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Originally Posted by godfry n. glad
I daresay, it's probably more than that. I'd say a lot of trash has already been dumped in Nevada. There is a huge pile of trash around the intersection of US 95 and I-515.
One person's "open, empty desert", ready for landfills, is another's "pristine wilderness" providing idyllic living circumstances for a variety of creatures.
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Understood, but most of Nevada is not protected wilderness and is owned by the government, anyway.
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It's more than regulatory and logistical problems. Most major American metropolitan areas are facing the filling and closure of their landfills in the next ten years. Either they will be forced to deal with it another way (burning, say...*cough*cough*) or locate and build yet another landfill... I hear there are plenty of empty valleys in Alabama, too.
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Again, many cities have closed landfills and made them into beautiful parks, golf courses, and other recreational areas and simply opened new ones. Some states ship their trash to neighboring states with more landfill space without issue. It has been done, so it can be done. Just a matter of the agencies involved getting their shit together.
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They have? You sure coulda fooled me. Tell 'em to come pick up those stinkin' radioactive fuel rods ASAP, wouldja? We've been waiting fifteen years on the promise they'd have it all fixed up for us ten years ago.
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Yucca Mountain has been approved. We are still fighting it, especially now that they found some of the scientific documents were falsified, but the Feds seem like they ain't budging. They supposedly have all the logistics for shipping it here ready to go.
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I dunno... The topic came up. I did not realize that you were the arbiter of what is discussed and what is not. Excuuuuuuse me.
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I am not as upset about discussing it as I was your tone (or at least the tone I perceived). You were getting kinda rude with me and I don't understand why.