LRO: RE: Power (was wasted youth)

From: Easton Trevor A (trevor_easton@dofasco.ca)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 13:41:59 EDT

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    > Pacific pulp and paper plant in Bellingham, WA shut down. The mill, which
    > has
    > been in operation for decades, has also been hit with astronomical power
    > costs as
    > the result of insufficient generating capacity in this state, due in part
    > to the successful
    > blocking of new plants by the environmental movement. They tried to keep
    > the plant going
    > by renting 40 diesel generators, but the environmentalists got that
    > stopped, too. So the
    > plant closed last week, putting over 400 people out of work in a
    > relatively small town.
    >
            They should have installed a nuclear cogeneration plant, kept open,
    sold power to the state and the depleted uranuim might have come in handy
    for the environmentalists.



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