A federal judge has wrapped the knuckles of Department of Interior officials who denied a lease to build a huge parking lot for casks of highly radioactive nuclear waste on the reservation of the Skull Valley Band of the Goshutes in Tooele County. A reading of the decision persuades us that the judge had ample grounds to send deliberations on the lease and an associated right of way back to DOI for further review.
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private fuel storage NewsNarrow your search by visiting an issue-specific news page, listed in the navigation at left. Salazar won’t commit to Skull Valley appeal
Aug 04, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Tuesday his department has not decided yet whether to fight a federal court ruling that keeps alive plans for a nuclear-storage site in western Utah’s Skull Valley. “What we will do is examine the [July 26 court] decision and the findings of the judge and make some decisions,” said Salazar, in Utah for public “listening sessions” at a downtown Salt Lake City hotel. Utah delegation urges appeal of spent nuclear fuel storage ruling
Aug 03, 2010
Deseret News
WASHINGTON — Utah's congressional delegation has asked Interior Secretary Ken Salazar to appeal a recent judicial decision that could bring a new solicitation for a right of way and a lease from a consortium that wants to build above-ground storage for spent nuclear fuel near the Utah Test and Training Range. The letter, signed by all five members of Utah's delegation, states that the Interior Department acted appropriately in its fiduciary duties by completing a thorough review of the proposed project. Utah leaders to Salazar: Fight Skull Valley N-waste
Aug 03, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
Utah leaders had hoped to huddle today with visiting U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and urge him to keep fighting a nuclear-waste storage site planned for Tooele County’s Skull Valley. But Salazar’s tight schedule nixed the idea late Monday. Meanwhile, an attorney for the Skull Valley Band of Goshutes, which aims to host the western Utah storage site, questioned why the government would spend taxpayer money on a “frivolous appeal” of a sound judicial ruling. Keep fighting nuke waste
Aug 01, 2010
Deseret News
Sometimes, it's a good thing when the wheels of justice grind slowly. Whether a federal judge's decision this week to overturn an impediment to Private Fuel Storage, which wanted to locate thousands of spent nuclear fuel rods in Utah, took long enough remains to be seen. |
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