Posted on 04/12/2014 8:56:35 AM PDT by Lorianne
U.S. Senator Harry Reid recognized nine years ago that connections between his official duties and the lobbying activities of his relatives could lead to ethical questions.
In 2003, the Nevada Democrat publicly banned relatives from lobbying him or his staff after newspaper reports showed that Nevada industries and institutions routinely turned to Reid's sons or son-in-law for representation.
Now, questions surrounding family ties are flaring again in Nevada around the Senate majority leader. He and his oldest son, Rory, are both involved in an effort by a Chinese energy giant, ENN Energy Group, to build a $5 billion solar farm and panel manufacturing plant in the southern Nevada desert.
Reid has been one of the project's most prominent advocates, helping recruit the company during a 2011 trip to China and applying his political muscle on behalf of the project in Nevada. His son, a lawyer with a prominent Las Vegas firm that is representing ENN, helped it locate a 9,000-acre (3,600-hectare) desert site that it is buying well below appraised value from Clark County, where Rory Reid formerly chaired the county commission.
Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the non-partisan advocacy group Public Citizen, said the senator is dealing with "an iffy ethical landscape" because of the family connections ...
The senator has supported numerous clean energy projects in Nevada. Rory Reid cites energy as one of his specialty areas at the law firm.
The Langfang, China-based ENN Energy Group hopes to build what would be the largest solar energy complex in America. The site chosen with Rory Reid's guidance is in tiny Laughlin, Nevada, a gambling town of 7,300 along the Colorado River, 90 miles south of Las Vegas.
(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.reuters.com ...
Can't tell the year because idiotic Reuters didn't put the year on the article. Has to be either 2012 or 2013
Add to title... “And Reid’s former Advisor who is now head of the BLM for Nevada!
“....China-based ENN Energy Group hopes to build what would be the largest solar energy complex in America.”
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That will result in lots of crispy wildlife in that area.
Has an environmental impact study been done or will it be waived because the Reid name is involved in the project?
Congress should call for hearings immediately...
And drag the hearings out until mid term elections
Reid has single-handedly put a roadblock in front of the US nuclear power industry by refusing to allow the Nevada nuclear waste storage area at Yucca Flats to go forward...which would guarantee higher value to lowest cost (US subsidized) Chinese wind and solar industries as an alternative to nuclear power.
The DemocRAT Party - “Putting Foreigners First!”
Good find, Reuters will have to go some to twist the facts on their own article so maybe they’ll have to tell some part of the truth about Bundy.
Cows and tortoise no. Solar plants and tortoise yes. Hmmmmmm! Witness the solar plant south of vegas that’s frying birds and blinding pilots. Sounds fair. They supposedly “relocated” some tortoises in that case so that makes it all good. Right?
OMG Liberals should not be breeding !
Yes, some very crisp desert turtles to be sure.
Mmmmm.
I’m seeing a missed food business opportunities here:
NFT Nevada Fried Turtle
Turt-Fil-A
I haven’t see anywhere where this land is in relation to Bundy’s ranch or the grazing land at issue. Does anybody know?
2008 Black Panther Voter Intimidation in Philadelphia tells me all I need to know about that racist Holder.
Fri, Aug 31 was in 2013.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3142972/posts?q=1&;page=101#101
related to dry lake solar energy project, BLM reported to have remove this from their site, saved on FR thread
Guess we know how Reis obtained his ten million.
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