four corners coal programme, page-2

Thats quite true TFHN, but I think the take home of the 4 Corners program was that when large sums of money are involved, you may expect Governments and large Companies to treat the local community with indifference.

Anyone with incipient NIMBYism would just have been reminded how well founded their fears might turn out to be.

A really big problem for a lot of these somewhat benign technologies is that people generally do not prefer a comparatively clean plant in their back yard to a comparatively filthy plant a long way away.

The basis for comparison for an individual is quite different from an analysis at the whole of society level.

Wind turbines, solar arrays, wave projects all get this - UCG and CSG can expect to get it in spades.

I think it is VERY important for Cougar to manage this with world's-best-practice PR tactics (including being 100% frank with the locals) if it's not to trip us up later, especially as the CSG lobby has a lot to gain by muddying waters.