Las Vegas Review: When the Bureau of Land Management holds a public meeting Tuesday in Las Vegas, environmentalists are expected to lambaste a BLM draft study on the $5 billion Ely Energy Center, a 1,500-megawatt coal-fired power plant planned near the eastern Nevada city. NV Energy, which proposed the project three years ago, appears to be losing hopes for the project. Michael Yackira, chief executive officer of NV Energy, told Power Engineering magazine on Feb. 3 that the project “is going to …