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West Texas, the new South Carolina?
By dwray in The nature of things
November 30, 2010

We all know about the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the state agency that regulates environmental issues, down in these parts. In October, the agency granted a permit allowing the White Stallion Energy Center plant to be built in Bay City. Now the agency is headed to West Texas to hear what people out there have to say about the proposal to allow nuclear waste from 36 states to be dumped in a corner of the state with some of the friendliest people around (so the last part is just my opinion, but, well, I stand by the statement - I like West Texas.) This comes after South Carolina legislators, about 10 years ago, put their foot or feet down and said the state wouldn't be the nation's nuclear garbage can any longer. They proved true to their word in 2008, leaving us, as a nation, with no place for the waste - so now it may go to Texas. Davy Crockett once said, "You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas." That didn't work out so well for him or the other guys in the Alamo - and he was Davy Crockett. Now, it's nuclear waste, which already looks a whole lot less appealing than Crockett. Not even a coonskin cap to offer.

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