Word: conservationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Frustratingly for both sides, the strip's most prized 1 million acres have been locked up under the Government's "wilderness study" classification. Faced with a limbo designation that can extend for years, the environmentalists and developers, traditionally at loggerheads, took the unusual step of negotiating with each...
Meanwhile, the forecasts of power shortages proved to be wildly wrong. Conservation measures spurred by the 1973 and 1979 surges in oil prices reduced demand for electricity. So did a series of economic recessions that hit the Northwest particularly hard. The hypothetical need for the five plants vanished. First Whoops...
When the two plants were abandoned in early 1982, the people of the Northwest were enraged at the prospect of paying off the bonds through higher electric bills, with no hope of getting anything in return. Citizens' groups with such names as Irate Rate Payers and the Light Brigade...
The Japanese also used the oil shortages to make their industries more efficient. Large industrial firms in such sectors as cement, pulp and paper, and transit made major adjustments to comply with the government's demand for energy conservation. Many steel companies fitted blast furnaces with recovery turbines that...
In areas where significant fuel conservation could not be achieved, whole industries shrank drastically. Aluminum smelting, which requires huge amounts of expensive electricity, employed more than 9,000 people in 1972, but today Japan imports almost all its aluminum. The Japanese petrochemical industry was severely cut back.