After giving nearly $2 million to candidates and PACs up and down the ballot in Texas during the 2010 election cycle, it looks like Waste Control Specialists’ Harold Simmons is looking to get his own payday.
Hearings before The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Compact Commission will get underway next Thursday on proposed rules that would allow the low-level radioactive waste dump in Andrews County owned by Simmons’ Waste Control Specialists to take waste from 36 more states.
At present the nuclear waste dump can take only low-level nuclear waste from Vermont and Texas.
Waste Control Specialists claims that the dump is safe and won’t harm the groundwater in the area. Naturally, area residents in Andrews County are so desperate for jobs that groundwater is a secondary concern for most of them.
It’s doubtful that Waste Control will be denied a permit. The Commission’s members from Texas were appointed by Governor Perry. The remaining members are from Vermont.
Waste Control Specialists and Harold Simmons have famously greased the wheels of the Texas Legislature in order to get exactly what they want.
A quick listing of Simmons’ contributions made during the 2010 Election Cycle are below.
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