Family friendships and political favors got the Nevada senator on board in killing a nuke waste dump in Skull Valley.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., delivers a speech at the YearlyKos convention in Las Vegas on June 10, 2006.If you ever crossed Harry Reid, he could be your worst enemy. His image as a hard-nosed, calculating political operator and tough-guy — complete with the cliché references to his background as a brawling boxer out of Searchlight Nevada — persisted so long because there was truth to them.
In 2005, Utah officials had been fighting for more than a decade — unsuccessfully — to kill a temporary high-level nuclear waste storage site that a company called Private Fuel Storage wanted to build on the Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation. They got their meeting at Reid’s condominium at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. When Lee came out, he called Simmons and said we have a deal.
On Sept. 20, Bennett marched to the floor of the Senate and gave a speech advocating for the waste to stay where it is produced and that. “While I continue to have concerns about the Cedar Mountain wilderness proposal, of even greater concern is the threat posed by deadly nuclear waste,” Reid said at the time.
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