Goshute Tribe Seeks To Open Utah Nuke Waste Dump
from the sovereign-means-sovereign dept.
Some of the Goshute Indians, a smallish tribe in Utah, are apparently seeking to open a nuclear waste dump on the tribe’s land, which would both provide an interim storage location while Nevada’s Yucca Mountain facility is being prepared, and would make many of the impoverished Goshute fabulously wealthy. All kinds of stereotypes being stood on their heads here; as usual, reality turns out to be messier than the “all Indians are Iron Eyes Cody, solemnly crying over highway litter” circuitry some of us have hardwired into our brains. Anyway, links: the goddamn-registration-required (cypherpunk/cypherpunk) L.A. Times story, and a shorter, but in some ways more informative, piece from Alternet.
