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BRENDA FISCHER, GENERAL SERVICES AND COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR FOR NORTH LAS VEGAS, WAS NERVOUS AND EXCITED as she stood in front of the City Council on Wednesday to accept a city award for her “dedication to excellence.”
The Obama administration and the state’s congressional delegation have vowed to financially bleed the decades-old Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project, but doing so probably will cramp Southern Nevada’s already hurting economy.
Nevada reached a milestone Friday in its 30-year war to defeat the federal Yucca Mountain nuclear waste project by filing 229 challenges to the Department of Energy’s license application for the planned repository 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
When Barack Obama made his first presidential campaign visit to Las Vegas 19 months ago, I got into it with his press person because there was no access for the local media and while Obama generally opposed Yucca Mountain, there was no answer to my follow-up question: “Then what should the country do with that nasty nuclear waste?”