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Lee · Apr 5, 2006, 01:18 am

During the Western Governor's Association Energy Summit in 2004, Governor Bill Richardson issued an executive order declaring New Mexico as " The Clean Energy State."
In 2005, Clean Energy Laws were passed by the New Mexico state legislature, and Governor Richardson said that " The new laws will help us continue to turn our abundant wind, solar, and biomass resources into clean energy, high-wage jobs and economic growth."
Nevertheless, the United States Senator from New Mexico, Senator Pete Domenici has plans to build a uranium-enrichment plant which would be only the " tip of the iceberg" in terms of a federal policy that is relicensing 18 nuclear reactors at nine sites around the United States. Senator Domenici hopes to build a centrifuge-uranium enrichment plant near Hobbs, New Mexico. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved an operator for this plant that is a business consortium known as Louisiana Energy Services.
The American taxpayer faces the costs of of nuclear operations, the depleted uranium wastes, and the burdens of legal findings against the operators of nuclear plants.
We currently are faced with the first finding in a 16-year case against Rocky Flats that is in the hundreds of millions of dollars because the federal government gives legal immunity to the operators of nuclear plants.
Energy independence from petroleum will not be secured with the costs of nuclear operations because the tax burdens engendered by nuclear operations will continue long after we have passed.
Thanks for your attention and please consider opposing the NRC's approval of the relicensing of nuclear operations.
One can stay abreast of these decisions by going online to the Nuclear Information Resource Institute ( nirs.org) and other environmental organizations.
Currently we have about a billion pounds of depleted uranium waste that will stay radioactive for millions of years. This waste is poisoning the earth. There is no technology capable of cleaning it up, and there is no safe way that radioactive wastes can be stored.

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Lee Lee Location: Buean Vista, Co. Posts: 149	Conflicting Energy Policies During the Western Governor's Association Energy Summit in 2004, Governor Bill Richardson issued an executive order declaring New Mexico as " The Clean Energy State." In 2005, Clean Energy Laws were passed by the New Mexico state legislature, and Governor Richardson said that " The new laws will help us continue to turn our abundant wind, solar, and biomass resources into clean energy, high-wage jobs and economic growth." Nevertheless, the United States Senator from New Mexico, Senator Pete Domenici has plans to build a uranium-enrichment plant which would be only the " tip of the iceberg" in terms of a federal policy that is relicensing 18 nuclear reactors at nine sites around the United States. Senator Domenici hopes to build a centrifuge-uranium enrichment plant near Hobbs, New Mexico. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved an operator for this plant that is a business consortium known as Louisiana Energy Services. The American taxpayer faces the costs of of nuclear operations, the depleted uranium wastes, and the burdens of legal findings against the operators of nuclear plants. We currently are faced with the first finding in a 16-year case against Rocky Flats that is in the hundreds of millions of dollars because the federal government gives legal immunity to the operators of nuclear plants. Energy independence from petroleum will not be secured with the costs of nuclear operations because the tax burdens engendered by nuclear operations will continue long after we have passed. Thanks for your attention and please consider opposing the NRC's approval of the relicensing of nuclear operations. One can stay abreast of these decisions by going online to the Nuclear Information Resource Institute ( nirs.org) and other environmental organizations. Currently we have about a billion pounds of depleted uranium waste that will stay radioactive for millions of years. This waste is poisoning the earth. There is no technology capable of cleaning it up, and there is no safe way that radioactive wastes can be stored.