a consortium of electric companies that is seeking to store 44,000 tons of spent nuclear fuel rods at the site, located on the Goshute Reservation in Utah, west of Salt Lake.

Earlier this week a BLM official would not sign a permit to build a railroad spur leading to its nuclear waste storage facility on the land of the Goshute Indians in Tooele County, Utah.

Apparently there is a moratorium on land use and until that is lifted by Congress, or until the Air Force completes a resources study, according to the BLM official, he won’t sign the permit.

The article also refers to U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch’s “opposition” to the PFS site and he has publicly applauded the BLM’s efforts to “uphold the law”, placing an obstacle in the path of the further development of this site.

(Of note, however, is that Orrin Hatch still supports the building of the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada….)

I am happy to see that obstacles such as this are occuring. It’s still a long road to getting PFS to completely go away, to getting Yucca Mountain shut down. Citizens across the nation do not want the waste transported through their communities. And these citizens are willing to put their bodies on the line in protest – me included. Keep the waste where it is.

Deseret Morning News graphic