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Posted on 12/02/2004 9:26:57 AM PST by zb42
Washington state's top polluter isn't a pulp mill, a power plant or refinery. It's the newly awakened Mount St. Helens.
Since the volcano began erupting in early October, it has been pumping out 50 to 250 tons a day of sulfur dioxide, the lung-stinging gas that causes acid rain and contributes to haze. At peak, that's more than double the amount from all the state's industries combined.
Normally, the state's No. 1 polluter is a coal-fired power plant owned by the Canadian firm TransAlta. The plant churned out 200 tons a day of sulfur dioxide until regulators demanded $250 million worth of renovations, bringing the level down to 27 tons a day.
Tough to get those kind of results from a volcano.
"You can't put a cork in it," said Greg Nothstein of the Washington Energy Policy Office.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Great headline.
DEFINITELY George Bush's fault.
This is also apparently true for the Leftwing environ-wackos. I've told them to put a cork in it, but they keep spewing their own pollution.
This is terrible! Every environmentalist in Washington should form a picket line around its mouth!
Then when it finally decides to erupt again...
This is terrible! Every environmentalist in Washington should form a picket line around its mouth!
Then when it finally decides to erupt again...
This mountain should be made to never exceed 55 MPH and only drive a Yugo. Tell it to mow its grass with an electric mower and recycle its beer cans. AND NO MORE AEROSOL CANS for clean up!!!
It's all George Bush' fault. Supported by the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
When I was fishing with a liberal friend of mine, he farted. I told him, "I guess you're not a fan of the Kyoto Accord, huh?"
This reveals the big lies about global warming and the Kyoto Accord:
1. The world's volcanoes spew more gas and ash into the atmosphere than our puny industries on the planet, and,
2. One eruption from a Mt. St. Helens, Etna or any of the other big ones will wipe out in a instant anything gained by spending billions of dollars on reducing our industrial emissions.
Not that we shouldn't reduce our emissions (every bit helps), but at the same time, this illustrates my view that this old planet managed fine for billions of years before we arrived, and it can certainly out-trump anything we can do to it.
Multiply that by the THOUSANDS of volcanoes (not to mention other natural phenomena) that erupt every day, and we can sign DOZENS of treaties, but pollution will still occur.
With all the greeners out there in WA I'm surprised they haven't talked about tapping into Mt St Helen as a geothermal energy source.
Another example, China is exempted from the Kyoto Accord because it is (or was) a third world country. Soon they will become the world's greatest industrial power (if not already) but will not be required to comply with pollution controls. We were very smart in rejecting Kyoto -- we will have a hard enough time trying to keep our remaining heavy industries and technology on a par with the emerging third would without artificially tying one hand behind our back for no real environmental gain.
Liberal legislatures should put their efforts into banning Mt. St. Helen's polution. All other liberal efforts should cease until the pollution is stopped in order to save the environment.
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