North Las Vegas Home Owners Alliance Statement on Fossil Bed Power Lines

Mammoth Takes Stance on Harry Reid

The president of the (deep breath) North Las Vegas Alliance of Home Owners and Concerned Citizens, sent out the following statement about NV Energy’s asinine proposal to put new power transmission lines near the site of the planned fossil bed national monument:

At last evenings City Council Meeting, Mayor Buck commented that NVEnergy is trying to put an additional set of gigantic power poles between the current Northern boundaries of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas and the Sheep Range foot hills.

As many of you are aware the Alliance almost since inception a few years ago has been very active supporting POTS (Protectors of Tule Spring) and other groups trying to establish a National Park or National Monument in the area from the northern limits of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas to the mountains and stretching from the Piute Reservation up US 95 and ending around Pecos.  For several months now it has been waiting the President’s signature creating a National Monument for the area.

This could be a big tourist attraction.  Many of the folks from around the world fly into Las Vegas to go to the Grand Canyon, Bryce and Zion and then fly back out.  Why not provide them with an additional day or two here and exploring our National Monument. With the projected new UNLV campus to be at the eastern end of the site consider the many new opportunities for additional high school, College and University courses.

Off and on various groups such as developers, NVEnergy and others have wanted to utilize the land for their own purposes.  Some of our members have been on guided tours of the area which you have heard about over the last few years and have actually seen examples of the fossils and other artifacts that in many cases are not found anywhere else in the world.  It would be a shame to lose any of these items to satisfy a perceived corporate need.

It is our understanding that the Sun is going to print an article about the proposed monument and NVEnergy interest in putting the second set of poles through the area.

Please pick up a copy and make your wishes and comments known to the Sun.

The Sun article is available here, and the LV Review Journal had a note here. Power company lobbyists are filling up the comments sections of those articles, so one thing net-savvy Nor’Townies might do is throw up a comment over there.