| For years, Utahns and their leaders have fought against the transportation of high-level nuclear waste by Private Fuel Storage (PFS) to Skull Valley, a site dangerously close to the Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR) where live ordnance is used and directly under the low-level flight path of 7,000 F-16s every year.
I have been on the front lines of this battle for years, and the good news is, we have won. On Sept. 7, 2006, the Department of Interior (DOI) denied PFS its lease to store fuel and permission to transport it by roads. The DOI based its decision on letters and calls from thousands of Utahns who rejected the proposal to store nuclear material in Skull Valley, during a comment period that I convinced the DOI to open.
Morevoer, in fall 2005, I convinced a majority of PFS shareholders to pull away from the company, which likely derails any reaction PFS might take to this decision. PFS is dead: it's that simple.
Some people may say there is still a chance that PFS could pull this off, but that seems highly unlikely. With the DOI decision, PFS has been burned to the ground. We may need to sort through the ashes and put out a few embers, but other than that, it’s stone cold dead. |
