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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (50518)	5/27/2004 1:20:37 AM
From: Toby Zidle	Respond to of 74559

"Toby, environmentalists seem to be against everything." Now there's a statement I can't argue against. The term "environmentalist" has come to infer an extreme activist. I'd like to consider myself an environmentalist, as I'm sure you would also. Anyone who thinks rationally about the type of planet we pass on to our descendents has to have a deep concern about the environment. However, the so-called "environmentalist" has become a legal obstructionist who knows how to work the legal system to tie up overwhelmingly beneficial projects for decades over concern for a few acres of natural habitat. He has an inflexible one-dimensional viewpoint in a three-dimensional world. Unfortunately, the "environmentalist" has the legal upper hand. His concern that improbable events may happen to damage the environment is enough to make the entire clean-coal-burning case a moot point if the coal mines that would feed these power plants are halted by court ruling.