🚀 go-pugleaf

Yez sez:
>Or maybe compensate people in neighborhoods to make it worth
>their wile to listen to their kids wheezing with asthma.

Yez, stop making up stuff, you don't think well on your feet.

Read this:

"The proposed power plant would generate more than electricity
for the  local economy: $6 million in annual tax revenues, $1 
million for neighborhood improvement and $156,000 each year in
scholarship funds.  Despite all these benefits, residents of 
South Gate appear prepared to fight the construction of this
power plant. "


For more info see:
http://www.commandcollege.com/cc_futures_files/abstracts/2001/00000084.htm

Here's a cut:

A proposed power plant in the city of South Gate was the subject 
of a hunger strike by the city's mayor and several other activists.
Sunlaw Energy Inc. hopes to build a $256 million plant on the site of a 
diesel truck service yard. The proposed power plant, badly needed in 
California due to a severe energy generation shortage, would be fueled 
by natural gas and be one of the cleanest power plants in the U.S.
Despite the low pollution rating, the plant would still emit as much as 
384 tons of air pollution annually. Sunlaw officials have indicated, 
however, that this amount of pollution is less than that currently 
emitted by the diesel truck service yard. 

The proposed power plant would generate more than electricity for the 
local economy: $6 million in annual tax revenues, $1 million for 
neighborhood improvement and $156,000 each year in scholarship funds. 
Despite all these benefits, residents of South Gate appear prepared to 
fight the construction of this power plant.

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Source: Los Angeles Times
Page_Number: Section A, Pg. 20
Publication_Date: March 3, 2001

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California doesn't have power because the nuts there oppose
power plants, even wind machines, but the CA nuts want to
blame Texas instead.
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