Anti-Yucca Mountain zealots were doing the Snoopy Dance on Monday after it was announced that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) had accepted and will consider 222 of Nevada’s 229 official objections to the nuclear waste disposal project located nowhere near Las Vegas.
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The New York Times is perhaps the nation’s most liberal newspaper. So when it essentially says that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is full of beans, it’s worth taking note.
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Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) once again declared the Yucca Mountain/Freddy Kruger Project dead this week.
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It’s not that Nuclear Projects Commissioner Rob Roberts - whose day job is mismanaging the Nye County Government School System - abruptly and quietly turned in his resignation to Gov. Jim Gibbons this week which raises any serious questions, but the fact that he somehow felt it necessary to quit just two months before his term was scheduled to automatically end anyway.
What’s up with that?
And what are the odds of me getting appointed to replace him? Now THAT would be an inspired pick…and oh, what fun we’d have THEN!!
The following press release was issued today….
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“The decades-long drama over the plan to dump high-level nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain is coming to a close,” writes Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Geoff Schumacher on Friday. “Nevada appears likely to win the war at last.”
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Of all the takes on anti-Yucca boss Bob Loux and his escape from justice before the Ethics Commission, no one nailed it as well as CityLife editor Steve Sebelius with this:
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If the Legislature is still looking for a money-saving non-essential government agency to ax out of the budget - you know, for the children and stuff - take the state’s Ethics Commission…please.
“By a 3-2 vote,” reports Cy Ryan of the Las Vegas Sun, the state Ethics Commission cleared Bob Loux of allegations that he gave himself unauthorized pay raises while he was director of the Office of Nuclear Projects.”
This despite the fact that Bob Loux gave himself and his staff unauthorized pay raises while simultaneously busting his department’s budget. Oh, and despite the fact that Loux admitted he did it.
“Yucca is still alive despite the denial rhetoric across the media,” writes Nevada blogger Mike Zahara. “So long as the 4 years long licensing process continues, the project still continues, so get over it, and know when you’re being lied to by politicians, even ones you like and admire. They’re just playing delaying games; it’s political choreography, again pay attention to what they’re doing, not saying.
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Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nevada) desperately wants Nevadans to believe the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository project is dead. And I don’t use the term “desperately” loosely.
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