tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22571319.post6055272202835479708..comments2023-06-18T10:03:39.982-05:00Comments on Gregorian Rants: Cole, Poshard and Madigan - Grass roots politics against AmerenPeterGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13362919400474969329noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22571319.post-69996602847143102582007-03-31T09:58:00.000-05:002007-03-31T09:58:00.000-05:00NUCLEAR POWER:What this country really needs are a...NUCLEAR POWER:<BR/><BR/>What this country really needs are are nuclear power plants but there won't be any grassroots movement for that in the US of NIMBY. However, economic wastelands like southern Illinois, which take the prisons that NIMBYs don't want upstate would be a nice location. Of course, this would take a feasibility study. <BR/><BR/>PS: My Dad was an environmental scientist, won awards for cleaning up rivers and lakes, and also worked for the first private research firm that did compliance for companies under the Clean Air and Water Acts. I can remember going down the Connecticut River to the Vernon Nuclear Power Plant to test their emissions (later he took me to measure air pollution at various locations). This was the 1970s and the "Clamshell Alliance" of anti-nuclear power activists were in full swing. I asked him about this and he would say, "you have more to fear from the cosmic rays of the sun, or the radiation from brick walls." He was an environmentalist but also a scientist and was dismayed that environmentalism had become a religion untempered by science, cost/benefit and other earthly considerations. <BR/><BR/>OK, fire away: Can't dispose nuclear waste so let's just spew other wastes IMMEDIATELY into the environment rather than bury them in the desert!testing05401https://www.blogger.com/profile/17388846145377195962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22571319.post-27350409280565976602007-03-30T16:16:00.000-05:002007-03-30T16:16:00.000-05:00Hi Nobody -My lucky series was a spoof on how peop...Hi Nobody -<BR/><BR/>My lucky series was a spoof on how people don't give credit in Southern Illinois. So, if I added Margie, it is to honor her.<BR/><BR/>I assume that is what you are talking about.PeterGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13362919400474969329noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22571319.post-70706246751069042822007-03-30T15:51:00.000-05:002007-03-30T15:51:00.000-05:00i respectfully disagree.. these are the good peop...i respectfully disagree.. these are the good people who make positive change in the world!<BR/><BR/>you too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com