And we must work to help people within each PFS member utility jurisdiction understand the destructive nature of their utility's relationship with PFS, and organize against it. We can do this just as we did in 1994 and 1995 when NSP led a nuclear consortium that tried to dump on the Mescalero Apache Nation in New Mexico. Things got exciting as the water level dropped enough to trigger emergency core cooling systems, and then a circuit breaker failed to trip and started to smoke. One of the control rods inserted slowly. Minnesota finally recognized the seriousness of its mercury contamination problem.
Sterile ecosystems are on the horizon.
So Minnesota established a voluntary Mercury Reduction Initiative, which has done a good job of getting mercury out of many products. Unfortunately, this initiative is totally ineffectual against the largest mercury emitters. They make no reductions and pay no clean up costs. Turn it into silverware, furniture, cooking utensils, appliances, equipment of all sort and braces for teeth. There's a furnace in the Twin Cities to help do the blending.