In the Idaho Statesman today, former governor Cecil Andrus sounds the alarm re: Gov. Butch Otter's thick-headed decision to grant an exemption to accept more N-waste from the federal government:

There's an old country expression that the people of Idaho should take to heart: Keep your eye on the rabbit. In this case, the rabbit is the incontestable threat to Idaho's economic and environmental future presented by the storage above the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer of nuclear waste, whether liquid, transuranic or solid in the form of spent fuel rods. It would only take one major seismic event to precipitate nuclear-tainted material migrating to and beginning to infect the aquifer. Idahoans would see a major part of the state's agricultural economy, particularly the downstream potato, beet, alfalfa and trout farm businesses destroyed, never to recover. More here.

Question: Sounds like Gov. Otter is selling Idaho's birthrite (for clean water) to the feds for a bowl of stew. Thoughts?