Concerns About Yucca Mt. Leaks Echoed - Will Bush lose Nevada?

[wyldwolf]

New data the past year substantiate decade-old concerns an independent U.S. panel of scientists have raised about potential leaks at a proposed nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, the board's top administrator said Thursday.

http://news.messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=m&board=37138469&tid=apyuccamountainscientists&sid=37138469&mid=5

Was Edwards in favor of Yucca Mt.? Kerry and Kucinich were not I think.

[molly]

1. Yucca Mountain is a HUGE issue

[Maddy McCall]

5. Indeed it is. Why is no one replying to this thread?

It is a huge issue in the Sun Belt, and we will have to court Southwestern states in this election.

Some pundits believe that Bush will lose NV over Yucca Mountain. Kerry is the best of the two frontrunners on this issue, hands down.

[Maddy McCall]

8. kick

[Maddy McCall]

2. Clark said that stopping the desecration of Yucca Mtn. would be his

first action upon election.

Now that he is on board with Kerry, I hope this remains a priority. Native people deserve much better than this form of environmental racism.

[Maddy McCall]

3. Edwards VOTED FOR storage of nuke waste at Yucca Mtn. in 2002

Voted for Bush plan to store nuke waste at Yucca Mountain. I think a lot less of him after knowing this.

Kerry has consistently voted against Yucca Mountain's use as a storage site.

In July 2002, Edwards voted for President Bush's designation of Yucca Mountain as the site of a nuclear waste repository.


http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Feb-12-Thu-2004/news/23204395.html

List of Senators who voted Yea or Nay on this bill:

http://www.mentata.com/ds/retrieve/congress/vote/VC107S5

Edwards is listed as a Yea.

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. Every day I learn

something about Edwards that I don't like. Yesterday I learned he's pro death penalty. Today I learn he voted for storage of nuke waste at Yucca Mt. Then we have his Iraq war stance where he STILL believes we were right to attack Iraq. He cannot be our nominee. I'm warming up to Kerry by comparing him to Edwards. I still don't like Kerry, but he would be 100 times better than Edwards. :(

[Maddy McCall]

4. Howard Dean also SUPPORTED disposal at Yucca Mtn. and flipflopped later

when it became politically advantageous to do so.

Dean 'sees the light' on nuclear waste

2004 presidential candidate pays visit to Las Vegas
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean, who supported turning Yucca Mountain into the nation's nuclear waste dump in the past, said Tuesday that if elected president he would halt work to study the safety of burying nuclear waste there.

But Dean, a former governor of Vermont, wouldn't rule out turning Yucca into a nuclear waste dump.

"In 1996 I wrote a letter to my senator saying you ought to vote for Yucca Mountain because we've got a nuclear power plant, and I want to get the stuff out of my state.

"Now that we're running for president, now I have seen the light," Dean told about 250 supporters at a $100-per-person reception at a Las Vegas home Tuesday.

"I'm not going to promise you I'm going to be against Yucca Mountain, but if I become president ... we're going to stop construction and we're going to have a complete safety review," Dean said. "I worry deeply about corrosive nuclear waste rotting through the casks and having stuff buried all that far underground so we're going to revisit all this stuff."

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/text/2003/oct/29/515796238.html

[stopbush]

7. Bush will lose Nevada this year.

You read it here first.

Our Dem caucuses last week in Las Vegas drew 6,000 participants - 10 times the crowd for the 2000 go around.

If Al Gore had won NV's 4 electoral votes, he'd be president today.

Yucca Mt is a HUGE issue in this state. Dems should capitalize on it NOW>

[littlejoe]

9. I used to live twenty miles away from Yucca, near Beatty, Nv.

And I can tell you that NO ONE WANTS THE DAMNED STORAGE FACILITIES!

NO ONE. And it is not just in Nye or Clark counties. The papers and television news were relentless on the topic.

Unfortunately, no amount of science or dissent was going to sway the bushies.

Trust me, Nevada will turn blue, not red in November.

[Nashyra]

11. Clark was the first to make a statement about Yucca Mtn

I know for a fact that it was on Dec. 18th because we had a house party and was one of the houses that got to ask Clark a question on the conference call and the question was about Yucca Mtn. Some of us have strongly encouraged Clark to come out here to Lake Tahoe for an enviromental speech because of the "photo op" location. He could appeal to Nevadans and Californians since we share the border in Lake Tahoe. Hopefully this will happen if he starts campaigning for Kerry.

[wuushew]

10. I will defend the federal government here

why should the state of Nevada dictate to the federal government when well over half of the land is owned by the federal goverment?

I am not defending the Yucca project as it is severly flawed, but that waste has to go somewhere..it can't just keep piling up on site.

[Maddy McCall]

13. Why not put it in your church?

Why not bury it under the Washington Monument? Or under the brushpiles at Crawford Texas?

No, put it inside a mountain that is not only on land federally granted to the Shoshone Indians, but, to add insult to injury, place it inside one of their sacred sites! It reeks of environmental racism.

Read more here: http://www.greenaction.org/yuccamountain/alert042002.shtml

Yucca Mountain, a high ridge near the Nevada Test Site, is a place of deep spiritual and religious significance to the Western Shoshone and Pauite tribes, a place where the people gathered and continue to gather traditionally in the spring and fall to worship. Yucca Mountain is also on land guaranteed the Western Shoshone by treaty. Treaties are agreements between two sovereign governments and considered by the U.S. Constitution to be the "Supreme Law of the Land." Like almost every treaty the United States has entered into with Indian Nations, the treaty with the Western Shoshone has been violated again and again. The Nevada Test Site was carved out of their territory and today, the Western Shoshone Nation is the most bombed nation on earth. The United States has detonated more than 1,200 atomic bombs in their territory. High rates of cancer and illness related to atomic fall-out plague the people, who suffer from this historic injustice without any government health assessment, rectification or medical aid.

[NV1962]

14. Wrong: it's the feds dictating Nevadans to swallow an unsafe site

And that is why NV will go Dem, come November: Republicans here are angry at their "own" federal gov't.

Nevada isn't the nation's nuclear toilet, and with a severely lacking scientific health bill the Senators will have to quit their "not in my backyard" antics and learn that concentrating nuclear waste transports into NV is a very bad idea.

Back to the drawing board - this isn't fekking Iraq!

[Maddy McCall]

18. Exactly...

And I have been ridiculed here in the past for calling it what it is: Environmental racism against Shoshone Indians.

ALL Nevadans need to put their collective foot down on this one. (Just please don't suggest that Mississippi inherit it ;) )

[maddezmom]

12. we have a good opportunity to win NV if Kerry is the nominee n/t

[molly]

15. Bush will lose Nevada - even pugs want to live

[silver state d]

16. Kerry voted against the dump and that bodes well...

for taking NV in the general. We voted twice for Clinton and there is no reason not to think we wouldn't vote for Kerry. Only possible gun control issues spring to mind.

[Maddy McCall]

17. I would think that Yucca is the preeminent issue in Nevada this year...

I know that southerners are beginning to see beyond the "they'll take your guns" rhetoric--hope Nevadans do too. I have great faith in y'all!!

:toast: to bringing a bluestate home!