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Showdown at the ole Texas nuclear waste dump

a proposed rule change commissioners could vote on Jan. 4 would allow importation of waste from elsewhere. Critics of the plan say the timing is meant to ensure it passes before Shumlin has a say.

Vermont’s nuclear waste showdown in Texas Burlington free Press, 28 Dec 10, Gov.-elect Peter Shumlin’s inauguration is causing a stir in Texas that’s reverberating back here to Vermont.That’s where a commission will meet two days before Shumlin takes office to vote on whether to allow radioactive waste from states to be dumped in a long-planned Texas site that was going to be strictly for Texas and Vermont.

Those two states are currently the only members of the Texas Low Level Radioactive Waste Commission, but a proposed rule change commissioners could vote on Jan. 4 would allow importation of waste from elsewhere. Critics of the plan say the timing is meant to ensure it passes before Shumlin has a say.

Shumlin said he’s worried that Vermont would be crowded out of dump space under the new plan. He said Monday he wants to make sure Vermont maintains its right to 20 percent of the space.

Shumlin said he wants the commission’s two Vermont representatives to hold off on voting. Some Texas legislators have also asked that the vote, which was only called last week, be postponed…………

According to the New York Times, two of the six commission members from Texas oppose allowing waste imports from additional states.

Vermont’s nuclear waste showdown in Texas | vt.Buzz

December 29, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes