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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
Washington isn't that small of a state. It's in the middle in terms of area. But when you say that our resources are "precious" I really think it's more accurate to say that we treat our resources more preciously. We're crazy recyclers here (all of my life we had curbside recycling, way before it was elsewhere), and (seriously) half of our state's area is covered in pine trees...many people probably don't know that. But you know what? We're still good at using our natural resources. Did you know that Washington state gets less than 10% of our power from coal? We get almost all of our electricity from WATER. Grand Coulee Dam is the biggest power plant in the country, plus we have a bunch of other dams throughout the state. We have so much power generated from our natural resources (thanks to cooperation with Canada, Oregon and Idaho also) that we still have enough left over to sell to California. So I'm pretty happy with how we're treating our natural resources up here.
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I knew some of that--especially when I put a recyclable item in the wrong container. Compared to Texas, I would get "blank stares"--And poor California, first disaster they get, they ain't gonna make it... Namely issues with water--folks are going to lose they dayum minds...
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Originally Posted by AGDee
You do still have some nuclear plants, right?
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I thought they shutdown Hanford--it's a superfund site now. Like they have crazy stuff like Thorium and Strontium in the stones...