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As an AP environmental class, The A block class was assigned to watch a video called Pandora’s Promise and reflect on the issues of nuclear power plants. There are a lot of concerns revolving around this issue and how environmentalist think all of these power plants are dangerous and hazardous because of explosions that have occured. Throughout the film we see how people shouldn’t be too concern. In the early stages of the film we see a lot of the people’s reactions of all the bad that has occurred. When people hear the word nuclear they think of weapons. We hear from people from around the time of World War two and how they have seen what nuclear products have done and how dangerous it is. In the film one of the narrators says “This is primarily not an energy source, this is primarily a weapon”. This says a lot because we see short films of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and how much damage the nuclear bombs did to the area. Also around that time they children in school had to practice ...

The Northern Pass is a proposed project to place or bury 1,110 towers across 192 miles from Quebec through New Hampshire and into Massachusetts. The total cost of this project will cost 1.6 billion dollars. There is a lot of controversy over this project and my opinion about this  is that it shouldn’t be passed. From reading articles and being lectured about the project, I got a pretty good understanding about the whole thing. If the towers were to be built all across New Hampshire, they would be passing through the White Mountains and even into people’s property. This is alone is one of the biggest concerns and no go’s for people. People like farmers don’t want this to happen because the towers could be buried or going through their fields. In an article by The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forest it states , “ They want us to accept their insulting offer to bury only one third of the 190-mile line, leaving most communities along the route with unwanted visual bli...