LRO: Re: RE: Power (was wasted youth)

From: Rolston (kuvasz@snet.net)
Date: Thu Apr 05 2001 - 17:55:47 EDT

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    That way you could drive your land rover through the wasted industrial
    wasteland instead of wilderness.......

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Easton Trevor A" <trevor_easton@dofasco.ca>
    To: <lro@works.team.net>
    Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 1:41 PM
    Subject: LRO: RE: Power (was wasted youth)

    > > 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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