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MisterP

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4. Washington state's establishment depends on Federal money being poured into unprofitable reactors

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun May 8, 2016, 11:01 PM

May 2016

and dams: after WWII the excess power couldn't be absorbed by Seattle-Vancouver-Portland and so they plunked Hanford down to absorb the unusable electricity

then we get Dixy Lee Ray and her "more white elephants since that means Washington's paying for 'em" philosophy--it's the extractive mentality, extended to the Feds

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