Comments about ‘Foreign waste deal still on table’

Importing this waste from Italy...someone needs to get a thermometer out and check the temperature of any person that thinks this is a good idea. It is beyond belief!!

How long many days of Herbert being Governor did it take before the Utah Jazz started pouring nucular waste into our state?

Utah, Life Irradiated!

I've heard that the Great Salt Lake's background radioactivity has increased the past two years, can this be confirmed?

I can’t believe we are still considering importing nuclear waste from OTHER COUNTRIES!

I will look into this nuclear waste watchdog group, Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah.
We have to do something about this madness.

It is an outrage that the Governor would consider bringing all of this nuclear garbage to Utah.
If the budget is off by 700,000 m then he can cut programs. To sell out the State for 100,000 m a year makes no sense at all.

How many times do we have to say no, we don't want this before someone cares?

What part of No don't these politicians get?

We don't want to leave this poison for our children to deal with.

Is it true that the State of Utah is in talks with Energy Solutions to import more foreign redioctive waste into our state?

If it is they we need to find out who from the state is leading this discussion?

Could it be Mark Shurtlift and the Attorney Generals Office?

We need to let who ever is responsible for this let him/her know of our feelings about this.

Does this also include our State legislatures who have received heafty campaign contributins from Energy Solutions?

It is my feeling that we need to keep an eye on this company and their allies in State Government.

What, Utahns suddenly supporting environmental issues over the almighty buck!?! It's the end of the world! Now apply your environmental concerns to the rest of the planet. Don't just be NIMBYs.

I am pro nuclear energy but to bring in nuclear waist from Italy or any other foreign country is just completely insane. And the fact that it is only what 60 miles west of SLC. Even makes it more insane; with our population growth history we will see our communities reaching the nucealer dump in about 10-20 years. We need a federal law that would ban all nuclear waists from foreign countries now.

Just a note to you politicians, from all the comments on here, I believe you will be held accountable if you choose to permit this waist to brought into Utah. I say Impeachment immediately for any elected official that votes yes.

If anything it belongs in Yucca Mountain Nevada.

NO! Absolutely not. Money does not cure all ills, but this waste could cause some ills. Sometimes I think we have lost all sense of reasoning.

Bring it. It is safe, low-level waste. The West Desert is as good a place as any to store this stuff.

Before you get into how worthless and unoccupied the west deserts may be and how much the state needs money we need to look closely at the idea to begin with. Why is Italy being forced to export its radio-trash to such a far flung destination, and willing to pay extreme amounts of money to do so? China has huge deserts and the Chinese environmental policies do little to contain dangerously polluted areas, in fact Beijing may have the foulest air on the planet. Of the 10 most polluted sites in the world 8 of them are in China, which is so much closer than Utah. Why not dump the stuff in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, countries that are very poor and have large stretches of land that can't be used for agriculture, without water to sustain population, instead sending it to the one of the most developed countries on earth? At some point the Utah land will be used for residential, military or commercial and just as radioactive sites in Salt Lake County have had to be cleaned up, when in the 50s no one worried, this will also require expensive cleaning. Don't trust ES!!!

Ah yes,Utah,nucular sewer of the world.

There is enough waste here in America. It is difficult to find places to store that. It is rediculas to bring foreign waste here.

It did not take Herbert and the legislature long did it.

Time for Matheson to get more involved.