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Monday, March 22, 2010 | 4:31 p.m.
Sun coverage
Days before an Obama administration-tapped panel holds its first meeting on alternatives to Yucca Mountain, a coalition, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is calling on Congress to reverse the president's proposed zeroing out of the proposed nuclear waste repository project's budget.
The groups also call on the Energy Department's new panel to include Yucca Mountain as part of its study of potential waste disposal options - an option the department has previously said it would keep off the table. The groups want the licensing process for Yucca Mountain to continue before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
"Canceling this program, without providing a bona fide alternative path forward remains unacceptable and troubling, particularly to defense and civilian waste communities, taxpayers and future generations who will bear the full burden of this action," the groups wrote.
The letter was sent to the leaders of the House and Senate appropriations committees who are in the process of reviewing President Barack Obama's 2011 funding requests.
The groups want the funding upheld so the Yucca licensing process can continue. Obama earlier this year kept his campaign promise to Nevadans by directing his Energy Department to withdraw Yucca Mountain's license application, a death blow to the project.
Those signing the letter include the Chamber, the taxpayer watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste and at least two pro-Yucca groups in Nevada.
The Energy Department's 15-member panel is scheduled to meet Thursday and Friday to begin as its 18-month process of studying alternatives to Yucca Mountain. The panel is headed by Washington heavyweights Lee Hamilton, the former Congressman, and Brent Scrowcroft, the retired general and former national security official.
You can read the letter on the Chamber's blog here.
if you think we don't need to re-elect harry reid...
to kill yucca...
you are a fool...
and make no mistake...
sue no experience and ability lowden...
couldn't close a crack house...
Birdie is dreaming in color if she thinks that Dirty Harry is on her side.
Yucca will be back in operation as soon as the midterms are over no matter who wins.
I think Reid is comparable to the person who named CLARK COUNTY, NV.
from WIKI:
"In a 1907 essay entitled "Senator Clark of Montana," Mark Twain portrayed Clark as the very embodiment of Gilded Age excess and corruption. Wrote Twain:
"He is as rotten a human being as can be found anywhere under the flag; he is a shame to the American nation, and no one has helped to send him to the Senate who did not know that his proper place was the penitentiary, with a ball and chain on his legs. To my mind he is the most disgusting creature that the republic has produced since Tweed's time."
75% of Congress voted in favor of YMP and Reid and Obama have derailed a multi-BILLION $$$ investment.
Even worse then Kennedy and his NIMBY attitude to wind turbines.
AMERICA wont be around forever, and YMP is the safest way to lock away the resulting detritus from the one program that can give US energy independence from the Middle East!
Just imagine powering all the govt, FEDEX, UPS, etc vehicles by HYDROGEN fuels that are a byproduct of the next generation of Nuclear Power Plants!
HARRUMPH!!!