September 5th 2008
Nuclear Power And Enviro-Meltdown
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‘m all for John McCain’s proposal to unleash the Treasury in support of nuclear power, but anyone in the development business knows it may fall flat unless he unleashes the Department of Justice as well. If you haven’t been keeping up on your Waste News reading (registration required – DRAT!), you may not know the latest in the nuke-building wars. Here’s the story:
Alternative Energy Holdings Inc., which has proposed to build a nuclear power plant in southwestern Idaho, is suing an environmental group for making defamatory remarks.
The Boise, Idaho-based company filed the lawsuit in Idaho’s 4th District Court after the Snake River Alliance called the company “scammers.” The comments, broadcast Aug. 11, defame the company and its stockholders, said Donald Gillispie, president and CEO of AEHI. The company has passesd two independent financial audits, which have found nothing amiss, he said.
“These radical groups are allowed to make almost any claim they wish, regardless of the facts, and the media rarely questions [sic] them,” Gillispie said. “Someone has to hold them accountable.”
Indeed, someone should hold them accountable, with one of those Indonesian canes, if possible. But if litigation’s the preferred approach, just don’t do it in California. Suing a lie-spewing whacko in California can get you in big trouble because of legislation prohibiting or limiting SLAPP lawsuits (that’s Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation for the unitiated). A stupid-a$$ law if ever there was one, it’s used by Greenies, NIMBYs and other loud-mouthed fact-fabricators to keep those they abuse from using the courts against them.
In other words, in the eyes of California’s crazy, liberal legislature, some people have more First Amendment freedoms than others. The key word is “liberal.”
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September 6th, 2008 at 10:22 am
I’m not very optomistic. If we have trouble getting approval to build something as benign as a postal sorting center in Aliso Viejo, how is this nation ever going to come to grips with solving our major (energy, transportation, & water come immediately to mind) problems?
September 6th, 2008 at 11:16 am
The fight for water and energy – and in California, particularly water – could be the tipping point that’s long overdue in this particular pendulum swing. Society will not turn towards environmentalism forever; the pendulum will go (has gone) too far and other voices will begin to dominate.
But it’s going to be long and hard; they will not go quietly into the night.