Dear editor:
I am a Wyoming senior, a Natrona County, Wyoming Native, and a proud child of the Wyoming oil patch.
I am generally pro industry and unapologetically unafraid of carbon.
I’m betting that there are a lot of Wyoming voters with similar pedigrees who would join me in questioning the wisdom of proposed legislation that would make Wyoming the storage location for nuclear waste produced all over the world by Wyoming-built micro reactors.
Seems like we already do something like that with spent wind turbine blades.
I do not pretend to know the full story here.
But the sense I get from the excellent Cowboy State Daily coverage is that Radiant took their dog and pony show to Tennessee after failing to secure special legislative commitments in Wyoming.
And somehow the Freedom Caucus is credited with showing them the door. Well good on them.
Maybe the Freedom Caucus is a little more connected to the mainstream Wyoming voter than some want to believe.
It is no secret that compared to anywhere else we don’t have very many voters here in Wyoming.
But big business from California or elsewhere is making a fantastically huge mistake when they assume our small population means we are easily influenced or manipulated.
What with their micro reactors and all, I might have thought Radiant would have better appreciated the power of small.
For my part, I’m mighty thankful for Tennessee’s willingness to give Radiant a soft place to land. Tennessee can keep on being Tennessee, and Wyoming can keep on being Wyoming.
Sincerely,
Steve Weichman, Jackson
