Posted on 09/29/2016 6:15:39 AM PDT by MichCapCon
The Sierra Club has adopted a position that would effectively require all electricity in Michigan to come from renewable sources such as wind and solar. This appears to have caused a rift between the environmentalist organization and Lansing’s public utility over the replacement of a coal-fired power station set to close in 2020.
The Sierra Club opposes building a natural-gas powered plant to replace the coal-fired plant, the utility says.
“I’ve given up trying to talk to them,” said Dick Peffley, the general manager of Lansing’s Board of Water and Light.
The Sierra Club supported a natural-gas plant the utility built three years ago. But according to Peffley, it is now opposed to all nonrenewable forms of energy, including nuclear, coal and natural gas.
Sierra Club spokesman Brad Van Guilder didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
The Lansing Board of Water and Light operates two coal-fired power plants and has an ownership stake in a third coal-fired power plant that is operated by DTE.
The utility is planning to retire its Eckert coal-fired power plant in 2020. It said it won’t be able to comply with future environmental rules and the plant is too costly to continue operating.
In 2015 coal provided nearly half (46.5 percent) of Michigan’s net electricity generation, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
The Eckert plant generates about one-third of the electricity provided by the utility, which serves Lansing and neighboring communities.
“They (Sierra Club) believe all energy that will be lost can be replaced by renewables or energy efficiency,” Peffley said. “You can’t supply energy that way. With only wind and sun, this country will be black.”
The Lansing utility released a poll in January that found 64 percent of residential and 71 percent of business customers favor favored replacing Eckert with a natural gas power plant along with renewable sources of energy. Support dropped to 47 percent of residential and 56 percent of business customers when respondents were informed that a new power plant would probably mean a rate increase.
The utility has vowed to generate 40 percent of its electricity with renewable sources by 2030.
“That’s a tough hurdle for us to do, but we’re committed to achieve this goal,” Peffley said.
Sierra Club lost its credibility when they sold out to billionaire David Gelbaum and his anti-environmental/anti-US agenda, showing that they are up for sale.
And no people except pot smoking, greasy haired, unwashed, welfare sucking, parasitic, unemployable, tree hugging, malodorous, mouthy, fanatic, envirowacko bums.
So these Sierra Club guys are all master engineers and scientists that understand the physics of efficiency and consistency, right? ..../s
From what I've see there's definitely no shortage of fat women in Michigan.
“The Sierra Club has adopted a position that would effectively require all electricity in Michigan to come from renewable sources such as wind and solar.”
Wind would work in Washington DC. A lot of hot air there.
Sierra Club is nothing but a field of watermelons, green on the outside, red on the inside.
Who cares. I just want to see fat libtards doing something insanely futile that is harmless for a change.
Except for muslims. Muslims are good, even though they breed like rabbits.
No campfires! Pretty much any burning of something with carbon in it (in this case a log) releases carbon dioxide. No campfires!
I'd rather use a rowing machine. Gets the whole body involved...
Wind mills kill birds.
The Sierra Club is in favor of killing birds?
I want no Sierra Club.
I’m an American and I want to see no loony Sierra Club. Those people are idiots.
I doubt that they’d be happy with us all heating our caves and huts with coal and wood which was typical over 100 years ago. That was back in the day when we all lived a more “environmentally friendly” existence.
Actually, your modern methods of providing warmth are pretty efficient. One hundred years ago, the skies over most major cities was continually thick with coal smoke. So their demands don’t make sense and the only logical explanation is that they simply want us dead.
Maybe the Sierra Club needs to talk to the people of South Australia to see how that's working out!
Australia: State-wide power loss raises 'serious questions' (Climate Changers Get their Due)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3474785/posts
Yep. Follow the money as with almost any organization these days......
On their many windless nights, these irrational environmentalist losers will be stuck in Mommy's basement in the dark. That will make them cry, and they won't even be able to live tweet about their trauma because cell phones and Internet will go down too. I am pro-environment, but I believe in sanity, not liberalism.
Windmills kill birds and threaten to put eagles back to “endangered” status. Solar panels fry birds and have an impact on the surrounding environment. This is what the Sierra Club wants? wow
The only power the Sierra Club wants is the power to get most of the human population on this planet to put on their Heaven’s Gate Away Team patches, cover themselves in purple shrouds, put their five-dollar bill and three quarters in their pockets, put on their black-and-white Nike Decades shoes, and drink the Kool-Aid (or, to put it more accurately, the applesauce and pudding). They should at least believe in nuclear power. With that they can eliminate the human race fast by nuking it out of existence. Then the small group of wealthy elite Sierra Club hierarchy can come out of their underground hobbit holes and live in their post-apocalypse world devoid of God and those pesky rules they had when there was too many people to civilize.
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