Serving the High Plains
Serving the High Plains
The DOE abandoned drilling project after Nara Visa residents opposed it.
County Commissioners listen to a statement from a concerned resident in the 10th Judicial District Courtroom in Tucumcari during a discussion of proposed boreholes in the Nara Visa area.
Determined Nara Visa residents in 2017 successfully marshaled opposition to a proposed three-mile-deep borehole to test a way to dispose of highly radioactive nuclear waste until the project was abandoned in late May.
Their efforts, and parallel oppo...
