Oil and gas interests in the Permian Basin have aligned with environmentalists to oppose Holtec's plan Holtec says the project will provide hundreds of good paying jobs in New Mexico Communities across the nation that are stuck with spent nuclear fuel are anxious to send the waste out west so they can begin redeveloping sites that housed nuclear power plants. It’s easy to tell when boom time has arrived on the wind-swept streets of Carlsbad, New Mexico, 2,000 miles away from the shores of the Hudson River and its iconic nuclear towers of Indian Point. When the western state's Permian Basi...