[BC] Power distribution in the NE

[Robert Meuser]

That sounds ideal except that there is a labor shortage due to all this. 
Apparently you are importing people at top dollar and that is causing a 
housing crisis. When these issues are all addressed and everyone settles 
in, just hope they don't all turn into a bunch of NIMBYS and kill the 
golden goose.

Since you have all that uranium, why not build some big monster nuke 
power plant before those NIMBYS take over?

R


KKTY wrote:

>
> (Chamber of Commerce hat) To the north of Douglas, Northeast Wyo sits 
> on the nation's largest coal reserves, & we're digging 'em up & 
> shipping 'em out as fast as we can. It's all strip mines, and they're 
> required to count the sage brush before they start digging, and 
> plant'em back afterwards... *very* stringent reclamation requirements.
>
> Converse County (home sweet home) sits on some of the nation's largest 
> power-grade uranium reserves... if nuke ever kicks up again, we'll be 
> golden (and no, we don't glow in the dark).
>
> Still lots of oil here, although the big booms were in the '50's.
>
> And yes, there's that geyser thing up in the Park that somebody's 
> going to put a hydrothermal faucet on one of these days...
>
>
> When they put the Arlington project online, a lot of that power was 
> shipped to Eugene, OR. Turn on the lights courtesy of Wyoming wind.
>
> We've traditionally sent the coal & oil elsewhere to power plants out 
> of state. Now the push is to get the high power lines built so that we 
> can keep the power plants and the jobs here in-state. Projects are in 
> various stages now to build lines to Denver & the Front Range, 
> Phoenix, and SoCal. Glen, we'll be running your air conditioning 
> before long if things work out ;-)
>
> Uniquely, Wyoming finally broke 500 thousand residents for just the 
> second time this past year. We are, indeed, the big square empty 
> state. Nobody wants to live here because of the wind ;-)
>
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