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To: Ken98 who wrote (52127)	12/29/2000 11:45:37 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

The EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers have been butting heads on environmental issues about rivers for quite a while now. John McPhee has an excellent essay about the Army Corps of Engineers plans for controlling the Mississippi River in his collection, "The Control of Nature." "Encounters With The Arch-Druid" by McPhee is also about the control of rivers, in this case the fight to keep a dam from being put across the Grand Canyon by the Department of the Interior. I recommend McPhee because even though his heart is with the environmentalists, he recognizes the tensions created by their opposition to any alteration of pristine wild nature. I know a few rabid environmentalists, and they have a penchant for wishing that mankind would be stricken with a plague that kills off most of us. So people freezing to death in the dark isn't something that bothers them. At any rate, I have read that California has several new power plants under construction, which will come on line in a couple of years.