The rancher-federal agent standoff that has been
threatening to boil over in Clark County, Nevada, this week has transformed
almost overnight from a ludicrous overreach by a government bureaucracy hiding
behind an endangered tortoise to the probable result of a multibillion-dollar
solar power project traceable to none other than Majority Leader Sen. Harry
Reid.
As more BLM documents have come to light and connections
to previous news reports made, a picture has emerged of efforts by Reid and his
son, lawyer Rory Reid, to land a $5 billion Chinese solar power project that
will build in Laughlin, Nevada, and in Clark County, where the County
Commission sold public land for cents on the dollar to ENN Energy Group.
Rory Reid used to be the chairman of the Clark County
Commission, and Sen. Reid’s former adviser is now chief of the Bureau of Land
Management, which this week was confiscating rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle over
alleged grazing fees on land his family has worked for more than a century. The
thin excuse of protecting the desert tortoise, which has clearly survived just
fine in the presence of ranching, is easily dismissed because the BLM was
killing tortoises by the hundreds just last year due, it said, to lack of
funding…….To Read More…..
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