Jeb Bush, campaigning in Nevada, suggests Texas for potential nuclear dump

[TexasTowelie]

WASHINGTON - Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush suggested the dry, open spaces of New Mexico or his native Texas as a possible location for a permanent national nuclear waste dump, reviving a controversy that has percolated for years in the Lone Star State.

"New Mexico, Texas, have communities. … There are regions there (that) would compete for it," he told a Public Television interviewer this week in Nevada, where the proposed nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain appears to be all but dead.

A Bush campaign aide said he is not endorsing any particular state or site, but rather a "consent-oriented" process for siting a permanent nuclear waste repository.

Bush, in an interview with veteran Nevada political reporter Jon Ralston, said he had "talked to people in Texas" and is confident that there are communities willing to develop the sort of long-term nuclear waste facility that has eluded the U.S. nuclear industry for decades.

Read more: http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/us/article/Jeb-Bush-campaigning-in-Nevada-suggests-Texas-6585254.php

[delrem]

1. I suggest it be rebranded into "depleted" status,

then be shot into countries that the US engages in wars of choice, for fat profits.
It vanishes that way, right?

[ALBliberal]

2. As a citizen of NM just gotta say ....NO! Jeb! we won't "compete" for the

nuclear waste dump!

[hobbit709]

3. I suggest the Bush family compound be used as such, while they're still in it.

[Dustlawyer]

5. Seconded!

[elehhhhna]

4. Put it at Kennebunkport .

[DhhD]

6. Almost 30 Percent of Lands in the United States are owned federally.

Most federally owned land is in the West, off of the stable North American Continental Craton. Believed to be stable, Eastern New Mexico and West Texas are not drained by rivers but have aquifers that run under and come out, for the most part at the edge of the craton, known as the Balcones Escarpment. This craton edge, makes a westward turn south of San Antonio and runs all the way to the San Andreas Fault in California.
Scroll down to the second map:
http://modernsurvivalblog.com/retreat-living/government-owned-land-near-you/



http://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/printable/fedlands.html

The Federal Government owns nearly 650 million acres of land - almost 30 percent of the land area of the United States. Federally-owned and managed public lands include National Parks, National Forests, and National Wildlife Refuges. These are lands that are held for all Americans. The Federal agencies responsible for managing America's natural resources must meet both the public desire to protect them and the public expectation of economic growth based on them. Within the Federal Government, a number of agencies contribute to the management of natural resources associated with public lands. All of these Federal agencies are partners in the production of the 1997-2014 Edition of the National Atlas.
more at link

[DhhD]

7. Federal Lands of New Mexico using same link as reply #6. Lots of federal lands in south

eastern New Mexico. Why is JEB trying to buy off someone?

http://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/printable/images/pdf/fedlands/NM.pdf

[Paladin]

8. As if Texas hasn't been polluted by the Bush family enough, by now. (nt)