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• The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

  Kenneth Lay

  California, Problem, Economy

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• Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been especially aggressive in pursuing regulations that specifically target coal power plants. These regulations have already put hundreds of Pennsylvanians out of work and will continue to cause economic distress while yielding negligible benefits for our environment.

  Pat Toomey

  Agency, Environmental, Target

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon. To be specific, buy 50 feet of clothesline and a $3 bag of clothespins and become a solar energy pioneer.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Feet, Waiting

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• A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can’t be sure it won’t.

  L. William Seidman

  Blow, Safety, Nuclear

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• If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.

  Wendell Berry

  Time, Pain, Acceptance

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• Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

  George Monbiot

  People, Nuclear, Coal

  "Japan nuclear crisis should not carry weight in atomic energy debate" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2011.

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• People are the common denominator of progress. So no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development. But we are coming to realize that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Education, Sea, People

  "Economic Development". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith. Chapter 2, 1962.

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• The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

  James Hansen

  Energy, Coal, Environment

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

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• If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

  Donna Reed

  Judging, Safety, Risk

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

  Barack Obama

  Years, Eight, Coal

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• No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

  Joe Barton

  Nuclear, United States, Kind

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• As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility, which I do.

  Majora Carter

  Motivation, Distance, Inspiration

  "Greening the ghetto". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

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• Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

  Scott McNealy

  Phones, Light, Use

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• We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty.

  Jay Inslee

  Technology, Light, Poverty

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.

  Michael Lewis

  Soccer, Country, Team

  "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

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• In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.

  Oren Peli

  War, Years, Europe

  "‘Chernobyl Diaries’ & ‘Paranormal Activity’ Writer/Producer Oren Peli". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. May 25, 2012.

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• You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

  John Abizaid

  Years, United States, Plant

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• We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

  Babatunde Fashola

  Should Have, Pay, Salary

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• Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

  Tom Allen

  Mercury, Problem, Plant

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• President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big-money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the air was thick today with accusations from people who believe that's exactly what happened.

  Dan Rather

  Believe, Air, People

  "Clamoring for Kyoto" by Rich Noyes, www.newsbusters.org. May 24, 2012.

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• With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.

  Ann Coulter

  Cancer, Japan, Earthquakes

  "A Glowing Report on Radiation". humanevents.com. March 16, 2011.

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• I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Nuclear, Fukushima

  "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

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• We look at the Web as being our basic power plant, kind of like electricity, so the Web and communicating in this fashion is second nature to us now. It's not like we go brochure, television, mail. It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.

  Ted Leonsis

  Fashion, Media, Looks

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• I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

  John Sexton

  Beautiful, Artist, Photographer

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• There are consequences to our insatiable demands for energy and there are no easy answers for how to capture that energy safely. But even more pressing, since we are currently using nuclear power across the country and the globe, nuclear power plants must be regulated, and we need to be certain that our regulatory bodies are not compromised by their relationships with industry.

  Ivy Meeropol

  Country, Nuclear, Answers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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