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Xaquin S. Prez-Sindn Lpez
University of A Corua

What is the social impact of a power plant?

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near a mine or gas eld, the staff involved in "harvesting" the energy is
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the deposits are high-sulfur coal. When the mine closes, a lot of jobs are
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every corner and industry is booming. When the natural resources run out
or when environmental regulations shut down dirty operations (like the
sludge elds), the money and jobs will dry up too and all the businesses
supplying products and services will move somewhere else or shrivel up
and die. This is what happened in Pittsburgh, PA, Detroit, MI, and Flint, MI.
The last steel mill just shut down in Birmingham, AL, so their economy will
soon be languishing too. Crystal clean water, clear blue sky, quiet ponds
lled with ducks, and sprawling parks far from the smoke stacks, power
plants, paper mills, and reneries are among the luxuries of the idle rich,
who either inherited their money or got it playing a sport or making movies
to be watched by idle youth, who are still living off their parents or the
dole. The bottom line is that feeding and clothing seven billion people
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5/25/2017 Whatisthesocialimpactofapowerplant?
think that there are *way too many* of some *other* people, but never
*too many* of *them*. I don't consider one group of people to be more or
less important than any another. Topics like this must always consider the
impact on human beings, most of which must have an actual job in order
to survive and provide for their families. If you're reading this, please go to
Google Earth (or Google Maps), pick somewhere big (New York, London,
Paris, Rio, Cairo, Mexico City) or a power plant, and then go up (into
space) 50 or 100 miles. You really need to get this perspective before
discussing this topic. Sorry about the rant, but this is just such a
stimulating topic!

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Larry L. Baxter Brigham Young University - Provo Main Campus

I would be interested to see what your dissertation concluded, but the
following seems clear to me. The economic impact of any major industrial
system generally has a large associated social impact, and vice versa
(losing a large employer has a large negative social impact). Additionally,
providing low-cost and environmentally benign power has additional
positive social impacts. Negative impacts generally derive from poor
safety or environmental performance or abusive industrial practices
relative to HR management.

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Christian S. Strobel Universidade Federal do Paran

First of all, you did not mentioned what kind of power plant you are talking
about. If it's a coal based power plant, or any other that uses fossil fuels,
the impact for the environment will be huge. If you are talking about solar
power plants, the impact for the environment is lower, but you will have
less jobs either. So, I think this is very relative, and it must be divided into
categories. Best Regards, Prof. Strobel.

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