A decision by the state engineer, with the backing of Gov. Jim Gibbons, to let the U.S. Department of Energy use the state's water for another month to explore the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste site amounts to surrendering in Nevada's decades-long fight against the project, Sen. Harry Reid said Tuesday.
"They have capitulated to the people who want to put nuclear waste in Nevada," Reid, D-Nev., said by telephone from Washington, D.C.
"This is capitulating to the Department of Energy and the proponents of nuclear waste in Nevada. I am terribly disappointed," Reid, the Senate majority leader, said. "This is a bad day for Nevada."
A letter from State Engineer Tracy Taylor dated Monday gives the Department of Energy another 30 days to use Nevada's water for drilling bore holes near the mountain.[...]
Gibbons Lets Yucca Mountain Project Use State's Water for Another Month
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Gibbons Lets Yucca Mountain Project Use State's Water for Another Month
By Keith Rogers
Las Vegas Review-Journal, 7/18/07
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