“BY ANNA M. TINSLEY
Huge numbers of trucks carrying low-level radioactive waste from dozens of states will soon travel highways nationwide -- including those in the Metroplex -- on their way to a remote disposal site in West Texas.
Shipments from up to 36 states will head to a dump in Andrews County near the New Mexico border, owned by Dallas billionaire and generous Republican political donor Harold Simmons, despite concerns from environmentalists and others worried about potential accidents or contamination once the loads are left at the Waste Control Specialists facility.
"Texas is going to become a nuclear waste dump if everything happens under their plans," said state Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, an opponent of the facility. "We will be the major route for nuclear waste…”
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You got to come and visit Texas. If the heat does not kill you or the gas or water from fracking then the radioactive waste will get you.
“…In the past eight years, 72 incidents nationwide involving trucks carrying radioactive material on highways have caused $2.4 million in damage and one death, the Transportation Department's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration says…”
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Thank you Harold Simmons for making donations to Gov. Rick Perry (R) and thank you Rick Perry for approving of the medical waste and radioactive contamination waste so that we can bury it in the red clay of Texas.
Rick Parry and the Republicans are so right. We do not need an EPA or any other federal agencies.
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