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Rexburg-based Citizens for a Clean Idaho has taken its Web site down and failed to respond earlier this week to a Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff report that discounted its claims about Westinghouse Electric's request for a federal exemption to ship 50,000 tons of soil and debris contaminated with extremely low levels of radioactive material to American Ecology's state regulated facility.
The Idaho company filed a lawsuit in 4th District Court last week claiming the group and its founder Stephen Loosli -- with the support of American Ecology's Utah competitor EnergySolutions -- made false and misleading statements about American Ecology.
Loosli said the lawsuit was filed to quiet a critic and that the assertions that Citizens for a Clean Idaho is a front group for EnergySolutions are unfounded.
"We believe their lawsuit is meritless but we took our website down," he said.
American Ecology spokesman Chad Hyslop said the company was not trying to silence critics or prevent them from participating in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission review.
"Any citizen has a right to file a petition with the NRC and express their opinion," Hyslop said. "That process is different than defamation."
Previously, Steve Romano, the president and CEO of American Ecology claimed Loosli and his consulting company, okosphre, was serving as a front for EnergySolutions in Utah. He also claimed EnergySolutions was backing similar groups in at least two other states -- all to protect its monopoly on low-level nuclear waste.
EnergySolutions refused to answer any questions then and had not yet returned a call Friday. Its spokesman, Mark Walker, issued a statement that did not directly deny Romano's claim: "Anyone attributing the actions of environmentalists or others to EnergySolutions is obviously trying to make a headline for themselves."
Loosli said after it filed its request for a public hearing on Westinghouse's application, the NRC staff report made it clear they weren't going to prevail.
"We made an effort and it didn't work," he said.
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