What is it with Crybaby Harry Reid and trying to kill jobs for Nevadans. Yucca Mountain and couple of coal fired power plants have cost thousands of jobs in Nevada.
Now, Reid is trying to kill a copper mining project that may employ up to 400 or so jobs at an average salary of $80,000.
From the Reno Gazette Journal: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said he will support a
land transfer bill for the city of Yerington — considered a major cog
in the revitalization of Lyon County’s copper mining industry — if it
includes the establishment of a wilderness area.
Reid
spoke of his concerns Tuesday night in Reno after a campaign stop for
President Barack Obama at Truckee Meadows Community College.
“It
is not a lot of wilderness area but it is something that is important,”
Reid said. “They cannot think they are going to get this thing and do
nothing for the environment.”
The bill would mandate a fair-market-value sale of about 19 square miles of U.S. Bureau of Land Management to Yerington.
The land surrounds the Nevada Copper mine, which has recently started operations.
When
Nevada Copper gets rolling full-time, it should employ 400 to 500
workers with an average yearly salary of $80,000, a Nevada Copper
representative said....
The proposed wilderness area is land between Smith Valley and
Bridgeport, Calif., that has significant cultural meaning for Native
Americans, Yerington Mayor George Dini said.
The entire area is around 80,000 acres but Dini was unsure how much would be designated as the wilderness area.
“Before we pursue this any further, we need to know how much acreage we are talking about,” Dini said.
“We
were told at the beginning that there would be some tradeoff with
environmentalists and conservationists,” Dini said. “But this is not a
deal that has been made. We have requested to properly research the area
and see if this is workable. Nobody is committed to anything yet.”
The bill has already passed the U.S. House through the efforts of U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Carson City....
The bill originally was proposed by Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., when he
was Nevada’s 2nd District representative. Heller, from Carson City, was
appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2010 by Gov. Brian Sandoval.
Neither Heller nor Amodei has heard any wilderness-area proposal from Reid, they said.
“I
want the buy-in from the local governments,” Heller said. “If this is
just Lyon County, that is one thing. But if it (wilderness area) bleeds
into Mineral County or Douglas County, I’d want their local governments
to take a look at this. And if we can get everybody on the same page,
I’m OK with it.”
Amodei questioned if it was necessary to have a wilderness area tacked onto a mining bill.
http://www.rgj.com/article/20120822/NEWS/308220174/Sen-Harry-Reid-wants-wilderness-provision-added-Yerington-land-bill-copper-mine?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s
Reid is willing to play a game of political game of chicken and is willing to throw away hundreds of good paying jobs in Nevada for some land in California. Seriously? Really, Harry, you're willing to kill these jobs for California?
This is another reason why we have horrible unemployment in Nevada- Harry Reid and his game playing.
It's time for Reid to resign and go away. He is out of touch with Nevada and now is trying his hardest to hurt the very people he is supposed to be representing.
Reid did the same thing in Esmeralda and Nye counties. He wanted wilderness in trade for Gold Point in Esmeralda County and Ione in Nye County. He proposed the bill in 2000, it was read in to the Record, went to committee, let it sit around for several years then it was brought back to his attention and another bill was drafted, once again read in to the Record, went to committee, where it sat around again. This happened 5 or 6 times and the conveyance issue is still not solved. The owners of the improvements are still waiting to own what they have already paid for. They are trespassers on land they purchased way back when before the BLM cam into existance and are not being told that they don't own the land that has been sold and purchased since 1908. Esmeralda told Reid no wilderness several times over. Esmeralda is 98% BLM managed lands and he wants to tie up even more of it in wilderness, what is wrong with that picture?????
ReplyDeleteharry reid is a disgrace to the great state of nevada. lets make sure he will loose majority in the senate this nov. 2012 !
ReplyDeleteWe are starving to death in Lyon country and Harry wants a wilderness! He simply does not care about his own state or the people in it.
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