State OKs plan to move hazardous waste through Metroplex

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Posted on Wed, Mar. 09, 2005
By Scott Streater
Star-Telegram Staff Writer

Tons of radioactive waste from Ohio may soon be trucked through the Dallas- Fort Worth region on its way to a disposal and storage site in West Texas.

The state has approved a request by Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists to expand the volume of low-level radioactive waste it can store at its plant in Andrews County, northwest of Midland on the New Mexico border.

Increasing the plant's storage capacity makes it eligible to receive tons of radioactive waste currently stored in concrete silos at a long-abandoned uranium-processing plant in Fernald, Ohio, near Cincinnati.

The federal government has been trying for years to remove the Fernald waste, in part because the concrete silos holding the waste are deteriorating, records show. <snip>

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/local/11093666.htm

[BrightKnight]

1. Dallas residents are going to love this.

Who approved this? Another special delivery from our Repug government.

I-20, the tons of uranium material, 7,000 metal containers

Who will pay to maintain this site 50 years from now when the company has gone out of business? This is not good for the state. Somebody has been paid off.

Not in my backyard.

[struggle4progress]

2. Thank Perry and the Repubs in control of the TX legislature.

They rammed through enabling legislation a year and a half ago.

[BrightKnight]

3. Sending out warning letters to residents along I-20 would be funny.

I think that I will send a letter to the Sierra Club. Perhaps the local precinct chairs could start a petition.

[struggle4progress]

4. The TX state Sierra Club was surely working on this sick puppy ...

... as it stumbled through the legislature, foaming at the mouth. They must have something going still.