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Nevada congressman calls for US Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign
« on: July 11, 2019, 02:45:29 am »
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Nevada congressman calls for US Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign
The Associated Press Thursday, 11 July 2019

A Nevada congressman is calling for Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s resignation after the department acknowledged low-level radioactive waste that was shipped to a site north of Las Vegas may have been mislabeled and out of compliance with safety regulations for years.

Democratic Rep. Steven Horsford said Wednesday that Perry has disrespected the people of Nevada and eroded public trust in his ability to abide by rules established for nuclear waste disposal.

The material is unrelated to weapons-grade plutonium that the department secretly shipped to the same site last year and is currently at the center of a legal battle with the state of Nevada in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals.

Read more at: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/world/2019/07/11/Nevada-congressman-calls-for-US-Energy-Secretary-Rick-Perry-to-resign.html
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Re: Nevada congressman calls for US Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2019, 02:53:18 am »
Why scour for an Arabian newsite on something like this?
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Re: Nevada congressman calls for US Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign
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Re: Nevada congressman calls for US Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign
« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2019, 03:02:46 am »
"may have been mislabeled and out of compliance"?  That's it?
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Re: Nevada congressman calls for US Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign
« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2019, 08:56:58 am »
Okay, this has (according to the AP article been 'going on for up to six years'.  Perry has been Energy Secretary since March of 2017. Now, by my meager calculations, that means (within the 6 year bounds of the 'up to'), that more of this has been going on under Obama's watch, and that it was already happening when Perry took the position.
It was discovered while Perry was Sec. of Energy, so who found it out?
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Re: Nevada congressman calls for US Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign
« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2019, 10:25:16 am »
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But Horsford says it’s further evidence that Nevada has been covertly coerced into illegally storing nuclear materials. He says Perry must resign immediately

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/the-latest-congressman-calls-for-energy-secretary-to-resign/2019/07/10/38f79a42-a35f-11e9-a767-d7ab84aef3e9_story.html

Over the years, Nevada has accepted billions of dollars from the feds to build this nuclear disposal site.  Yet when it came time to actually using it, they reneged.  Either they accept the waste (and the permanent jobs that go with it), or the pay back all that money with interest for their bad faith.
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Re: Nevada congressman calls for US Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign
« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2019, 10:11:50 pm »
Quote from: Hoodat on July 11, 2019, 10:25:16 am
Over the years, Nevada has accepted billions of dollars from the feds to build this nuclear disposal site.  Yet when it came time to actually using it, they reneged.  Either they accept the waste (and the permanent jobs that go with it), or the pay back all that money with interest for their bad faith.
I worked with a geologist in the early 90s who had seen some of the cores from the site. That's roughly 30 years they've been feeding at that trough doing study and development.
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Re: Nevada congressman calls for US Energy Secretary Rick Perry to resign
« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2019, 10:15:07 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 11, 2019, 03:02:46 am
"may have been mislabeled and out of compliance"?  That's it?

??? 

So does the adminstator of the EPA resign when a permittee violates a wastewater parameter? 

Bizarreville. 
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