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Skull Valley

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Action Alert - BLM Calls for Comment on Utah Nuclear Dump Rail Line The public has a valuable opportunity to comment on the right-of-way requested by PFS to enable them to ship nuclear waste by rail to the proposed facility in Skull Valley. Shundahai Network has developed this resource page to make submitting your comments easier.

The Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation is still in the process for consideration for unprecedented "temporary" storage of America’s high-level nuclear waste, until a permanent storage facility is approved at Yucca Mountain Nevada- a mountain sacred to the indigenous Western Shoshone Nation.

Private Fuel Storage (PFS), a "limited-liability" consortium of commercial nuclear utilities wants to site a "temporary" above ground dump for 40,000 metric tons of high-level nuclear waste on the ancestral and Reservation land of the Skull Valley Band of Goshute Indians.

The Skull Valley Goshute Reservation is located approximately 45 miles upwind of Salt Lake City, and is steeped in controversy within the Skull Valley Band of Goshute's and various Government and Non-Governmental entities. Skull Valley is earthquake prone, and is surrounded by various military aircraft and weapons testing grounds.

On September 9, 2005, the NRC approved the license for the PFS/Skull Valley high-level nuclear waste facility on a 4-1 vote. Although there are still hurdles to cross PFS has publicly said it expects to begin accepting nuclear shipments by the end of 2007

As it stands, the proposal is still on the table. Without continued and determined opposition, the dump may well get approval by the Federal government.

Margene Bullcreek
Ohngo Gaudadeh Devia Awareness,
Skull Valley Goshute Reservation, UT

Standing between the Stansbury and Cedar Mountains in the middle of Skull Valley, Utah, outsiders might be tempted to see only a desolate wasteland. If so, then they don’t know how to be still and listen, Margene Bullcreek would say, a woman who has spent all her life appreciating the peace, tranquility, and sacredness of her Native Goshute land. The reservation is where Bullcreek has cut willow branches to cradle her babies as her mother and grandmother did before her. It is a place where her ancestors’ bones are buried. And it is the only land she and her tribe have left after the U.S. government appropriated the country from its first people.

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Events

Nuclear Free Great Basin Fall Gathering Oct 8-10th 2004:
Photos of the Gathering
Gathering opposes nuclear waste storage October 10, 2004- Deseret News
N-waste protesters rally at Skull Valley October 10, 2004 - Salt Lake Tribune
Nuclear Free Great Basin Gathering, October 6th-7th 2001
The Newely Elected Goshute Tribal Leadership Welcomes Guests to Skull Valley Reservation
Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson's speech

 

 

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April 8, 2006

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