MISCELLANEOUS

1) A prospector has staked a claim on the ash pits of a coal-fired plant at Coronack, Sask.; the ash contains enough uranium to extract it commercially.

2) John Holloway, President of a local building trades union says that if Mothers for Peace and other antinuclear groups are successful in blocking workers from doing their job at the Diablo Canyon plant, the union will sue to recover all lost wages and benefits. "We have displayed restraint and patience with all the antinuclear people recognizing their right to peaceful dissent and will continue to do so. However, the fiddler will be paid this time..."

4) From an official publication of the State of Oregon's Environmental Protection Agency: "Burping cows must rank as the number one source of pollution in the US," for American cows burp about 50 million tons of hydrocarbons into the atmosphere every year, and "there presently exists no available technology for controlling these hydrocarbon emissions." [Public Works, October 1980].

5) A report commissioned by the DoE defines "Intermedia pollution" as "the creation of environmental impacts by controlling the existing ones." [Energy Managem. & Policy, 31 Oct 80.] And in a report of its own, the DoE reveals that "unemployment is a disequilibrium phenomenon, where workers are between one of two possible equilibria, namely, working or non-working."