Republicans top donor is nuclear waste dump billionaire

[Full-Auto]

Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields and he can’t fill it.

To turn it into a profitable enterprise, the Texas billionaire hired lobbyists to urge the Obama administration to expand the types of nuclear waste, including depleted uranium, the dump can accept and award his company disposal contracts. If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission changes the rule, it could open access to a market worth billions. The deadline for a decision is in 2014.

Simmons now is spending money in a new way that could improve his business prospects: He’s invested $15.9 million this election cycle in various groups to help elect Republicans, who advocate easing regulations on the nuclear industry.

The largest chunk of Simmons’s campaign cash -- $12 million -- has gone to American Crossroads, a so-called super political action committee that takes unlimited donations and has a stated mission of defeating President Barack Obama. He has given at least $700,000 to Restore Our Future, a super-PAC backing Mitt Romney, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination whose call for a fast-tracked permitting process for new nuclear plants could benefit Simmons’s Waste Control Specialists LLC.

Republican Donor Simmons Seeks Rule to Fill Texas Dump - Businessweek

So he petitioned government like the people did for solyndra.

Well not quite he isnt a Obama bundler, I can see why you are upset.

 

[Dot Com]

The usual parade of con apologists are making their appearance on the thread.

 

[Chris]

The Japanese have shut down all their nuclear plants except one.

 

[occupied]

Nuclear issues aside for the moment, there is the issue that the guy's huge political donations will almost certainly earn him what he is after and no one involved will feel the slightest bit of shame.

 

[Dot Com]

In the fall of 2004, Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists applied for a license to build a low-level nuclear waste dump in Andrews County, Texas, a dusty oil patch along the New Mexico border. In its filings and press releases, the company argued that the site was ideal because it sat atop “500 feet of impermeable red-bed clay,” meaning there was virtually no chance of radiation leaking out and tainting the water supply.

Still, there were reasons to be wary. Maps from the Texas Water Development Board showed the site sitting directly above the Ogallala Aquifer, a massive but shallow underground reservoir, which sprawls beneath eight Great Plains states and supplies roughly a third of the nation’s irrigation water. If large quantities of radiation were to seep into this water table, the effects could be devastating. After WCS’s application came up for review, however, something curious happened: The board shifted the official boundaries of the Ogallala, a move WCS claims in its official correspondence was based partly on data the company provided, though Water Board spokeswoman Samantha Pollard argues this isn’t true. “The reevaluation stemmed from work done for the development of groundwater availability models and related projects,” she says. As it turns out, five of the board’s six members had been appointed by Gov. Rick Perry, who’s taken more than $1.2 million in campaign contributions from WCS’s owner, Harold Simmons.

The GOP’s nuke-dump donor - Salon.com

thats the same aquifer that the foreign company wanted to run their tarsand pipeline over

 

[Misty]

Jeesuz libs now you're knocking nuclear waste. Where is Jane's Taylor when you need him.

 

[The T]

Texas Republicans voted for Rick Perry and what they got in return was a nuclear waste dump on top of their water supply.

This is what you get went you vote Republican!

And what ARE the Specifications of having such a facility?

HAVE you addressed it? ARE the specs being met? Do YOU have proof that they aren't or is this more fear mongering partisan yaksqueeze from YOU?

 

[Defiant1]

Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields and he can’t fill it.

To turn it into a profitable enterprise, the Texas billionaire hired lobbyists to urge the Obama administration to expand the types of nuclear waste, including depleted uranium, the dump can accept and award his company disposal contracts. If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission changes the rule, it could open access to a market worth billions. The deadline for a decision is in 2014.

Simmons now is spending money in a new way that could improve his business prospects: He’s invested $15.9 million this election cycle in various groups to help elect Republicans, who advocate easing regulations on the nuclear industry.

The largest chunk of Simmons’s campaign cash -- $12 million -- has gone to American Crossroads, a so-called super political action committee that takes unlimited donations and has a stated mission of defeating President Barack Obama. He has given at least $700,000 to Restore Our Future, a super-PAC backing Mitt Romney, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination whose call for a fast-tracked permitting process for new nuclear plants could benefit Simmons’s Waste Control Specialists LLC.

Republican Donor Simmons Seeks Rule to Fill Texas Dump - Businessweek

Nuclear waste dump? do you think they just toss nuclear waste into a pile of trash?

by the way, what happened to all those anonymous donations Citizen's United was supposed to give us? Was that another lie?

Of course they do, just like people with concealed carry licenses run around with the weapon in their hand chasing children.

 

[rdean]

Republicans in Texas voted for Rick Perry, and what are they getting as a result?

A nuclear waste dump right on top of their water supply.

The chickens have come to roost, Republicans.

That is almost as dumb as rdean's claim that the Ogallala Aquaifier supplies all the water for the US.

Ogallala Aquifer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

From your link:

The Ogallala Aquifer, also known as the High Plains Aquifer, is a vast yet shallow underground water table aquifer located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. One of the world's largest aquifers, it covers an area of approximately 174,000 mi² (450,000 km²) in portions of the eight states of South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. It was named in 1898 by N.H. Darton from its type locality near the town of Ogallala, Nebraska.[1]
About 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies this aquifer system, which yields about 30 percent of the nation's ground water used for irrigation. In addition, the aquifer system provides drinking water to 82 percent of the people who live within the aquifer boundary.[2]

What I said back in post #20:

Not there. Simmons wants to build his site directly over the Ogallala Aquifer, an underground reservoir, running beneath eight Great Plains states and supplies roughly a third of the nation’s irrigation water. The largest Aquifer in the US.

I'm sorry for you. Really I am. You want so bad to be perceived as more than an drooling idiot tard, but you aren't. In fact, you are definitely worse than Mitt Romney.

 

[rdean]

Harold Simmons built a West Texas dump for radioactive waste that is bigger than 1,000 football fields and he can’t fill it.

To turn it into a profitable enterprise, the Texas billionaire hired lobbyists to urge the Obama administration to expand the types of nuclear waste, including depleted uranium, the dump can accept and award his company disposal contracts. If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission changes the rule, it could open access to a market worth billions. The deadline for a decision is in 2014.

Simmons now is spending money in a new way that could improve his business prospects: He’s invested $15.9 million this election cycle in various groups to help elect Republicans, who advocate easing regulations on the nuclear industry.

The largest chunk of Simmons’s campaign cash -- $12 million -- has gone to American Crossroads, a so-called super political action committee that takes unlimited donations and has a stated mission of defeating President Barack Obama. He has given at least $700,000 to Restore Our Future, a super-PAC backing Mitt Romney, the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination whose call for a fast-tracked permitting process for new nuclear plants could benefit Simmons’s Waste Control Specialists LLC.

Republican Donor Simmons Seeks Rule to Fill Texas Dump - Businessweek

So he petitioned government like the people did for solyndra.

Well not quite he isnt a Obama bundler, I can see why you are upset.

Some investments work out and some don't. Even Mitt Romney said that. Most corporations don't do that much "research" because it's expensive and risky. The bulk of the research done in the US comes from government spending and Universities. Everyone knows that. It's the backbone of the scientific part of our nation's economy. The best example is NASA. Only a fraction of NASA's research has led to anything. But it still has produced thousands of patents sold to or licensed by industry bringing in billions in revenue.

How come right wingers don't know these common FACTS?????

Honestly, I'm mystified. Are they indoctrinated against knowing anything important? Is it the inbreeding? The racism? What? Are they all autistic? Brain damaged? What is it?

 

[naturegirl]

What?????????? I'm so confused I thought the Koch Brothers were the top Republican donor. They're going to be upset they've lost their status!!

 

[The T]

What?????????? I'm so confused I thought the Koch Brothers were the top Republican donor. They're going to be upset they've lost their status!!

Statists change thier spots at the drop of a hat when cornered.

 

[Conservative]

has he broken any laws?

Has Bill Maher, or any of the other people you bitch about?

What a fucking retarded way to go about life, basing opinions on ones character based on whether or not they have broken any laws. Some of the shittiest people I know are law abiding citizens(mostly), and their shittiness doesn't come from the few laws they do break.

Please show me a single post where I bitch about Bill Maher. I dare you.

Putz.

 

[Skull Pilot]

The Japanese have shut down all their nuclear plants except one.

And the Japs live on a volcanic island plagued by earthquakes so what's your point?

BTW when was the last time we has a tsunami hit the coast of the USA?

 

[Zander]

He's a billionaire, he must be evil.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Super PAC donations to open nuclear waste dumps over aquafers should be stopped.

Where is it supposed to go, dick head?

 

[Listening]

The Japanese have shut down all their nuclear plants except one.

You're expecting a tsunami in the middle of the country ?

The japs plan to restart several of them once they get the tsunami walls in place.

What was your point. They built those plants for a reason.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Is there a point to this thread ?

I think the point of the thread is to demonstrate what we all should know by now this is a crony infested system. Obama and Romney will both be bought out before the end of the election.

Until we restructure campaign finance in order to prevent this obvious pandering, we will be a nation ruled by special interest groups and corporations. Politicians don't bite the hand that feeds them.

The point of this thread is to show the danger in electing Republicans.

That might have been the intent of the thread, but the point of the thread is how stupid you are.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Texas Republicans voted for Rick Perry and what they got in return was a nuclear waste dump on top of their water supply.

This is what you get went you vote Republican!

Did you miss the post you replied to that showed that most of Texas does not get its water from the Ogallala Aquifier?

 

[buckeye45_73]

has he broken any laws?

Has Bill Maher, or any of the other people you bitch about?

What a fucking retarded way to go about life, basing opinions on ones character based on whether or not they have broken any laws. Some of the shittiest people I know are law abiding citizens(mostly), and their shittiness doesn't come from the few laws they do break.

Where did Bill Mahr come from? If we talking about insults to women, good. Obama hates Rush Limbaugh's speech, but Mahr is ok? hmmm something's not kosher. Oh wait the liberal escape hatch of we can do it because................he's a comedian, yeah he's a comedian. The problem is I can find lots of racist/sexist speak by liberals that are not comedians but still love by the left. Hence the Rush Limbaugh thing was total bunch of bs.