For the coal plant, Higgins has long eyed White Pine County in northeast Nevada, bordering Utah.

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The property also has 100-foot-tall white pine trees and is near several hiking trails.

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That's an Edison White Pine recreation disc.

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Over 17 years it has built seven plants (five others are in construction) nationwide and has become quite nimble at navigating the permit process. (It's easier to get approvals if you're a private company than if you're a public utility.) In 2004 LS filed a proposal to build a 1, 600-megawatt, supercritical pulverized-coal plant in White Pine.

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Despite the influx of daytrippers, the island of Porquerolles is wholly unspoilt: most of its white sandy beaches and pine woods are protected by the Parc National de Port-Cros.

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Jasper town is nestled in the middle of the national park, where icy glaciers tumble down towering rocky peaks and melt to form wild, white water-choked rivers that cut through pine-filled valleys.

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Walk along pastoral paths, vivid green rice paddies, past bright white dzongs (massive, awe-inspiring fortress monasteries), through forests of pine, and rhododendron and along glorious mountain passes where the elusive poppies nod in the breeze.

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