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Nuclear Waste Saga: On the FOURTH Day of Christmas…..

Posted on December 21, 2005 | Leave a comment

….my true love gave to me–FOUR dropped investors….

A 4th investor has withdrawn financial support from the Private Fuel Storage (PFS) initiative to store nuclear waste in Utah on the Goshute Reservation.
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Hammer to Head: “Here’s some sense for christmas”

Posted on December 21, 2005 | Leave a comment

It seems that’s what’s happened with our Utah senators.

Last week I wrote about Utah’s Represenatives voting for a $230 million tax cut.

Today’s Salt Lake Tribune has reported that our state senators are carefully examining the proposed tax cut, stating that they are listening to their consituents who are angry over such a cut.

It’s about time.
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Nuclear Waste, continued

Posted on December 20, 2005 | Leave a comment

Today’s Deseret News has published an article entitled Nuclear waste battle: a historic turn. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is opening the issue of nuclear waste storage on the Goshute Reservation by a private consortium, Private Fuel Storage (PFS), by having public comment on how PFS would protect recognized historic places. This is another step in the process of issuing the license to PFS.
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More re”butt”al to Buttars on Gay Clubs

Posted on December 19, 2005 | Leave a comment

An alumnus of Bountiful High School in Utah has come forward with his frustration that state Senator Chris Buttars is pursuing an initiative to remove gay clubs from public schools. He furthers the position that the clubs are assets to schools and should not be removed.

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Utah Gov on Gay Clubs in Schools

Posted on December 16, 2005 | Leave a comment

Utah Governor Jon Huntsman has issued the statement that gay clubs should be a local issue, not a state issue. This comes on the heels of yesterday’s announcement that state Senator Chris Buttars is purusuing the banning of such clubs in public schools.
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Bills call for on site nuclear waste storage

Posted on December 15, 2005 | Leave a comment

Today’s Deseret News is reporting the proposal of a bill in the U.S. House and Senate that would keep nuclear waste stored on site where it is generated. This would mean that the PFS Project in Utah would potentially be squashed.

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“He’s so gay”

Posted on December 15, 2005 | Leave a comment

That’s what my students would say about Utah State Senator Chris Buttars, who wants to prohibit gay clubs in Utah schools.

Buttars has also been aggressive about pushing for the public school curriculum in Utah to teach the religious based theory of “intelligent design” as an alternative to the theory of evolution. Buttars’ recent initiative to get the gay clubs out of schools is being supported by the Utah Eagle Forum, a right-wing fundamentalist Christian Lobbyist organization.
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3rd Investor withdraws from PFS project

Posted on December 14, 2005 | 3 comments

A few days ago I posted about two investors withdrawing from the venture to store nuclear waste on the Goshute Reservation in Utah.
The Deseret News has reported today that a third investor, Florida Power and Light Co., has withdrawn from the venture.

The article gives credit to U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch for approaching the three investors and getting them to change their minds about supporting the PFS project. Hatch apparently is approaching the other investors as well.
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Utah Republicans propose $230 million tax cut

Posted on December 14, 2005 | Leave a comment

At a time when infrastructure is jeopardized, citizens are facing a 30% increase in heating costs, Many Utahns are without health care, and educational systems are floundering, Utah Rebpublican legislators have proposed a $230 milliontax cut. This amount is four times more than Governor Huntsmans recommended cut (already an impractical measure, in my opinion).

The people who will see the “benefits” of this cut, if it passes, are not the working people. Further, if this cut passes and the following year sees a big tax increase, it will not be the wealthy that feels that increase. It will be the people who were never benefited from the tax cut of the year before.

It’s a lose-lose situation. Our budget should be taking surplus funds and funds that would be given back in the form of tax cuts and allocating them to much needed services that would benefit everyone.

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Two Private Fuel Storage Investors Withdraw Support

Posted on December 10, 2005 | Leave a comment

Cautious optimism is the buzz for opposition to storing nuclear waste in Utah.

Two investors in Private Fuel Storage have withdrawn their support in the venture to store nuclear waste on the Goshute Reservation in Utah.

Xcel Energy was one of those supporters, with 34% responsibility for PFS’s budget.

Environmentalists are optimistic that this could mean the demise of PFS, while acknowledging at the same time that this is not necessarily an end to the venture.

PFS officials claim that there are other investors waiting to be part of the project.

Elected officials are optimistic that PFS will not realize its vision of a waste repository in Utah’s west desert.

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