Claire V. Watkins
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479 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 12 Sep
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a good place for solar development in theory, um, for that reason.
It's also kind of being besieged by other types of energy development like geothermal and mining.
I mean mining has been happening out there for a really long time, although the scale is getting
bigger and bigger.
The aquifer has been pretty dramatically depleted and, you know, there's n there's not a lot of water in this area to begin with in in the best of times.
So the natural resources are really being pushed to the brink.
In a pr a pretty dramatic way.
And there's been a long, long history of environmental injustice.
You know, Yellow Pine and where I live is not far from the Nevada test site where the federal government detonated almost a thousand nuclear bombs until nineteen ninety-two when I was about in in the third grade.
So it's a place that's been like treated like a wasteland for a really long time and that story has been very
Very cooperative and convenient for extraction and exploitation of the natural resources.
So I was worried that.
While I'm really convinced that we need to decarbonize the economy and the need for renewable energy is obvious to me, I was really concerned that there would
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some really serious sacrifices being made that didn't seem right to me or fair and that I don't think will actually
Help us transition off of fossil fuels.
Well yeah.
I I think at one point they say, you know, it's not a blockade 'cause we're we're not delusional, but
But they are still very principled, you know, they can tell that this is wrong.
And so it I think is a matter of
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