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Otter Legacy? New Yucca Mountain

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At High Country News, Kindra McQuillan reports: “On Jan. 15, two former Idaho governors gathered local reporters at Andrus Center for Public Policy in downtown Boise, four blocks from the Capitol building, where both men served their terms. The long-time friends, usually at ease together, trembled with outrage in front of the lights and cameras. They’d called the news crews in order to publicly condemn a decision by Idaho’s current governor, Butch Otter, to allow the transport of spent nuclear fuel into the state by the Department of Energy, despite the agency’s breech of a rare waste agreement. “I’ll tell him what his legacy’s going to be,” former governor Cecil Andrus growled. “It’s going to be that they’ve created a Yucca Mountain in Idaho.” More here.

Question: Can you think of any other legacy that Gov. Butch Otter will leave behind at the end of his third term?

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Huckleberries Online." Read all stories from this blog