"We have run out of backyards"

Posted : January 9, 2007 at 2:50 pm [America/Los_Angeles]

“For the last 100 years we built (coal) plants like this one. It takes crushed coal, ignites it to heat water that produces steam, and that turns a turbine and produces electricity. … You build that smoke stack real high so that nasty stuff goes to someone else’s backyard. Well, we’ve run out of backyards.”

- Montana’s Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer

You’re damn right about that.

- Anand

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