Paul Johnston
Paul Johnston
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If they don't get everything on the first round, we're asking people to pick up what's left and put it in the empty can. We're catching up.
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We are storing up potential problems for future generations. We really need to pursue renewable energy sources and efficiencies in energy usage to the maximum.
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That's the really big trend, ... Year 2000 has been the big thing that has really worked quite well.
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We have a study under way called the Lower Snake River Study. It is looking at three options. One is essentially to do nothing, the second is to significantly improve the dams to make them more fish friendly and the third is breaching the dams, ... These three options are still very much on the table.
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We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.
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One of the crucial things for us has been broadband.
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Because some of the methodologies have continued to be improved, I think there will be a migration toward more complex services, ... The envelope will continue to be pushed.
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If breaching were recommended at the end (of the public comment process associated with the Lower Snake River EIS), there would still have to be money appropriated to do it and it's a long process. You just don't go down there on a Sunday afternoon and knock these dams down,
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We all want to get our community back up and running, ... Our economy is down without work, so we need to get people in to come and get their businesses started and the checks coming.
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We just have a lack of focus sometimes. We don't even know which way to turn on a play sometimes. It's awful frustrating. I've never been 0-4 before. We're not this bad. We're better than what we're playing.
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We've been looking for the funding to work on recovery of protected species, not just their protection, but actual recovery.
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Who wouldn't want to live and earn a living here if they had the chance?
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We wouldn't have got this far without thinking this would be a fantastic opportunity for our business here, for people in the business and the merged business going forward. We see terrific opportunities for different parts of the world.
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We've only got two days left, and it's going to be very close whether or not we're able to do it.