Rural Nevada- Good Enough to Dump Nuclear Waste In, But Not Good Enough to Build Coal-Fired Power Plant?

While doing a bit of online research for a post on my other blog yesterday, I came across this press release from earlier this year.

NV Energy Postpones Construction of Coal Power Facility in Nevada:

NV Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NVE) today announced that it has postponed its plans to construct a coal-fired power plant in eastern Nevada due to increasing environmental and economic uncertainties surrounding its development. The company will not move forward with construction of the coal plant until the technologies that will capture and store greenhouse gasses are commercially feasible, which is not likely before the end of the next decade.

So...nuclear waste is going to be dumped in the DOE's Yucca Mountain facility whether the sparsely populated state wants it or not, but should they want to build a coal-fired power plant for their own energy needs, well....that's just too freakin' bad.