Public involvement in energy facility planning :  the electric utility experience / 
edited by Dennis W. Ducsik 
 - Boulder :  Westview Press,  c1986 
 - xxi, 451 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Part One. Issues and Concerns -- Part Two. View of Participation Practitioners -- Part Three. Selected Public Involvement Programs -- Part Four. Detailed Case Studies. 
<br/><br/> For decades, the electric utility industry sought locations for its new power plants in a fairly simple and straightforward manner. In many instances, all that was required was a flat tract of land of suitable size, an adjacent source of cooling water and, hopefully, reasonable proximity to the source of the load' to be supplied with the advent of the 60s and 70s, Individual and collective attitudes toward such projects changed as the country experienced a heightened sensitivity to environmental values. At the same time, however, utilities were still taking advantage of economies of scale, particularly with respect to power plants, with the size of these units becoming increasingly large. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>813372127 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>PUBLIC UTILITIES -- LOCATION
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD 9685.A2 .P83 1986