What if the sad choice is saving the environment or human beings?
-----Original Message----- From: LizR <[email protected]> To: everything-list <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Mar 3, 2014 6:46 pm Subject: Re: The situation at Fukushima appears to be deteriorating On 4 March 2014 06:48, John Clark <[email protected]> wrote: On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 Chris de Morsella <[email protected]> wrote: > With power stations you don't need to worry about the same factors (energy > density etc) but you do need to worry about other things And one of those other things you need to worry about is dimwitted and hypocritical environmentalists who don't want power stations of ANY sort built, ANYWHERE regardless of if they are renewable or non-renewable: *At the urging of environmentalist groups Sen. Feinstein of California has tried to put 500,000 acres of solar drenched land in the Mojave desert off limits to any solar development. *Environmentalists tried everything they could think of to block a 2.1 billion dollar solar plant in Ivanpah California. * The same people are trying to block a 680 million dollar solar plant in Owens Valley. * They were successful in killing a solar power station in Fresno County California that would have supplied enough greenhouse free energy to power 75,000 homes. * Environmentalists are trying their best to stop Obama from extending permits to build wind farms from 5 years to 30 because they kill little birdies. *And to quote directly from their website: "The Sierra Club opposes geothermal leasingor development in the following areas: Lands included in or adjacent to federal, state, or local park systems or in wildliferefuges and management areas; Areas known to provide habitat for rare or endangered species; Areas designated as valuable for archaeological remains; Units of the National Wilderness preservation System; Units of the Wild and Scenic Rivers System; Units of the National Trails System; Areas reserved by the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture forecological, scenic, natural, wildlife, geological, educational, historical, or scientificvalue, including Primitive Areas, Roadless Areas, Natural Areas, and Pioneer Areas; Areas of de facto wilderness under study by the Secretary of the Interior or theSecretary of Agriculture for reservation as part of one of the preservation systems listedabove; and Areas of de facto wilderness which are the subject of intensive study by recognizedcitizen groups or coalitions, resulting in formal proposals to the agencies and/orCongress for reservation as part of one of the preservation systems listed above." As I said the prefers solution to the energy crises according to some is to freeze to death in the dark. Well I consider myself an environmentalist and I am very much in favour of solar power stations unless there was is a desperately important reason not to site one in a particular place. Otherwise it's just NIMBYism ("not in my backyard"). You have to weigh up the costs and benefits, of course, and in some cases solar might not be the best solution - but as you say, we do need power stations! No way do I want to go back to medieval times, I don't even want to go back to pre-2011 (my daughter likes her iPad! :-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
