“The decision today by the NRC commissioners to approve a private nuclear waste site on the Goshute Indian reservation in Utah is the latest example of environmental racism on the part of the federal government. The commissioners, who voted 3-1, have now condemned a tiny impoverished tribe in Skull Valley to generations of environmental and health risks by approving a plan to ship 44,000 tons of high-level radioactive waste and park it in plain site on Indian land.”
The racism is not in using land suitable only for things like nuclear waste storage for nuclear waste storage but in forcing Native Americans onto land suitable only for nuclear waste storage. What is difficult about this? Why do you think they’re poor?
I bet NIRS wouldn’t be complaining if a coal mine was opened there instead.
Filed under Anti-Nuclear Quote of the Day
Posted on September 28, 2005 by Stewart Peterson |
