Environmental opponents to WCS/ISP CISF defend legal interventions in NRC licensing proceeding

Environmental opponents to the proposed Waste Control Specialists/Interim Storage Partners (WCS/ISP) centralized interim storage facility (CISF) for 40,000 metric tons of highly radioactive waste targeted at Andrews County, Texas, have replied to attacks on their legal interventions by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff, and by WCS/ISP:

COMBINED REPLY OF DON’T WASTE MICHIGAN, CITIZENS’ ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION, CITIZENS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION, NUCLEAR ENERGY INFORMATION SERVICE, PUBLIC CITIZEN, INC., SAN LUIS OBISPO MOTHERS FOR PEACE, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COALITION AND LEONA MORGAN TO ISP/WCS AND NRC ANSWERS;

Sierra Club Combined Reply to the Answers filed by Interim Storage Partners (ISP) and the NRC Staff.

Toledo-based attorney Terry Lodge represents a seven-group environmental coalition opposed to WCS/ISP's CISF. Iowa-based attorney Wally Taylor represents the Sierra Club in opposition to WCS/ISP's CISF.

(Beyond Nuclear intervened in this proceeding in early October 2018. WCS/ISP, and NRC staff, objected to Beyond Nuclear's intervention, in various ways, in late October 2018. Beyond Nuclear replied in early November 2018. Diane Curran of Washington, D.C., and Mindy Goldstein of Turner Environmental Law Clinic at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, serve as legal counsel for Beyond Nuclear in opposition to the WCS/ISP CISF.)

NRC Answer to Sierra Club and Don't Waste MI, et al. Petitions in WCS/ISP CISF license proceeding

NRC STAFF’S CONSOLIDATED RESPONSE TO PETITIONS TO INTERVENE AND REQUESTS FOR HEARING FILED BY: SIERRA CLUB; DON’T WASTE MICHIGAN, CITIZENS’ ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION, CITIZENS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION, NUCLEAR ENERGY INFORMATION SERVICE, PUBLIC CITIZEN, INC., SAN LUIS OBISPO MOTHERS FOR PEACE, SUSTAINABLE ENERGY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COALITION AND LEONA MORGAN.

This is re: the INTERIM STORAGE PARTNERS/WASTE CONTROL SPECIALISTS (ISP/WCS) Consolidated Interim Storage Facility (CISF), targeted at Andrews County, West Texas.

Sierra Club and Don't Waste MI, et al., have till Dec. 17th to respond.

Wally Taylor serves as legal counsel for Sierra Club. Terry Lodge serves as legal counsel for Don't Waste MI, et al.

Sierra Club and Don't Waste MI, et al., intervened against the WCS/ISP CISF on Nov. 13th. Beyond Nuclear had intervened in early October.

Update on December 10, 2018 by admin

In separate filings, WCS/ISP also answered Sierra Club, as well as Don't Waste MI, et al.