Comments about ‘W. Bountiful strategizing to block power plant’

Be careful, WB- don't you know that if this plant is not built, no one in Utah will have electricity, and we will all have to return to using horse and buggies? (source, DN conservative commentators) Our future relies 100% on this specific plant being built!

Well tell me, JJ, where do you think electricity comes from? Does it magically appear when you flip a switch? Does it come from the sky? Is it pixie dust?

I'm not a big supporter of the plant itself -- I live in North Salt Lake and recognize the potential for impacts on air quality -- but the naivety and willful ignorance of many of the power plant opponents are aggravating. NIMBY-ism at its worst.

I'm confident that many of them are the same ones who demanded a government investigation when gas prices peaked last summer, and I'm just as confident that many of them are the ones who complain about every rate hike in their electric bill.

There is no free lunch, and no amount of starry-eyed Hope will Change that. Gasoline for your minivans and Subarus requires electricity, and that electricity has to come from SOMEWHERE.

And in the overall scheme of things, using a hazardous waste product that would have otherwise been dumped in a landfill is alot more environmentally-friendly than burning coal or building a dam.

will build it on their property if it cannot be re-zoned at the current location.

A new location may mean the UDAQ must re-permit the facility.

Where does electricity come from? it comes from the power plants- that we ALREADY have. I currently receive 0% of my energy from this plant, and yet my house hasn't been thrust into the dark ages.

Brilliant! We "ALREADY" have power plants to provide electricty for our homes! So, instead of a new power plant let's just institute a law forbidding any increase in the population. That's much easier than building a new power plant.