"The problem with renewable energy for this country is the one of scale."
"It makes no sense for us to spend $40 million buying the Cherokee National Forest and then sticking a bunch of 50-story wind turbines on top of it."
"My concern is especially with the ridges of the Eastern United States, as you know, because we have talked about it because they are the only place, except for the coastlines, where wind works well."
"The point I am leading to is that we often talk with renewable energy about 1,000 megawatts of electricity for wind and solar when only a one-third of that is actually produced by comparison with a co..."
"I continue to be concerned because the Great Smoky Mountains... gets about one-half the funding of similar parks."
"I think your decisions have helped bring that to a successful conclusion."
"We have spent more than a century and billions of dollars of public and private money protecting these landscapes and these areas."
"I am happy, A, that you are focusing on treasured landscapes and, B, that the President--over the last 6 weeks-- has begun to take significant steps to encourage nuclear power because it has less impa..."
"I think you should do, and whether it should be hazardous waste, which I think it should not be."
"And the purpose of our legislation is to fix that problem."
"I want to make sure we know what we are doing."