A Travis County, Texas District Court judge yesterday ruled in favor of the Sierra Club that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality should have held a contested case hearing about potential harm t nearby residents before licensing Waste Control Specialists’ Andrews, Texas radwaste disposal facility. The facility has begun accepting waste after opening April 27, and WCS CEO William Lindquist said that will not change while the company appeals the case. “There will be no change in our operation of the Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Compact Commission disposal facility in Andrews County as Judge Livingston’s decision will be appealed,” Lindquist said in a statement yesterday. “We are a little puzzled by today’s ruling because this is the same set of facts that this same judge was asked to rule on regarding the byproducts disposal license granted to WCS by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and she ruled against the plaintiffs in that case. Nonetheless, we are confident that the license issued to WCS by the state of Texas will remain in place.” The judge found that TCEQ was wrong not to order a hearing for resident concerns, and the decision ordered that such a hearing now take place.
SIERRA CLUB WINS CHALLENGE TO WCS SITE, BUT FACILITY TO REMAIN OPEN DURING APPEAL
WCS touts waste shipments via rail
Waste Control Specialists (WCS) received a lot of radioactive waste by train at its West Texas site during 2024, company president David Carlson told Exchange Monitor’s Radwaste Summit last week in Savannah, Ga. During 2024, WCS received 600 shipments of waste by rail. This included 5,000 canisters and 3 million cubic feet of waste, according […]