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Quirky_Butterfly_946 t1_ix1q0rk wrote

Reply to comment by goPACK17 in Higher energy prices are a call for more renewables and maybe nuclear, not more pipelines by TeacherGuy1980

See this is why people are stupid. MA HAD a Nuclear Power Plant in Plymouth. But all the retarded environmentalists campaigned against it and it is now closed. Now the new environmentalist want nuclear.

Do you see how utter moronic they are? Do you see why no one wants to listen to them any more? They did the same thing with paper bags. They said it was causing deforestation, so we switched to plastic, now there are paper bags again and plastic is out.

CAN SOMEONE JUST PLEASE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THEY ARE IDIOTS.

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The-Shattering-Light t1_ix1xblq wrote

This is a pretty disingenuous statement.

“Environmentalists” aren’t one monolithic group. I’ve always been an environmentalist and always been pro-nuclear.

Paper bags were causing deforestation - then changes were made to replace lost trees. Plastic became ubiquitous because it was a lot cheaper to make in bulk.

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thepasttenseofdraw t1_ix2ascm wrote

Hey I’m about as green as they come, but yeah, that’s a pretty accurate description of what happened.

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siwmasas t1_ix20p0p wrote

PEOPLE DID IT WRONG IN THE PAST!!! IT CAN NEVER HAPPEN!!!

oh ffs...

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Daily_the_Project21 t1_ix33xkb wrote

Wasn't it planned to be shut down for a while? And then they sped it up because of financial reasons?

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somegridplayer t1_ix3e1ur wrote

It wasn't environmentalists that shut down Pilgrim, it was Entergy citing economic reasons. They could have easily spun it down but they're not in the business of keeping assets around it seems. They pick up plants at pennies on the dollar run them for a few years, then sell them off to decommissioning companies, amusingly enough, making a profit.

The only thing now that's making life difficult by environmentalists is dumping of water. They think it's going to irradiate their dunks ice coffee and kill their dog.

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pab_guy t1_ix3ns7p wrote

"They" aren't the same people for the most part but do go on yelling at the internet in all caps.

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wittgensteins-boat t1_ix6b7q2 wrote

Pilgrim was closed because cheap natural gas made it unecononic to properly maintain and renew the aging plant.
Environmentalists did not have influence on Entergy, who had obtained a 20 year extension on the license to operate, and walked away from it.

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DDups2 t1_ix375p3 wrote

I miss my plastic bags, always had a second use for them.

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