By Antonio D. French
Filed Friday, April 7 at 5:48 AM
The State Senate approved a bill yesterday to prevent Missouri from being the preferred, low cost route for the shipment of nuclear waste.
Senate President Pro Tem Michael Gibbons (R-15), said he sponsored the bill because a federal mandate means that Missouri will see more shipments of nuclear waste sooner than expected.
In a statement the Kirkwood senator said, "We need to act fast and get these fees in place because the Department of Energy has estimated that Missouri could be the route for as many as 20,000 nuclear waste shipments." Gibbons said. "And I don’t want Missouri to be the radioactive waste pipeline to the West."
Gibbons says because Missouri currently charges no fees, routes through Missouri are being used even though they may be less safe than other routes in order for shippers to save money.
"These fees will put an end to the incentive for shippers to choose Missouri over our neighboring states," Gibbons said.
1 Comments:
So what are the fees?
The cost of a big mac with fries? or something more like the cost of a Bentley?
And what is Gibbons doing in terms of finding alternative renewable nonpolluting sources of energy for Missouri?
It is nice that he recognizes that the nuke trains through Kirkwood and Webster are a political liability (not to mention a drag on real estate prices)- now if Jim Talent and Kit Bond would recognize that, it might go somewhere. How about they stop the handouts to the nuclear industry and force them to clean up their messes instead of sucking off the taxpayers and poisoning communities?
Do you want the equivalent of a few X-rays of radiation exposure going by your house every week?
Food for thought. Check out http://www.nirs.org
7:53 AM, April 07, 2006
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