Pueblo County rejects nuclear plant proposal (Colorado)

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http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_17927550

The plan to build a nuclear power plant on the outskirts of this industrial city was rejected Monday by Pueblo County commissioners due to "a significant lack of material information."

The proposal by prominent local lawyer Don Banner would have taken 24,000 acres southeast of Pueblo and turned it into a planned-unit-development area for a "clean energy park." The centerpiece of the proposal would have been a $5 billion nuclear power plant.

The 3-0 vote brought cheers and applause from a crowd of about 100 people attending the special commission meeting.

"This decision should send a message to nuclear speculators everywhere," said Ross Vincent, chairman of the Sierra Club's Sangre de Cristo Group.

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