Texas Waste Dump Plan on Hold

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Happy New Year to Vermont from a Texas judge! Judge Jon Wisser issued a temporary restraining order that threw a monkey wrench into the plans for a “hurry up” vote to expand access to the nuclear dump where Vermont plans to send material from VY.

The plan up for a vote was to expand access to the low-level nuclear waste dump in West Texas to all states and commercial nuclear companies. Unbelievably, Vermont’s two representatives on the committee for the dump planned to vote for the plan, even though it was likely to shut Vermont out by taking such waste on a first-come, first served basis, as reported earlier this week here by BP and quoting a December 1 report by Vermont Digger.

Texas Vox, “the Voice of Public Citizen in Texas,” regards the order as a win for folks who oppose the dump entirely.

The final vote on the plan was to have taken place on Tuesday, January 4, by the members of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission –  just before Governor-elect Peter Shumlin will be inaugurated. That vote is now apparently on hold.

Texas Vox reports that at least 4,000 anti-expansion comments were received during the public comment period, which ended on December 27.

Stay tuned.

PS: As someone with a Vermont ISP, I found the (presumably state-tailored) advertising (by Google) on the Texas Vox site interesting: “Click to hear more about the safety of Vermont Yankee.” followed by “www.iamvy.com”.

5 thoughts on “Texas Waste Dump Plan on Hold”

  1. Gov. Jim Douglas graciously vowed to aid in a smooth transition and he of course mostly will do so. But he is governor until Thursday and it’s never too late to move one last chess piece into a better position for Entergy.

    Shumlin asked the Douglas administration not to send Vermont’s two commissioners to the meeting scheduled on Tuesday, according to Vermont Public Radio. O’Brien rebuffed the request.

    http://vtdigger.org/2010/12/31…

  2. Would be interesting to know what they have gotten & are getting out of this & why they all continue to service Entergy right to the eleventh hour when bowing out in deference to incoming guv certainly an excuse to bow out if one were needed.  

  3. until the litigation begins, anyways.

    AP story from NPR:

    January 4, 2011, 07:26 pm ET

    A Texas commission approved rules on Tuesday that paves the way for 36 states to export low-level radioactive waste to a remote landfill along the Texas-New Mexico border.

    more:

    http://www.npr.org/templates/s…

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