riverman wrote:

"Tinkerntom" wrote:

I suspect that some of these companies would love to develope ANWR, and
maybe Watts would have allowed it, and now Bush and Norton contemplates
it. I also suspect that if they go up there, though they will probably
not be able to leave no trace, they will be required to leave as small
a footprint as possible. The cost of a highly advanced industrial
civilization.

If there is an alternative, I would love to hear it, and see it in
"black and white," not just platitudes and pie in the sky, and talk
about the noble savage. It is easy to whine, show me a plan that works,
and I would be more than glad to promote it to all my fundementalist
friends in high places.



OK. How about "CONSERVE"? And how about "its about time...."


Now there's a word you don't hear much anymore. I wonder how many
times it appears in Cheney's secret energy task force recommendations?
It has been made public that atomic energy (to use the old term) needs
to be revitalized, and will not result in production of greenhouse
gases. Which, the Bush administration has said with forked tongue, has
not been scientifically proven to be a cause of global warming.

Very recently, there have been public meetings for comment on a
proposal by the Virginia Department of Transportation to widen
Interstate 81 from four lanes to eight. A couple years ago these plans
were all but terminated in light of budget deficits. Negotiations are
now taking place between VDOT and STARS, a company owned by Cheney's
Halliburton.

I have a personal suspicion, unsupported by any collaborative
evidence, that the doubling of the width of I-81, with segregated
lanes for tractor-trailer traffic, is in preparation for
transportation of radioactive waste via interstate routes west to
Yucca Mountain, Nevada.

Another suspicion is that Halliburton may be planning to use state and
federal highway funds to subsidize the laying of pipelines parallel
to highway construction.






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Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me

- From "Ballad of Serenity" by Joss Whedon