> 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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