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- From: dean@vexcel.com (Dean Alaska)
- Subject: Re: NEWS: True Costs of Commercial Nuclear Power -- The Economic Failure
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.213546.6235@vexcel.com>
- Keywords: energy environment press
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder CO
- References: <C0qsD6.MuB@dcs.ed.ac.uk> <1993Jan12.175726.467@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> <1993Jan20.234321.28329@netcom.com>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:35:46 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.234321.28329@netcom.com> mvp@netcom.com (Mike Van Pelt) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan12.175726.467@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino) writes:
- >>In article <C0qsD6.MuB@dcs.ed.ac.uk> jh@dcs.ed.ac.uk (James Hammerton) writes:
- >>>you are aware of just how much evidence Greenpeace has?
- >>You are aware of just how often they make severe errors in their press
- >>releases?
- >
- >How about the several Greenpeace press releases demanding an immediate
- >ban on all use of chlorine compounds. ("You there! Put down that salt
- >shaker or we'll shoot!!")
- >
- >After several months of ridicule, they finally managed to obtain a
- >fractional clue, and changed it to "organochlorine compounds."
- >
- I have always heard it referred to as the chlorine manufacturing
- industry (which provides chlorine by separating salts), or as
- organochlorines. In any case, the call is for a phase out of
- such chemicals.
-
- Is your objection to the confusion with salt, or with the overall
- position against organochlorines?
- >--
- >Mike Van Pelt | What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth?
- >mvp@netcom.com | Judging from realistic simulations involving a
- > | sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we
- > | can assume it will be pretty bad. -- Dave Barry
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- Dean Myerson (aka dingo in boulder) dean@vexcel.com
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