Letter: People in power see wrong shade of green

Sunday, Nov. 26, 2006 | 7:42 a.m.

The freeway in front of the Los Angeles airport was closed Wednesday when 20 drums of hazardous waste fell off of a truck. Authorities wouldn't immediately say what was in the 55-gallon drums except that it was toxic and flammable.

I think that it's time that our politicians should let the Energy Department officials know that we don't want their hazardous radioactive waste transported through our communities.

They keep talking about building a railroad to Yucca Mountain to store nuclear waste from the states other than Nevada, but they seem to have forgotten all the rail wrecks that happened from Los Angeles to Nevada and Utah last fall and winter.

They keep telling us that it will be safe but accidents keep happening.

While the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., keeps supplying technology to the governments of Mexico and China on how to build solar collectors and wind turbines, our boys in the Energy Department keep fooling around with the high-priced stuff.

Some people seem to think that by going to bed with the Energy Department they will become rich through real estate deals or other business transactions. I hope their money doesn't glow in the dark.

Richard A. Brown, Pahrump