The NYT‘s Matthew L. Wald reports today:
Facing the possibility that a utility company would try to build a new nuclear reactor here, the City of Port Gibson [Mississippi] and surrounding Claiborne County moved swiftly last month to protect the interests of their residents.
“We’re willing to do whatever it takes to do to make this happen,” said Amelda J. Arnold, the city’s mayor. Last month, city aldermen voted unanimously to urge the Entergy Corporation, which already operates one reactor here, to build a second. The County Board of Supervisors did the same.
I’ve been there. This is the town whose “Welcome to Port Gibson” sign includes the quote from General Ulysses S. Grant: “Too Pretty To Burn”. How’s that for a slogan?
(Come to think of it, I saw this on the return from a corporate-sponsored trip to blast wild ducks out of a commerical tree farm owned by a big ol’ paper mill. It was chlorine-bleached paper, too, made for throwaway newpaper inserts and disposable coffee filters. How many hot buttons can you push at one time?)
