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Nuclear Waste: The Skull Valley Controversy
Nuclear Waste: The Skull Valley Controversy This paper will discuss the moral and ethical issues concerning how and why Locally Undesirable Land Uses (LULUs) and Treatment, Storage and Disposal Facilities (TSDFs) are located. A LULU, or TSDF, can be a power plant, a munitions factory, a county landfill, a medical waste incinerator, a hazardous waste storage facility, a military base, an airport or any number of other facilities that people need, but do not want to live next to. The process of finding land for these facilities is driven by either racism or financial gain. The reason the placing of these facilities is thought to be racist is based in the fact that a majority of these facilities are located in communities that have a high minority population. As suggested in class minorities are four times more likely to live by a waste site, the NIMBY syndrome. The financial gain argument is based on the fact that the placing of these facilities is driven purely by profit. Does the prospect of financial profit outweigh the risk the waste can have on the tribe, the surrounding communities, and the people who could come into contact by the transporting of it? The case that I will discuss is unusual in the fact that the local residents have identified and requested the TSDF be located on their land. This is different from other tribes who don’t wish to “host” nuclear waste, dumping sites or a superfund. Those who are against this project do not live near the proposed facility, but fear the facility could endanger their community and the environment. This case also concerns Native Americans and their sovereign rights to govern their own land. Their sovereignty allows them to govern the industries that are on the reservations. The following excerpt from web page of the Skull Valley Goshute Tribe provides some history on the tribe: “The Goshutes have inhabited the southwestern part of the United States for thousands of years. They were there before the Mo... Please login to view comments from other users.
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