Comments about ‘Ban on foreign waste from Italy to Utah gets OK’

Thanks Matheson and Chaffetz! It makes absolute sense that each country should be responsible for its own nuclear waste.

Get the $$$$ signs out of your eyes Creamer.

THANKS !!! If you make it, YOU KEEP IT!!

We are talking very low level stuff people, e.g. lab coats worn by people that worked in nuclear power plants etc. It did not hurt the people that wore them, it will not hurt anyone being disposed of in the middle of the desert! This is so low level, in a couple decades, it won't even register as low level anymore!

Don't fall into the lemming trap! You are NOT as mindless as the community of the Springfield/Simpsons and fall for whatever rhetoric you are fed to make you think these politicians are on your side. This bad bill will cost many Utah jobs and will not help anything environmentally!

By the way Matheson, you are a bold face liar about nobody every taking anyone elses low level waste, Europe has very few unpopulated and safe desert locations like we have here and in so many other parts of the world. You are an real leftist liberal trying to pretend you are a moderate/borderline Republican! You are anti oil drilling and becoming self supporting while we continue to depend on our enemies for our oil! Down with Matheson and all leftist/socialist lying liberals!

Wait a sec. I thought that the constitution already classified bribery as a high crime and impeachable offense. I guess that's already taken care of.

In the meanwhile, it's good to see something good happen. I won't take sides with parties on issues like this and others until we take back the country (which I doubt will ever happen).

Hopefully future 'business' issues will have the same good quality outcome that we have here.

Thanks M&C

A good job for once by our federal government.

Re:Read the facts, maybe you should take your own advice and learn more about nuclear radiation before spouting off. You must work for Energy Solutions.

There is no such thing as safe waste and why do you think they are discarding this lab gear and clothing after using it one time? It's radioactive. And why do you think anyone who works around any nuclear radiation must wear a dosimeter? The affects of radiation are cumulative with each exposure and workers are limited to how much they can accumulate. Then they lose their jobs and maybe their life.

Radiation cannot be burned or destroyed either thus the need to compact it and bury it for centuries, not a couple of decades. As the buried pile grows so does the amount of radiation.

Energy Solutions is lying through their teeth, I remember reading these quotes about not expanding and I new their actions was to do it anyway by legislation attempts.

As for the trade issue, some trade we don't want and I think we should even put more limits on trade. Especially "outsourcing america" trade.

Never thought that I would agree with environmentalists. But, here I do. As a 79 yr old extreme conservative I ask my fellow pro-international trade friends. Will importing old "drug" plants be next. We could pay Pakistan and help their economy. Please, let Glenn Beck's Common Sense rule. You said it well, M&C.

Low level smo level. I don't care if this stuff was worn by babies. Keep other area trash out of our State.

Even lab coats? Yes. If they are so safe, why haul them half way around the world to dump them here in Utah? Because they will ultimately pose a threat? Start with lab coats and in 5 years they will be dumping anything and everything? I'd prefer that they keep their own waste of any kind.

Rep. Rob Bishop. Putting contributions and ex(?) employers ahead of the people you represent, should bring an end to your service(?)to this state.

We are not Lemmings, we are smart enough to know that foreign waste has already been brought here, and under current regulations (rulings) low level waste includes depleted Uranium that gets hotter as the years go by. During the first Gulf war, more people in Iraq died from the depleted Uranium shell casings that we left behind, than from our bombings.

The lemmings have evolved. Europe has the Desert of Tabernas in Spain, and right across the Mediterranean you find the largest Desert in the world. Don't let Energy Solutions lead you into complacency.

Good! This is what the people of Uyah wanted.

If it is so safe...then I'm sure their own country would love to be in possesion of their own waste, and dispose of it easily. Why then do they want to ship it here? Don't think it require too much thought...It's not safe.

Way to go M&C. As a lifelong Republican I am going to vote for Matheson in the future because he has the sense to vote to prohibit the introduction of foreign waste to the USA and isn't tied by big bucks to ES and Creamer. Thank you for being an honest politician.

PS I hope Bennett and Hatch are not in the pocket of ES and Creamer and will vote sensibly for Utah to prohibit nuclear waste import into our state. Show some guts on this issue for a change instead of pussyfooting around the issue.

If Energy Solutions is backing Bob Bennett and the potential candidate Mike Lee is working to have a deal between Energy Solutions and Utah, representing Energy Solutions, I guess there is only Eagar to support for next year's senate race.

Where is Granato on this issue?

Re: Study the FACTS!

You say that not allowing low-level waste will cost Utah jobs? You mean opportunity cost and not real cost correct? If we don't bring their nuclear garbage here, we don't create new jobs, but no existing jobs are lost! Don't try to make it sound like existing jobs are on the line here.

Importing toxic nuclear waste is not a good Idea. I don't care if it is low level, it's still dangerous stuff. If it wasn't dangerous and harmful why would Italy be trying to pay us millions of dollars to take it off their hands? I hate the argument that we should import others dangerous trash because we have so much worthless desert. Utah's desert is one of the most beautiful and fragile places on Earth. These people are trying to parlay Utah's beauty and future for a quick buck. I for one am not fooled by the misinformation people like Energy solutions and oil companies are selling as "facts".

Hey US Senate. You wouldn't be working for the Eagar campaign and trying to link Mike Lee to Bennett now would you?

If nuclear waste is going to be stored at the facility anyways, and we make 100 times the amount of money to store foreign waste, what is the issue? No matter what it is going to be there, so why not have the state make more money in the mean time?

Tell you what - if you posters, who think it is a good idea (money, safe, not a big deal, etc.), then I suggest you bury it in your own back yard. You can keep the money.

This is a Bad Bill. There is no valid reason why this importation should not be allowed. Energy Solutions already does the same thing with waste from within the U.S., and in much larger amounts. The fact that the Italian stuff comes from outside the U.S. is irrelevant. It poses no threat, and we’re foolishly throwing away a potential boost to the Utah economy and the Utah tax coffers. I’m a big fan of Chaffetz, but he’s wrong on this one, as is Matheson. In spite of Matheson’s nonsensical attempt to deny it, this is restraint of trade.