Home VHS: Fairweather-Mahoney 2/11/93

Let's start off with your environmental record, Governor Fairweather.

Just last year, you promised a new environmental task force to reverse...

... Kentucky's declining water and air quality.

And I kept my promise. The task force is still preparing its report...

And what steps have been taken in the interim?

I do not claim to be an environmental expert.

That's why I am waiting for the actual experts to make their recommendations.

And yet experts are already saying the Ohio river is more polluted than at any...

Methods of toxin detection are getting more accurate. That doesn't mean...

By any metric, Kentucky's environmental situation is declining.

I don't agree, and I think those statements are unworthy of...

... a so-called "unbiased moderator".

I love Kentucky and its nature. Without nature, there's nothing left.

But it must be balanced with our profitable coal mining and other industries.

Mr. Mahoney's plan would devastate our state's - and maybe...

... even our country's - economy. What good would nature be to us then?

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