Anti-science legislators leading Utah down a rabbit hole – Salt Lake Tribune

Anti-science legislators leading Utah down a rabbit hole

Dalt lake tribuneBy Brian Moench 03/13/2009  – “………………………………..

Sixty years after the first nuclear power plant began operation, scientific controversies about safety are at best still unresolved. Nuclear power proponents choose to ignore genuine handicaps for more nuclear power: the public-health consequence of ongoing release of radioactivity from all phases of the nuclear fuel cycle, huge water requirements, the potential for accidents and their liabilities, the unsolvable problem with waste storage, skyrocketing cost estimates of construction, maintenance and eventual dismantling of the plants………

………………. We have been led into the abyss of a dark economic future by breathtaking greed and conflicts of interest in the financial world and our own ignorance. Consider that lesson unlearned. We have elected to Utah’s Capitol Hill a quorum of science antagonists who are eager to lead us into an ecological abyss, exploiting our ignorance and wearing their own lack of scientific background and conflicts of interest as badges of honor…………………..

Anti-science legislators leading Utah down a rabbit hole – Salt Lake Tribune

March 15, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized