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West Texas nuclear waste project on hold – for now

Above, An overhead view in 2012 of Dallas-based Waste Control Specialists' low-level radioactive waste storage facilities near Andrews, Texas. Photo by David Bowser/Texas Tribune.

May 3, 2017

By Jim Malewitz and Kiah Collier
Texas Tribune

A proposal to bring the nation’s spent nuclear fuel to West Texas appears to be on the ropes.

Protested Big Bend pipeline now closer to approval

A sign opposing the Trans-Pecos pipeline hangs in a neighborhood near where the pipeline could run near Alpine. Photo by Cooper Neill/Texas Tribune.

Texas Tribune

Jan. 6,  2016

A coalition of ranchers, environmentalists and disgruntled landowners has suffered a major setback in its battle to block a proposed pipeline that would carry natural gas beneath 143 miles of largely untouched Big Bend-area land.