Nevada seeks united front against Yucca

[NVMojo]

Utah's 'thrown us under the bus,' official says

Deseret Morning News

Western states should stand together against the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository proposed for Nevada, says a Nevada official.


Marta Adams, a senior deputy attorney general, calls the U.S. Department of Energy "disingenuous" about Yucca Mountain. The most recent bombshell involving the site is the federal government's announcement last week that a review to validate scientific studies about water infiltration and climate may have been falsified.


While Nevada organized a strong, tenacious fight against the repository, the Utah congressional delegation sided with the federal government. Rather than support the neighboring state as they should have, said Adams, Utah has "thrown us under the bus." She said Idaho also took that approach.


Utah's senators did not back Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., in attempting to kill the repository and keep the 40,000 tons of waste where it is now stored — at nuclear power plants.

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[bluestateguy]

1. Of course, Nevada had a chance to vote on this last November

but instead they voted to put the guy back in office who favors nuclear waste.

Forgive me if my sympathyies are elsewhere right now.

[NVMojo]

2. yep and it was mostly the Nevada cities not close to Yucca

that voted for the chimp in overwhelming numbers because they believe that the feds will give the state and it's citizens a stipend, annually, for taking the nation's nuclear crap. Repukes are so delusional.

[tinanator]

6. what, you dont remember the phony vote registration drives?

how quickly we forget. Nevada was played hard.

[skylarmae]

3. as a Utah, I apologize - We've been trying to get Hatch

and Bennett out and Senators with fairness and intellect in, however until the Mormons church quits meddling in the business of politics... and don't get me started about Idaho...

[NVMojo]

4. I hear you on both Utah and Idaho ....

[struggle4progress]

5. kick

[lwin]

7. Like someone else said...

Nevada went Red in the last election, despite already having been screwed by the chimp re Yucca after the last election. They need to learn once and for all that their best interests lie in teaming with California, Washington and Oregon, not their fellow red-state buddies like Utah, Idaho and Arizona. Additionally, I do believe Californian's are your biggest source of tourism dollars too.

I feel for the Dems in Nevada that worked their hearts out to turn the state blue last year. We sent a ton of swing state volunteers to help. It was really heartbreaking to lose.

[NVMojo]

8. it was a tragedy in Nevada ...the jerk only won by 21,000 votes ...

I still say he did it with the help of those old Sequoias in Las Vegas that cannot be used to accurately recount. And Vegas is mostly Dem ....