NOT IN MY BACKYARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

// added November 26, 2007 // 2 comments //
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/19/us/19collins.html?n=Top/News/Scienc...

A Deeply Green City Confronts Its Energy Needs and Nuclear Worries

FORT COLLINS, Colo. — This city takes pride in being green, from its official motto, “Where renewal is a way of life,” to its Climate Wise energy program, which helps local businesses reduce the carbon emissions that scientists say can contribute to global warming.

But now two proposed energy projects are exposing the hard place that communities like this across the country are likely to confront in years to come as the tangled nuances of thinking globally come back to bite.

Both projects would do exactly what the city proclaims it wants, helping to produce zero-carbon energy. But one involves crowd-pleasing, feel-good solar power, and the other is a uranium mine, which has a base of support here about as big as a pinkie. Environmentalism and local politics have collided with a broader ethical and moral debate about the good of the planet, and whether some places could or should be called upon to sacrifice for their high-minded goals.

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If the NYT is so interested in science, why do the preface global warming with a statement like this: "...that scientists say can contribute to"????????/

Is global warming still up for debate? Are we headed to hell in a hand basket?
Am I reading to much into this, or are subtleties like this important. After Iraq, the NYT should be on its best, and most objective behavior, don't you think?

I say let's error on the side of survival.

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2 comments // NOT IN MY BACKYARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • covelogibbs
  • VoyagerFilms
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      VoyagerFilms  

    • First, the NYT is a propaganda device bought and sold by big business - figuratively speaking.

      Fort Collins has a right to say "NO."

      There are alternative sources of "green energy" so there is really no reason that area should have something it deems undesirable shoved down it's throat because some connected and corrupt energy company WANTS to have a nuke plant there - and the same goes for the solar panels.

      There is no justification for punishing Fort Collins because people in other areas such as Denver haven't bothered to build more efficient homes with solar panels and so forth.

    • 2 years ago
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